Hi everyone! It has now been almost three weeks since the finalists were announced, and I have been so lucky to be able to call myself a finalist ever since!! As usual, I am a bit slow with blogging, but I am trying to get better… There is still so much I haven’t told you guys about yet, so stay tuned :))
When I signed up for Miss Norway, I actually didn’t tell anyone. I signed up the day before registration closed, and then all there was to do was wait.. The next day, I got a email saying that I had been selected to continue in Miss Norway! I didn’t quite know how to react. Of course I was happy, but I think I finally had to face the fact that I was now actually a contestant, with everything that comes with it. I am a pretty shy and more reserved person, especially when it comes to social media and all of that, so that was the part I found, and still find, a bit challenging. The thought of everyone knowing about it and seeing it felt a little scary. But now we are here, as a finalist, and I am incredibly grateful for it all.
In my semifinalist post, I wrote that we just have to “dare to dare" more, and I think I possibly wrote that mostly directed at myself. I am actually in Miss Norway!, and through this I have done things I would never have dared to do a little while ago. So I do dare a little more now, but I still have a lot to work on going forward.
Now, as a finalist, the reality of standing on a stage and representing Norway, and all the good we have here, feels one small but also very big step closer. Through this process, I have learned a lot, first and foremost about myself, but also about networking, how to collaborate with companies, and in a way, how to work as a company myself. It has been an incredibly educational journey.
I have also noticed that this process has only made me even more steadfast in my values and the goals I have in life, which I am also extremely grateful for.
I am also grateful for all the people around me who, ever since I was in my early teens, have told me that I “just have to!” try pageantry, something I always answered with “haha, yeah yeah,” but I never imagined myself actually daring to do it. I am grateful for everyone who has helped me through this process, for the people I have gotten to meet and get to know, the people I have gotten to work with, my sponsors, and for those who have shown me that there is so much more good in the world. People who do so much good and try to help where they can, something we can easily forget when we only read the big headlines in the news, and especially when almost everything I read about in uni is about war and conflict and all the terrible things that come with it..
And thank you to my closest friends, some of whom I still haven’t told about this yet… and to my family, but most of all to my Mum and Dad, for absolutely everything <3
This kinda turned into a thank you note , but trust me, it will not be the last <3
There is so much exciting coming up. Lots of reading and school. Lots of planning and plans already in motion! Lots of training. Lots of everything… I know what I need to work on going forward to become the best version of myself, both inside and outside of Miss Norway, and I am really looking forward to it!
Love, Ayu <3
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