Starting up webpage again - this time from Svalbard

Here we go again. This time the page gonna be in english - due to the fact that we have family and friends in different countries and would like to share some of our experiences with all of them (mainly after constant questions about pictures from Eike's family ;)).

(From Eike:)


So it seems I gonna live on Svalbard again ... this time for at least 4 years. There are a lot of contradicting feelings about it. Of course it's great to be back on this amazingly beautiful island with it's open landscape, wonderful glaciers and differing light-situations and not to forget friendly people all around. Hopefully there will be many exiting experiences and trips coming and I'm looking forward to live in 1 place for a couple of years after moving back and forth between different places and many times during the last years. Living in one place means time for building up friendships, be part of a community, be able to work continuously on something and create a place one can call home.
And it is a good feeling coming back to UNIS and Svalbard with quite a few wonderful people I still know from 3 years ago.



On the other hand had we had just about started to build one place that felt like home in many ways in Trondheim. We had bought a piece of land with a cabin, wanted to start building up a dog-team, got 2 pups, had many wonderful and kind people around us and I was looking forward to finally could have some more time with friends and some that were just about to become friends. Now it feels hard to move away from all this, move away from Rasmus and the dogs. I miss my "pack" already - both 2 and 4 legged ones.



But well, that's how life is. And I'm looking forward to start with my PhD and work properly with science again. Now there is the challenge of finding a place to live where I can have the dogs right outside, but I'm sure there gonna be a solution - there always is.

(Pictures will follow as soon as I got a camera)