Marti B. Opland:
CLASS OF 1971
San Clemente High SchoolClass of 1971
San clemente, CA
Chapman UniversityClass of 1975
Orange, CA
Marti B.'s Story
Life
Salutations!
I am just going to make a time line of my life from 1971
* Sept.1971 Went to Chapman College in Orange County to
study music.
* Desember 1975 finished College with a Bachelor Degree
in Music Education.
* Jan. 1976 Moved to Olso, Norway to play Contrabass in
the Oslo Philharmonic Orch. From Jan.1976 to March
1977. I was a substitute player.
* Aug.76 Met Gudmund Kveli,a Norwegian Bricklayer
by trade and a hobby guitarplayer/singer.
* Oct. moved in with Gudmund Kveli.
* Jan.1977 Took 6 months of Norwegian at the
Universtiy in Olso.
* Aug. 1977 Started teaching Music at a Music School in
Ski, Norway.
* Married Gudmund Kveli, 28th July 1978.
* Moved to Lierne, Norway Sept.1979 Taught music in the
school and conducted 10 different choirs and bands.
* First daughter, Heidi Mari Kveli, born 12.12.1979 with
Downs Syndrom.
* 1983 Started a Childerens Choir Organisation in the
County of Nord Trøndelag.
* Aug.1984 Became principle of the Music School in
Snaasa, Norway. Moved the family to Snaasa.
* Second daughter, Kjersti Kveli, born 14.11.1984
* 1970 Started the Youth Orchestra of Nord Trøndelag.
* Summer 1998 Irene and Chris Kroesen with their
daughter Johanne and son Keith came to visit us!
* Summer 2000 I took my family to California for a
6 week visit.
* Aug. 2000 Heidi and Kjersti both moved out to go to
school.
* July 2001 Heidi moves into her own house, a 2 min.
walk from "home". She loves it there. If Mom wants
to see her Mom has to walk over to H...Expand for more
eidi's house.
Heidi works 4 days a week. She has help one day a week
and different payed friends on the weekends to help
hold the boundries.
* July 2000 Kjersti went off to a "Fame" type of High
School for 3 years. July 2003 she was accepted to the
Music Conservatory in Tromsø, Norway. July 2007 She
Graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Music/Dans
Education and Sang Performance. October 2007 she is
currently studing Early Music at the Conservatory in
Bremen, Germany. She hopes to go to America for her
Masters Degree.
* April 2004 Gudmund was told to move out. We filled out
separation papers. We were divorced May 2005. Years
of too much drinking, other woman and no consideration
for me or his own childeren even when they would come
home on school vacations. Enough was enough.
* December 2004 I suffered a Major Depression. Way too
much of everything. My past and present caught up with
each other and it was just too hard to handel. I have
had 1 year of therapy and 2 years of rehab. I will
now be on disability for 2 years to come. I see my
doctor once a month, a shrink-physical-therapist
twice a month and I participate twice a week in the
activities Snaasa has for Mental Health. So I am much
better then I was.
I hope all of you who visit this page are well mentaly and physicaly and that you have friends and family who show there love for you.
P.S. I have two cats who help me get through the nights. Lucy - 3.5 years and Cleo 4 months.
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF! - Marti B.
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