From the North and the South

North again

2009-09-28T05:53:00.000-07:00

Damn I'm irritated!

I've tried to send an mms too the bosnian for three days in a row, but it just won't work!

Well well... Maybe I can fix so you will be able to se the picture anyway my dear...

Like... mms-ing it to my picture diary and then saving it on the computer, so I can do like this:

Now who said I was stupid?! Huh?!

(All I miss on this picture is a pair of green and glittery bunny ears and a bosnian)

This is from the Home up North!

Anything else on my heart?

YEP.

I love my job...
BUT (No extra "T" this time) ... It's a bit stressy right now.
Tomorrow I'm going to stockholm on a course... for three days... we're driving from here at six o clock in the morning... I'm looking forward to see how this will work, considering the maniac I happen to work with is just as crazy as I am... and will probably be tired... :S
Back on thursday evening...
Work friday, saturday and sunday...
While doing this I also have to plan for courses and activities, and invite leaders to these... oh! And write a leader newspaper- or what to call it... Does that make me a journalist to?

Talking about newspapers... I was interviewed by a journalist from the newspaper Amelia Jul 2009... so the 5th of November is a date when you can see my face all over sweden... in a story about celebrating a white christmas...

Sorry?... didn't catch that...What?
Free weekends?
Is that a food dish?

I haven't got a clue...

Do you know what it is, dear bosnian?

South!

2009-09-26T08:22:00.000-07:00

So close no matter how far... :)

Yes, I am back home too, down south, but still in the same time zone as Norway and Sweden.
For more then a month now. Can't believe how fast this time flies...

A year ago many of us were toghether in Årnes, learning more about Juvente's secret service who's checks the stores and writes reports about how many minors managed to buy alcohol in them.
I remember,we ate a big cake, singing b-day song for Ingunn...

And here I am now, in Sarajevo, my hometown (you can see photos of it, if you haven't noticed by now). Happy, back to my new old life, with one great experience behind, and with many new people in my heart.

It feels weird being without you, my dear Moose, but fortunately I have so many things around to remind me of your constant presence and there is this little colorful notebook filled with letters and words, that is my big treasure, and that I keep under my pillow very often.
Then I have impression all those nice people that wrote in it are even closer to me.

Thanks for that Moose, and thanks to all of you who wrote in it.

These days I've been working on my final work at faculty, so very soon I will be graduated journalist... I think that's how you call it on English. :)

Also, very soon I will meet my highschool mates, I am arranging reunion since this year we are celebrating fifth anniversary since we graduated from highscool.

In November, I am heading to Skopje. Why is that? Well, the reason is Balkan seminar which we are preparing and working on already.

Promise to write (with more detailes) very soon again, now I have to run...

Love you all! <3
Bosnian :)

North...

2009-09-17T08:00:00.000-07:00

Hi my dear ones!

Gee... It really is a lot written here... not.
Well. Let's see if we can change that shall we...?

So... wazzup since... eh... may?

Well ... this little volunteer is sitting in Göteborg and blipping behind her new workdesk.
The other little volunteer is... I don't know... What the hell are you doin down south, my dear little bosnian?

I've been working for... sheisse!!!... almost four weeks now. And I must say that the most messy day I've had was the sunday I moved here...

There was an UP&GO rope in my big toe pulling me out of bed before any one of my eyes even had started thinking about letting me see anything... So... blind and almost stumbling (or the other way around) I was packing the things... (and yes I was swearing quite a lot over why the hell I brought so many stuffs)
Theeeeeen... I went to the car... with my mum and dad. :S
And there was driving... a lot... and loong... it felt like... loooong...

The bosnian was in my head. Then there was an sms saying "food"
So... We took the car to the "food"... then... we ate it.

Apartment of Jenny the crazy moose was closing in... and suddenly I was there... so... there was carrying...
and we did. Boy we did.

(Did I mention that someone had hidden a Piano under all those things)
Well...
I still had nowhere to sleep...
So....

IKEA!
In to the car, out from the car, buy a bed and kitchentable and chairs...in to the car... out from the car... into the apartment...

put the shit together!

GO TO SLEEP!
(Yes, I did.)
At nine o'clock the day after... I started working!

And have been doings ever since, but of course I miss you guys.
*sending loads of kisses and hugs*

Now you tell me bosnian: What's up?! down?! in ya corner of the world?

Skolering update

2009-05-07T04:08:00.000-07:00

Yes, the course/skolering is going to happen! Weeeeee! =)
And hopefully you`ve seen the invitations all over the internet by now. If not, then either we don`t have you as a friend on msn or Facebook (for some weird reason), or you don`t check juvente.no often enough.
But if you`ve found this blog, then we guess we can work things out anyway ;) !

And we have another clarification to announce:
The course/skolering is going to happen as we planned, between 12th-14th June in Gon, Larvik, and everybody has a chance to apply for this course cause it`s planned to be available for the whole organization.
However, this update concerns the fact that the same kind of course, an unofficial one, is going to happen one weekend before...uuuuuup north.
By north, in this case we mean Trofoten, Nordaland and Finnmark folks. Which brings us to the conclusion that it "might" be cheaper for people from that area to apply for that course instead the one in Larvik (of course this is just in case you`ve planned attending it at all).

So:
5th-7th June---> UP to North and
12th-14th June---> DOWN South!!!

The first one, you apply to Rolf Ivar and contact him in case you have questions; and the second one, you apply to Jenny (by e-mail, sms, msn, Facebook... and so on- you got the point)...

Thanks for your attention, stay tuned!
Klemmer <3

Another point of view for you

2009-05-05T12:45:00.000-07:00

Crap! Serious again... (WTF?!)

As volunteers in Juvente we do hear a lot of the peoples opinions about all kinds of things... from how to clean the dishes to what people think of the local group in Egypt or Costa Rica...

This is a very good thing and we really enjoy that people wants to talk to us. It gives us a lead of what the member search for and need to make Juvente a better place.

We really became attached to the organisation and the people in it, and that's why we would like you to know something.

Juvente is a place where rumours seem to start without anything but one personal subjective opinion about another person. And another thing we noticed as two fresh pairs of eyes and ears is that Juvente is gliding apart because of personal issues.
People here seem to have the habit to take stuff very personally when they shouldn`t and are afraid of expressing their opinion. Instead, they rather just stay quite and pretend as if nothing is wrong.

Our question for you is:
You think this will make Juvente a better or worse place to be?

Many members in Juvente seem to be afraid of expressing their opinions in front of the people involved in the issue and rather want to pretend everything is fine and normal when something is really wrong.

The thing is that Juvente established certain patterns and everything/everyone that wants to create more and new possibilities are not accepted.
If Juvente really is the solidarity organization it claims to be, then how come people that are standing for equal rights and aiming for the same visions put their own benefit higher than the benefit of Juvente itself?

Juvente's strength lies in the members as a whole group where everybody's opinion should be considered and should be taken as such.
This means: You have the right to your opinion, but make sure it's clear it is yours and that your value is not less because someone has an opinion about you or the things you do.

To illustrate:
If you get critics, take it as a positive thing and advantage, not as a personal attack on you. Something made that person say that and if you think it`s unfair, ask why. We are all humans, after all. And if we in Juvente are friends, as we claim to be, then we should be honest to each other and at least try to be unselfish, cause the real friendships are about supporting and unselfishness.
If somebody comes and gives you their opinion about something, you should value it because it gives you the chance to change yourself to a better formed person and also to do a better job for Juvente.

We love this organization and the people in it but what we see is that it's dividing because it's easier to talk about someone than to someone if something is bugging us.

This blog post is supposed to unite something that shouldn`t have been divided on the first place, because we are taking no ones side but Juvente`s.

Remember: Everyone should have the equal chances in Juvente, there are no leaders without members and other way around.

And before you react, just try to put yourself in other person`s skin and don`t judge people before you hear all sides of the story.
Ok, we know Juvente is a huge organization with many members, but not everybody is included in every story, so we are not saying you need to hear over thousand stories :).

If you are still wondering why this is important, then just go and have a cup of coffee... It might help you understand some things ;)...

Think about it.

P.S.
The fact that both of us are having PMS does not mean we were grumpy or anything;). We care, so we shared! Is that ok? =)
Look at us! Do we look like we care? Ok, you can`t see us, but we DO! (Can`t you see the effort behind this blog post?)

Thank you! God bless you! :)

Some more serious stuff...yepp, deadly serious ;)!

2009-05-05T12:16:00.000-07:00

So, what are you going to do after reading this blog post? Here you have the options:

1. Sign in at juvente.no and apply for the skolering that is actually going to happen between 12th-14th June in Larvik
2. Don`t give a damn and just stop reading here!
3. Make sure you have no other plans for that weekend and join us
4. Ask or make comments on this post
5. Don`t give a damn and continue reading
6. And so on and so forth...

Soon enough you will recieve different forms of invitations, and if you are able to read, you will understand them.
We are planning many cool things for you guys and the venue couldn`t be more perfect for this kind of event.

This was supposed to be an informative blog post, but the thing is we are sitting at home, in a bit crazy mood and...ehm...we kind of don`t know what else we can write, that we haven`t already written before.

So, the sun is still spinning around...or was it Earth that does the spinning part?!? Who knows...

*Jenny is wearing pink underwear*, but never mind this! :)

No, seriously folks, make sure you apply as soon as possible, cause the number of participants is limited.
I can hear somebody snoring in my bed...And, that person is not Jenny! :S

12th of June it is! FOCUS!!! :)

And this is the place you should Focus on to be:

Come on, tell us it's beautiful!
And... Oh My! The person in the bed is actually hugging the big teddymoose now...

What are you waiting for? Sign up!

Nope… not rid of us… (un)fortunately...

2009-04-23T07:18:00.000-07:00

Apart from the introsentence right above, this is going to be a serious blogpost. (at least before we freak out again)

We wanna tell you about the thoughts behind our project, cause we realized we might have confused you with all the drama around the Supervolunteers Juventeweekend.

So, this is what it’s all about:
Lets first explain the name of it.
Since we got nicknamed as the supervolunteers we thought that was a good way of introducing ourselves, and since we are volunteers working for Juvente it seemed to us as a catchy headline for the things we wanted to do.

And this is what we wanted to do:
Our idea from the beginning was to arrange weekend ”skoleringer” to strenghten ”lokallag”. On the beginning of the year we were sitting here at the office, analyzing the ”lokallag” all over the country in order to improve their work for the upcoming months. Then we realized some of the groups are struggeling with different issues such as: problems with creating and arranging activity, conflicts within the groups, leadership problems, lack of motivation and problems with planning, recruiting and so on…

So we decided to create something that could help you dealing with these issues.

This is how we were and still are planning to do it:

The first day is mostly about leadership and interacting with each other. About how to be a leader, what a leader is, how to deal with different situations that can appear and the relation between a leader and a group. Our working methods would be to involve you in different tasks to solve together and give you some concrete tips of what is good to consider in certain situations.

And now to the second day.
This day is about motivation. About how to do stuff, how to keep the interests for: Leaders, members and people about to become members or leaders. It also contains some things most of us don’t think about very often, such as bodylanguage, active listening, building bridges between the experienced members and members that haven’t been in the organisation for very long, so that everybody are getting benefits out of it. Our methods this day would contain things as: exercises and different roleplaying games, some kompis elements etc.

The third day is about putting the things you’ve learned into action, and save it in ways that can help the rest of the organisation, (Things like a book with tips of activities, blogs, posters, movies and so on) so that this weekend actually gave you something you can use in practise.

Some of the elements on this course are things you probably already heard of, and this weekend could be as developing for you as for your lokallag, since the things we’re doing are great for you to know not only as a member of an organisation but also as a human going through life.

The thing that makes it different from the other Juventeskoleringer is that: You have the experience. The thing we wanna do is to show you how to pass it on.
This means that the results of this weekend depends on you. Either you feel like you wanna organize some new things, try to do things in a different way, give others possibility to learn what you know and so on.

If you make things happen we will make sure it’s gonna be visible to the rest of the organisation.

How? Well... You have cameras... send us the pictures and movies... It might turn out to be a cd...
So, what happened? Tell us! It might turn out to be a pamphlet with activities...
Tut-aksjoner might have posters... they could end up decorating the boring white office walls.

So: We start a thing together that is able to work even when we’ve come to the day where we no longer are called the volunteers.

There is a but though… From the beginning we planned to have several weekend courses, (here’s the but) however, time and economy reduced our possibilities to have as many courses as we wished and planned on having.

The new plan is therefor to have one big course in June, on a national level, but unfortunately still with a limited number of participants.

We’re not saying we can’t come and help your lokallag anyway, it’s just to give us a howl and we can try to figure a way to arrange either something similar where it’s needed, or whatever you ask for.

This means we actually have just enough time until Kontra, which is an excellent chance for you to present what you achieved and make it visible for the rest of the organisation.

If you have any question or suggestion: Hit us! (We DO wanna hear your opinion… unless we’re busy with taking a shower together with the toiletbrush or just poking youJ )

Hmm… Sorry to say that the next time we will be this serious might… take… a while… or two…

Good Luck! ;)

It's not allowed to kick on the computer

2009-04-16T01:41:00.000-07:00

So... what's new for today?
Well.. one of us is preparing to speak Norwegian and the other one would really like to brake the computer...

We quoted Jeff-fafa Dunhaaam on our way to the office (as usual)
And realized how much we'll miss those crazy walking-in-the-city-making-weird-noises-details...

And now we have to go.... it's mooooooooo-office meeting.
But don't worry... this place is haunted so we'll be back!

Holy crap!

2009-04-14T05:22:00.000-07:00

(Oops...)

We... just created a blog... And Boy! You guys should have seen the work we had to go through...

We started with creating a gmail-account...

And uh... ended up here.

Blogging.

Live.

From Oslo.

At least right now.

Let's just call this a welcome- openingblogpost.

Hmm...

Maybe it should be a warning or two here as well...

Read the blog if, and ONLY if:

You're not sensitive (At least not very... strange things might show up here)

You're ready to expect the unexpected

You're open-minded

You're curious (About us and the things we do... except for the private stuffs on the toilet)

You wanna know the latest gossips from the office (First hand information of course)

You wanna have a whacky time in front of the computer ( No laughter whatsoever in mind... nope)

You wanna read some crappy Norwegian (Of course we're experts, we just don't want you to know that)

You wanna develop your English vocabulary (Yep, you're stupid And of course we're bragging)

You wanna know how good we are (Ha haha)...

You wanna...

And so on and so forth... (can't believe you actually read this far without writing anything on msn)

So what's up next?