The children in the kindergarten next door are having an egghunt, and it's nice to watch and hear them have fun. The sound from the kindergarten is one of those things I've missed these weeks. The kindergartens are open to children of essential personell and children with special needs, but there are only about five children as I can see, as ( Read more... )

So, we got word that the lockdown we're in now will continue at least until April 14, so after Easter. I must admit that I have been expecting this, so it was more of a relief to hear it said, than not. Of course I would prefer the coronavirus to go away. Of course the first question after the prime minister's press conference today was about ( Read more... )

My colleague C and I are trying out hands on working together on an article. We have a lot in common, and both are trying to qualify for status as particularly merited pedagogical person(s) (or something like that - basically, a person that knows teaching and stuff): Since we have already been talking and tested out a lot of forms of assessment, we ( Read more... )

So, since I haven't been chronicling my adventures the last few months, I started wondering what I actually have been doing here the last few months:

Lots of teaching of course; I have 2/3 of my teaching load in autumn. And about 4/5 of the yearly grading.

One week trip to Pompeii and surroundings with the classical association of Norway. Which was ( Read more... )

Wow, that week went past fast!

After the grueling day one, we were moved to another trench on Tuesday. The first half of the day, we were set to go through all the earth/mud/gunk that came out of the trench. They took out shovel-sized pieces of the earth, hoisted them up to us, sitting on the walkway, and we went through them, breaking the earth ( Read more... )

On Tuesday I was sitting with my fingers posed over the keyboard, ready to write up a post on Norwegian politics. I decided to go to bed instead. I should have written it, because Wednesday started with a one hour impromptu lecture on Norwegian politics to my foreign students.

The lecture was at 815 in the morning, and the topic wasn't prepared at ( Read more... )

So this weekend I have done something I haven't done in ages. While the sun was shining from a clear blue sky (which isn't that common at this time of year), I was sitting a cellar, playing board games ( Read more... )

This week in teaching has been less than stellar ( Read more... )

It's not Friday anywhere anymore, but I really couldn't pass up a language related Friday Five. After all languages are what I do.

1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
My first language is Norwegian. What language do I want to learn? All of them? Currently I'm working my way through the ( Read more... )

In the choir we're currently working on a new concert, and I've asked that we sing Sanctus by Ola Gjeilo, a Norwegian composer who's more popular in the US than in Norway ( Read more... )