A little basketball update

As I spend most my time on basketball over here, I thought to my selves it's about time to write a little bit about how it it going. The regular season are over and we finished the season at 11 wins - 9 losses (Junior Varsity) and 8 wins - 12 losses (Varsity). However we managed to get a spot it the playoffs which started this tuesday. Our opponent were Lake High School, which we had beaten 42 - 40 earlier in the season. We ended up winning 69 - 39 in a blowout victory, which were sent live on tv as well. On the coming friday we are taking on Ottawa Hills, which has a 18 - 2 regular season record, for a spot in the sectional final.

This picture is from the Panther Hall, which is our home court. Its statium capability is somewhere around 750-800 people. We are playing in white. This picture is from our last home game against Tinora, another 18 - 2 regular season team. We lost the game 60 - 61. If you look closely, you can see some pictures hanging on the back wall, mine is the fourth starting from the down left.

I am curently working on geting a hold of some game fotage from one of the games.

It's cold, record cold

Friday January 16th was officially the coldest day in the ohio area in 16 years. With the air temperature stuck at -23 degrees farenheit (-32 grader celcius). That was NOT the windshield. There was no school due to abvious reasons. 60% of the schools students would likely freeze to death. It was so cold that you could take a glass of warm water, throw it up in the air, and it was ice when it hit the ground. Now thats cold. Too cold.

MLB the Show

For de av dere som lurer paa hva jeg bruker den lille fritiden jeg har innimellom, saa kan jeg betrygge dere om at jeg ikke har glemt kunsten med tv spill og gaming konsoller. Jeg har nemmelig de siste 3 maanedene spilt MLB the Show 08 gaske saa hardt. Er forØvelig i sesongen 2011, som er min fjerde sesong. Det virker kansje ikke saa imponerende, men i en sesong er det 162 kamper. Skal ikke si at jeg har spilt alle kampene selv, men det har blitt en del av de.

Ellers vil jeg si at det er et helt fantastisk spill som kan minne veldig om en blanding mellom Fifa og fotball manager, bare baseball style. Helt overlegent!

Half way

I am now half way in my american life, and are therefore going to write about what I have seen and experienced so far when if comes to whats alike and whats very different from USA and Norway.

- There are fastfood chains everywhere, and they are not only there for the view, but people eat there. A lot!

- The beds only have a thin cotton sheet, nothing thick. If you are cold, you grab one more.

- There is no such thing that makes your clothes silky smooth when you wash them.

- Americans never eat healthy breakfast. Common choises are wafles with way too much sirup and a pile of pouder sugar on top, pop-tards (candy like thingy, very unhealthy), beagles, eggs & bacon, and if you are eating a sandwitch, you use white bread only.

- Every family have atleast 3 cars; one truck (which is very rarely used), one cheap car, and one family car. In addition my family have a golf car. Yeah, baby!

- Gas cost 1,75$ a gallon which equal to about 3 kr pr liter, and they conplain all the way.

- Sports and school go hand in hand. You play for your school, not a team.

- The school gets delayed if there are a little snow on the road, or it is too cold. So far we have had 8 delays and 1 canselation.

- The school system are quite poor. You learn very little stuff of significant meaning, and it is almost a free ride to good grades.

- In during the classperiod we take notes off the overhead, or we lisen to the teacher speak about anything. Often not school related at all.

- Even though americans are crazy about cars nobody changes into winter-tires, and as a result, there are cars in every ditch on a snowy day.

- America have Hooters! Gief!

- It is EXTREMELY inpoortant for a teenager to have clothes exclusively from Hollister or
American Eagle. Personally, I don't like eighter of them.

- It cost more money to make you'r own dinner that to eat out. A dubble cheeseburger at McDonald's cost 1$ (5,5 kr).

- About 80% of the people here first thought they spoke english as the main language in whole of europe, including in Norway.

- 15ish% didn't know Norway existed.

- If you are 1 second late for a class - you get a detention.


I'll write some more stuff later on, this was just the first things that came to my mind.

Happy New Year!

I would like to wish everybody a happy new year! I hope you have a wonderfull year to come.

It's freeezing

I remember people telling me a little while back that we are going to have a rough winter. And last week the winter started for real, with temperatures as low as -20*C (-30*C on the windshield), tonns of snow, and school canselations. And since almost every american drive with summer-tires all year around, there has been A LOT of accidents.
Yesterday we went to the Detroit Pistons - Chicago Bulls game, which is usually a 1,5 hours drive, but we spent almost 3 hours each way because of icy roads and very snowy weather. But even though the drive to get there was a pain, the game itselves was awesome! The game ended with a Pistons victory 104 - 98, which most of my family was very excited about. After the game we went to Hooters, which for several reasons are my favorite american resturant. They have superb food and even better serving ;) My personal favorite is the Western BBQ Burger. Its a moster hamburger with loads of great stuff on it. Is a must try if you ever go to Hooters.

Lang dag i kirken, ja i kirken

I dag ble jeg vekker i 9 tiden av at vi skulle i kirken. Greit nok det, men det som forst saa ut til aa vere en liten uskyldig gudstjeneste utviklet seg til aa vare i nermere 2,5 timer. Noe som er lenge aa hore paa noen lese fra bibelen. Det er vel litt feil aa si at man bare leser opp fra bibelen her, for med gjevne mellomrom ble bibellesingen avbrutt av allsang der hver gang ordene 'praise the lord' ble sunget gikk halvve forsamlingen ned paa kne, rakte armene opp mot taket og sang av hele sitt hjerte. Den storste forskjelden paa kirker her og i Norge er vel hvor engasjerte folk er her. De sitter ikke stille for seg selv, men lar kroppen ta over og slipper seg helt los. HELT los.
Mot slutten naar presten leste opp en bonn ble det hele avbrutt av at en person maatte nyse, og folk rundt i hele rommet skrek ut: "God bless you, God bless you!" Hele sitvasjonen var tildels komisk, sett fra min vinkel. Senere paa kvelden, rettere bestemt klokken 6.00 pm var det tid for kirken igjen, denne gangen var det rekonstruksjon av jesus fodsel i betlehem. Det var et skuespill der alle i kirken var innvolvert. Litt vanskelig aa forklare, men det hele hadde med historien vi alle kjenner, gutten som ble fodt i en krybbe. Et par timer senere var det hele over, og vi tuslet hjem igjen.
For de av dere som kjenner meg godt, kan dere sikkert forstaa at 4,5 timer i en kirke paa en dag er relativt mye for selv meg.