Big monster in the seas

Hello all you readers of my blog! Thank you for you patience but I been on sea for very long time, sailing with fisherman the Kjartan from Norway on way to the Canada for more adventure and meeting the cousin of Kjartan. Being on sea for long times gets a bit boring. But two days ago we see the big monster in the seas! In morning with no wind and wave we see dark shadow under the waters. It is very big and a bit scary. Kjartan get very nervous, he say it might be the kraken. I ask him what kraken is and he says it is big creature from sea that eat the boats. He run down in cabin and hide and shouting very loud in Norwegian language. Micha don’t like. I try to hide for a bit then have to take the look because I am curious persons. Many time I get into trouble for being the curious persons! When I look over side I see big shadow in water still, but suddenly it moves up! I standing frozen of the fear on boat and then I see it is only the big fish, very big like house of uncle Sherzodbek in Uzbekistan. Micha never see a fish that big before. It is swimming next to boat and looking at me with a big eyes, doing fish things. It almost looking friendly. I think maybe the big is fish is not monster but friendly like a dog? Suddenly it spit water out from hole in back, many meters into the heaven! In shock I fall over in boat and hit head on steering wheel. When I look up big fish is disappeared into oceans. I tell Kjartan it OK for him to come out again and after little while he unlock cabin and look out. He look very very scared, and maybe he has been crying. I tell him it only big fish that spit the waters and he start to laugh. He say it is whale, not big fish, and that everything is now OK. Kjartan still pale and I don’t want to see this kraken of which he speaks. The rest of day we don’t see more monsters and Kjartan say we are close to the Canada now. Make me happy because toilet in boat not very nice. I have to eat the TicTac to make smell go away.

I am happy be in Canada,  I can call mum and father and sisters and see more of the worlds! Canada here come Micha!

Tags: Boat, Canada, sailing, TicTac, TicTac Micha, travel, Uzbekistan

Fishing for Canada

Yesterday evening I finally find luggage I lose in bus. I think it must be because of birthday, but  I am very happy for this, because luggage has most of TicTac instruments and the clean underwear! Micha mum not happy if knew Micha lose clean socks. But I am also sad because I have the airplane ticket and passport in luggage and miss plane to Canada two days ago. How to go to Canada now?

I call home but family are all away for a while and no one can help me. But I am Micha and I will make things working out!

After the breakfast at hostel I go to the Frognerparken to test if the instruments TicTac are still working after being lost for so many time. Lots of people are in park, making relaxing and playing the footballs. Soon a big crowd is standing around and helping playing music, and singing and clapping. Micha popular in Norway!

After show I meet fisherman who say he always eat the TicTac on boat in sea, and sometime play the beat with boxes when boring. I never go on big sea, only swim in Aral lake in Uzbekistan. He ask if I want to go on boat and sail for a few days and I say yes because I not in Canada now. I get luggage and we go to harbour together. His name is Kjartan and he catch the fish in North Sea for many years. He has nice boat, called the Fridgerd, after his mum. She must be very proud to be a boat!

I am a bit scared of the water but Kjartan give me yellow jacket called the floating vest to make me safe. In main room in boat there is the maps for sailing. Kjartan ask me where I would like to go and then I asking Canada is it far? Kjartan look at me like I am the madness and I have to explain about the missing of plane and travel adventure. He keep saying it is too far, but in end I promise to give him all my spare TicTacs boxes and have mum send him pretty hat the tubeteika from Uzbekistan, and he agree to go.

He say he need fish anyway and has the cousin in Labrador. So now Micha from Uzbekistan is in big sea on the little boat with fish and Kjartan on way to the Canada!

Tags: Canada, Norway, tic tac, TicTac Micha, travel

On my way to Oslo

That was nice birthday I had.Many nice peoples, music and laughing. I really liked it.

I am still at hostel in forest that Gunhild show me. I am still not in Oslo, and I think maybe I am still a bit lost! But the weather nice so I go for walk outside. After while I am in middle of forest and everything is beautiful and quiet. I sit on stone and think of mom and dad and sister Guldana back in Uzbekistan, when I think I hear the sounds of the troll! I jump up in tree and try to be very silent when an old man comes walking to see me. He is smiling and say his name is Olof and he lives in forest. He ask me who I am and what I do in middle of road far away from everything. I tell him I am Micha from Uzbekistan and that I play the boxes TicTac. He has fiddle and ask if we can play music for the trees? I think for a little while then I ask him, is he the trolls? Olof shakes head and say no he is just very old. I look at him again and it is true, he is not troll, he is just old and looks like troll! I decide it is safe to climb down tree again.

Olof is very funny and we play music for long time. He teach me many Norwegian songs that are all pretty, but maybe a bit sad too. I ask if he learn the violin music with the Alexander Rybak. He says no, but say he think he see Rybak on television once.

When we finish playing he say he is tired and must go home. I tell him I am still lost since yesterday and he say I should ask the trees nicely for direction. So I hug the tree and ask for way to Oslo or bus for Oslo. The tree very silent, only making the tree sounds. I hug again, and ask loudly to tree, please to tell me where is the way to Oslo? Then Olof shake head and say he better drive me to the bus in his car.

Strange. Maybe tree tell him directions but not me? Or maybe the tree tell me but I don’t understand because of language? In Uzbekistan, trees don’t speak Uzbek. Maybe they too speak Norwegian?

Olof drive me all the way to Oslo in the end, which is very kind. In car we eat the brown cheese, made from the goats and called “geitost”. It is almost as nice as cheese from Furkat, the goat of my uncle in Uzbekistan.

Tags: Norway, Oslo, tic tac, TicTac, TicTac Micha, travel, Uzbekistan

Lost Luggage, Trolls and My Birthday

Tags: birthday, lost and found, Norway, Oslo, tic tac, TicTac Micha, travel

Waves

I was at the ocean today with some friends. It was good but very windy, I can’t hear nothing, but shhhhhh, loud sound of wind. There are men in sea, they wear tight uniform. Are they dancing sea ballet? I laugh so much, because they fight with waves and wind. It look very funny…and cold!

Tags: surfing, Sweden, TicTac, TicTac Micha, travel, waves

Smelly Fish

I’m not in Malmö any longer. It is hard to leave but world calls me. I take north of  Sweden where I met Håkan yesterday. His name is Håkan and he is born in Kiruna in top of Sweden. In summer they have sunshine all day and all night. That must be great! Imagine being on beach and never have to go home because of getting dark! He is not very tanned, though. I think if you spend all day and night in sun you must use many bottles of the sun lotion, and everybody must be wearing the sun glasses, even at night! Strange but maybe fun? Håkan also tell me that in Kiruna winter, it is dark all day and all night, and no sun. People in Uzbekistan would not like that, I think. How you know when to go bed? How you grow the chickpeas for making the soup? I hope Swedish people not scared of dark then.

In evening, Håkan invite me to his home. He say he want to give me Swedish speciality food, called ‘surströmming‘. Håkan say it taste very good and is favourite of Sweden people. I am very hungry after long day playing Tictac boxes! In Håkan flat we sit at table and he brings out can of ’surströmming’ which is some kind of the fish. I like fish. But when he open can, it smell really bad! Now I am not so hungry. Håkan thinks it is funny and eats some of the smelly fish. I say thank you and eat a bit of bread instead.

When I go back to hostel in evening I see more pretty girls and now I wondering; do they all eat smelly fish too? Maybe the eating smelly fish make girls pretty? Then I bring back some ’surströmming’ to Uzbekistan.

Tags: fish, fisherman, girls, Kiruna, sea, surströmming, Sweden