I went Fishing trip & National Day!!

It's really the day for kids!!
Kids are allowed to eat the ice cream as much as like?! not suprised!!
Kaus's mother with traditional costume. I'm thankful that she did let us stay in her house and her neighbor's who lives near. it was perfect exmaple of "the neighboring house" or a situation pretty much like ealier time not like these days at all. .. I'm also thankful to all the members of flaggfabriken who organised this trip!!
Odd got the eggs from Pål!! YES!!
Lea:where is your National flag?
National day's fun activities-No.1 Banging Nails!!

New stylish costume!!
National day activites-No.2 throwing eggs!!
On our way to see the National day's parade in this samll town v natioanlistic girl Lea with Nor flag(on the right).

View of the Fjord from the house garden where we stayed! we are in the south west coast near Sunde? it think, about 2hrs away from Bergen. we also had to take a ferru and passenger boat to cross fjords with our car.
Olaf's speciality with rice!!

Garden BBQ.



Kristin's mixing and rolling out bread dough!! i need get step by- step introduction of how to make bread from flaggis at least on type of bread.
Kids are running around!

Our car on the ferry.
Olaf, His girl friend and Kaus.
Very littel isolated cabin- on a small piece of island is completely surrounded by Fjords!! and we did boating!!(not a singel pics of me on the boat to prove)

I ate Deers

Chef's granmother's secret deer(+creamy sauce, pine nuts..) receipe @Soho in Bergen.

I met Kaus he is OK.

Kaus looks O.K as you can see his smile here. this pic taken ONE day after his way too Serious MMA(mixed martial arts) performance. i really should say that his performance was best performance peice i' ve ever seen in my life. BUT did i get shock or what? cos we all went out for beer but i didnt feel like drinking at all or not even socializing after seeing his Real performance. actually i had to really come home and relax... means his performance must have done something to ME i must admit!!

I ate Ocean Salt

Made by Arne from the north!!

I had BBQ in Øystese.

BBQ outside of Kabuso museum with Sissle, Lei and Yongsun.

I stayed at the Drunken Camp -@Cat House

I went to see a Water fall

I visited other blog and Music from Korea

I often visit Hunjang's blog and Korea related blog written in English...today I found this great site of Traditional music from Korea Enjoy Traditional Korean music!!

I ate Fish Tongue fist time ever.

Hilde is frying-Fish tongue had a bit of flour on and fried with butter and salt.

Hilde invited me for dinner with her friend called Anne and her family. It was the first time I tried fish tongues. The thing I was most happy about was the fish actually came from her father who is sailpr up north Norway..It was really taste!!

You can also see the mashed potatoes, fresh Carrots and fried onions to go with butterly fried fish tongue.

I had Sunny Sunday in Bergen!!

Pic taken at minde bus stop, 13.52 pm sunday 4th of May 2008

I bought the activist's Coffee in Bergen!!

Re: Jooyoung' interview project in Bergen!!‏
보낸 사람:	Magnus Helgesen
보낸 날짜:	2008년 5월 12일 월요일 오후 5:21:41
받는 사람:	LeeJooyoung

Sure!

We're a couple of activists who started a solidarity group in support of the zapatista rebels in Chiapas, South Mexico. The zapatistas consists of mostly indigenous mountain farmers who rebeled against NAFTA, a north American free-trade aggreement between Canada, USA and Mexico. This was in 1994. The news of this radical uprising spread quickly as the zapatistas was more than usually skilled in the use of internet, and also because of one their main speakers, Subcommandante Marcos. They became quite famous during the riots in Seattle 98, and spread across the world during the next couple of years, much because og The Indipendant Mediacenter and lead singer of Rage Against The Machine, Zach de la Rocha. Google any of these, and you'll find more and better info.

The zapatistas arn't exactely Marxists, socialists, anarchists or anarcho syndicalists - but their politics of solidarity and social community certainly derive from some of these thoughts. And their global supporters include everybody from social democrats to communists to die hard crust-punk anarchists.

Anyway. Coffee is one of the main source of income for the zapatistas. Money earned from coffee production goes directely in to the zapatista community, and helps organize this state within the state.

Our group is the Norwegian part of a large European network of solidaric coffee traders, RedProZapa. We try to inform people about this struggle and the thoughts on international solidarity. Every group from each country brands and sells the coffee under their own name. The Norwegian brand is called Café YaBasta (spanish: "Enough is enough'). The coffee is used as a selling point of information about the movement and also a way of generating money for the zapatists. The coffee is sold ideallistic, witch means that Café YaBasta doesn't earn any money. Most of the income goes to the capitalists involved in the shipment, roasting and grinding of the coffee. The rest goes to the zapatista cooperatives.

Café YaBasta is still a young collective, and has yet only imported about a tonn of coffee, but the German group, Café Libertad, imports about 16 tonns a year. They also sells some of the coffee with a specially high 'solidarity price', which gives them an annual income of about 2 million €. Most of this income goes directely in to a fund which different radical groups or actions can apply to. Last year a striking bike factory occupied by the workers got the fund, and they used the money to start a bicycle cooperative run and controlled by the workers! That's highly unusual in Europe.

We can talk more about this later if you want to. I'll have to work now.

Best regards

Magnus Helgesen

Grandpeople

Den 9. mai. 2008 kl. 17.07 skrev LeeJooyoung:

I can't believe every city becomes like every other one in like
Seoul. But its good to hear that at least Bergen is NOT.
Hybridity is abit  too easy these days perhaps.

Please tell me more about your Coffee deal From Mexico.
it sound very interesting.

Jooyoung

I went to see Tallest Cake ever in Bergen?

at theater garage.

Studio lunch

I had Yum Yum Thai noodle with Broccoli and Cheek peas-3kr for a package, cheapest noodle in Norway perhaps!

Driving to only 1 and half hour away from Bergen

So much wasted land. On the drive back to home-Bergen I notice just the vast landscape of Norway. There is no wasted land in Korea, full of lots of hills and cities. In South Korea, 46 million people are crammed into less than a quater size of Norway.
Sissel with an artwork-Painted Mirror installed in the middle of Mountain. we had to drive 10-15min away from the Kabuso Museum. Thanks Sissel!!






Still coverd with snow!!

I could post and link more about the local music scenex..but insteads I bring you... the pics from the > Kubuso Museum in Hordaland county. This modern museum is located in a really beautiful, quiet town- just about 30 kilometers north of Bergen. The curator or manger (not sure) was really friendly. He got us to get in for free and explained about the show. Some reason this museum reminded me of the gallery located just outside of Seoul, called Arario in Chunan Korea.. oh yes, its also much like Louisiana Museum in the north of Copenhagen, is located directly on the shore and not far from the city of Copenhagen at all but still built 1 hr away from the city in really quite town again.
The rest of pics are taken from the driving often inside car (still beatuful) from Bergen to 40 Kilometers North Bergen in Norway. This took us about 1 and half hour from the city all together 3hrs but the scale and landcape was So different from the city... I know I was ther not long ago it felt so real when i was there but now it seems so imaginary!!