Who am I? – Chris Martin??

I would never have expected to get recognized in a bar by strangers, because, to be honest how many fans do we have at our football games – 5? However, the past week I have been recognized several times, but not as Marc Nyeland, nope, people think that I am Chris Martin from Coldplay! It is apparently my look that has some resembles to him, judge for your self on the pictures below.

I am a buddy!

It is the beginning of the semester, and a new set of international exchange students have arrived. I have for the first time signed up to be a buddy for three incoming students, who are Vincent from Belgium, Kellam from USA, and Alex from Latvia.

It all started Sunday last week when Vincent came by my place to say hello. Since than we have been having a great time with all the other students and I am looking forward to a fun semester.

Happy Birthday Dad

It is today my dad's 65th birthday. I wish you a great day with the family, and I am sure that the sun will shine on you.

Love Marc

I am back from Skanderborg Music Festival

I am back in CPH after a great music festivale. I will upload a lot of nice pictures soon. Here is a short list of some of the artists:

• Ace of Bace
• Alphabeat
• Infernal
• Katee Melua
• Saybia
• Dodo and the Dodos
• Hej Matematik
• Lenny Kravitz

52 hours - I am home

I am now home after 52 hours of traveling, but I don't have time to relax. I have to start packing for the next trip. Big thanks to all the SAS employees who help me come back.

I am in Stockholm

(Wednesday 6th of August 10AM) I am now in Stockholm; I got on the flight from Chicago and made it across the Atlantic. I did, however not get on the first flight to Copenhagen, I am hoping for the next flight. If I make it, then I will be only 31 hours delayedJ

No matter what happens I am just happy to get home safe, and with so many new memories that I will never forget. But, if you have the chance, then please cross your fingers for me at 13:20 GMT+1 time, so that I can get home soon, thanks.

24 hours later and I am still in America

(Tuesday 5th of August 1230PM)It is now 24 hours since I left Salt Lake and I am in Chicago airport waiting to know whether I am going directly to Copenhagen or via Stockholm. One thing is for sure and that is, that I will miss the first day of the festival and the celebration of Kritte’s birthday.

HAPPY BITHDAY Kritte – I hope you will have fun, I am looking forward to seeing you, and there is a small present to you in the apartment when we get back.

I did not make it.

(Monday 4th of August 1030PM)I was 10 minutes late for my flight, and I now have to find a hotel and hope that I will get to Copenhagen soon.

It will be too close!

(Monday 4th of August 9PM)I am landing in Chicago in ten minutes, which will give me 20 minutes to catch my flight to Denmark

Mother Nature has something to say

(Monday 4th of August 2PM) Weather delay, not sure if I will make it to Chicago in time for my CPH flight. I was suppose to have five horse between my flights.

Heading back to Copenhagen – Denmark

(Monday 4th of August 10AM) Today Monday I am now going to get on my flight to Chicago from where I will fly directly to Copenhagen and land Tuesday morning. That will be just in time to join up with the boys back home to go on a small road trip to a musical festival.

It was a pleasure to see so many of you again here in Salt Lake, but there are still many whom I did not get a chance to see, I hope to see you soon again, please keep in contact.

Let us jump out of a plane – sky diving!

Sunday had only one purpose and that was to enable us to jump out of a plan in 8000 feat! We drove to Cardwell next to Boise in Idaho. But before that we had to get a good solid breakfast, which is why we went to and old American dinner.

A lot of old, but very cool stuff made us feel back in the 60’ties, and the big pan cakes with a ton of syrup made it perfect.
Here I am with my instructor Geoffrey.
Here we all three are ready to go.

A video from my jump and more maybe more pictures will come later, since they are making one for us.

But wow that was amazing. We had a 40 second free fall, and than a nice smooth descend with the parachute out. It got to steer it, and made two tight spirals, first to the right and then to the left. It was one, if not the one, most exiting moments in my life. Sitting with my feet over the edge of the plane looking down on the ground, with no time to reconsider, and then we just went out. It was so surreal that I never got scared when being in the air.

If you ever get the chance to try it, you must do it – it has to be on your bucket list.

Here it is me coming down:

Tour de Sun Valley

After getting some dry cloth on, it was now time for mountain biking. We got a map and headed out to find a good trail.

Here we are getting ready to jump in the car to head of to the mountains in the background.

A few cows tried to get in our way, but a little music from Kate Perry “I kissed a girl”, and they went off the road.
We are on the way to the top.
I am at the top of where we are about to start a 2 miles downhill trail.
From left to right you can see the trail, which was going to take us all the way to the bottom of the valley.
We are now on our way back to the car, a 5 miles uphill climb.
But before we got to the car we took a small downhill tail that took us through some water.
This is Kylee.
Here is Manuel

And, here am I.

Oh yes, and on the way back the cows were back on the road to stall us, I guess the few we met on the way up and told their friends about the great music we played, so once again Kate Perry got a chance to sing for the cows.

We went white water rafting in kayaks.

Saturday morning we went up early to go water rafting. When we stepped out of the hotel room we were met with a crisp and cold air. Sun Valley is supposable one of the coldest places in America, we could feel that. It did, however, became a lot warmer when the sun finally rose above the mountains.

We were going white water rafting in kayaks, since we were told on the phone that it would be a lot more fun and challenging, but only for young, adventures, and athletic people. We considered us all to fit those categories and it turned out to be a good decision.

It was so much fun to go down the rapids. We had a disposable water proof camera with us, and we are waiting for the pictures, but below are some pictures that were taken by a photographer ob the shore.

This is me heading into the first rapid, which turned out to me a close call. As the pictures show, the nose of the kayak is totally gone under water. This is the same place, I am now down in the hole/void that the rocks create and it is starting to look bad.
I am now about to tip over, since I hit a rock and the water is pushing hard on the rear of the kayak.
The instructors told us that if we are about to fall in, we should take one more paddle, which I did and I got out of it. I got the kayak turned 360 degrees and stayed onboard.

Here I am out of trouble and just paddling on to the next rapids. There were several rapids where we had to concentrate a lot, and it was a lot of fun; very recommendable.
Here it is Manuel paddling.
Kylee is here heading into the rapid, she forgot to paddle, but made it without any problems.

Road trip to Sun Valley, Ketchum, Stanley, Hailey - Idaho

We are on the road - Kylie, Manuel, and I. We are going to Sun Valley to sky dive, white water raft, and mountain bike. I know I previously have wrote on the blog that we were going to Moab, but that will be another time, it is sopossible too warm down there.

The long roads - it is do amazing to drive in the US. Everything is so far away, and the roads are beyond the horizon.

Here is the gang at the tank station.
We are looking good, and are exiting about going rafting tomorrow.

Beautiful sunset in Sun Valley.

Dodge - Manuel - Okland - The Cheesecake Factory- Beezer & Bryce

Below it is my rental car - a Dodge Charger with a 2.7 L V6 engine. It is a really sweet car - a real American car. It burns gasoline and a whole in my wallet!

I finally met Manuel. We went to have lunch at a Greek place, which was god. We both had a ton of stories to tell, and it took me more than one and a half out to eat my salad.

I went on a tour with Randy to see some of Okland Construction's sites. In the back ground it is a temple in Draper.

It was national Cheesecake day this Wednesday, so I went to the Cheese Cake Factory with Mike, Jordi, and Kylie. It was amazing. The food was also great, but it is the cakes that rocks, and due to the special occasion, they were only $1.50

Yesterday, Manuel and I met up with Beezer and Bryce. It was great. We were all on a road trip back in January, and it only took a few minutes before we were back in the old rhythm, perfect.