Back to School

I have hit Washington DC, and have spent my three days here doing something that will make my professors back in school very happy (Jan Erik, nå skal du nok bli glad!) The picture below is taken from the roof of the Newseum in DC. I visited it the last time I was here (10 years ago), and I remember having so much fun that I really wanted to go back. Turns out the NEWSeum has been closed for years and opened again the day before I arrived. Talk about timing! Six flors of heaven for a news junkie like myself.

While being here I have stayed with my friend Lauren which I went to Camp Rising Sun with in 1998 and stayed with in New York the summer of 2000. Now she´s a hot shot Pro Bono worker in DC.

 

Monday night Lauren took me to The Kalb Report at the National Press Club here in DC. 

"The Kalb Report In Search of Truth: A Conversation on Investigative Reporting with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists: Dana Priest from The Washington Post and Seymour Hersh from The New Yorker." (Pictures to the right.)

Not unlike Norwegian print journalists they think the internet suck, and that everything should be done old school. Besides that it was very interesting. To listen to the way these people work and what they have accomplished was very inspiring. 

Tomorrow I am off to New York City... on a Greyhound bus.

Something old, something new and a little magic

I left the sweet city of Chicago on tuesday, but I got to meet a lot of great people before I left.

Something new: 

I met Cary, better known as Honeybear and Honeypie on MySpace. She is as sweet as you get the impression of and she is a wicked makeup artist. She pampered me and gave me a full makeover. This is not the last time I go out for cocktails with this one...

Something old:

It has been ten years since 14 year old Inga went to Camp Rising Sun in upstate New York. There has also been ten years since I saw my fellow campers Gaby and Tanya. They both live in Chcicago, and they haven´t changed at all. I hope it will not be ten year until I see them again.

Gaby, Tanya and Inga.

Magic Trick:

Thanks Robert!

And of course I had to make a video (after the Portland success) from Chicago as well. It´s long, but I promise... the end is fantastic!