Day 10

This day we traveled from Bjorli to Volda.
We had a lot to look at.

The entire family had a woonderful time at Bjorli and we thank God for this experience.
Sithma and Nethmi
got a new friend at Bjorli, Rebekka.


By 6 p.m we had come to Volda.

Mafia Night - Mafia kveld

In good old days when I went to the youth meeting in Volda and specially at Nordre Vartdal we had one game.
Name? Mafia!
Purpose is easy enough. 1 boy/girl is the story teller. 1 og 2 persons are mafias and the rest are good law abiding citizens.
And each night everybody goes to sleep, minus of the story teller. So the mafia guy(s) wakes up chose a victim and next day this person is out of the game.
And in this game you have to be a convincing lier, wonderful thinking we played this at our youth gatherings.
So we liked to get ride of too smart people early in the game. And very often it leads to accusation of innocent people early on. And if the mafia is good he makes a complete mess for the innocent people and kill them all.
so like in OLD DAYS, we laughed, screamed and accused each other with fun and bumped each other off ;)
Roshini got a shock when she finally understood the game.
Fun we could do this again.

Misjons kveld

Denne kvelden, tradisjonen tro på Bjorli går til misjosn kveld. Og Roar tro og vanlig har på seg festlige hatter og antrekk fra hele verden. Et år hadde han tropehjelmen på, et annet år noe annet og iår hadde han fått med seg ei kvinne i burka og seg selv dressa opp som en god troende muslim.

Men dette er viktig at vi forstår andres kultur og deres levemåter. At vi alle har et behov for noe mer, selv om kles drakten, maten og mye annet er forskjellige er ofte har en noe felles. Er vi kanskje ikke så ulike på enkelte områder.

Porridge time

I Norge har vi 2 typer grøt.
1. Risgrøt som vi har prøvd ut i Sri Lanka med vår familie.
2. Den sure grøten, dvs rømmegrøten.
Min Sri Lankiske familie syns vi nordmenn har noen rare mat tradisjoner.

Norway has got 2 main porridge types.
1. Rice kind which is milk and rice and very tasty. We have tried it out in Sri Lanka..
2. The sour one which is called rømmegrøt, made of soure cream and some other things.
Well they think we have some strange food customs in Norway and i understand my family, the Sri Lankan one.

Saturday - Day 9 26.June 2010

This morning Toby left after 1.5 day at Bjorli. Driving to Bjoa from Bjorli is a long drive so they started on saturday so they could take it easy and be home on Sunday without a lot of driving at once.

After he left another good old friend of mine came. Sindre from Volda.
He came to Sri Lanka 3 years ago and Roshini knows him well so for her it was fun too.
Rune also from Volda came and so it was almost like old times again.
That we should experience later that night. Look at Mafiua night story.

After we had a long talk it was time for mission night.
Look at Mission night story.

Fredagen hentet stevnet frem trampolinen for jentene.
Og det ble til en stor suksess for dem.
Sidan da ble de å finne der, hoppe og hoppe og mer. Ja hopping.
Gøy hadde de!

Thursday 24 june

Early in the morning I got a call from an old friend of mine.
he lives in Bjoa and his name is Toby. Norwegian is Torbjørn.
He called and told me he was on the ferry. Somehow I got suspicious but thought. Nah, he is not coming.
A few hours later on that evening a man taps me on the shoulder during the evening meeeting. Who stood there?
Toby himself!
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So he and Anita saw our family again since last August.

For us it was nice to see him again.
For me he is like a brother and I enjoy seeing them again.
For our girls, and especially Roshini it was good to see them.

A little big of advertisment for Roshini, he sells her bedsheets here in Norway. So contact Toby and get Roshinis Norwegian style bedsheets. 100% cotton.

Norwegian:
Torsdag 24.juni
Tidelig om morgenen fikk jeg en telefon fra en god venn.
Han bor på Bjoa og han heter Torbjørn. Han ringte meg mens han var på ei ferge. Av en eller annen grunn var jeg noe mistenkelig, men næh han kommer ikke vel til Bjoa tenkte jeg.
Noen få timer senere på kvelden var den en person som tappa meg på skulderen. Og hvem stod der?
Ingen ringere enn Torbjørn i egen person.
Så han, Anita og Tone hadde kjørt hele veien fra Bjoa for å treffe oss.
Det var godt å se dem igjen.
Han er som en bror for meg og for jentene var det godt å se uncle Toby & aunty Anita igjen.

Litt reklame for Roshinis sengetøy, han sleger sengetøy og bord duker for henne her i Norge. Så kontakt Torbjørn og få sengetøy i 100% cotton.

Day 7 Thursday 24.June 2010

today a little girl in red suit and red hat met a bear.
No it wasnt little redhood meeting the wolf. But she said: You look stuffed.
No comment! Because he is!

Idag traff ei lita jente en ulv. Hun var kledd i rød hette.
Nei ikke rødhette, men hun syns ulven var noe forstoppet, mente utstoppet.

Søndag 4.juli møte og fremover - 4th july church

Idag Søndag 4.juli har vi misjons møte på Betel i Volda kl.18.
Betel er rett ovenfor bussholdeplassen i Volda.
Der bli vi med innslag og forteller om hvordan det går på Sri LANKA.

Kl.2130 blir vi med på radioen på Bygderadioen Vest.
Neste uke blir det De fries Landsmøte 8-11 juli
Uka etter, 11-18.juli blir vi i Haldens område.
Så ta kontakt .

Today sunday 4th July we will be participating in the church meeting at Betel in Volda. it will be a goodmission meeting.
Betel is just across the bus stand in Volda.
21.30 we are invited to the radio show on Bygderadio Vest which broadcast on Søre Sunnmøre.

Our stay in Norway is as follow:
Attend the national convention 8 to 11 july DFEF
Week after 11 to 18 July we will be in the Halden area.
Some of the days we are busy so get in touch quickly sine time is going very fast now.
16 july we are busy
11 jul busy
8 to 10th july busy
5th July e are traveling to Halden

Båt turen - The boat ride 22.june

Båt turen ute på fjorden var ganske så koselig.'
Fikk se hvordan det har forandret seg der siste åra.
Jeg har ikke vert i Sponvika på minst 5 år så dette var gøy for oss alle.
For jentene var dette helt topp.

English:
The boat ride was very exciting for us all.
Its many years since I have been in Sponvika at aunty Marit and uncle Gunnars cabin. And since last time many things have changed all over. Change for good I say.
But we all had a wonderful on the sea.

New things

Elizabeth found out that some of the Norwegian hot dogs was a bit big. But tasty!
Now, is the hot dog too big or not?

Hos tante fikk Elizabeth prøve noske pølser.
OK, var pølsa litt stor eller?
Men den var så deilig!

Day 5 - 22.june Boat trip day

Day 5 was the day we went to aunty Marit and
uncle Gunnar at their cabin in Sponvika.
Name is Grotten so we had a good time. The sun was smiling at us that day so the girls
could walk in the water and fish crabs.
They had over 9 crabs and Nethmi caught a lot of crabs.
Sithma was doing fine as well.
For little Elizabeth she went crazy when she saw the water and ran right into the water and had a
good bath.



Even though 18 degrees in the water she didnt care and had a ball splashing in the water.
After some more splashing around and more crab fishing we had a nice little boat ride in uncle

Gunnars little boat. OK, a bit bigger than a row-boat.
The girls had the time of their lives and enjoyed the wind woshing and the waves and it all.
Roshini sat and thoughtn this was beautiful.
Little Elizabeth couldnt help herself and jumped into the driver seat.
This was a wonderful day for us all.
Also for Captain Elizabeth at the helm.

Halden by night

When Roshini and I walked around i Halden we were stunned by how beautiful it looks here in the late evening so we took some beautiful photos.

Day 4 - Dag 4 21.June 2010

Day 4 of our stay in Norway.
This was our major rest day. We slept until 9.30 and did nothing.
Kids went to the towns fortress in Halden. And they were exhausted when they came back form that walk.
So when the evening came Roshini and I thought we had to test our strength as well. Excused ourselves with this was exercise.
So we went around 10 p.m and spent the next hour or so walking up and down to the Fortress from Kr.August Gt.
Roshini loves the view and we agreed upon we shall have more walks up there.

Dag 4 av Norge oppholdet 2010.
Dette var vår store avslapnings dag. Vi sov til 10 nesten og denne dagen gjorde vi fint lite.
Våre 2 eldste, Nethmi og Sithma gikk på formiddagen med bestemor Inger til Fredriksten festning i Halden. De ble kjørt opp og måtte gå ned sammen med bestemor Inger.
De var utslitte. Da Roshini hørte om den vakre turen kunne vi ikke være verre så vi gikk opp vi 2 klokken 10 om kvelden og ned igjen. Det var en flott utsikt som vi møtte da vi gikk opp igjennom porten til festningen. Det var ting jeg ikke har sett på lenge eller aldri sett før.

Day 3 - Sunday 20.June Dag 3 20.Juni

Sunday 20.June was a great day for our family. At noon our relatives, uncle, aunties and cousins came. And we all had a great family re.union. or most celebrating Besto, my grand mothers 95th birth day. The Lord has given her 95 years and she is still going very strong. Incredible in some ways.
This was also her first time seeing her great grand children, the only one she has who lives in Sri Lanka. For Nethmi, Sithma and Elizabeth this was wonderful experience to see her.

Not only her, but aunty Elin, oncle Jostein, my aunty Marit and my uncle Gunnar. Plus my cousin Kristian, Tina and her husband Andre.
What a wonderful time we had together. We found out it was 8 years since we all on our side had gather together. May it not take so long to next time we see each other.

Norwegian:
Søndag 20 juni ble en vakker dag for vår familie.
Rundt lunch tiden kom våre nære slekninger, onkeler, tanter, kusiner og fettere, bestemore og oldermor som hun er. We hadde en flott familie forening og feiret Besto min Bestemor som fylte 95 år forige søndag. Herren har velsignet henne med 95 år og hun går fortsatt.
Dette var også hennes første gang hun fikk se hennes eneste oldebarn som bor i Sri Lanka, Sithma. Nethmi og Elizabeth.. Det ble en hyggelig møte for alle.
Ikke bare første gang for oldemore Besto, men også min tante Marit og onkel Gunnar. Plus min kusine Tina med Andre og Kristian min fetter.
Vi hadde en hærlig tid sammen. Det er 8 år siden sist familien vår har vert samlet og vi håper det ikke går så lenge til neste gang.

Dag 2 - 19.Juni 2010

Dagen idag har gått til å slappe av og se litt av Halden.
Vi fikk kjøpt en ny barnevogn siden den vi hadde tatt med fra Sri Lanka gikk fløyten pga ene hjulet falt av under reisen.

Da vi hadde fått gjort det og slappet litt mer av dro vi til Besto, oldermor og bestemor som hun er.
For henne ble det første gang hun fikk se oldebarna sine fra Sri Lanka.
Ble fin opplevelse for alle.

Big gathering was there at the airport when arrived 6.15 pm at Gardermoen.
Uncle and aunties were there, Jostein and Elin, grandma and aunty Kathrine was there.
We all were so happy.
At last we had come to Norway.

Hele familien hadde møtt opp for å ta imot oss.
Det var veldig koselig.
Onkel Jostein og tante Elin, samt tante Kathy and bestemor Inger.
Endelig hadde vi kommet til Norge.

Day 1 - To Norway we go - Dag 1 Til Norge det går

Day 1 came and went.
We leaft for Norway 425 in the morning and long day it was.
By 6.15 p.m we came to Norway at last. Many hours of traveling.
But for the girls this was exciting and also not so fun some times.

But Uncle Jostein and aunty Elin and aunty Kathrine with grandma Inger was there when we landed.
One big gathering there at the airport and we all were happy to finally had reached the end.

For Elizabeth the first night in norway was different when she had to dress so up.

We are in Norwaty - Vi er i Norge

And we came to Norway and all is fine.

Love Svendsen family

 

Vi har kommet frem til Norge og alt er bra med oss.

Varme hilsen fra Svendsen familien

Time for NOrway

In a few hours we leave for Norway.

I have to admit we all look forward to this.

over 1 year of planning and hard work finally gives fruits.

 

For the girls this will be the first trip ever abroad and as for us as a family it is also the first trip abroad.

First time in many ways and exciting it is. For Elizabeth it is also first time and she has never been to Norway either. She is Norwehian but speaks more sinhala than Norwegian.

 

Pray for us and if you want to meet us while we are in Norway contact us.

Norway here we come!

If you want to meet us contact us: email svendsvendsen@hotmail.com eller mobil 48 22 30 85

 

Om noen få timer setter vi oss på flyet til Norge.

Må inrømme at vi alle ser frem til dette men har sommefugler I magen.

1 års hardt arbeid krones nå med tur og det er godt.

 

For jentene er dette den første turen til utlandet, for oss som familie er dette første turen også.

På mange måter blir dette første gangen, også for Elizabeth som aldri har vert I NOrge og som er norsk.  Hun kan mest sinhala.

 

Be for oss og om du vil møte oss mens vi er I NOrge så ta kontakt.

email svendsvendsen@hotmail.com eller mobil 48 22 30 85

Her kommer vi Norge!

17.May in Sri Lanka / 17.Mai i Sri Lanka

Here you can see our 17th may celebration this year in Colombo. It took place on the 16th. And as we sign in Norwegian: Hipp HURRA FOR NORGE!

17.Mai feiringen ble iår feiret i år som ifjor i Colombo hos ambassadørens bolig. Men iår falt feiringen på 16.Mai siden 17.Mai var en Mandag iår.
Kjekt å kunne feire våre idealer og vår grunnlov.

God Pinse

Kjære venn!

Roshini og jeg vil ønske dere alle en god pinse.

Denne dagen kom Den Hellige Ånd og menighetens fødsel på en måte.

 

God pinser alle sammen

pray for church members i Negombo

Dear reader!

Last Friday a tragic accidents occured and killed 2 dear churcvh members of our church here in Negombo. 1 of them was a young girl who just got married last year. Behind sits a very sad husbond. Please pray for him. That the Lord will give him strenght.

The other one was a older member. Behind sits a wife and 4 sons. Pray for his family as well.

For us in the church this has touched us in a very deep way and we grieve with the families. But we lift them up before the Lord.

 

Svend