Comfort Hotel Hammer Lillehammer

... saber eh diferente de sentir. Muitas vezes so entendemos as coisas quando sentimos.<br><br>Mas, como eu ia dizendo, mais uma despedida. Amanha comeco a jornada ate a India. Transporte ate londres, um aviao ate Dubai e outro ate Delhi. So chego la na sexta-feira a noite.<br><br>O clima aqui esta tenso. Muita gente anciosa... nervosa. Eu me incluo ...

... every week and it has been a lot of fun to meet people from all over. We went to a "quiz night" (trivia game) at the student pub called "Bingo'n" and we also went to a welcome party hosted by the Buddies. We live in a nice flat surrounded by other student housing and large hills and trees. (I will eventually add pictures). The main school building ...

... If budget is not an issue, it's definitely worthwhile but beware of a sore back and neck at the end. The best things i found in Lillehammer was being caught in a very heavy shower when which produced an enchanting double rainbow, damn another time i had no camera. Also one night where i saw my first star in the sky. Wait the only star in the sky, pulsating brightly during the night. Another magical moment that money just can't buy.

... and my confidence grew. It was the ideal situation for practicing: both husband and wife are teachers with no discernable dialect (for those of you who don't know about the dialects in Norwegian, they range so much from region to region, sometimes even across the road! Therefore it's much more difficult for me to understand and communicate with someone with a dialect from western Norway), and the wife teaches at the Lillehammer Voksneoppl ...

... United in the football but thats ok. Monday saw me wandering along the river in Bedford, taking a few photos and seeing the sights. I tell you there is nothing more surreal than wandering around an english town thats probably older than your entire country with The Young Divas on your headphones! James I thought of you! Monday night we went out for Italian and were in bed early as there was an early start the next day. Tuesday saw me on a ...

... life and the had not heard anything of him for a long time either. Eventually he and his family were offered the chance to get citizenship in Norway and a free airplane ticket there. It was only recently that he had discovered not only that his son was still alive, but that he was in Uganda. He managed to call his son, and get in touch with the Norwegian embassy in Uganda to help him bring his son to Norway. He had been parted from his son in 2000, and ...

... of experience with the language, and were all in different language classes. The class that I sat in on was one of the "difficult" classes because the students in the class were at a fairly good level of comprehension, but were struggling with grammar, pronunciation and spelling. I could see right away the challenges of working with a group like this. The only advantage the Norwegians have when trying to instruct their immigrants in language is that sometimes the ...

... bored. Now I thought that our class was distracted during our string of lectures on our week to northern Norway, until I met these people. People who are my parents age were taking pictures of each other, taking pictures of me and Lauren, whispering back and forth, not paying attention at all. A few of them kept looking over at us, smiling and making silly faces. The group was very receptive and welcoming towards us since we first met, excited to shake ...

... of lumpy frozen footprints that have been smoothed over by other peoples shoes creating an uneven surface that is just as slippery as the black ice. For those of you who were at Holden Village with me last January, it's like the stretch of walk from the Hotel to where our class was held...but much, much longer. This is my commute. Oh, then do it in the dark, because the sun rises around 9am and sets around 4pm, and it's only the beginning of ...

... along with Pia, Annette, and Mari over for dinner and a movie. Matengu, Pia and Anette were busy, but the others came over and joined the 6 Americans for a movie night in the apartment that I share with Lauren. It was a lot of fun to make the pizzas (we put bell peppers, and corn on the whole thing and used half bacon and half shrimp), and they turned out to be quite tasty. Annette brought over a good selection of DVDs, so we all sat around and watched ...