Trine and Adrian

WE HAVE MOVED TO ÅLESUND.. pretty crazy after three big and wonderful years in Sydney and Hillsong. A new and exciting season is ahead with wedding in may, norwegian classes for Adrian and work for me, we are moving into a brand new house (Adrian will have the house all to himself until may) and we are going to do lots in our church, Agapekirka. EXCITING AND SCARY ALL AT ONCE!!!!

Friday, September 08, 2006

Fun with words..

Well, as you all know Adrian has been sooo amazing at learning to speak norwegian. And he still is learning, and trying to understand though we tend to sometimes speak really fast... especially when we get excited about something...
Oh well.. and as you all know... when we learn something there is always a time for making mistakes/or funny situations when you just use a word in a funny way... We have had some of these happening.....

We were sitting at the table at home, and mum, dad, Adrian and I were just about to eat. Adrian was saying grace, and doing this in norwegian.... He started off.. Takk for Else (thank you for else, my mum), takk for arve (thank you for arve, my dad) takk for Trine (thank you for trine) and then said takk for me. What he meant to say was thank you for me, but what it ended up meaning, was thanks for having me over, as a greeting that is said when you leave someones house...
We all totally thought it was sooo charming.. and it was not any major mistake.. it is just sooo great to hear him speak in norwegian....

Another day we sat down having dinner.. still mum, dad, adrian and me... and this time dad was saying to adrian "you are a godterumpe". This literally means you are a sweet bum, which is an expression for sweet tooth. And as my dad said that, Adrian clearly as nothing proclaimed " Trine har søt rumpe", which means Trine has a cute bum.. Mum, dad and I cracked up laughing, and Adrian didnt understand that he had said something that was funny, cause he just meant to say the same thing about me... Oh well... we all got to laugh a little, and it was great... good thing that dad didnt throw him out of the house for saying things like that about his only daughter... haha....

Lots of fun.. and adrian is getting better and better....

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