Countdown: 7 days!

Hada! (Norwegian for hello)

So with exactly one week before I board my one-way flight to Bergen, I decided to start my blog!

This time next week I will be filled with anxiety and sitting in a terminal in Dulles waiting for my plane to board. I am flying to Bergen, Norway, where I will be living for an unknown amount of time to pursue my culinary/restaurant interests. My second cousin, Alf Roald, owns a restaurant on an island in a fjord near Bergen, named Cornelius. Here is the website for the restaurant, http://www.cornelius-restauraunt.no

I will be working there, doing whatever they need me to do, serving, cooking, scuba diving, toilet cleaning, helicopter piloting, etc. I am very flexible.

So for the next week I am trying to live it up in DC, see as many people and places as possible while still maintaining my sanity and packing.

I hope to update the blog weekly with stories and pictures from this adventure! The tentative plan is something like this...

April 20- October 20: 6 month work permit to work at Cornelius
- November: travel around Norway
December- February/March: lease a car and drive from Norway to Spain, stopping in
various European countries and cities.
Ideally that will have me in Sevilla sometime in March, to spend 2 months with Cris, my
fantastic host mother from my study abroad, ending with Semana Santa and Feria
de Abril!
I would be home from all of this around May, 2010!

That plan is incredibly subject to change and actually does change almost everyday. I clearly have some thinking, research, and planning to do.

Whatever happens, I am very excited and encourage anyone to visit at any point! Have a country you've always wanted to visit? Done, I'll meet you there! I will work anything into my schedule, literally.

More to come! I mean, I haven't even left the country yet....