CHRISTMAS CARDS MIXED WITH KNITTING

**WARNING** From now on until Christmas eve, many of my posts will be about Christmas, shopping, snow, films, music, culture and all the jolly stuff. So if you're a Grinch, close it now and come back 01/01/12.

One of this years Christmas cards I'm sending to family, friends and others.

Today I licked 22 envelopes and 22 stamps... Then tomorrow or Thursday I need to buy 3-4 more. I love sending Christmas cards and love getting them, so get cracking people.

On the right there is the mitten I've been working on. I finished the main in like September this year, but needed some guidance with the thumb from my mate Simen. I've knitted mittens before, but that's two years ago, so needed a refresher.

We gossiped, knitted and chatted for 2:43 hours. I just thought "Wow that went fast, let's set a record next time, five hours." Me and Simen can just chat about random stuff for hours. Show us a picture of a sheep and we'll give 30 min conversation. 

This week is the Christmas week in Swansea. On Thursday me and my good mate Dean are going Christmas shopping :D And we also start our countdown for "Christmas eve". We celebrate it over here on the 9/10th weekend. Then Friday Swansea Winter Wonderland opens and on Sunday it's the annual Christmas parade and Lights Switch-On.

Today's song: Nightmare Before Christmas - What's this?

A SUM UP

Hello. Two weeks since last time... Sorry, been so busy. Okay let's get you up to speed then.

I love Halloween. The ghosts, vampires, ghouls and everything else. If I could choose, I'd be a vampire! Not Twilight style, cause that's just crap... I'm more Vampire Diaries kinda vampire. Anyhoodle, Halloween was great, worked in Oceana filming that night:

After I finished I went home, cause it was way to crowded in there...

Two of my Norwegian friends, Anine and Maja came to Swansea to visit:

They said they had a lovely time and wanted to come back. Just that next we're not going out the night before they leave, haha!



Yesterday we went to Cardiff to see Norway vs Wales (football). Norway lost, 4-1... I felt ashamed went I left the stadium, having the Norwegian flag on my cheek!

I did film a lot, but I have to edit that later. Not enough energy today.

Besides that I'm busy with uni projects, which annoy me... They're boring and I feel like I'm wasting my time. I would rather be working with my final piece. Cause the two films we're working on now isn't getting assessed, only the research.

Oh, I've got a job as a videographer for a documentary commissioned by an art gallery in Cardiff :D :D But want to know the most annoying thing, because I have to film and stuff with the uni exercises I can't stay and edit!!! An stupid exercise is keeping me from something that actually counts.

But I'm having a chat with my tutor next week to see if it's anything to do about it, which I highly doubt. Otherwise I have to try to be creative :D

Also went rollerblading for the first time in 3 years today, for 1,5 hours. Felt a bit weird, but lush to be back on'em again ♥ (a bit rusty, but getting there)

Now I'm heading to bed to continiue reading "The Power of Six", book number two in the The Lorien Legacies series.

Love this song!

Today's song: Flo Rida - Good Feeling

MY HOUSE

Here you go mom, finally, a tour of my house. It's a really nice house, done up during the summer. And we got a great landlord who fixes any problems that might pop up.



As some of you saw in the last post, I found sign language music videos on YouTube. And since that I've watched loads. I think it's so fascinating. It was actually these videos that gave me my idea for one of my documentaries. In one of the modules, we have a project called "Student Led", meaning it's free and we can make whatever we want. I want to make a doc about sign language and how it's like to live your everyday life doing that. Most likely I'm hoping to sign up for the Discovery sign language project. They will pay for my course in BSL (British Sign Language). In return I have to commit to the project, working every other Friday. That would be a great way for me to research for my documentary. One can not really understand another persons way of life before one puts himself  in their shoes.

I think sign language is beautiful and exciting to watch. The idea of communicating like that is to me an incredible thing.

Today's song: Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA (ASL)

SIGN LANGUAGE

I just came across some amazing music videos. He "sings" them in sign language, ASL. How cool is that?



I can say my name with sign language, but that's it. I used to know more, cause we had to learn it 6th and 7th grade. We mostly focused on the one-hand alphabet, in Norwegian, not necessarily words. We even had a test in one-hand sign language. This wasn't compulsory in my time, but our teacher said it was important. Till this day, I really appreciated that she taught us that. One of my little sisters, Christina, she's in 3rd grade now. Her class has had sign language classes from 1st grade cause one of her classmates is deaf. So she knows bits and pieces. I think that's really good.

I think sign language should be compulsory in school, at least to have a basic understanding.

I want to learn sign language, so I'm considering signing up for Discoverys sign language project. It would be amazing to be able to "speak" that.

Today's song: Jessie J - Price tag Sign language style