Got my Laptop up and running on the schools internet, so I can post pictures!

This is the building that I used to live in, All the buildings look alike, so its no big deal that I've moved. They look like the projects, dont they?
My Building
This is the view from my new room. Must rent Curtains today.
The View from my New RoomThis is Eda my "buddy ( Read more... )

Since I have time to kill, I guess that Ill also make a post about the kind of people that I've gotten to know since I've been here. Since Kringsja where I live is primarily international student living (aka, the cheapest offered) most of us play together and live together ( Read more... )

Please make note that my address has changed. Although my old flat mates were nice, they were 40-year-old men from Tanzania, and my flat was dark, gloomy and on the first floor (read: No privacy). I've moved flats, I'm now on the 7th floor of a different building, but my suitmate (this means that we share a bathroom, but have individual rooms) is a ( Read more... )

Ok, as things have begun to settle down, I figure that I can do the required "Whats different in Norway" post. Something a little more chipper and up beat ( Read more... )

Care Packages can be sent to:

Patricia Bailey
Olav M Toviks Vei 10 H0710
0864 Oslo Norway

K, thanks!

After my foot healed from the thousands of blisters that I deserved after partying Wedesday night, Its now sore becuase I cut it on some rocks at the beach yesterday. I think I'm destined to hobble around Norway. Woo ( Read more... )

I think that I may be coming across here inaccurately. I can't wait to enjoy Norway, I've been looking forward to this for a while now, and am really ready for the craziness of settling in to finish ( Read more... )

Today has been a day from hell, really. I went to the chem department before my exchange meeting and tried to register for classes, the only catch is that the chem department isn't offering anything that I can take (all intro Chem in Norwegian) so after 30 miutes with the advisor, he tells me to come back after my exchange meeting ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: the keyboards are (understandably) different here, so forgive me of any heinous typos ( Read more... )

Hi! I'll be leaving for Norway tomorrow, and this is the first post, simply a beginning post possibly explaining how its going to work. I'll post here occasionally, maybe with an experience, pictures, etc. I don't think that I'll be sending out email updates, this way if you merely "favoritize" this page, you can check it at will, without me having ( Read more... )