You know when you are practicing CPR on those plastic dummies, and you think that your never actually gonna do this on a real person. Well, that's what I thought anyways, until this last week when one of my patients had a cardiac arrest in the middle of the night! Thankfully I had one of my colleges there with me, when it happened quite unexpectedly. I called for an ambulance and we started CPR while waiting for them to show up, which was less than 10 minutes. An hour later I had to call the family and tell them he didn't make it. Its one of those nights you hope you don't have to experience again, but that teaches you a lot about how you handle hard situations. And I'm thankful it was a patient who had lived a very long and full life. Hoping he's with the Lord now.

My hair styled by Natalia :) If I ever get married, you're hired!

The last couple of days I've been filling in some recipes in my awesome homemade cook book (made by my mom) in order to make some yummy stuff in s.e. Asia in the future. My favorites so far in there are nan bread, chocolate chip cookies and American pancakes. But there are lots and lots of empty pages still, and I don't want to be dragging a whole lot of empty writing paper across the world, so if you would like to share one of your favorites, I'd be happy to receive them :) Baking, cooking, yogurt making...whatever!

Applied for a new passport. Check.
Ordered my birth certificate in english. Check.
Fixed visa picture. Check.
Found out I don't need any vaccinations. Check.
Bought some ear plugs. Check.
...and thats when my energy ran out. Now, where to get some more before work tonight...

Made it home to good ol Norway tonight! For once everything went exactly as planned, nothing was delayed and my bag arrived on the same flight as me :) I applaud the germans for excellent directions given on their trains and busses and in their stations, which helps a lot for a poor norwegian with no sense of direction what so ever! Thank you A&E for an awesome week!! Miss you already :)

Today we decided to treat ourselves to a pretend trip to Asia (after a solid week of rain), and went to a swimming and wellness center type thing. There we floated around in a saltwater cave and lay on a pretend beach with nice, warm sand. There was also a steam sauna and a other hot water pools with jets. Heavenly!!! If someone would open one of these for a reasonable price in Norway, I would sign up for a round-the-year pass ;)

Adorable baby :) Babies are definitely the most fun to take photos of!

Hanging out in Germany :) We've been playing lots of games, eating the weirdest candy we could find in the store and generally chilling out inside. Erlend preached at church, and I was the only one understanding the language, besides Anne who was translating. Tomorrow we're looking for birthday presents and doing a newborn baby photo shoot :)

 Soon to be mom, and just become big brother

 Eating pomello

 Newly marrieds

Parents for the second time

I'm in Germany!! Having an awesome time :) Not taking many pictures though, do to us being inside all the time, and me hating pictures taken with a flash..vielleicht später. What we have been up to so far is a lot of sleeping in, some shopping, hanging out with a bunch of different people, playing games and going out to eat yummy mexican food with fun people :) I've gotten to meet a doctor on her way to work in Pakistan. Also met some missionaries working here in Germany, who have been to Ethiopia starting some projects there. The first thing that came up obviously was how wonderful the coffee was there... :)