Muhahaha

JUBBBIIIII, I just got promoted. I am no longer a steward anymore, I no longer have to clean other peoples shit and work for 16 on the sea, and only 8 days at home.
I am now officially DFDS' man in the "Guest Service Center", it is still 12 hours a day, but I only work for 14 days, and then 14 days off...for the same money as before...Muahahah I am getting RICH!!
The only problem is that I am "Mentally" spending all the money before I am getting them, so I have realized that I have to have 250.000 Danish KR to do the things I have planned, and buy the extra things for my camera as planned.
I am getting home on the 23rd, then we have a UWC intro in DK, then a special "Graduation cermony", and then at last....ROSKILDE! North Europes biggest festival!! It is sold out allready, but I have a ticket together with 75.000 other people and 20.000 staff!! It is BIG, HUGE, GIGANTIC!!! I love it...music all day long, and one crate of beer pr. day. (there is a reason why we have 24 beers in a crate, and 24 hours in a day!!)
Check out: www.roskilde-festival.dk

Itay was planning to call today, I talked with him over MSN, however it is not the same as talking in the phone. I just hope that I will have time enough, because i am going to work at 14.40....Damn, sometimes I realize how many people I miss to talk with and hang out with....and also how many people I dont miss, and how many people I am happy not to see anymore...
Btw, talking about this...I am going to write something on the Law of Jante later on this week, so keep yourself updated!

Alles ist Fussball!!!!!!!!!!

Muhahhah, it is World Cup time and that is equal to nice soccer and cold beers in the sun! It is only day three, but we have already seen some of the underdogs surprise. Costa Rica played a okay match against Germany, but I must say that the German defense is VERY bad...Un Autobahn for the other teams. Ecuador also played a great game, and I actually think they will be second in their group. England was very lucky with a 1-0 against Paraguay, but I am quite sure they will improve. Trinidad & Tobago were real men when they played against a good Swedish team, the really surprised me (and many other people).
I supported Cote D'Ivoir in the match against Argentina, and I actually think that they could have won if they had been just a bit more effective in front of the goal. Argentina can make it far, however I just hope that they will start play with a bit more fair play than what we saw in the game yesterday. Some of the players were more moviestars than soccer player. Group C is an interesting group and I hope that Cote d'Ivore and Argentina will make it further on.

Don't cry for me Argentina....

I was reading Maritas blog, and the post "Hidden Tracks" was quite good, and it made me think about an episode that I had in La Mantanza where Ingvill and Marte worked. Mette, Julia (one of Mica's good friends) and I had visit the school where the two girls worked (and where we met Herman), we were going to take the bus back home to rich, clean and "wonderful" Palorma. On the way home in the bus, three guys saw another guy passing by outside the bus. They told the busdriver to stop the boss, ran out and took some stones and start throwing them after the guy who was walking by the bus. He responded in a way that I only see in movies. This poor boy, lift up his white dirty t-shirt, under where he is hiding an old rusty six-shooter. He points it at the three guys, who then runs into the bus again, it drives for 1 min. before the three boys jumps out again and starts running after the boy (who is now running faster than what I have ever seen a person does.)

Argentina has an extremely interesting story. I have just read two great books written about the Argentinean history, the first one "A History of ARGENTINA in the Twentieth Century" by Luis Alberto Romero and "The Myths of Argentine History" by Felipe Pigna (Yes, I wrote the titles and authors so you could go and order them on amazon!). Both of them describes a society "where people are forced to speak the language of their conquers." This is a country which has tried many success, and many more downfalls. Tupac Amaru. Manuel Belgrano and Mariano Moreno tried, and somehow succeed, but also died in the fight for independence.
Argentina was one of the richest country in the 1930s, but as seen many more times before, only a little majority enjoyed this. Then Peron (with success in the beginning, mostly because of his wife Eva), and later General Jorge Videla screwed up the country. For ten years there was a so-called "Dirty War" where more than 9000 people disappeared, and many mothers are still walking on the famous square in BsAs today, because they have never been told what happened with their son and daughters.
In the late 1990's the economic crisis started, and in 2002 they had two weeks with five different presidents. Furthermore, more than 50% was unemployed at the time.
Today the country’s economy is going a bit better, mostly because of the growing tourism, however, I still saw a lot of people sleeping on the streets, and many people are starving (even though Argentina is the 8th largest food producer in the world, and could feed 10 times its own population). If you walk around BsAs you will find a lot of the so-called "Cartoneros", people collecting paper for recycling so they can earn a bit of money.
The minimum wage is 630 pesos a month; a three-room flat costs around 300-1300 pesos a month. Every third Argentine is today considered poor....just no one of the tourists and backpackers I met knew all this. I am sorry that I wrote all these facts down; I just wanted to share a little bit of important information. Good Luck to Argentina in the up-coming World Cup. And thanks to Ingvill and Marte for the work they did.

FAQ

It is quite a long story about this post, but the short one is that the Prousts questions are famous all over the world,(dont ask why, is a long story), and I felt that I have to write SOMETHING in my blog.... That also reminds me that I have written anything in my diary for almost 3 weeks now.... Empty of thoughts? Dunno, but I def. know that the job I have is not stimulating me enough, therefore I have also applied to work in the reception instead of cleaning all the time....but lets see what will happend with all that.
I have spent this weekend being with UWC people, All the danes, Lilian, Hildur, Margret, Ayisha, Manuel, Rudy, Pablo (who got into a danish university!!), Nina, Nikolai and many more. It was nice to see all of them again, mostly because it proves that it is still possible to see people from all over the world.
Anyway, here comes the questions/answers:

The Proust Questions
What is your most marked characteristic?
- Talking crap 60% of the time.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
- Done what I done, especially when no one believed me.
When and where were you happiest?
- 08/12/2005, 1000 Nautical miles from the closest land, or 31/07/2005 when I saw a blue whale and her calf.
What is your greatest regret?
- That I have never learned to play an instrument.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
- To be Healty.
What is your most treasured possession?
- My Eyes.
Where would you like to live?
- Lebanon or Argentina.
What is your greatest fear?
- To get blind.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
- That I get jealous.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
- Ignorance.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
- Silence instead of speaking.
What is your greatest extravagance?
- Books.
What is your favorite journey?
- Life
What is it that you most dislike?
-Celery
What is the quality you most like in a man?
- To be a “real handy-man”.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
- Intelligentsia.
What do you most value in your friends?
- Frankness
If you were to come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
- A cockroach.
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
- A camera
How would you like to die?
- In a warzone taking pictures.
What is your favorite occupation?
- To Love, To Live, To Let Go.
What is your favorite color?
- I agree with Prousts that it is the beauty in the colour, but the beauty in the harmony.
What is your favorite bird?
- A Blackbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Antonie de Saint-Exupery.
Who are your favoite poets?
- Benny Andersen and Halfdan Rasmussen
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
- Winnie the Pooh
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Dora Maar.
Who are your favorite composers?
- Chopin
Who are your favorite painters?
- Picasso, Monet, Edward Hopper, Kandinsky,
Who are your heroes in real life?
- My Grandmother.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Simone De Beauvoir
What historical figures do you most despise?
- Pope Urban VI (and many other popes)
What event in military history do you most admire?
- Itays enrolment.
What reform do you most admire?
- The Constitution of 1849 in Denmark.
What is your present state of mind?
- I feel annoyance because I have to analyse myself, and not other people in this question.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Criticism of me.
What is your motto?
- Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.

Two great games!

Hola everyone...This is a bit of a boring little note, I just wanted all of you to take a look at these two great UWC Games that I foudn on the net.

http://www.freeonlinegames.com/play/426.html
In this one you have to kill as many terrorists as possible, but it is a win and loose game.

http://www.mcvideogame.com/
This game is great, but also very difficult. YOu are the boss of an international cooperation (MacD), and you have to get as rich as possible with all means.

Try both of them :-)