Ola is teaching English at Ebenezera School in Antananarivo, Madagascar. This is the first time they sing the song, - I was really impressed! Agnar
torsdag, desember 20, 2007
We wish you a merry Christmas....
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onsdag, november 28, 2007
Brasiliansk pølse med brød

Something interesting for Norwegians is the way we, Brazilians, are used to prepare hot-dog. The main differences are: sliced salsiches, corn in the sauce and sticks-potatoes on the top.
At 9th of November, me and Cirene were at Avaldsnes Skolen to make "brasiliansk pølse med brød" (Brazilian hot-dog) with some children. They enjoyed the idea of slicing salsiches, frying onion, eating hot-dog with sticks-potatoes.
Afterwards, we have heard that some of the children decided to assume theirs kitchens at home and prepare the dish to the family.
After preparing the food, we went to the classroom. Some students presented posters with informations about countries that they have been studying. So, we could see the presentation about Guatemala - with typical food - and Brazil.
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tirsdag, november 27, 2007
The Norwegians like bread and milk
The Norwegian like bread and milk. I dont like much the food but I live here and I have to used it because its part of the learning the culture. We had breakfast bread with something, "matpack" fro lunch, at four o clock dinner, thats the real meal. The norwegian like to eat just little bread for the lunch and different kind of food in Dinner. I used to eat three times a day in Madagascar and we have rice so I missed that. my hostfamily try to make me happy so they baugth rice for me and meat. they things that I realy like in norway are the Ice cream, Cake, and milk they are rich on that. Every meeting that I attend we always have Cake and coffee but I dont drink coffee so I just took the Cake. Me and Birger went to Melhus to attend a meeting so we ate much Cake. anywhere I go in Norway I found the cake and Coffee.
I work with the church, kinder garden, barn gospel, Baby massage, choire " join Us" and I take part of the comfirmant leaders.
In the kinder, they kids dont speak english so I tried to used body languge. I am learning Norwegian form the kids. The first word that I get from them is like "Hallo på do" it means like hallo toilet. they like me verymuch and I realy like to work with them every thursday even its realy hard. one girl in kinder she like me and I awlays get a gift from her. The name of that kinder is "Liavoll". 
We had malagsy exhebition in orkdal menighthus for four day, It was succesful and I missed my home when I saw everything form Madagascar. In orkdal we have many people who ahve been in Madagascar so they brougth many things from Madagascar.
The exhebition visited by the student and the people who live in Orkdal. we show them too one dance from Madagascar " Mamgaliba", we danced five times a day during the exhebition, it was very hard but It nice to show the norwegian about madagascar about the life there even they think that Madagascar are one of the poor country.
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fredag, november 23, 2007
Muang May
Skolen i Thailand er obligatorisk fra 1 – 9 klasse, de starter når de er 5 år. (usikker) Foreldrene må betale en terminavgift, som går til skolen. De betaler ikke lærerlønn. Denne avgiften varierer i forhold til statusen på skolen. Hvis det er en med høy status stiger prisen og kravene for å komme inn. Skoleuniform og annet skoleutstyr må foreldre betale utenom. Det er også vanlig (press) at elevene skal ha med lommepenger hver dag, for å kjøpe godterier osv.
Det er høyt kunnskapspress i Thailand, og det gis karakter til alle fra de går i barnehagen, altså i treårsalderen. De har også tentamener og eksamener fra starten av. En i slutten av hver termin. Disse må de bestå for å kunne gå videre. Hvis ikke, må de gå om igjen. De som går om igjen blir stemplet som treige og etter hvert dumme. Her fins ingen diagnoser som dysleksi. I skolen finner du ikke elever med noe slags handikap. Disse barna går aldri på skole.
På Muang May, skolen vi jobbet på var det 300 elever og 18 lærere. Det betyr liten oppfølging på hver elev. Undervisning er lagt opp til at alle skal lære det samme, de skal svare i plenum og alle skal være like. Selv om presset er stort, så trenger ikke lærerne å ta seg av en elev som henger etter. Lærerne underviser og så får de som vil/klarer det plukke det opp. Teorier og setninger og ord skal pugges og huskes, de har en kjapp hukommelse. Men de forstår ikke nødvendigvis det de pugger.
Respekten til lærerne på skolen er stor. Elevene bøyer seg for lærerne, (dette viser stor respekt). Det er ingen som snakker imot eller stygt til lærerne.
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onsdag, november 21, 2007
Le Concert
Eline and Helene have some new experieces: 
It’s Sunday, and I had a long day head of me. At 07.00 o’clock were we going to meet the choir, but Helene and I thought that African time was African time so we decided to wake up 06.30 with plenty of time. But we were wrong! A friend knocked on the door 10 minutes after I woke up and asked if we were ready, the bus were going to leave at 0700. What happened to African time when we needed it!?
We managed to jump in the bus quite surprised that the Norwegian girls were one of the last! We drove out to Dang were a church performance was first and a concert was second on our schedule for the day.
A 5 ½ hours long church service seemed even longer when you sat on a wooden bench squeezed together. I had no feelings in my butt and back, but a lot of good music was played and we were served lunch afterwards! I guess 1 ½ hour service at home is going to be nothing when I come back. ;)
It's lunch time and we're eating somthing we weren't sure what was..
After church, waiting and preparation was next on our schedule. Helene and I were given a “pagne” (kjole) and before we knew what to do next, Haoua, a girl in the choir, took us with her to get ready. We ended up in a small “apartment” consisting of 2 rooms were we were supposed to take a shower! Two white confused girls who didn’t quite knew what to do, ended up taking a “shower” using a bucket, soap and water. Haoua helped us get dressed before we rushed back to where the concert was held.
At 6’oclock, when the concert was supposed to start, that’s when we started too warm up. My conclusion was that Helene and I wearing the same clothes as everyone else would help us not stick out as much. I was wrong again! As we walked in, someone yelled out: “Nazara, nazara” (white people) and “Dance bien” (dancing well), not sure if it was irony or a compliment.
Sing and shine
Four weeks ago, when I was given the list of 14 songs for the
concert, I for sure, thought that I would just be watching. No way would I ever learn all those songs and some of them were even in tribe language!
I must say that out of 14 songs, I did quite well remember the text and moves. Of course, there is some miming here and there, but I had so much fun! Norwegian audience is totally different from what I saw this day. People were dancing and singing with us, some even came up on the stage joining in!
The concert was done about ten o’clock, we cleaned, pressed everyone in a small bus and were home around 23.30. I was deadly tired in my feet and back, but it was all worth it!
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Life in Fandriana
Working as a teacher
Eating is not everything we do, although it may seem like it from time to time. We have started our work as teachers here at the teacher-training school. It’s great fun, I really enjoy it! The students are aged from 18 to 45, so there is a huge gap. I feel quite young and inexperienced when I teach them, but since they don’t know much English I feel that I am needed, which is a good feeling. They don’t seem to mind that their teacher could be their daughter… Among the things I have taught them so far, are The Body and how to make questions.
Next week we will start teaching English from scratch in two children schools too, far away in the countryside. If you know me, you know that I can’t wait to start! The children here are so adorable!
Working like a Malagasy woman
I am starting to realize how spoiled we are living in the West. Here there is no such thing as a washing machine, a dishwasher, electric oven etc. Sometimes there is no water in the tap, and everyday you have to do your business in a hole in the ground. Washing clothes by hand is painful for the back, and washing dishes everyday is a bit tiring at times. I think I know one of the reasons why people in the West live much longer. They don’t do hard physical work like this everyday! And - especially in Europe – they’re not exhausted at 10 o’clock in the morning because of the hot Sun! But I’m also realizing that people here seem a lot happier than in the West. Can you imagine why?
A Malagasy woman also has to do her duties in the rice field. Her job is to plant rice, which is exactly what I did last Wednesday! The whole school went out to plant rice, and of course the vazahas had to give it a try. Trotting through the mud was fun, but at the same time disgusting and alarming. We were shown some frogs which had been picked up from the mud.
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onsdag, november 14, 2007
Do you remember me?
Tueng Tueng from Thailand is living in Oslo. He is asking if his fellow students still remember him?
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tirsdag, november 13, 2007
mandag, november 12, 2007
Engelsklærere i Thailand
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mandag, november 05, 2007
Vennskap i Kamerun
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Nytt fra Mukdahaan, Thailand
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Privilegium å være nordmann på Madagaskar!
Madagaskar er eit fint land. Det er eit sant privilegie å væra nordmann her. I det same folk forstår at du er norsk, vert servicen og glimtet i auga, auka eit par tre hakk. For eksempel på flyplassen (dette burde jo vore skrive ned for leeenge sidan.. men det er rart med det). Det var rigga opp til skikkelig tollinspeksjon. All bagasje skulle opnast og vendast. Då det vart vår tur, spurte tollfyren om noko på fransk, kva veit eg ikkje, og eg ymta fram at eg nok berre kunne engelsk. "Were are you from?" spurte han, med morsk mine. Jo frå Norge, svara eg. Og som med eit knips forsvann den morske mina. Du har vel klær i sekken din du? spør han og visar tydeleg at klær er det ingen grunn til å undersøkje, før han visar oss velkomne inn i Madagaskar.
Ein annan ting, som eg tykjer er vel vert å feste seg med, er at mange gasserar smilar med tennene saman. Du bør prøva. Klem tennene sånn halv-hardt saman og lag eit så breidt smil som du klarer. Og slik smiler dei nesten heile tida..
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torsdag, november 01, 2007
Første arbeidsuke i Brasil
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Greetings from Ulsteinvik
Meeting with children at church..
นี่คือการทำงานชิ้นแรกของแนน เมื่อมาอยู่ที่ Ustainvik
สามัคคีธรรมร่วมกันกับเด็ก และก็ทำศิลปะร่วมกัน
ขอบคุณพระเจ้า รู้สึกสนุกดี เด็กๆทุกคนน่ารักมาก
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fredag, oktober 26, 2007
Femmes pour la paix
From Eline's blog: It’s Saturday morning and Helene and I were getting ready to march in a parade together with Femmes pour la Paix (Women for peace)! A group of women started in Morocco and has been “walking” through West-African countries representing and working for peace. This Saturday they arrived Ngaoundéré. I was excited for the happening!
All in all we were about 60 women marching through town (about 2 km) singing: “Nous marchons dans la lumiére de Dieu, nous marchons dans la lumiére de Dieu” (We are marching in the light of God, we are marching in the light of God).Memories from Norwegian 17th of Mai parades back in Norway came into me. Together with that and the special atmosphere and enthusiasm I saw in the women, made it hard to keep my eyes dry! It was amazing!
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Language training
Miriam in Thailand says:
Sawatdee ka, Sabai dee mai? Khon chuu aray kha?"Hello, how are you? What's your name?" That is the conversation I have with our Thai teachers every morning. After that we sing a children song in Thai.We are learning and learning, and slowly some words are creeping into my brain. I now know the words to tell the Tuk tuk-driver(almost like a Taxi) where we are going. Wheter he understands me or not is another matter. The pronunciation of Thai is really difficult. Most of the time in class is used to repeat the words until we say them right.I am really glad we learn about things we need to know. Today we learned about poop and how to say that you are going to change diapers. Our teachers are not that good in English. We had a lot of fun when she tried to show us the meaning og the word poop. We also have a long list of other things it is wise to know when we are going to work with children. For example we learned to say sit down, stand up, be quiet, do you need to go to the toilet and have you washed your hands. I really hope and think I can use what I learn here.
Inki in Madagascar says:
Learning Malagasy is one interesting event. As my 5th language to learn, I must say that this seems like the one with the least variety of words. I mean, when almost every word starts with m, you’ve got to get confused. Mamy, mamo, mipetraka, manao, manasa, mianatra, mihinana, mahay, malala… Get one letter wrong, and you’ve got a totally different word. Today I really laid an egg. That’s at least what I told the housekeeper. “I’m pregnant, that’s why I didn’t eat all the potatoes.” Great. What I really meant was that I was full. Be voky and voky be are the same words just in the different order. Structure and place of the stress means everything in this idiom. The creativity of the people who formed this language can’t really be the best.Take the word because as an example. In Malagasy you can say it in 4 different ways, and have a look at the possibilities: fa, nefa, anefa, kanefa… I don’t think I have to tell you that we sometimes get confused and roar with laughter from time to time.
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mandag, oktober 22, 2007
Førsteinntrykk fra Brasil
Familien min her i Araçatuba er kjempe hyggelig. Jeg bor med en eldre dame, Dona Ordalina, og en misjonær som heter Silvia og som heldigvis kan litt engelsk! Dona Orda har 3 barn, som alle er gift, og 2 barnebarn. Ene datra og barnebarnet bor i Italia, men resten er til stadighet innom. De er utrolig morsomme, og har lært to ord av Marte (som bodde her i fjor) tjukk og ti på ti. Maten her er fantastisk! Vi spiser kjøtt dagen lang! :P Lørdagskveldene har de ”barbecue-fest”, med mange gode dressinger og MASSE godt kjøtt! Mange av brasilianerne har en ganske stor og god mage (det er der ordet tjukk kommer inn), noe jeg godt kan forstå ut fra maten de spiser. Den er rett og slett fantastisk!
En av jentene, tror jeg aldri har sett en lys jente før.. For da vi satt og ventet på at de skulle bli hentet, satt hun å tok meg på armen og i håret, kløp meg i skinnet og luktet på meg. Begynte først å le litt inni meg, men etter hvert var det litt skummelt! Heldigvis gjorde hun det ikke på fredagen.. På tirsdag skal vi til Casa Sinai, og det gleder jeg meg til! Ellers kan man vel si at vi har litt språkproblemer.. Det er kun 3 stk som kan engelsk, men vi prøver så godt som vi kan og kommunisere med de andre også. Tror vi kommer til å bo i ordboken de neste ukene, men merker at jeg kan flere og flere ord for hver dag som går..Selv om brasilianerne er utrolig kjærlige og alltid vil det beste for deg, klarer jeg enda ikke bli vant med all kyssing her. Man kysser når man møtes, og når man går. Man kysser til og med folk man aldri har sett før. Noen kysser bare i lufta og det er jeg vant med, men de våte kyssene er enda en liten utfordring.
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torsdag, oktober 18, 2007
First impressions from Cameroon
Me being bored trying to take some nice pictures out the window..
The next day, a taxi took us sight-sing around Yaoundé. Finally we got too se Cameroon in day light with our own eyes. It’s hard to describe what we saw when looking out, but this is something: This a normal sight in Cameroon. People selling food and things they carry on their head.. A part of a market..
What I was most excited about on our trip, was the train taking us from Yaoundé to Ngaoundéré.. We heard the journey could take everything from 12-27 hours, and you didn’t have much space during the trip. I can promise you that my first impression when I walked into the train was: CLAUSTROFOBIC! How could we put 4 people in here!! Luckily the fourth person never came, so the fourth bed was our storage place.. Helene sitting down fairly surprised by the space we have in our “room”.For every stop the train did, we could hear; banana banana banana eller l’eau, l’eau l’eau (water) outside the window.. Young children and adults were selling all kinds of things like you see in this picture. Gerd bought some bananas for breakfast..
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Førsteinntrykk fra Madagaskar
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First Impressions from Laos
Laos is relaxed and comfortable.(If you love bugs, that is) The streets are filled with mopeds and surprisingly new SUVs. However, there is a strange inconsistence between the traffic and the relaxed pace and atmosphere that the town has to offer. People in the streets are relaxed and have no rush, but the drivers are... Stupid? No wreckless is a better word. The sight of a big truck backing up and blocking the entire Luang Prabang Street(The city's main road) is no rarity. The mopeds have to yield to the cars and the cars has to yield to the bigger cars. You could say Lao traffic is social-darwinism at its finest. It seems like there are no rules for yielding at all. Yield when you feel like it. The most scary part of it all is that none of the other drivers seem to worry about crashing, or anything like that. I have the feeling none of them know the effect of a 60km/h crash on a moped.(With no helmet of course, and maybe even 2 or 3 persons riding along with you)
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