Norway (in other words, we) just won Eurovision Song Contes. And not only that, but we won with 387 points, which is like a houndred points more than what used to be the record. It has never been clear this early in the competition who was going to win, either, or that big a difference between the 1st and 2d place (which BTW went to Iceland, one of our friend countries). And to top it of, tomorrow is our National Day!

Here is our sweet song, Fairytale:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-75lIrP7I&feature=related

(Yeah, I know it's low quality, I'll link a better one when it's available.)

God bless Alexander Rybak!!!

I was looking at my profile, and I realized I hadn't blogged for ages. So here's a sweetie for you;

God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.

Turkish proverb

Always behave nicely, so if your friends screw you over you can make them feel guilty.

Lillian Grande

The grades that are going to count when we apply for school. In Norway, we go by numers, not letters, and I got two 6's(=A), both in English, speaking and writing. My aveage was 4,3 which is pretty good.

I also want to show you a picture that a friend of mine(my second cousin, actually) drew for me about two years ago. It's for the story I'm writing. Read what she wrote and you'll understand. Please, check it out, and also take a look at some of her other works, 'cause she's really grate:

http://zun0.deviantart.com/art/Dimitri-59162840

Russia just won the international Eurovision Song Contest. To those of you who don't know, it's a contest where 42 European countrys participate with a song(it has to bee a song never preformed before), wich they choose by individual elections. Then the 25 best are chosen for the final, held in the capital of last years winning country. The songs are preformed and all countrys give points from 1-12(exept there is no 11). Russia just won, after a close battle with Greece, but they won three years ago. Norway(where I live) came 5th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XR5xrU02yo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0BIMDrfkz4

(These are from the semi-finals. Top one is Russias Beliveing, lower one Norways Hold on be strong)

Today (May 23) is the 64 year anniversary of the deths of Bonnie Parker an Clyde Barrow. I know they were criminals and killers, but I feel a bit sorry for them. Therfore, I wanted to honor them with a blog. They are also the idols of two of the caracters in my book. This is a poem written by Bonnie Parker a few weeks before they died. It will also count as my quote of the week;

The Story of Bonnie and Clyde

You've read the story of Jesse James
Of how he lived and died
If you're still in need for something to read
Here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang,
I'm sure you all have read
how they rob and steal
And those who squeal are usually found dying or dead.

There's lots of untruths to those write-ups
They're not so ruthless as that
Their nature is raw, they hate all law
Stool pigeons, spotters, and rats.

They call them cold-blooded killers
They say they are heartless and mean
But I say this with pride, I once knew Clyde
When he was honest and upright and clean.

But the laws fooled around and taking him down
and locking him up in a cell
'Till he said to me, "I'll never be free
So I'll meet a few of them in hell."

The road was so dimly lighted
There were no highway signs to guide
But they made up their minds if all roads were blind
They wouldn't give up 'till they died.

The road gets dimmer and dimmer
Sometimes you can hardly see
But it's fight man to man, and do all you can
For they know they can never be free.

From heartbreak some people have suffered
From weariness some people have died
But all in all, our troubles are small
'Till we get like Bonnie and Clyde.

If a policeman is killed in Dallas
And they have no clue or guide
If they can't find a friend, just wipe the slate clean
And hang it on Bonnie and Clyde.

There's two crimes committed in America
Not accredited to the Barrow Mob
They had no hand in the kidnap demand
Nor the Kansas City Depot job.

A newsboy once said to his buddy
"I wish old Clyde would get jumped
In these hard times we's get a few dimes
If five or six cops would get bumped."

"The police haven't got the report yet
But Clyde called me up today
He said, "Don't start any fights, we aren't
working nights, we're joining the NRA."

From Irving to West Dallas viaduct
Is known as the Great Divide
Where the women are kin and men are men
And they won't stool on Bonnie and Clyde.

If they try to act like citizens
And rent a nice little flat
About the third night they're invited to fight
By a sub-gun's rat-tat-tat.

They don't think they're tough or desperate
They know the law always wins
They've been shot at before, but they do not ignore
That death is the wages of sin.

Someday they'll go down together
And they'll bury them side by side
To few it'll be grief, to the law a relief
But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.

I might have my weaknesses, but being wrong is not one of them.

Jimmy Hoffa

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying - but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?

Lily Tomlin

Who listened, she wondered, when a man needed to talk? Women had friends; men, it seemed, had drinking companions.

Minette Walters

Don't back down. Specially when you're not sure you're right.

Reginald Hill

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Fortunately, everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

The only thing I value in people is courage - everything else can be counterfeited.

Boris Akunin

It lies within a woman's nature to find the faults of a talented man and the good sides of the idiot.

Honore de Balzac

I kinda forgot.

In wine there's wisdom, in beer there's strenght, in water there's bacteria.

David Auerbach

Guys, you gotta help me. The aplication of what school we want to go to next year is due by march 1. and I can't decide between two schools. They're called Kongsgård and Hetland. They are both very good, altough Kongsgård is slightly more prestigeous. We have to have the schools we want to go to ranged by where we want to go the most.

Hetland: 1. I went there as part of an "exchange" program once, and I LOVED it.

2. The entrance smells like cimamin buns. I know thats not important, but it gave a welcoming feeling.

3. Second year they have an exchangeprogram with Oxford(one of the best shools in England, as far as I know).

4. All the teachers seemed really nice, and the classes were interesting.

Kongsgård: 1. My best friend is trying to get in there, and I'm not big on the whole making new friends thing. Besides, I'm writing a book with her, so different schools woul be a major setback.

2. It's very old, from the middle age or something, and I'm really into history.

3. My teacher said that they have lots of drama and shows ther, wich is something I enjoy a lot.

And now the negatives:

Hetland: 1. To go to Oxford is kinda a long way for me, I'm sort of a mommy's girl.

2. The actual school building is being renewed, som it's currently placed somewhere else, but it might be done by our third year.

3. I don' know anyone there.

4. Kongsgård is a "better" school.

Kongsgård: 1. Aparently, they have a LOT of homework.

2. They have very small classrooms.

3. It's right next to a cathedral, and it's buildt on an old graveyard, sa there are skeletons beneath the floor.

Something else that is important is that since Kongsgård has a higer average, even is I put it first, I might very well end up in Hetland, but if I put hetland first, Kongsgård is barely an option.

Ok, since I don't have much to write here I'm going to post a quote I like every sunday untill I run out of quotes (or get bored). This week:

The most important sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. Albert Einstein