well well well now I have found myself in Thailand!

so strange just waking up here, not sure if this is the right place for me but I am enjoying the TEFL course I am taking, nice people and bla bla.

it all started quite funny... I left Denmark few hours after the summer camp finised what a hell. 160 hours of work in 11 days... felt like it was the happiest day of my life when I left.

I stayed with Carmen for a day or so then started to very tiering journey all the way to sweden whole 3hours with a boat and a very long bus trip to stockholm (that was long).

Living with my old friend jonas as a "homeless" person was kind of funny... making my visa for Thailand, studying English then most of the time staying home downloading and watching Greys and Law & Order SVU in fear of spending too much money by going to town

a week ago TODAY I started my journey to Thailand, flying to UK sleeping at the smallest hotel room you can immagine, less than 2 meters wide and mostly 3 meters long but they manage to fit in a bed and small TV. I mean what else do you need 

5 o'clock in the morning I started to walk to the busstation with all my luggage talking about 16kgs in handluggage the guy at the airport wasnt very happy but I was so charming that he said hmm "OK" wanted to kiss him.
Flying with royal air brunei was the nicest flight company ever, loads of movies, diet coke and peanuts almost 8h flight to Dubai to put on fill the plane with gas and back to the same plane continuing 8 more hours garrg I wanted to die despite the nice flight company, my ancles had the size of an elephant and hurted like hell.
best part was flying over Thailand to change the plane in Brunei then wait there for almost 3 hours trying to keep myself awake. a tuff one. then flying back for 3 hours to Thailand and finally I was there, at noon and 34 degrees.

Bangkok airport getting lost, looking totally exosted, white woman alone with all my luggage people looked at me like I was an alien. finally found my way to the correct bus for an hour and then to the taxi which got lost by the way to the hotel (I had a map and instructions in Thai) f... idiot

I was so happy finally arriving to the hotel with clean sheets, TV, frigde and shower!

So far I had good time, the course is harder than I thought it would be and working as a teacher in Thailand sounds to me like hell but if I pass the exam I will try to get job since I am HERE!!!! f... cheap to eat here just had a sandwich for 0.4 euro and 0.6 of a euro nuddle soup or even a meal for 0,2 of euro. still spend most of my money in coke of course 1,25 L for 0,5E NOT BAD

yE MY birthday comming up, not sure if it will be so nice since I dont know my classmates that well and my roommate will not be there.. or the few people I am close to. but I will make it up to myself going for massage and maybe do my hair

but thats all for now keep you updated for my terror of teaching practice and I have to cover arms, chest and tattoos. basically should buy myself one of these things afgani women need to wear! cant immagine wearing that everyday teaching without air conditioner I will dehyderate and stink every afternoon...

well...

a lot of changes have been happening in my life the last month... job, moving, I have used a massive ammount of time in thinking about life in general, why, how and what to do.

the once who do not know yet... I have decided to change my life totally, look more possitivily at life and leave anything to do with Tvind or Humana for now at least but probably definite.

Plan A, is to temporarily move in with an old friend I meet in Malawi, to Stockholm for almost a month then I will head towards more warm and more east where you find yellow people and lot of rice. just kidding but I am not joking though.. moving to Thailand and I am going to take TOSOL exam in 3 weeks in Bangkok, please pray that I pass that as well pray for me to get a job teaching english somewhere in Thailand or even in Cambodia. Just incase I do have an open return ticket in Febuary but everything is more or less ready except returning the numberplates of the car and the 3 last days of summer camp.

plan B, in case I do not get AAAA job in Thailand, unemployed in the land of beatiful beaches, nice food, child prostitution due to a lot of ugly anti-social middle age european/american men I will hopefully find an organization which works with these matters and I will try to do something with them for sometime then... head back to Denmark and try to get a job...

but maybe the beauty and the main difference of my former life is that am going to live outside of the box, without regret or control of others! enjoy life, learn and live as there is no tomorrow!

Improve my english, change things, find goals in life and work towards them 

does this sound hippie enough? well there might be more to come, you never know.

Now am on the way to Helshinki after fantastic Easter HOLIDAYS, at least one good thing about being a teacher (long holidays) and salary.

Starting with weekend in Aarhus (DK) visiting Silla, most of the that time went for sleeping and just a little bit of shopping J

Sunday morning with Bus on a ferry to Kastrup airport incl. just a little bit of shopping J 30 minutes stop in Stockholm airport which had the nicest Absolute Vodka bar, I bought for souvenirs 2 small cute bottles of Vodka and liquor but unfortunelly I didn’t understand the Swedish accent and he open both of the bottles… what are you doing!!!! I don’t drink dry vodka, the guy seemed confused and said but… I told you! Ok whatever and I paid and drank the liquor and through away the cute vodka bottle.

On the way to Tampere.. I think I can say that it was the smallest plane ever. Even smaller than the planes between Akureyri-Reykjavík, shaking in the air for 50 minutes I arrived in the snow, wearing my woolen dress, jacket and high heels. No Johanna or Jinabo… I waited and waited send a message and in the end they had been waiting the whole time in another terminal J

Driving in the rain and the dark for 6 hours talking non-stop to Johanna, while Jinabo and the baby (which is the cutest baby … www.flickr.com/photos/linda_skarpa) sleeping peacefully. I spend 4 ½ days with Johanna and drinks, saunas, finish food, cooking, shopping, movie and non-stop talking J it was great, it was like meeting after “Africa” or “Make a difference” in DNS.

Then travelling to the forest 500 km east to meet Annukka, luckily I got a lift with a friend of her mom’s most of the way, she didn’t speak English so that trip was non-talking J then we meet up with Annukkas parents and did some food shopping and headed to her little red house in the forest. It was so great (also non-stop talking). Annukka friends from Helsinki joined us. It was very relaxing environment, eating some traditional food, some good and some not so good J following with LOADS of Saunas. Believe it or not I went ice swimming, not joking Sauna then going outside few hundred meters going to a lake which was FROZEN but they had made a nice whole.. It was surprisingly not that bad. Nights spend cozy playing cards with snaps, wine, ciders and whisky J day after we went to nearest national park, skiing area where Annukka will work in the summer, we went snow shoe walking… how to explain shoes kind of for ice walking but stuck with small skies to make it easier to walk on the snow. Believe me I haven’t seen so much snow or such a beautiful sight for ages. That walk ended up being extremely tiring 3h walk then we went for dinner, sauna at Annukka parents place following with Rowling naked in the snow then back to the Sauna and snaps. J

It was a very interesting country, nice to finally go to a country which they drink more snaps and hard liquors and spend more time naked than Iceland J of course followed with loads of baby and nature photos. Johanna’s girl is like an angel almost felt like going to the next bar and pick up one of those very strange Finish men… but after going there… J no defense Juho.

so you all out there...
I have been very lazy to write mainly because my life is quite boring right now, I am not used to be at the same place or at least be on the way to go somewhere exotic with sun and palm trees.

Living in not so exciting countryside of denmark has gotten me a bit more stable and relaxed. so far I take my danish lessons and got brilliant results yesterday ,.. of course
I am trying to go boxing when I have time and my knees are not paining like hell after the last boxing lesson.
I did have trip to CPH "learning" about Denmark national museaum and art... saw christania and the little mermaid.

and now... am sitting in a studymarathon 24hs students studying getting 1 point for each 30 minutes they sit down and do something hehe when they get 5 points they get a present. but... tomorrow morning after staying awake 25h I will go to aarhus and stay with silla and then I go to CPH and fly fly fly to Finland to visit Johanna and hopefully Annukka as well.

now we all united... blacks, whites, yellow and reds in Denmark. I finally decided to learn danish after all these years... to be hounest am so happy I always got 9 in danish otherwise it would be much more hours to go.

the headmaster here wants me to become a class teacher next year which am not so asure about, nr. 1 not speaking perfect danish makes it quite hard and do I really want to live there for one more year. it seems to me that the money saving isnt going the best but it was exspected so.. I think I will start to apply for paperwork in England try to get my toilet paper diploma approved as it was in Iceland within a week. might take a bit longer time to convince them that it is actually a school not a Bachelor of travelling  hanging out in the carribeans

so all the best in india of course, loving india the heat dust and the amount of people but after all the hassle very stuffed program, visiting villages, going up on a mountain on a tractor, visited school and played with working children... me and irma got sick and not a little bit but diearea and fever that we thought that we were so stoned and everything was goin in circles in my head if I didnt keept my head on the pillow. best part was that we had first bus drive to agra to see the famous builing Taj mahal and of course despite that I feelt like shit and crazy enough to go even I might actually shit myself I had to go and see it (didnt have fever that time) so I got there and didnt shit myself but as soon as I got there my fever went way up and I contine feeling like hell and went home to bed but I saw it. that night we went for 20 hours bus trip to himalayas basically no food and hardly water because you never know when you see a toilet on the way so havent eaten hardly anything since monday. very effective diet. but now I feel better and just had an pancake with bananas and my stomcach is going crazy already but think it will be ok. we stay here until tuesday then we go to delhi and friday we fly back to denmark... but for now crazy shopping and photographing

hey just wanted to say we here are doing great, here in india is HOT and dusty in the village, we have been riding with tractors and all kind of viacles. visiting families and shopping. so good so far and tomorrow we drive to TAJ MAHAL then to HYMALAYAS enjoy the clear air in the mountains and I just finished developing 50 cool photos from india and I will add them on my web page as soon as I come back 14/15 movember... so all the best from india

hugs linda

hey long time no see cant believe it actually tomorrow night am on the way to Billund airport with some students going to India for almost 3 weeks, this moment I do like my job VERY much... but still its not real so strange. now I got 4 DIs to keep me busy as well, very international staff here. Icelandic, swedish, lithuvanian, british, hungerian, danish, swiz and not forget a girl from Peru. just immagine if u have this oppertunity when u were in school, trip to India... totally admazing.. anyway I try to add some photos as soon I got some really good once. I have few from Berlin where I went for a trip to learn about humana europe with my DIs last week...... I went crazy shopping hygine stuff and got my nose pirced.
I had a short visit to Silla in Arhus few weeks ago.. men its long time since I blogged I had a great time ending in a icelandic birthday party eating dry fish with butter, and not forget 9 beers and 4 lovely coctails
hope u all fine and rósa congraz with ur girl

I just wanted to remind people to enjoy the little things in their life, things that might be taken for granted, you experience every day and dont notice them anymore. now you think I am getting totally sentimental and I probably am but after I started my new job, something happend I started to have time, time to think what this is all about. life, not saying meaning of life because am not on that road yet.

I do work with students who are almost 18 years old can hardly spell, sit still in the classroom and dont have any interest what so ever to learn anything. hmmm so why bother they obviously cant see the point and why fight everyday and selfdom physically but it goes to your mind. what can you do that make that person adware, to give her a slightly bigger possibility of having a futhure? today me and her made a card it took 1,5 h to write one sentence in english (which I helped her to translate) on a card and print out a photo and glue it, this is notthing as I immagine, sometimes I feel like "what a fuck" but on the other hand if we give up on them as well...

I do like my job though its hard but something keeps me going. we might go to India with my students and I believe so much that it could change their view up on the world even just to experience to make a program with "academic of working children" 

Tomorrow I hope I, Irma and a student go fittness boxing together after school, it would be so great because I really need to get out the school to do something and I am living with a little monster who just sleeps until 22 and then is wide a wake and doesnt stop.. at the moment I just picked up 30 tampoons which she had jumped on and they where laying all over the floor, in her water and even in her sandbox. I will soon take some photos because she is lovely.

 

So my dream, apperntly I had invited some people quite many for my wedding with rósa which in fact just get married and is 8 months pregnant

Actually I didnt really ask her to marry me and I didnt have any sexual interest in her at all so infact I have no idea why I wanted to marry her.

Then the day of the wedding, I was trying to find online her phone nr because  I needed to meet her (in my town) on town office to ask her about some agreements (something that if we where married I had to pay part of my salary to her) and I didnt really understand why and then she told me of course she couldnt marry me anyway.

We where both wearing shitty cloths then I walk with my mom into kind of industrial area over a small brige without handles and I almost shit myself getting over there. I told my mom I wasnt getting married and actually I was fine with it.

But then I walked in the church, there was a small coffin on the floor but I just continued and it was so beautiful quite big with so many people all decorated in white flowers, and something with red napkins with roses (I still wearting the shitty cloths) when I walked in everybody where smiling and so happy. Then I looked at the people and most I didnt know except my boss from the school here, where were no relatives notthing. Then I said it is all over you can just go home, over.

Then I woke up so anybody knows what this means, anything else than that am lesbian and am secreatly inlove with my friend. J

thank god notthing else has burned down since last week, everything in in order here in Bustrup except we cant use the kitchen because of the fire and it is totally ruined and soon will be cleaned.
the headmaster of the Dayschool is comming back tomorrow from Palastina and on tuesday are comming kids from there and they stay here for 2 weeks if I remember right so guess I will be working with them.
now I added in few very old photos especially Rósa look out.... www.flickr.com/photos/linda_skarpa

I want to go back dont to stay here, already getting tired of staying in Europe! back to the roots

I was cooking... it all started I wanted to make my faviourite meal; italian pasta filled with italian ham... nammi nammi. and of course together with cheese souse. very heatly in deed with some salat with feta cheese and sundried tomatoes.... no more talking about my wonderful meal.

then there is a guy in here which is some where inbeween, he has finished his education here so he will probably start some kind of course because he isnt really able to"live in the real shitty world" anyway he is quite ok but he was also cooking because he didnt like my great meal "doesnt eat cheese" strange. so he deep fried spring rolls and he said and was sure that he turned the gas off with the oil. but... middle of my meal came black smoke out of the kitchen whole thing on fire.

to make it worse he comes with pot and through it on the oil and the fire goes wild. then we just go out and call the fire department because its defently out of ur hands. nearest place is arround 20 km away so it took some time and the kitchen is quite fucked up and the dinning hall black of smoke. so guess ur task will be to fix that... problem is that we are getting a group of palastinan kids next week and we cant really use the kitchen ...

there where 3 firetrucks with a lot of sexy firemen of course I and lynn enjoyed that a lot

now I feel I have reach my adulthood (my ass) actucally starting to work for money after my graduation. feels funny "offically" working only 37h per week and end up from friday-tuesday 75h seriously didn't know that was possible... but after DNS your paths are wide open and so are the working hours, anyway I have been "off" since wednesday-sunday god dem I dont know what to do.
living in the countryside in Denmark... this place is so far out. you couldnt immagine. 
am going to start my private danish lessons today... in this wonderful weather so lovely. there are still 2 weeks until the school starts but I cant wait for my pay cheek, the headmaster said is it ok that you get it together with August month... GARRRG... havent got salary for 5 years of course I need to get that week as fast as possible
have to go to cheek out with my student, told u off "my ass" but there is nobody here else with driving liecens so what can I do ?

so ... anyone seen that movie... there are no words so fucking funny because its great, the costums, the story looks all so extreemly crazy... of course meryl streep was great, the hotel she ran reminded me (standard of the house) was like tvind the windows falling down and .. then James bond (brosman) singing abba songs god so funny, colin f, singing as well and having a gay lover he he...
anyway am good here home in iceland enjoying the GREAT weather.. have been travelling and taking shit loads of photos seen all kind of animals from reindeers to whales, enjoyed a lot of nice food and its lovely...
all the best to ye LS

HEY EVERYBODY... am done and offically am a teacher see u all in iceland the 1st of july HOLIDAYS