Since I was a child, I've always been so into the news. I would watch the news with my parents, and when we finished the news, I didn't finish the story. I would watch it over and over and over again, because I was going to it. And every major accident or a catastrophic or big event that was going on on the TV, I was glued.
I was totally glued to the TV. It was the Olympics from Lillehammer in Norway. It was the 9-11th. It was the crown prince and the crown prince in Norway when it got married.
There's so many incidents, there's so many episodes where I just couldn't turn off the TV. My mother, she tells me stories when I was a child, watching a major boat accident, like a tanker that blew up. And I was totally fascinated by it, and I didn't want to stop watching it. And even if she said you shouldn't be watching this, I would still continue with it, because I was so into it.
And we had major plane crashes, all those things, I was totally into it. Until this day, I'm like this. I have a very hard time with turning off the TV if there's a major event. And if something big happens, I will check the different news stations, or the different medias.
I will use the internet, or I will use the radio, I will use the TV. I just dig up everything I can find about it, because I want all the angles, I want all the perspectives. I want all the information. I really love information.
I probably should have become like a journalist or something like that, an investigator, because digging up information and figure out things about the topic or something like this is something I really love to do. The final year in my school, I did a major paper, and we were supposed to pick one topic, and write about 30 pages, and include pictures and everything like this. It was like the final paper of the Norwegian class we had. And I picked Swellbart, and for you who don't know Swellbart, it's an island north of Norway.
And I couldn't stop investigating about it. I just dig up all the information. I contacted the head chief of the island. I found every paper about it, every news article, every picture.
I went to the library, got prints out of books. This was before Wi-Fi took over the world. I was 14. It was a big deal.
To have that much information, and I just got it from books. I read everything it was. I wrote such a long paper. We stopped at around 50 pages.
Then I just knew I had to quit it, because it wasn't possible. I couldn't finish it. And another thing, I get everyone around me involved with it. So I involved both my parents, my mother helped editing it and making the front page.
It was perfect. And I got a perfect mark on it. I got an A. They said it was the best paper they have ever read.
And it was so well written and so informative. And truly, I had just dig up all the information possible. Everything that I could find, I wrote it down. And this is me with news also.
I just, I get so into it. I want to know all the details, all the specifics, all the information. It's not that I used it for anything. It's one thing when I was writing the paper, but according to the news, I don't use it again.
I just focus about it. And when the news stopped with it, I will continue with it for a while if I don't finish it in my head. And after this, it's done. But one hour, two hours, three hours, five hours, I can just sit in one place, just focusing about this one subject.
It's very interesting. And definitely, I think I should be working in some line of business where either I investigate something or I'm a journalist, I tell something. Because I always like to inform people of things or to get information from people about things. I'm also good at this, digging up things.
I have been working as a receptionist for seven years, eight years soon. And just to call someone and ask them information, ask what they are, what they need, all those things, I'm very good at it. I enjoy it. But the thing with the news, I mean, it started when I was like four or five.
So it's been part of my life since I was a very small child. That's kind of interesting to think about. And also, it's kind of interesting to think about how it would affect me if I lived in a bigger city or I had bigger opportunities while going out. Maybe I would have done something in journalism or investigation or something like this.
But with a situation I had in my life and also where I grew up, I had to make certain decisions that didn't... Where I didn't have to move or didn't have to make any big changes in my life. But I don't regret anything actually. So it's not like I'm sitting here wishing I would have done it, but it would just be...
I think I would be useful in that line of business because it's something I really enjoy doing.