Soon Champions League final

Next wednesday Manchester United will meet Barcelona at Olympia Stadium in Roma. This is a huge event that might not happen in a long time. Therefor I feel for mention it here to. It has been on my mind the last two weeks and no I probably am thinking to much about it. This year I will see the final in Santa Cruz, maybe with my coordinator Jose, if not probably alone since I am quite alone to have a passion for English football here. Last year I watched it in Poland with some scottish and many polish people, that was more or less equally passionate. However, this is not really important, since I will enjoy the game and are already more nervous than I probably should be.

Back to Bolivia. The sun is back and the daytime temperature is warm norwegian summer and the night time it is just a little warmer than perfect. I been using the days to prepare and make some interviews, preparation for the information work in Norway, I read newspapers and about the history of philosophy. I find it stranger and stranger that I only have around 2weeks left in my family. The time passed by very quickly and I also just want to relax and enjoy the end of an experience I probably never have again.

For the end it now looks like we will get an autorication from the Cuba Consulate to follow and write an article about the medical and teaching brigades they have here. If we get that it be great and very interesting. I also have some interviews with the opposition in Santa Cruz, with some Parlaments members so I am preparing questions and try to read myself up on different topics. Which takes time since it is on spanish. We also get to visit a oil instillation and interview the labour union there. So I finally have enough to do and I can controll it more myself. The last 2 months been frustrating with bolivian organization and work culture, excluding and other problems, but that is all a part of the culture experience. A thing you can say to everything, good and bad.

The last days a started to loose more in chess against my 12year old brother. I never played it much and feel I learned a lot from playing against him, he have a different style than me that I never find I good way to defend against. I want to continue play when I get home, I really like this game. Even though a 12 year old boy often beats me. In the beginning I usually won, but now it is more 50- 50. He adapts and learn faster than me, something that my small instinct for competition dont like.

I have also been dreaming about a lot norwegian food lately, for some reason a bowl of rice for breakfast every day isnt my favourite thing. Even though when I was travelling I started to miss rice a lot and the rice breakfast. When I realized that I was almost shocked, since home I never liked rice so much, but now I cant be without it at the same time I want to be without it. Most of all I want to eat shrimp on loff bread, with a lot of majones. I also am looking forward to eating norwegian ice cream, my own made variaty home, mixed with everything. And I am missing the norwegian nature, the safe forests, the sea and things that are familiar.

Lets all watch the game on wednesday. It will be a great day, I hope. I am a little bit scared, anyway I got to go.

Chao