out for a walk

since today is the 1st of may i had the day off and instead of studying i took the bus out to go for a walk. i wanted to explore a little and find a path up a mountain i've seen when walking there before. so i travelled light and only brought my phone as a camera. i wasn't really expecting any picturesque sceneries, because i was up on another smaller mountain last week and it was just grey dirt and rotten snow. but a lot had melted since then. i can't wait for all the snow to be gone and the trees to blossom.

i managed to find a path that went a bit up the mountain but i ended up having to walk off the trail to find my way up. it was a bit intimidating really, because the path i took was very improvised. also, i walked by some semi-fresh moose droppings (or at least i think they were... i'm no moose droppings-expert) so i was afraid i'd get eaten by walk into a moose... anyway, i didn't go all the way up because it got pretty steep and i didn't want to get lost (or eaten by moose). such a refreshing walk though, i feel like i spend all my time indoors reading or at uni. words cannot express how much i look forward to summer vacation, even though i don't have any definite plans yet. does anyone have any exciting plans for summer?

photo diary

this winter and last summer.


i pretty much use my iphone as a visual diary so here is a selection of a few photos i've taken since january (i've posted some of them on instagram already. my name is nikolinelr there too):


1. a statue at fengdu, 2. the crew on the ship in traditional chinese clothing (at least copies of it), 3. near the three gorges dam, 4. somewhere in wuhan, 5. and 6. somewhere between wuhan and yichang.



1. studying for midterms. it seems the weather is always perfect during exams! so frustrating. 2. one fine morning, 3. my mom visited for a few days and wanted to stay at a hotel rather than in my 12 m2 room and chaos kitchen that i share with 6 other students. i could understand that. so we got a room with a view to the city hall. 4. after sunset



1. i hung this poster on my door. i think it says something like "you can live without a lot of things, but not without cats and literature!" (any germans out there, please correct me if i'm wrong!). makes me happy every time i walk out the door. 2. i decorated my boring lab coat.



1. collecting dna from fish sperm on a stick! a bit like candy floss. 2. our first self made and self run agarose gel electrophoresis!



1. after the worst exam ever, i went down town and bought this skirt to make me feel better #materialistic. our teacher crammed way way WAY too many questions into a 2 hour exam, there was barely enough time to write something on each question, and even less time to think. hopefully they take that into account when they grade it. 2. i have no good explanation for this... the pixels are the limit?




1., 2., 3., 4., 5. and 6. findus, findus, findus... i was in tromsø for a week this easter and it snowed and snowed and snowed...


1. the bus stop near our house in tromsø, though not much compared to the piles of snow we saw elsewhere. 2. on the plane back to oslo.

the world through my window