Min år i Norge

This blog is for my friends, family, and anyone who is thinking about or participating in an exchange program. It will document my everyday life and learning of the language and culture in Norway!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Nei, jeg glemte igjen

nei, i forgot again....
i suppose its a good thing i keep forgetting to update my blog, right? anyway, not much to report...
we played in the championships last saturday, but we lost 41-10. as i said on facebook, i wasn't complaining! what a fantastic ride its been with the 1814s. i had a great time and made some great friends!
other than that, ive just been doing school and the usual... i dont do much in school as i know most of what theyre teaching. so basically school=artige.no, a funny picture site that i will most likely never not have open. in my life.
yesterday martin got his license. they get it when theyre 18, but can drive anyone. this is a very good thing for me haha.
ha det bra (goodbye (hello ellie))

Monday, October 24, 2011

Lengt tid siden min siste post!

Long time since my last post!
Sorry på oppdatering ikke mitt blogg! I haven't been doing too much, but some good stuff has indeed happened. The football team has been doing great, we just recently won the semifinals on our home field 41-0 over Bergen! This Saturday we go for gold against the only team that's defeated us, the Oslo Trolls.
Min norsk går bra, men jeg bør snakker mer. Det klasser med andre utvekslingstudent er fin, og hjelper mye.
Well that's all I can think of for now, so I'll try to update more regularly... Ha det bra!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Hyttetur, Hundkjøring, og Skole

Trip to the cabin, dogsledding, and school
last thursday me and my family went to their cabin in Hurdal, which i am told is just forest. From what i saw, that was pretty accurate. They used to live there, before they moved to Eidsvoll. at the cabin I got to try dogsledding, and it was awesome! we didnt use a sled due to lack of snow, but they use carts for the mountain road i did it on. the owner said they can reach 40-50 km/h!
i got back from the cabin saturday night, and i dont think we did anything the rest of the weekend. if we did i forget...
other than that ive  just been back in school. i wrote a short story in norwegian the other day, i think it was ok. jeg kan snakker og forstår mer og mer hver dag, og jeg tenker det min skriving og lesing er ok, for nå! ha det bra!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Fotball kamp, Oslo, og 4 dager av... stuff.

Football game, Oslo, and 4 days of stuff
so i havent updated the blog in a while because ive been really tired... right now its 4 am.
I'll start with saturday; That was the day of our home game against the Oslo Vikings. They're one of our main rivals, but we shut them out 25-0, plus i played a pretty good game i thought. it was a great day.
Sunday we took easy, just chilling at home playing games and watching tv. that was it
Monday i headed out at 9am to Oslo alone, fending for myself in the wild. It took a short bike ride, bus, then train to get there, but i did. there i met up with two of my friends from AFS and we headed to an Americans apartment. From there we were going to go to an american pizza place, but it was closed so we took the bus to what was once norways biggest mall. There we found a burger king, and just hung around while we figured out what we wanted to do. after getting soft is med sjokolade (vanilla soft serve with nesquik on top), we decided to head to Veiglands park, to see the naked statues. That was a blast!
after that we took the trikk (norwegian charlie) back to the area surrounding Oslo S (Sentralstasjon) and i had a classic norwegian cheeseburger- salad, corn, and thousand island dressing. it was good though!
once i got home we had a turkish meal prepared by Ilke, an exchange student from turkey who is staying with us for the week. it was veldig bra!
Today, october 4, was my dads birthday. i really  missed him, but i know he had a good time. Im so thankful for him, and hes really been helping me out throughout the year (more than you'd expect). Gratulerer med dagen!

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Forste hjemme hos

first hjemme hos
a hjemme hos is where everyone in our chapter goes to one of our houses and does something. this time we made waffles at the house of a kid from italy. thats pretty much all we did, other than sit and talk
so that was yesterday, today was thursday. 3 hours of gym day. the first 2 arent bad, i just went into the gym with the other guys from the football team, but then comes a ton of running and... i really hate running.
anway, i got to go home early, so that was good. i watched the simpsons pretty much all afternoon, then went to football practice at 530. when we got back we had dinner, then more simpsons. id say rather productive.
ha det!

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Nordlys og tirsdag

Northern lights and tuesday
so after i updated my blog last night we went outside and saw a little bit of the northern lights! it wasnt too clear until we walked down to the nearby soccer field where there werent any lights, but once we were there we definitely saw it. i tried to take pictures, but i dont think they came out very well. anyway, they were only green/white, and didnt move/werent clear enough for us to see them moving. it was still really cool, and counts as me achieving one of my goals for this year!
today was tuesday, so i had practice. not a lot of people showed up (8) so we played pickup football vs the coaches, which was really fun.
i morgen jeg ha en hjemme hos, sa jeg skal gar til en gutter huset med min local chapter, romerike.
ha det bra!

Monday, September 26, 2011

Mandag, og jeg glemte om min care package!

Monday, and i forgot about my care package!
today was a good day, pretty boring though. pretty much the only reason i wanted to update is because last night i forgot to talk about the care package i got while i was at the camp!
my dad sent over a box full of stuff i needed (yes, needed!)
-arnold palmer
-boots
-trolli sour gummi worms
-skittles
-milky way midnights
-gummy worms
-starbursts
-headphones
it was so awesome to come back to that! great taste of america, too! turns out norwegians love skittles, so ill have to get extra next time...
ha det bra