Marika, Norway: Great second week

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!

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.

Kongsberg Skisenter

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.

Me, Oscar (from Tanzania, first time on skis ever!) and Tove

#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.

#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.  

AIB Drammen, the biggest hall had an interesting ceiling

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!

From one of the workshops

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.

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!

Just can't get enough! Nom!