Leaving the University of Amsterdam

At last, I am done at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. This week I turned
in my last project for the semester, an enormous programming
project (and also re-submitted a paper that got lost in email, nearly
giving me a failing grade in another course). Amsterdam was a
fantastic experience; I wish I’d had more time to spend in the [...]

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Leaving Amsterdam

All of a sudden we’re leaving. I got the arriving part, and now the leaving part, but I’m not really sure what happened to the Half Year in between. So the last couple of days have mainly consisted of packing, cleaning and saying our goodbyes. My suitcase almost closes, and I’m thinking that if I [...]

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500 gallons of airplane fuel

Just heard about this, happening not very far from our house back home in Bergen…
UPDATE: it seems all went well. There was a chance of the fire reaching a warehouse full of airplane fuel, but it’s over now; there’s just a very bad odour hanging around in Bergen at the moment.

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Girls at De Magere Brug

I’ve received complaints about lacking updates, so although I really should be preparing for mye exam on Thursday, here’s a quick one:
A couple of weeks back we had a girls’ night out at our regular, De Magere Brug;

This is Cathie, Anne and me on the bridge the pub is named after. It is not very [...]

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Heroes, Tikka Masala and Transfinite Induction

Tiril and I sometimes play this turn-based computer game called “Heroes of Might and Magic V” while we’re studying. Today I had a look at our list of saved games from this semester, and I think there’s a certain pattern in the names we give the games:

Tikka Masala
Maiskolbe (“corn on the cob”)
ISN
alltid [...]

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Birthday

Last week, on the 22nd of May, I turned twentyhummuhnuh.
Tiril and I sat by the Binnen-Amstel and had some white wine, then went out to eat before we took the subway to Bijlmer Arena. Tiril had got me (among other things such as “The Well-Dressed Gentleman’s Pocket Guide”) tickets for Cirque du Soleil’s show Varekai [...]

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17th of May

17th of May is a national celebration day in Norway, mainly because in 1814 the constitution of Norway was signed may 17th, at Eidsvoll. In Norway, or at least i Flekkefjord, 17th of may looks kind like this. So it was in fact quite strange being in Amsterdam without any red, white and blue flags, [...]

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Shannon and Ørnulf in Amsterdam

This time Kevin’s parents came to visit us. They stayed for about 4 days, including Queen’s Day. We had a great time just walking around in the city, enjoying the beautiful weather.

We met a couple of velocipedes

And looked at gekraakt (squatted) houses
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Queen’s Day, April 30th, is a celebration of the queen’s birthday. Actually, it’s not [...]

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Nick Cave in Amsterdam

Yesterday we saw Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live
They played at Heineken Music Hall. Since the big Heineken Brouwerij (brewery) building is just a 5 minute bike ride away, we took our bikes out about 90 minutes before they were supposed to be on stage and rode over there. Unfortunately, Heineken Brouwerij [...]

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Tulip picnic

Yesterday Kevin, Virag, Ula, Cathie and me brought our bikes on the train to Leiden and spent the entire day biking around among tulip fields and flower parades. We also had a picnic under the trees and among the flowers. It was just such a wonderful day, and we all just felt so very alive.
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