Waving the Sri Lankan flag - Sri Lankiske flagget vaiet

Lørdag 10.juli var misjons dagen og som nevnt og parade.
Jeg var stolt da jeg fikk bære det Sri Lankiske flagget,

SATURDAY 10TH JULY was mission day as mentioned and we paraded down town.
I got to carry the Sri Lankan flag and i was might proud of doing that.

We had a nice gang of Sri Lanka fans as well.

Face painting

Saturday was mission day and here it was face painting for the kids.
You can see the nice lions here.

Lørdagen som det var misjons dag var den også ansikt maling og barna ble malt og de var så pene.

Drammen Photos - Drammen bilder

Jeg tok noen bilder i Drammen og det er en fin by. Forandret seg mye siden jeg var det sist for 15 år siden.
Den har virkelig fått en facelift.

I took some photos of Drammen city and it is a nice city.
It has changed a lot since I was there last time 15 years ago.
It has really changed.

Mission stand

Jeg hadde vår misjons stand i Drammens hallen, der mange kom og fikk info om arbeidet vårt og om hva jeg driver på med i Sri Lanka.
Her ser du meg sammen med min frue Roshini og minsten vår.

We had our mission stand here.
Many people came and had a look and they got info about our work in Sri Lanka and what I do.

The snow day - - Video

Here you can see us in snow.
First time ever Roshini, Nethmi, Sithma and Elizabeth experienced snow.

Friday 9 July 2010

Friday and saturday we spent our time at the conferance in Drammen.
DFEF, Free eangelical had ita annual conferance in Drammen this year.
My church in Volda is a member of this denomination.
It was fun this time since Betel church from Volda sent a small mini bus with
members to the conferance.
Saturday was the big parade day with al the people at the conferance parading down to the down

town of Drammen and having a outdoor meeting.

In the evning more happened.

Fredag og Lørdag var vi igjen tilbake på sommerstevnet i Drammen.
DFEF, De frie evangeliske har sitt årlige sommerstevne og iår var det i Drammen. Neste år er det

Karmøy.
Min menighet Betel i Volda sente iår en liten minibuss med 13 medlemmer til sommerstevnet. det

var gøy å se Voldagjengen hadde kommet nedover.
Lørdagen var den store parade dagen da alle som var på formiddagsmøte gikk i parade ned til

torvet i Drammen der det ble arrangert friluftsmøte.

Om kvelden skjedde det mer.

Thursday 8.July 2010

Day 22


Når jeg er i Norge har jeg en tradisjon normalt.
Det er å besøke min forlover og venn Bjarne Helgesen. Vi har en tradisjon at vi drar med bpåten over til Strømstad fra Sandefjord og spiser pizza der.
Pluss litt shopping på båten da.
Iår ble tradisjonen litt brutt, vi fikk fergetur fra Moss til Horten vi 3 men ingen svensketur. Men Puzza fikk vi hos Pizzahut. Den er god!
Får du mann i munnen av tanke på pizza. Vi fikk det.

English:
Every time I go to Norway I visit my bestman Bjarne.
We have 2 traditions. 1 we go on a boat ride to Strømstad in Sweden and second is buying pizza there.
This year we had to break some of that tradition. We didnt go to Strømstad, but we did go to PizzaHut and eat pizza.'
For the girls we took the train and that was a interesting experience for them.
Tio be frank not much happened but we had a very nice day even though it rained all day long.

Onsdag 7 juli 2010

Dag 21 og tiden har gått så fort.
Idag var det første dagen på DFEF, eller de frie evangeliske sitt sommerstevne
i Drammen.
Vi fikk satt opp en stand for oss i Sri Lanka nede i Drammens hallen.
Ikke bare det, var med på forhandlingene også.
Dette var spennendes.
Ellers var jeg med på forhandlingene og det ble spennendes med voteringer og argumenter.
Neste års LM blir på karmøy nå litt reklame for det stevnet.

Endelig fikk DFEF stemt igjennom at alle menigheter skal fra nå av sende mandater. Kanskje ikke spennendes å vite men dette har vert en sak som vi har ventet på å få stemt frem.

Day 20 6.July

Day 6.July
This day was just plain a day of rest.
But enjoy the photos of Halden.

Svend

Day 19 5.July and the waterfalls

On our way back to Halden we got to see nice waterfalls.
Enjoy!

Dag 19 5.july - Day 19

Endelig hadde denne dagen kommet.
Reisen tilbake til østlandet. På en måte ser du fram til den på en annen ikke.
Men dagens store opplevelse var SNØ.
For Sithma, Nethmi, Roshini og Elizabeth ble dette en morsomt opplevelse. For ikke å snakke om kald en også.

Day 19, Monday 5th July
The day we all knew would come and in some ways we had looked forward to it. We had promised 1 thing to the kids. SNOW!
And on our way back to Halden from Volda, yes they got to see it.
It was cold and on the second place we stopped it was very windy too. But it was worth it, the extra hour of driving.
We got to see beautiful waterfalls, and having a nice snowball fight.

Radio

After the mission feast I was invited to the Radio program and it was nice.

Dag 18 - day 18 Søndag 4 Juli

Dette ble den noe av den travleste dagen vi hadde.
Søndager er som regel rolige for oss i Sri Lanka.
Men er du på turne ja da skal du få mye unna.

Først ut var besøk hos Arthur som har en stor plass i mitt liv.
Han inviterte meg ut første gangen til Sri Lanka i 2000 og siden da fikk Gud tak i meg og tente meg for misjonsarbeidet.
Etter en kort stund sammen med Arthur og Solveigf bar det til Ørsta og Kina. Ikke Kina men til Kina restaurant som vi var invitert til.
Vi ble invitert til middag sammen Gunnar og Betty. Det var en koselig stund med dem. Etter det var

Betel:
Kl.18 var det duket for stor misjons fest på Betel i Volda.
Det ble en stor opplevelse med gamle venner.
Der var Sindre, Rune, Gunnar, Arthur, Egil, ja de alle var der. Gamle og nye venner.
Kjekt å se at det vokser på menigheten en vokste opp i.
Ja vi alle blir eldre men dette var gøy.
Vi fikk fortalt mye om familien vår, trykkeriet, arbeidet ja alt.
Sithma, Nethmi og jeg tok en sjanse og sang 2 sanger på Sinhala og det gikk bra også.
Ble mye mat men det ble koselig.

Day 17 Saturday 3.July 2010

Lørdag ble en kort tur til Ålesund og Emblem.
Det er ikke så mye å skrive om, men at jeg vil gjerne vise frem foto
fra hytta vår.

Day 16 - Friday 2.July 2010

This day was our day we visited and got visited.
Today my aunty Inger and cousin Aasta came to Volda. They live 3.5 hours away from here so it was nice to see them again.
i haven't seen them in 2 years so it was nice to finally meet them again.
My cousin Aasta brought here daughter Maria and her son Rasmus.
Maria hit the tune right away with Sithma and Nethmi. It was fun to see how kids play well together. It strikes so fantastic. Where ever you go, kids from any part of the world. Yes, they play well together and they have a lot of fun too.

For me it was good to see them again.

It was nice to walk through Volda again and also to meet people I haven't seen in years.

In the evning after my aunt had left we had some rest.

We also visited Nora, 1 of our church oldest members and our prayer supporters.
She really loved to see Roshini and our 3 kids. Even though Elizabeth ran around she loved it.

So this day was over.

1 week left - 1 uke igjen

Its 1 week left of our stay in Sri Lanka.
So if you want to see us get in touch.
email: svendsvendsen@hotmail.com

Norwegian:

Idag er det en uke til vi drar tilbake til Sri Lanka så om du vil treffe oss så ta kontakt.
Email : svendsvendsen@hotmail.com

Svend

Day 15

What a day.
Finally the sun broke through. Yes, but it didnt happened in Volda first. We had to go to Ålesund. So we left 11 in the morning and off we went to Ålesund.
Hoping that, yes Ålesund would provide better weather. And so it did!
By 12.30 we had come to the CITY, Ålesund.
The sun was shinging and the old jugend style town was beautiful in its best.
Roshini loved it.
For mum and I it was a mix emotion. We both have lived in lesund and love it. Ålesund it just Ålesund.
Ok, on a rainy day its less fun to be there.
So we drove through it and enjoyed the view.
To the aqaurium we went and looked at the fishes. As well as the penguins.
A man in tux or another big penguin came almost out in the same style as the penguins. He served the penguins food.
A wonderful place which I will recommend anybody who comes to this city.After that it was Fjellstuva. My dad drove me, Nethmi and Sithma and dropped us at "parken" close by Liahaugata.10. Prior to we should walk up all those steps mum said there were 700 steps and dad 400. Both of them were wrong. 418 steps on a sign. We walked up to Fjellstuva were mum, dad, Roshini and Elizabeth stood waiting.
From there we went to Emblem and Røssevollen and our cabin.
For me this cabin means a lot.
The sun was shining and we truly enjoyed this.
By 9.30 p.m we left for Volda and Helgatun.
There are many people who read this, I must explain for you something. At this time of the year. The sun sets as late as 10.30 p.m at night. No you are not reading wrong so when we came back to Volda 11 or so the kids should go to the bed and that was not a easy task when you tell its bed time. But its not dark outside they have usually replied now while we have been in Norway.
No point of discussion because when we say bed time, its bed time with 3 extra bed time songs, 2 prayers and some other good stories. Bible or other stories.
I suppose its time for bed time.
Good night!

Ferry food - The Ålesund - Fergemat

When you travel on ferries in Norway you need 2 things, well 3. 1 to get those 2 others.
1.Is money to buy the 2 other things.
2. Coffee and
3. Svele

What? You say. Yes, svele. It is 1 of those Norwegian dishes we serve on ferries more or less exclusively.
Its like a pancake but thicker and different taste.
And it is very tasty too when you have butter and sugger on it too.
Yammy!

Svela!
Når du er ute å reiser på fergene i Sunnmøre trenger du 2 ting, faktisk 3. Den 3 for å få de 2 andre.
1 er penger for å kjøpe de 2 andre.
Nummer 2 er Svele
Nummer 3 er kaffe. Er du slem brukes den til å skylle ned den svela med.
Svela som er en norsk mat delikatesse som serveres nesten ekslusivt nesten bare på norske ferger, og da kan en sikkert sirkle seg inn på Sunnmøre spesielt.
Har du vokst opp der kjenner du til denne runde pannekake liggnende saken.
den er god og deilig. Er du sulten er det et kjapt måltid.
Med sukker og smør på er dette helt himmelsk. Nam nam sier bare jeg.

Home work

Day 14 - Wednesday 30.june 2010
When you take kids out of the school for 1 months. Some young readers thinks,
ah 1 month of vacation. Wrong!
When you leave the school for so long time we bring home work and so must our 2 older girls do.
So every day for several hours grandpa and daddy sit with them make sure they do what the

teacher has given them.
If not it is very easy to not do it.
Here you see grandpa learning the eager children about maths and they love it.

Norsk:Dag 14 - Onsdag 30.Juni 2010
Når en tar barna ut av skolen for 1 måned eller mer så kan en ikke gi helt fri fra skolen.
Så vi må mellom slaga av besøk, underholdning så tar vi også hjemmearbeid.
Her kan du se bestefar henge over dem og forklare dem hvordan matten skal gjøres.

Day 14, Wednesday 29.june 2010

What a wonderful day.
We had a quiet day for once here.
So we just slept a lot. It seems like we are doing a lot of that here at Helgatun but its so nice a quiet here.
But by 13-hour we went and visited Anna an old supporter and church member.
It was good to spend time with her. Roshini, Elizabeth and I spent a few hours with her. At the end Nethmi, Sithma, mum and dad came as well.

As that wasn't enough we got later that day to visit 3 very old friends of mine here in Volda.
Eveline and Torbjørn Sørheim plus my old sinhalese teacher Theresa Kornberg.
We got to spend a long time together and it was good.
When you stay away from Norway for 2 years you have a lot of ground to cover in 2.5 hours.
I think we covered most of it.

Tuesday 29.june - Day 12

This day we visited Dalsfjorden and Aksnes family.
That was the name of the place and the family we visited.

This was the beautiful place to visit.
For the kids it was nice to see the country side of Norway and Volda.
To see the sheep, cows and a beautiful church.
We went early in the morning we left on the ferry and the girls enjoyed the
trip across the fjord.
















next was not a long drive but 10 minutes and there we were. With Kari and Ove Aksnes in Aksnes.
Delicious food and strange berries. Blue and wild berries in a delicious desert.
As normal when you visit people in Norway for food and coffee you get plenty and so we did that day too.
For the kids this was fun since Ove and Kari has a farm and full of animals. Sheeps and other animals.

After we had done that they let us look inside the church in Dalsfjorden and that is a beautiful church so I recommend you all to have a look inside of it if you get a chance.