Friday, November 27, 2009

Hello, I will now write about what I did five days ago. It was last Friday and on the day I went to Oslo, Norway. I woke up at 04.30 and I got up at 05.05. Until 10.25 it was just like any other day. Then I started to put everything I wanted to bring with me in a heap. I always do so. I have a list and I just put everthing in one place. Then I took a shower and after that I put all my things in two backpacks. I ate some bread and I left for the train. At 14.07 I came with the train to Laxå. Only a few minutes later I entered a bus which would take me to Degerfors, where Ralf Edström is born. I had to wait on the bus for a few minutes until it left. All people on the bus had come with the same train as I. A girl had forgotten her purse on the train and talked to the driver. He made a phone call in which he said that a girl of German language had forgotten her purse with money and everything on the train. I was sorry for her but at the same time I think it was strange that she could do it. She had no children with her. She was only together with a friend. I always carefully check that I have everything when I leave a train. Laxå is a very beautiful place with nice houses. Before I had only passed it. At 14.18 the driver started the bus and started to drive very fast. We were going to Degerfors, where Ralf Edström is born, in only 24 minutes and the road wasn't to wide. Earlier that day I had seen on a map that Degerfors, where Ralf Edström is born, was far away from Laxå. I know now that it's about 34 kilometers between those two places. According to ViaMichelin it takes 44 minutes to drive there. We did it in 26 minutes. Yes, it was crazy. At 14.27 we passed a car which wasn't even going slowly. At 14.30 two Roe Deers crossed the road about 300 meters and 200 meters ahead of us. They did it at the same place but we came closer in the time between. The driver said "Now let's see if there are three of those crossing the road today". While driving he was also speaking on his cellphone. That's not forbidden in Sweden but I don't think it's too good to do anyway. At 14.34 we got in trouble as a truck showed up in front of us. After that we were only one second behind it for the rest of the time. If we had been ten seconds behind it we would have arrived nine seconds later than what we did. In Degerfors, where Ralf Edström is born, some people ran to the train. I didn't run because I knew exactly what the time was. I came on two minutes before it started to move at 14.48. After only a few minutes it stopped and it didn't move for four minutes. Not good since according to schedule we would only have eight minutes between the two trains in Karlstad. I ate some bread as we were standing there waiting for another train to use the track. I left that train at 15.30 and started to run with many others. The Oslo train was far away on the same track. After a while I stopped running since I understood I would not be too late. In Karlstad it started to get dark. The new train departed at 15.34 and it was full with people and it was so until Arvika. After Arvika it was almost empty. At 16.45 I called my friend AM in Stockholm. We were talking in Italian. Shortly after that we crossed the border. A few minutes later a man asked me if I was Italian. I told him I was Swedish but that I had studied Italian. He said that he would like to learn Italian and that the only problem was that it was so difficult. I told him it wasn't and after that I taught him many things until we arrived in the Norwegian capital at 18.31. His name was J and J said he was going to take a course in Tuscany next summer. We were the last to leave the train. My friend was waiting for me on the platform and we ran to a bus. Then we were on the bus for about ten minutes and after that we walked for three minutes and then we were home and at home another friend was waiting for us. They cooked and we had dinner. It was chicken in a Thai sauce and we also had rice. After that we watched TV and we discussed the future of the world. My conclusion was that we are facing war, famine and chaos. I always have the same conclusion. I don't know at what hour we went to bed, but at least it wasn't very late.