Asker Oslo Scandic

... My friend Ying had invited me to participate. The place was indeed a hugely romantic factory hall in Yuhang, a rundown suburbs of Hangzhou, China, where I live at present (game: find the 5 odd pictures). Well, Dom & Beate's was more my type of wedding. It took place in Asker, a very nice suburbs of Oslo, on Saturday the 9th of August 2008. It started at 2pm with the ...

... Lene Marlin fans, and a Portuguese one, stayed at Bogstad camping in a cabin... so on Wednesday night we had a good time in there getting to know each other while drinking some very watery tasting Norwegian beer. The one bit of sightseeing I did do was to the Munch museum and National Gallery, both were must dos for me. Edvard Munch is probably my favourite artist and many of his most famous works were on display at both galleries (he often made many ...

... that's not too interesting is it... Saw another Storstein painting in the National Gallery, and Munch's The Scream, and those were both exciting, though I have to admit I only went in for a toilet stop. Have spent Friday night in the sweaty "hostel" room with a book. Scott is clammy and in his pants reading "The Invisible Man": there's times I wish Scott was invisible...

... it's good for 24 hours from the first use, so if I activate it after 10:00 AM I might be able to use it one more time tomorrow morning for the Nobel Peace museum. Saw a beautiful senorita on the ferry; later chatted with the grandfather and found out that they are from Mexico City. Hmmm ... need to visit Mexico City one day ... First up was the Viking Ship museum - nothing terribly exciting there, unfortunately. Well, other than ...

... looking aghast at the direction i was going only showed that there was worse to come. The trail continues to rise up through the "devils staircase", not named because its an easy path i can assure you, leaving you very exposed to everything the weather throws at you. Its the highest point above sea level that you reach along the way, but from south to north its mostly a decent meaning that i had to climb all the way. Due to the fact that two of the next few stops ...

... stark buildings from the 60s and 70s that evoke the no-nonsense style of the Finns. But it all fits together, especially along the waterfront below an old fort, and is more human scale than is Copenhagen, given that there are only 500,000 people here, all of them proud Norwegians. The sculpture park is a vast project, 80 acres with over 1000 larger-than-life sculptures of human figures in personal interactions -- men carrying boys, old women ...

... pool has become a favorite hangout. We were all there yesterday and the boys return today before their big game against Sandvika, one of the best teams in Norway. The girls instead have elected to come to downtown Oslo for a walking and boating tour of the city with most of the chaperones. We'll meet this afternoon before the boys game. Running also applies to the pace of the games. The boys played the Asker 89\90 team again last night ...

Woo, I have arived in Oslo. My flight went well, I sat next to some older gentelmen who were norweigan and were on buisness in the states and flying home. I would have slept confertably in my seat the whole way but there was the largest women behind me in if her knees were not in my back then she was smashing her gigantic head aginst ...

... de heldige? Går det etter alfabetet i form av hva du har som etternavn? Familier med barn? Par eller singelreisende? Hvordan har de tenkt å løse floken? Vi trodde at vi har gode kort på hånden. Vi har jo nesten brukt en kvart hundretusenlapp på reisen, pluss at det er kun to av oss og vi kan praktisk talt sitte hvor som helst. Hvordan tror du de velger når de skal plukke ut de siste 100 som skal få bli med flyet? Hvordan? - Selvfølgelig, (jeg burde jo har forstått det ...

... a pretty rare occasion for most undergrads!), so we applied for a grant through the humanities department and got it! Called the Kelmer-Roe Fellowship that is named in honor of Dr. Roe, a religion professor at PLU in the '50s (and my Snow Grama was one of his students!), to encourage the collaborative study between the professors and students at PLU in the humanities. Anyway, Claudia and I were one of three student-faculty research teams ...