On the
second week’s Monday morning I had to wake up early; we were going to go skiing
that day! My roommate lent me his snowboard and clothes, which was so nice of
him – and even though I looked a bit like some gangsta rapper with the baggy
clothes, I didn’t mind. Yay, to the slopes!
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| Holmenkollen's winter wonderland |
I met
Therese at Oslo S station where we caught train to Drammen. There we met Tove
and Astrid, and continued our trip with minibus to Kongsberg Skisenter. It has
been sort of cloudy and rainy in Oslo, so it was absolutely a nice change (and
a surprise!) to see the sun when we arrived to our destination.
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| Kongsberg Skisenter |
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| A view from the lift |
In fact it
was my first time on snowboard for four years, so I really had to make closer
inspection to the slope’s snow situation in the middle of my first slide. With
my face. Almost repeatedly. The inspection’s results were that the snow is cold
and hard, and I had some nice bruises to take home with! Overall it was a
fantastic day, and we had lots of fun together.
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| Me, Oscar (from Tanzania, first time on skis ever!) and Tove |
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| #myofficetoday |
On Tuesday
I was whole day at the office, and we had meetings concerning about last week’s
tasks; how the things are going with Helsedirektoratet’s photos and
documentation, and then I had to finish World Café (the stop animation –video thingy)
editing till 12 o’clock. I got last files only two hours before the deadline,
so I really had to rush with the rest of it. But in the end, I did it! And we
actually got nice feedback from it.
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| #myofficetoday, part 2 (check out the delicious lunch!) |
The week of
early mornings continued on Wednesday, when my clock woke me up at 05:30. This
time our destination was Drammen (again) where was held a network conference
called Februar Konferansen. There were over 100 attendees, and my job was to
document the whole event – speakers, workshops, the whole atmosphere.
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| AIB Drammen, the biggest hall had an interesting ceiling |
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| I wanted to take these chairs with me. So colorful and vivid! |
Since I
knew it’d be a long day, I had my own goal to achieve during the day; to take
as few photos as possible. I’ve learned that I tend to take too many photos on
bigger events, and it slows down my editing process afterwards. The amount of
spare photos isn’t too much when it comes to the point that I have only one set
of photos to edit at that moment, but i.e. here I need to concentrate on many
sets of photos at the same time – so if I could drop the amount of spare photos
for like 35%, it’d speed up my editing process vastly. So I set a limit to the
amount of my photos, and I got to say, I succeeded in it pretty good! In fact at
first I was terrified if I’d had too few photos, but later while I was checking
them on my computer I realized that I really had invested in quality, and my post-processing
went even more smoothly. Self five!
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| From one of the workshops |
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| Another workshop |
End of the
week went with photo editing, even the weekend (as of the last weekend as well)
too. On Friday we had a great photo shoot at the office, when I was supposed to
take pictures of Lent’s staff for their new upcoming website. We had almost too
fun, and I just couldn’t stop giggling – how professional I am! But at least
everybody was relaxed and the photos looked good and natural.
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Aren't these guys just awesome? From top to bottom: Nora, Helene, Daniel and Therese.
I'll continue shooting the portraits later when others are back at the office. |
To
summarize, I had a very good week, and I might’ve rewarded myself with sushi
for completing it so nicely. Again. I just love sushi! Someone might say that I’m
going to have a sushi overdose – but I really do think that’s impossible. We’ll
see!
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| Just can't get enough! Nom! |
