To relax, to visit a little, to rain, to learn is what I have titled this blog entry. This describes my last few weeks in Norway quite well, I think. The first week after language camp, I had a week in northern Norway, all the way up in Bjerkvik, near Narvik. See here to see how far north we were!
I was up there with my host sister to visit my host brother, Joakim, and his girlfriend. We stayed with them and their dog, too, whose name is Copper. He is super cute but sometimes can be a big pain. That's all fine and good though, because it was a great, relaxing week. Karine and I also made homemade chocolate chip cookies--not common in Norway.
These last few weeks of school, it has gotten significantly darker. I wake up, and it is pitch dark, and when I go home from school, there is just a little light out. The moon comes fast, around 5 or so. I have had my zumba-pilates class every Thursday with some friends, and Norwegian lessons every Tuesday with MacKenzie. It has also been raining a lot here but...thus is the life of Norway.
We visited Oslo two weekends ago!! I decided that I love that city. It is soooo beautiful! It was MacKenzie, me, two other exchange students, and we also met up with some of my friends from school for coffee. We almost saw Snoop Dogg outside of a shoe store except for the MANY Norwegians crowding in to sneak a peak! We found the crazy ghetto corners and the tent cities!! We went into an ice cream shop where we were served ice cream by a Swede who thought we were gærn!!! That night, I went to my friend Lilly's 20th birthday party for a bit and met more neighbors that I didn't even know I had.
The next day, Gunnar (host dad) and I went to Rotary's district conference. It was really entertaining--they had people from Germany and a few other countries that spoke about Rotary in their countries, and a few motivational speakers--one guy who lost both his legs when he was young! They also talked about how Rotary can be better known worldwide by using the web. I was also at the Rotary meeting this week--and they had such a great presesntation about an organization in Sierra Leone that was for children who had no home or could not go home to live and eat and go to school--go Norway! They paid for practically everything! It was sort of cool to see something I could see myself doing at some point--and be using my Norwegian!!
We were in Drammen for Entreprenørskap two days ago and we had a presentation about how to go further with our business idea--we are working on creating a business that sells a product. This also means I got to miss my math class...yes I will make it up later I promise! The speaker (OF COURSE) picked on me to do a demonstration--that was interesting. It becomes really complicated when they don't know you are an exchange student and just assume you are Norwegian and will understand all the words that comes out of his mouth!! It's fine though--classmates helped me out! This is our idea--a water bottle with a filter so you can drink from rivers and stuff, although I'm not so sure how we will do it, but we'll see!!
Pretty much every school in Norway participates in something called "O.D. Dagen" which stands for Operasjon Doksworth or something. It means that every year kids take a day off school and raise at least 80 dollars towards an organization. This year the organization was for kids in Rwanda that need money to live and go to school--especially girls. MacKenzie and I decided that instead of just working at home for money like many Norwegian kids do, we would bake cookies and sell them! Homemade chocolate chip cookies are NOT common here. We baked for 4 hours and made more than 80 cookies!!! We made peanut butter, chocolate chip, oatmeal, and many combinations of those. We made them with Norsk Sjokolade, so they were even better! We sold them for 20 kroners each and made around 1000 kroners!! That's almost 200 dollars! People realllllllly like cookies! It was also a lot of people's first try at homemade cookies! How crazy is that?? Chocolate chips are nowhere to be found over here...This is MacKenzie and I as we baked our cookies!
Jeg skal skrive slutten på Norsk fordi jeg er i norskfag nå, og dere kan bruke google oversetter å forstå hva jeg har sagt. Jeg lærer Norsk hvert dag, og det er derfor at jeg kalt blogg innlegg "å slappe av, å besøk litt, å regne, å lære." Også, hvis dere er norsk og dere leser hva skriver jeg, unnskyld for min dårlig gramatikk!!! Hade og håper at dere har lest hva du letter etter.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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