As a student I spend quite a lot of time at school working on my project and following my classes. It’s therefore important to have an outside school activity that you enjoy and that can put your mind on something else. For me this outside activity is volleyball.

I’ve played lots and lots of beachvolley every summer since my first year at 6th form (high school), but I’ve never played “the real deal”, the 6 man indoor sport.

Now I play for NTNUI Volleyball, “the best volleyball club in Norway” as they humbly state on their homepage.
It is great fun! I play on H2B, which when decrypted tells you that I play for the Men’s Second team in the Second division.

I’ve decided to prioritize volleyball this season, above other outside school activities. I don’t regret a bit! The team mates are great and it’s fun to see how we progress as individual players, and as a team. I learn a lot at every practice.

The NTNUI Volleyball club is quite big with its 8 ladies teams and 5 men teams. This makes the atmosphere very good and the “Julebord”, coming November 12th will be a huge event! Almost everyone on H2B will attend!

By joining the NTNUI Volleyball club I’ve met a lot of cool new people and I’ve taken a refereeing class, making me a Referee 1 Trainee. It’ll be fun to see how my refereeing and playing career evolves!

Choosing volleyball as my outside-school-passion was a very good choice!

Those who know me know that I’m a bit pedantic when it comes to spelling and spelling errors. This morning, Aftenposten.no had an article about a common spelling error amongst Norwegians (article in Norwegian).

Molde FK, a Norwegian premier league team have made supporter scarfs for the upcoming Cup Final November 8th.
In Norwegian, as opposed to English, you should not have a space between Cup and Final. As the image shows, the scarf says “CUP FINALE“, but what it should say is “CUPFINALE“.

Molde used an external company, Scan Trade, to make the the scarfs. Scan Trade’s representative, Geir Tønnesland has the following to say:

We should have found the error before shipping the design.

I agree completely. It’s not very hard to proofread the text on a supporter scarf!

Further, Tønnesland says:

At the same time, we have short deadlines here.

Now that is no excuse. If print text on fabric for a living, you should know how to spell, besides – It’s like 5 words!

You might call me pedantic, but this is unfortunately not a unique case. This kind of spelling error (no: særskrivingsfeil) is becoming very common in the Norwegian language. It is one of the most common mistakes among Norwegians.

Why one shouldn’t split words

The main reason why two (or more) words should be concatenated in Norwegian is that splitting them completely changes the meaning.

An example is “Leie priser” that translates to “Fed up prizes” or “Not-so-good prices”.
The correct spelling would be “Leiepriser” that simply means “Rental prices”.

The organization Astronomer mot Orddeling (AMO) has many more fun examples of such errors.
They’ve also published a book, “Tunfisk biter i vann” (Tuna bites in water), with loads of examples.

Highly recommended Christmas gift!

Everyone that knows me know that I’m a big fan of volleyball and specially beachvolley. It might therefore come as a surprise to some, but yesterday I played the first “real”, organized volleyball match in my entire life!

Roberto and I have started playing for AS INSA, the school’s volley team and we had our first match with the team yesterday, and lost. We’re not disappointed, but we both know that we and the other team members could have skipped a whole bunch of errors and maybe won. We won the first set, but lost the second and third (3 set match).

Anyhow.

As you can see, there is a new “widget” on the right, the cloud tag. iPublish has recently launched this new categorizing feature, so I figured I could start using it right away. I’m not completely sure about the cloud tag image, it might be changed. What do you think about it? Too much, boring, really cool? Tell me!

Now I’m going to sit down and complete my part of the QSE project (Qualité, Sécurité et Environnement).

Have a splendid evening and let me know if the cloud tag box looks weird in your browser!