Middle of March - spring is coming?

All in all, it was really great! :-)

A1, a British pop band made the girls scream. ;-)

And for the concert, different singers were hired that sang for free.

Or showing their expertise with a hula hoop


There were small children walking around like a mayonnaise tube...

For example this concert on Saturday, the 12th of March. It was a free event, which aimed to make people give doantions for cancer reasearch. There were a couple of people walking around with plastic boxes for collecting money. Many many people did so. Probably because of two main reasons: Norway is a quite social country and the atmosphere during the event was very positive: Many companies had provided different products dike drinks and food for free. And this was distributed to the public.


What else to do? I finally had a look at the university's climbing wall. But I don't feel in the mood of climbing. There are too many other activities that can be done and are more fun for me at the moment.

So, I do it. With some music and people around it is kind of nice. But I should avoid going there too late in the evening. My eyes look quite small and sleepy... °_°



And what do people do when spring approaches? ... Yes, of course: They go sieving!
I started a student assistant job at the Geological Survay of Norway, NGU. In fact, my task will be to do tracer tests in relation to a project which aims to investigate an additional source of water supply for Oslo city. At the moment, they rely on lake water. However, since the population still increases, they want to use another lake, which demands some pretreatment to lower the actual water treatment costs. The aim is to inject the lake's water into the soil and pump it up afterwards to use the natural filter effect.
To investigate the aquifer's properties, tracer tests are planned.
But why sieving then...?
NGU also wants to analyze Norwegian soils for the elements contained. The especially search for rare earths since China, which is the main supplier for Europe by now, will more and more need the elements for their own growing markets.
So, my very challenging task is to sieve countless samples through 2mm sieves -and that as soon as possible since they need to hold a deadline (The samples will be sent to Canada for analyzing them cheaper and they need the results by June...).

At least the snow starts to melt here and there. (Maybe you remember this place close to the fjord. I often go there.)