I don’t know how to talk to people. It seems people - acquaintances, you could say - want to talk to me, to tell me about things in their past. Not always extremely personal things, sometimes that, yes, but mostly things that are just personal in the ordinary way. Personal things that strike you as slightly revealing but very normal at the same ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I discovered couchsurfing.

I had my first couchsurfer a few nights ago and that worked out very well. She was a girl from a small town in rural America visiting Scandinavia as awwoof volunteer. I've thought about doing wwoof myself, not here but somewhere warmer. I'm not sure I'm coming at it from the right angle though, I don't ( Read more... )

I've got a job as an invigilator, or 'examensvakt' in a secondary school in Baerum, a suburb of Oslo. So far its been quite a fun job and its my first experience of being paid for doing a Norwegian speaking job. I've done 3 days of 5 hour mock exams and this week I'm starting on the real ones. Its interesting how I can speak Norwegian to ( Read more... )

So I got into the SOAS Hebrew 1 year course ( Read more... )

It is strange how we have different versions of ourselves that emerge in different surroundings ( Read more... )

Last night some people in my compulsory philosophy English-language class got together for a potluck dinner at L's house. L is Irish but married to a Norwegian and she also invited a few friends of hers, a British guy and a British/Norwegian couple. And from my class - C. who is Kenyan and H who is Icelandic. I think this is the second time I've ( Read more... )

I am having trouble at the moment finding a way of posting anything on LJ about my life ( Read more... )

Now I've been back in Norway for a month and I'm really feeling like I am not in the right place. Part of my problem is that nowhere is the 'right place' - but that's both a fact and an excuse for not trying too hard to settle down anywhere.

I'm back from Cairo and in two weeks I'll be in Oslo again for the new term. I feel like I've totally changed as a person since I went over there last August. I didnt realise how comparatively easy it would be to live there - looking at it now, I was always a bit outside the 'normal' category for that kind of student experience because I study in ( Read more... )

In case anyone is wondering, I havent dropped off the face of the earth or anything but for one thing, I'm living in Cairo at the moment with limited internet access, and for another, I'm a bit disillusioned with LJ. I guess I might put some photos of Cairo up here at some point but apart from that...probably not going to be posting on this thing ( Read more... )