CLOWN
Freya was drawn to clowning at an early age, despite being a very shy person. She believed that this would be a great thing to do, to become a clown, at a time when her peers dreamed of becoming au pairs. It would allow her to become an introvert-extrovert, instead of being a plain introvert. Unfortunately, there were no other clowns around in Norway at the time; therefore, she took off from Norway and travelled to Britain at the age of 18 to follow her dream, which was to become a Shakespearean actor and Clown. She quickly realised that her English was less good than she thought, and that she, in fact, couldn't understand Shakespearean texts in English. She spent her early days in London washing up at the BBC, serving hot food at ITV, and was told to leave her glamorous reception job at ScanSat TV, as she didn't always keep up with the glamour. This has all led her to become what she is today.
Freya used to suffer from an acute allergic reaction whenever she ran past a hospital.
Therefore she never stopped to join her friends for a cheap cooked breakfast in the local hospital canteen.
However, one day Freya had a sudden epithany which was life changing: that she needed to go inside the hospitals with a Red Nose on, and stay there for at least a couple of decades.
Freya has now ended up dedicating much of her life to clowning in hospitals and care settings. She trains health care clowns, teaches workshops, coaches, and is on the Board of Directors for EFHCO, the European Federation of Health Care Clown Organizations.
She also often eats both breakfast, brunch, lunch and afternoon snacks in hospital canteens not only in Norway but also all over the world.