I'm jes goin' home..

I'm back to "work". After a lovely week with a visit from Monica.

She was lucky enough to come just in time to hear my favorite choir perform. I thought we sounded pretty good, and their Norwegian was flawless. But what els can you expect when I'm the teacher?

The real reason why we had the concert was because the Ultima Thule choir came all the way from Tromsø just to sing with us. Here we are on stage all of us; the Norwegian Ladies Chorus, The Norwegian Male Chorus and Ultima Thule.
Together with the ladies from Tromsø, we performed Going Home by Anonin Dvorak, and I felt kind of sad. "Mother's there expecting me, Father's waiting to. Lots of folks gathered there, all the friends I knew". I almost started crying, but I didn't. Though I think maybe the song is about dying in stead of going home..

The next day we visited Space Needle, I don't think you can go to Seattle and not visit Space Needle. The view was amazing. Even though there was some clouds we could still see Mount Rainier in the background. And of course, we had to take tourist pictures;

 

For the weekend, Julie the conductor of my favorite choir had invited me and Monica up to Norway park for midsummer. Norway Park is the place where the Norwegian American has their cabin. When we walked in, it was just like coming in to a typical Norwegian cabin. It was very nice. 

They had a HUGE bonfire 

Nice people;

(Because of my lack of photo taking skills I had to make this black and white so the weird colors would not show) This is Barb, Victoria, Julie and Kari. The nicest people ever!


And I was very happy because I found a string of lights to put around my neck. 

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

I'm OK now. Starting the interviews was just what I needed to start climbing the mountain again. I am so happy with the people I chose to interview. Even after just three interviews I already got information that I would never have discover if I didn't interview exactly those people. I must admit I was terribly nervous before the first interviews, but people love talking about themselves, so it really is no problem. I still need to work on my finding-the-right-question-at-the-right-time-skill, but I guess after a little practice that will come to. Now I'm just looking forward to doing more interviews!

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“The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.”

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It is enough now. I'm bored. I want to go home. I want to stay here forever. The fieldwork feeling is not fun anymore. After Syttende Mai I haven't done much fieldwork. No field notes, no visits to the Leif Ericson Lodge, no nothing. I feel like all the energy has run out. It's the fieldwork ups and downs, and I think I'm in the bottom, it can just just go one way now I guess. I'm starting my interviews tomorrow. Finally. I'm scared. I find it to be a strange situation. It is a situation I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with, and I don't like that feeling. Luckily I'm starting with the director of my chorus, and it is good to start with some one I trust.

I've learned a lot about my self these past four months; that I'm not capable to work on my own, I need someone in the background pushing me; independent work is not for me, I need someone who expect med to be certain places at a certain time or I will not be there. I guess it is all things that I knew before, but didn't want to admit. Well there you have it!