Apparently grades in Norway are (unsurprisingly) on a different scale than the American system, a system which doesn't usually make sense anyway and is always subjective. I assume it is equally subjective here, but all the teachers and students have told me that it is exceedingly hard to get an A here, and that most students are happy to get a C ( Read more... )

uff-da. Back from Hallingdal, cannot type, am too tired. Will rejoin LJ community at a later date, such as tomorrow. I can't wait to read what y'all have been up to the last 2-3 weeks! hmm...my most exciting experience...taking a tour of the "fjos" which has 300 cows, a grip of sheep and piles of fresh, steaming shit. mmm. smells de-lovely, ( Read more... )

In an attempt to help my right hand stop aching from taking notes on my Master's exam topics, I am answering some of my "tasks"/questions on LJ.  This is also to prove at some point in the future that I in fact learned something at some point in the past.  P.S. these answers are in very rough quasi- Norwegian-translation and aren't meant to be a ( Read more... )

( a quasi-meme, made by me in relation to critical rationalism to attempt to define myself by what I am not interested in: )

Seriously folks, who wants to visit Norway?!!! you do? and you? yeah!!! That's what I'm saying ( Read more... )

leave at 3:30 for town
go to new butikk--buy presents for family, Norwegian relatives
go to Husflid, buy yarn to make family presents
go to store: buy bread, tonic water, flour
go to school and study, eat matpakke
go home, watch "Buddy" and finish Jen's scarf, start Grandma's pulsewarmers

I just realized that one could equally substitute the word "cheddar" in my last post with "nice, handsome, intelligent, musically gifted, available men with a good sense of humor and food."

As previously stated in my journal, cheddar does not exist in Norway ( Read more... )

definitely, definitely homesick.

somebody better over there eat at lot of amazing turkey, stuffing, canned cranberries with the little can indents, pie and apple cider for me tomorrow. I'm hungry! time to go home...sigh, long day at school but at least I got one pulsevarmer crocheted during class. woot.

verbivore17: barf ( Read more... )