Losos, fjordy a nabytok --- Salmon, fjords and furniture

Tento tyzden sa konecne nieco dialo. Pondelok nic takeho zaujimaveho, ale v utorok sa so mnou zacal francuzstinar bavit po francuzsky o Piestanoch. Nejaki jeho kamarati tam akurat boli. To bola sranda. Esteze mam ruky a nohy na dorozumenie :-D. V stredu sme mali tzv. heldagsprøve - celodenna pisomka (9:00 - 12:45)z norstiny. Dostali sme 5 tem na vyber a mali sme pisat sloh. Boli celkom dobre temy. Nakoniec som si vybral Co je to stastie a co to pre mna znamena. Tak som nieco popisal a siel na bezky. Hroza. To nebol sneh ale kasa. Navyse som pouzil vosk na chladnejsie pocasie, takze sa my tak smykalo, ze som nemohol ist klasickym stylom ale musel "korculovat". Tak to vyzera ze uz vela krat nepojdem na bezky tuto zimu. Su tu uz vacsinou plus stupne cez den a cesty su zvacsa rozmrznute. Po bezkach som sa naobedoval a potom mal golfovy trening. Svih sa zlepsuje kazdym uderom. Som zvedavy na sezonu. Na druhy den som letel do Ålesundu. Mal som dohodnute na piatok stretnutie v dedinke Sykkylven vo firme Brunstad, ktora vyraba krasny caluneny nabytok. Povodne som chcel byvat v nejakej ubytovni v centre Ålesundu, ale nakoniec mi Eva vybavila ubytovanie o svojej tety Oddny. Takze vo stvrtok som siel na bus 7:30 z Trysilu a asi o 10:30 som bol na letisku v Osle. O 13:05 som odletel s SAS do Ålesundu a uz o hodinku som pristaval.

Autom to zoberie aj 8 hodin. Takto clovek len vzlietne, precita si katalog v lietadle, vypije cajik, docita katalog a pristane :-D. Oddny ma vyzdvihla na letisku, ktore je na ostrove Vigra mimo Ålesundu. Vigra je spolu s dalsimi tromi ostrovmi (Valderøya,Giske a Godøya) sucastou Giske kommune [jiske komüne](nieco ako okres).


Cele zapadne pobrezie su vlastne len ostrovy a fjordy. Co sa tyka Giske kommune a Ålesund kommune, tak ostrovy su pospajane sietou, podmorskych tunelov, mostov a trajektov, ktore odchadzaju zhruba kazdych 20 minut. Oni to tu maju skoro ako autobusy:-P Pride lod, auta, nakladiaky a autobusy vojdu dovnutra, trajekt ich prevezie na druhu stranu a oni z tadial opat vyjdu. Pocet trajektovych liniek je tam hadam skoro rovnaky ako pocet autobusovych liniek. Oddny byva asi 5 minut od letiska, takze sme boli zachvilu doma. Ochutnal som pravu krabo-krevetovu pomazanku a potom ma zacala vozit po ostrovoch. Bolo krasne pocasie, napriek tomu, ze hlasili dazd, takze som porobil kopu fotiek.


Mam aj kratke video vyvesene na youtube. Sli sme pozriet aj jej dceru Elin, ktora ma jeden obchod - nieco ako Modry den v Bojniciach, len tam este sije aj prave norske kroje pre muzov a pre zeny. A po krojoch je velky dopyt. Vacsina Norov si ich totiz oblieka 17.5. - Den ustavy, a pri tzv. konfirmaciach. To vam vysvetlim v maji vsetko. Ale taky jeden kroj vyjde na okolo 15 000 NOK - cize asi 60 000 SKK + si niektori vyberaju este aj strieborne gombiky a take veci. Na veceru Oddny pripravila lososa so zemiakmi. Neskor som sa dozvedel ze Elin ide v piatok do Hundeidvika na stretnutie nejakeho spolku, ktory zdruzuje tych, co sa zoberaju textilom. A Hundeidvika nebola daleko od Sykkylvenu. Takze som mal odvoz. Obrovske stastie. V piatok rano mi Oddny pripravila na ranajky prazenicu s udenym lososom - v tejto lososovskej krajine som sa teda dostal k lososu az teraz :-). Asi 8:30 ma vyzdvihla Elin pred domom. Najprv sme este sli zariadit nejake veci do obchodu a potom nabrali smer Ålesund. Za Ålesundom sme nasadli na trajekt a prepravili sa do Sykkylvenu, z kadial sme pokracovali do Hundeidvika. Tam sme sli do nabytkarskej fabriky Formfin. Tam bola prva cast programu - ukazanie fabriky a produkcie sedaciek. Cela tato oblast je znama mnozstvom nabytkarskych firiem. Najprv sme sli do miestnosti, kde sa reze latka. Oni do pocitaca zadaju velkosti roznych casti, ktore potrebuju a taka masina to potom laserom nareze tak, aby zostal co najmensi odpad. Potom sme presli este cez rozne dalsie casti - skladiska s drevom, vankusmi. Bolo zaujimave pozriet sa na to, ako taka sedacka vznika. Potom mali zucastneni obed v jednom bistre v Sykkylvene. Nakolko som nebol pozvani, kupil som si len hamburger, aby som stihol stretnutie v Brunstade. Po asi 15 minutovom stretnuti so sefom produkcie, som presiel cez most naspat do bistra. Pocasie sa umudrilo, takze som mohol cvaknut zopar peknych zaberov hor. Tam je to len more a hory - tzv. Sunnmørsalpane - sunnmørske alpy.

Zabery by boli krajsie, keby bolo viac slnka, ale aspon nieco. Ked som sa vratil do bistra, mala tam predenaska jedna "firma". V uvodzovkach preto, lebo su to asi 3 studenti a 2 studentky - vek priblizne 17-18, ktory si zalozili vlastny studentsky podnik - spolupracuju s jednou firmou a vyrabaju protidazdove oblecenie. Ich firma bola vyhlasena za najlepsi studentsky podnik kraja. Mat v tomto veku vlastnu firmu, a byt este aj uspesny, no klobuk dole. Potom sme s Elin sli domov. Vecer som stretol aj druhu Evinu sesternicu - Lindu. Takze som postretaval uz skoro celu jej zapadonorsku rodinu. Pozreli sme si DVD o Bojniciach, ktore sa im velmi pacilo a potom som siel spat. Na druhy den na poludnie ma zaviezla na letisko a 20:00 som dorazil spat do Trysilu. Dnes som si porobil zopar veci do skoly (velmi malo) a pisal blog. Na veceru budem robit vyprazany plesnivec (alebo Camembert, nech to neznie tak zle pre mnohych z vas :-P), tak som zvedavy, ako bude chutit... Buduci tyzden pridu Svedi z Uddevaly do skoly. Netesim sa... Ale nastastie s nimi nebudeme cely tyzden v kuse. Ospravedlnujem sa za moje xenofobicke nazory a prajem uspesny tyzden.





This week was eventually something interesting happening. Monday - nothing special, but on Tuesday, my French teacher began to conversate with me about one Slovakian spa city, which his friends have visited. It was funny. Fortunately I have hands and legs to make me understood :-D. On Wednesday we had a so called heldagsprøve -"wholeday-test" (9:00-12:45) - from Norwegian. We had to choose one of 5 topics and write about it. The options were quite good. I picked up What does joy mean to me and wrote a couple of lines. Then I went cross-country skiing. Horror. It was not snow, but porridge. And I used the wax for colder weather, so my ski were so slippery, that I could not go classic style but I was forced to free style. I think I will not go cross-country skiing so many times during the rest of the winter. We have usually plus grades during the daytime and ways are mostly without ice. After the dinner I had golf practice. My swing is getting better with every stroke. I am curious about the upcoming season. On the next day I flew to Ålesund. I had an arranged meeting on Friday in a village of Sykkylven. I shoul go to Brunstad, company producing beatiful sofas. I wanted to stay at one cheap hotel in the city centre, but Eva arranged for me accomodation in her aunt's house. So on Thursday I took the 7:30 bus to the airport and at 13:05 I took up. One hour later I was in Ålesund.

It takes maybe 8 hours with a car. In this case I just got in, read a plane magazine, drank tea, finished reading the magazin and suddenly I was in Ålesund:-). Aunt Oddny picked me up on the airport and drove me home - just 5 minutes away. The airport is outside Ålesund on the island of Vigra. Vigra is together with other 3 islands (Valderøya,Giske and Godøya) a part of Giske kommune (something like a county).


The whole west-coast is only islands and fjords. The islands in Giske and Ålesund kommune er bound together with a wide network of undersea tunnels, bridges and ferry boats. These boats go once in 20 minutes. It is almost like busses there :-P. The ferry comes, cars, busses and lorries drive in, ferry sails to the other side and they drive out again. The number of ferry lines is almost the same as the number of buss lines, I guesss. After we came home, I tried out a crab-shrimp spread and then she drove me around all the islands. I thought the weather would be bad, but the sun was shining and I took a lot of beautiful pics.


There is also a video on Youtube. We visited also her daughter Elin. She owns one store, where she sews genuine Norwegian national dresses. And the demand is huge. The Norwegians use the national dresses on the 17. of may - The constitution day - and during something what is called confirmation. I will write more about it in may. As a dinner, we had salmon with potatoes. Delicious. In the evening I found out that Elin was driving to Hundeidvika on Friday. She took part in some kind of meeting of people, who work with textile and clothes. And Hundeidvika is not far away from Sykkylven. So I did not have to take bus :-). Such a coincidence. On Friday, Oddny made me scrambled eggs with salmon (yammi) and Elin picked me up at 8:30. We went first to her shop and then drove to Ålesund. We took a ferry to Sykkylven and drove to Hundeidvika. The first part of their program was a visit in Formfin - company producing sofas. The whole area is famous for loads of furniture companies. We begin in a hall, where the cloth is being cut. It is unbelievable. They write sizes of cloth-pieces in the PC and a special machine cut them with laser in such way, that only 4 % of the cloth has to go to trash. Then we walked through many other rooms - wood and pillow store rooms. After that, the participants ate lunch in one restaurant. As I was not invited, I just bought a hamburger and hurried to Brunstad. I met with purchasing manager there and after 15 minutes I went back to the restaurant. The weather got better so I took some photos.

It would be nicer with more sun, but I could not do anything about it :-P. The mountains here are called Sunnmørsalpane - sunnmørish Alps. In the restaurant, one "company" had a presentation there. A "company" because it was 3 boys and 2 girls aged 17/18 which had their own student company. They co-operated with one fabric, which produces water-resistant clothes for them. Their company was chosen for the best student company in the region. I was quite astonished. Such a young people and already being responsible for their own company and even being successful... Then we drove home. In the evening I met also Eva's second cousin - Linda. Now I know almost the whole westnorwegian family :-). We watched the DVD about my town of Bojnice - they liked it. On Saturday, I flew away at 14:25 and was back in Trysil at 20:00. Today I devoted some time to school (not a lot of time)and I wrote this blog. I am going to prepare fried camembert for the dinner, so I am curious if they are gonna like it... Next week the Swedish students from Uddevala are coming. Have a nice week.