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I am a nearly grown up man at 40. I live in the western parts of Norway. Deep deep into a fjord at in a village/community named Nordfjordeid. THis place have one main street, Eidsgata, there I have everything I need (almost) within walking distance. I live in funny old wooden house. Three years ago nobody believed the house was for people, it has been unused for many years. I moved in and started a lifetime project, turning it into something looking like an actual house. Parts of the house is now rented out to a gift shop.
I make my living as a social worker (I am a trained and educated social worker, Barnevernspedagog is the Norwegian title, meaning "Social (or children's) Therapist"), working in the home of an young autistic man who needs help 24 hours a day.
When making this I had no scanned picture of myself. But the self portrait above is what I look like, at least at a good day. As you can see, a typical social worker, with low budget home rolled cigarettes (plain tobacco), a horsetail (thinner every day), and a rusty shave most of the time.
I also have to sons. Ådne (15) and Endre (12). They are here every second weekend, and one evening every week. They live close to me, so they comes and goes whenever they wants, besides this. Most of the times they comes because they are hungry, and it is a shorter walk to my house. I sometimes asks myself, don't they get food with my ex-wife? (I'm only joking, I know they do).
Ådne is a board freak. He is hooked on boards, skateboard and snow board (there are no good surf waves here). He has made his own Skate crew (a club/gang/team of skaters) named Team Slask. The name means something like "Team Lazybones", it is partly self ironic. They have their own homepage Team Slask. He has bought a video camera, and his big dream is tom make a real skate video, like the real teams. He is possessed by these boards. It makes me a bit worried. It seems he doesn't have time for more healthy interests like girls and booze (another of my silly jokes). I'm only kidding. I am proud of them, they are good at this strange sport. And they gets a lot of fresh air, uses their body and so on.
My youngest son is also hooked on these boards. (In my days we made bonfires out of boards, we did not carry them around, stand at them and jump at them). But he is not completely hooked. He might develop healthy interest. He is also playing guitar, acoustic guitar. He and a friend has two projects going. They are writing a story, a fantasy story, about a new world named (........). They are also making a video, partly reality TV, partly absurd theater.
All three boys is music freaks. Ådne and Endre is oriented towards rock, they even plays my old Led Zeppelin, Clash and Doors LP's now and then. Øivind is a rap freak, so-called gansta-rap. He is making his own "songs", lyrics. He has performed at a competition like event. And he qualified for the final. The plan is release a underground CD named "Det Perfekte Bankran" (the Perfect Bank Robbery). The concept is a Norwegian high-tec version of Robin Hood.
Marit is addicted to books. She says she wants to be a educated librarian. But it is a lot of work. I am trying to support her in this idea, she needs all the support she can get. So if you feels like writing in the guest book. Tell her to keep up. As a matter of fact, it is strictly forbidden to sign the guest book without supporting her.
Jeg er barnevernspedagog. Utekssaminert i Volda i 98. Det å finne
anvendelig og grei litteratur er ikke alltid like enkelt. Derfor synes
jeg at det kan være greit å lage en oversikt over intresante
artikler og linker. Noe av stoffet er egen produksjon. Artiklene dekker
hovedsaklig følgende emner:
Even though I'm not a performer myself, I am a great music enthusiast. By the way, this is not quite true. I used to sing in a choir. First, at my original home place (a few miles north of our capitol Oslo). It was a mixed choir, named HIKK (don't ask me why, that's a long story). It was "half socialistic", with a mixed repertoire. Some of the songs where solidarity songs, like Theodorakis and some South African songs. (this is where I got to know the band Brazz Brothers, we had a concert with them, great fun). When I moved to Nordfjordeid I joined another choir, Eid Mannskor, a all male choir. With more traditional choir repertoire. Now I am working round the clock, so this is all history for me.
Anyway, professional or not. Music is a very important part of my life. It is therapy, it is joy, it is communication. Communication at subtle non-verbal level. Closer to our deepest emotions than most verbal communication. One of my dreams is to use music as a part of my occupational life. But I am not a trained music therapist. My education goes more in "therapy through structured activities" direction.
Another of my dreams is to open my own record store, with new and second hand CD's and LP's. I kind of music café. Where people could sit down and chat, drink coffee, listen to music, enjoy life. And off course bye records. I have the premises in my own house. All I need is some time, some guts, and a good co-worker.
Any one out there with the same crazy ideas and a strong urge to move to the middle of nowhere? Then perhaps you are the right person to make this dream come true.
The atmosphere in the studio or at the concert is also important. I want it to sound like the musicians is playing in a natural room, not in a small studio box. Let us take a church concert, it shall sound like a church not like a toilette.
To reach these goals you needs a good stereo. With good equipment, made to play together, properly set up. These pages have some tips about this topics.
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