okay, time is moving much faster than this blog so i have to play catch-up. The hike: day one was beautiful weather, very warm, sunny and nice. Day 2 was cooler with some clouds, by day 3 it was cold and windy. Day 4 we climbed some serious elevation, we were up among glaciers and the weather got really bad, hard hard wind, and rain that just pelted us, and sooo cold. There were no rocks to hide behind or anything, so we just plowed forward hoping to get to the cabin at the end. We had been tent camping but there was no way we could have done that, we would have absolutely frozen or blown away or something. But when we finally got there, there was not only a cabin, but people! and a fire! AND HOT COFFEE! (not having a stove this was our first hot food in days) The women, Anne and Linn, turned out to be nurses, as if we werent lucky enough. So we dried off and stayed up talking with them and got to be friends. The next day the weather cleared and we all hiked the last day together to Kinsarvik. From there they gave us a ride to Bergen, where they live and where we were planning to go next. We checked into a hostel and passed out.
The next day we did boring but necesary stuff like laundry and internet, but later met up with A&L for dinner at a really cute, nice place called Pengvin, and then to a wine bar. We had such a great time with them!
The next day we left the Hostel and met up with Tone, a friend of a friend, who was doing her PhD work in Bergen. We stayed with her and her 2 housemates for 2 nights and had a really wonderful time! She was so thoughtful and friendly, thanks Tone!
So that mostly catches up with where I am now in Sweden, but I reccomend you read Sanya’s blog, its a much more interesting account than mine. Oh, we saw a few shows in Bergen, at a gallery called Lydgalleriet (i think thats right…) we cought the last day of an exhibition by the owl project, which I had read about before on We Make Money Not Art. It was really a cool show, they made an old fashioned lathe and the wood that is turned on it is also the waveform of the sound that is produced, as well as the rythm from the foot pedal by which it is powered. At the Kunsthalle there was a really good exhibition called “If you destroy the image you destroy the thing itself”, Sanya and I both really enjoyed the work of Jan Freuchen, especially the video, which was a really funny kind of bbc looking story about a man who is remade by science and given a new life as an artist. See it if you can!