upside down.

I know I already posted this picture, but I like it a lot and thought it would go with Katie's musings today. We went to the post office to pick up a package from my mommy. yeah! On our way back we laid on the AstroTurf fields, as I played with the fake blades of grass I ask "Why do they even bothering making it green?" The conversation progressed to purple grass. Then Katie said something awesome. She pondered God turning everything crazy for just one day, making the grass yellow, the sky green, turning trees upside down... Then would people turn to God?

It reminded me of the people living around Noah, he told them about water falling from the sky... this had never happened before. When it happened did it feel like all the rocks turned purple?

think about it

sculptttttt.

Quite some time ago, we trekked through the wilderness in teams. We came across competitions along the way, which we would do for points. In the end there was promised a great prize for winning. But the staff forgot till a couple days ago, so my team (who won) got our prize of fruit and candy recently.

...but that wasn't what I wanted to tell you...

One of the tasks we came to was creating a sculpture, using the nature, that represents a character of God. So we came up with this...

You see the world (Africa, front and center) and then the yellow leaves all around it. God's faithfulness to us is represented by the yellow leaves which are like the sun. The sun is always in the sky but sometimes we just can see it. God's is always there, his faithfulness is ever shining like the sun, sometimes it is just harder to see.

I hope that makes sense. :)

Birfffday!

It was Gabby's birthday, so we made her a crown! yeah! So for small group we talked for an hour and a half, then the princess was tired. So for the last half hour we snuggled. :)

This picture is one of my favorite of my whole trip.

broken.

hey,
So the commenting shenanigans on here aren't aways working.
So just check underneath to make sure that it showed up!
:)

toodle loo.

Mark Wahlberg!!!!! WHAT????

mmm... that right.

:)

Creativity is contagious,
pass it on.
-Albert Einstein

Cheralynn's Movie

Slow. Down. from Sadie Arneson on Vimeo.

This is a fim my friend Cheralynn Brantley made. She is super creative and loves to make wild things. So she made me wild for this video! This is a piece of art from her heart, for the same project that I made my Elijah video for. The sound was done very last minute but the rawness works, there may appear an updated version of this video sometime in the future, with studio recording. The message is basically about leaving a sweet place that you and God had, and then finding your way back.
Some may call it brilliant others too weird, but I call it "boxless" and good.

It was kinda fun to be all dolled up and crazy... it was completely freezing with the wind coming up the hill! So (funny story) after we were done I started running home and there were a ton of neighbors all out and about so I got to see quite a few wonderful facial expressions as my big hair flew behind me. Some little girls playing in the snow found some Norwegian words to give me but I couldn't understand so I just said "HI HI!" in my best Norwegian accent. :) While I kept running... I made it to the warmth safe and sound.


loves. and misses.

The Word of God

This isn't my usual post but I think it is still a good one. This week is special to me because instead of dealing with some of the emotional part of Christianity we are learning about something that we can hold in our hands.
This week we are learning about the The Word of God.
Yesterday we learned about: Where the Bible came from. Which is a lot a fabulous history! The early church, popes and kings, Gnostics, Wycliffe, Luther, persecution... Along with these comes wonderful facts! The Bible was written on 3 different continents, over 1500 years, with 40 writers, who had 20 different occupations, and 3 different languages. I learned how the collection of books was chosen and why! My favorite fact was that the Bible was developed by early churches (200 AD), not the meeting of Nicaea (325 AD).
This question really got me:
How would your life be different with out a Bible?
Today: We looked at the Old Testament. The timeline and stuff...
Fun Fact: The Jews celebrate Hanukkah because the temple was violated by a king sacrificing a pig to Zeus on the alter of the Lord. So when they rededicated the temple to the Lord Hanukkah was born.
The application today was about studying the Bible (which we will be learning more about).
3 steps:
Observation: Keep in context. If the book is a letter read the whole book. Look for details.
Interpretation: What did it mean to the original readers? (backround, culture, situation) What was the Author thinking? Ask "Why?"
Application: Apply AFTER the first two steps! (Be Inductive) What are the timeless truths? Is there something I need to change in my life? Go to God with it. :)

I hope I didn't bore you... sometimes it is hard to tell when I hear so much about something to write about it and not muddle my thoughts.

color in the gloomy days.

Wow! I have been having so many problems putting these pictures up! But even though the format is super weird I can still show them to you. :)

I spent part of Sunday at the Art Studio, down town. I went with Katie, Alida, Gareth, and Silvia. We painted and it was so wonderful, I one hundred percent believe in art therapy. It was super relaxing and fun.

These colorful pictures were done by Katie and myself. :)

I hope to take more pictures and possibly film at the studio when all the fine artists are there. It is in the attic of a really old charming church. A fabulous place to make beautiful things.

a gift.

So I showed you my video that I made for Prophetic Night about Elijah.

Here is the piece of art that I received. Rebecca, on of my friends in the fine art track, made it for me. It is a mixed media piece my favorite part being the painted news paper for the sea. As she prayed she got a picture of a terrible storm and then out of that storm came a flower.

This represents times in my life that will be turn beautiful only because of God's grace.

So it all comes back to Trust, something that I have been learning a lot about.

CupCakes!

For small group we made black bottom cupcakes! Which is the best cupcake recipe ever!!!!!!! (even better than Molly's cupcakes) I have been craving them and now I got to make, share, and eat them with some fabulous people.

Thanks mommy for sending the recipe and Gabby for sponsoring the endeavor.

Today we have 8 inches of snow! But I have a theory that it will be melted by the end of the week.

little vid.

Elijah The Prophet for Justin's Prophetic from Sadie Arneson on Vimeo.

This is the story of the Prophet Elijah found in 1 Kings 19 and the message is found in Jeremiah 29:11. I made it for my friend Justin, although I didn't know it was for him. We had a week to make a video of encouragement for another student. I got the number 12, so with a lot prayer, lots of doubting, and eventually trust. I am glad to say that God was faithful in my life once again and touch Justin's life. :)
God is so good.

snoctober... yes, Aubrey I stole that from you. :)

So we woke up to snow! And on our walk to class we had fun tossing it at each other and finding patches to step in...

Then as we were sitting in class listening to Miriam and Erik talk about relationships, it snowed the whole time.

So on break... a mega snow war broke out.

Some of the girls staying warm inside on the dance floor.

On the way home snow collected in Wendi's hair. :D

It snowed all day! I ended up running around in it for a video by my friend Cher.

When I went to bed we had about 5 inches.

Trip to another Fjord.

I went to the Grinedafjord, a famous on in Norway!

Look it up! It is fantastic!

These are my traveling companions! Andrew, Alida, Silvia, and Magda.

I couldn't put all my pictures but you get the picture! :)

It was about a 2 hour drive from the base and it was sooooo wonderful! The beauty was every where, I love the land, the charming old farms and houses, and IT SNOWED on us.

God is so creative.

It didn't rain!!!!!

Sportin' Alaska headband!

Lovely! And there are two houses built randomly on the sides of the fjord!

I have no idea how they get there! crazy Norwegians!

Video

Here is our first video as a film track. We were just practicing for about an hour and this is the product. It was really fun!

Because I used a song that I do not own I needed to put a password on it...

password: sadie

I hope you like it. My next assignment is a prophetic video for someone else. Each of us are given a number of a different student and then we pray and ask God for inspiration. Then we use our art form to make something symbolic. It is a great way to encourage each other.

So this little film should put a smile on your face!

Plant Project from Sadie Arneson on Vimeo.

reply!

Hello my lovely readers.

So I miss everybody and want to know what you are up to and how everything is with you.

It would be great to hear from you, so here are the ways to contact me. :)

If you just want to say a quick "hi" and tell me you think I am funny or you like a certain picture you can just comment on here.

My email is: running2day@gmail.com

And my skype name is: sadie.arneson

If you want to talk on the phone, I can call you with an internet phone if you email me about it.

Have a lovely day.

p.s. There will be a movie up tonight or tomorrow. :)

p.p.s. If you want to send a letter!!!!!!!! my address is on a previous post.

p.p.p.s I am running out of burts bees. just saying in a casual, one way conversation. haha.

I like to step on crunchy leaves.

Some shots of the day! We went and practiced shooting a short film at a look out park above down town Alesund. It was fun, confusing, stressful, artistic, beautiful, and chilly. We didn't have much time to complete our idea but it was good to work with the camera (angles, f-stop, focusing, panning, and all these useful things that one must be good at). Tomorrow we will edit to make a little video where we will examine all the things we did wrong. Then all the tracks will gather in the afternoon and show eachother the fun things we got to do! Then creative week will be over and instead of learning about film (except on Friday) I will be learning more about God.

time FLYS when your having fun.

I have been here for

1 month

and

2 days.

These are just some pictures I never put up of my trip.

(my stuff)

(Last sights of Alaska)

(One of 5 jet planes)

(Flight to Stockholm, thats me!)

First Creative Week

Creative Week means for the whole week we focus on our track, so far I have learned how to use our film HDV camera and the canon 7D (this camera is so impressive). We also learned a bunch techy stuff about angles and all the rules of film. I now more fully appreciate the first three minutes of feature films.

So yesterday we learned and practiced a bunch of recording angles and using a dolly.

This is a picture of the video we made. It is super cheesy cute video that we all worked on together. It isn't first rate quality but everybody likes it. This is one of my track leaders, Leif-Kristian, our faithful actor. You will be recieving a link sometime this week when we edit a bit more.

This is just practicing the dolly and the red and blue you see are some sculpture people helping us with depth of field.

NOTE: If you are a boy please ignor the next two sentances.

Ummm... I got a hair cut. :) Not that you really can tell, but it lightened my hair so it got much more wavey.

Introducing Jenette.

This is the lovely little girl of a staff family that I get to babysit almost every Wednesday.

She is a bilingual 2 year old, that likes to play with dirt and rocks, sing and dance, laughs

easy, and likes to step on crunchy leaves. Match made in heaven.

Arts Gathering 2

Walking on lunch break through the beautiful town to the water.

(This is Gareth, Alida, and Aubrey.)

This is during the concerts at the Cafe.

And this is something we go when we are bored.

And I slipped a picture of me and Katie in there of hanging out back stage before helping with a

dance performance.

Okay so the Arts Gathering.

Basically it was a conference for artists by artist put on by my school. There were two speakers on a graphic designer and the other a songwriter working in London. There was a musicain from the States, Andrew, who lead us in worship and also is having a concert tonight. He has a great voice. Then there were a few singer songwriters from Norway, wonderful to listen to! There are four fine artists who were doing painting at different places and sometimes during the meetings. Along with that there was a sculpter and a performing group doing street ministries. So many creative people who love Jesus all in one place was great. Many of the teachings focused on how to serve the Lord with the Arts.

Asia keeps coming up as a place that needs missionaries. 70% of Asia know nothing about Jesus. We should be runnig there! Pray that God will show our leaders if that is where our two month Spring Outreach should send a team there.

Arts Gathering... 1

Hanging out backstage with the dancers before doing the opening ceremony.

Alida being a rockstar with Andrew Erenseller. (I don't think that is how you spell his name...)

Matching translator/speaker combinations.

A beautiful peice of art created while we worshiped.

There will be more blogging on this event but I just wanted to get one up.

The Alesund base is putting this event on to encourage artists use their arts for the glory of God. There are two speeking sessions each day with worship and art. We have Unique Opportunity sessions, where we got to learn about street art, dance schools, prayers houses... There is a concert at the cafe each night. So we have some long days hanging out in the beautiful down town Alesund.

Family time!

Every Wednesday I get to do some awesome things.

One of them is called family time.

For an hour in the morning the staff families come and we do an activity!

This week we formed three choirs.

Each had a crazy director.

We had 15 mins to prepare and then...we had to perform.

That is my group.

We had three parts going and motions....BUT

(this is the leader of "Grandma and the tacky Gospel Choir" or Alida!)

...This little judge here ruined our chances at victory.

There was lots of laughter. :)