First Breiseth Hotel Lillehammer

... grupo. O fato de eu ja ter ido uma vez para Africa nao me fez sentir totalmente seguro. Digo, mesmo tendo estado 6 meses em Mocambique, minha impressao eh que esses proximos meses na India vao ser totalmente diferente.<br><br>Outro continente, outro pais, outra cultura, outra religiao, ... outros seis meses dificeis de se prever.<br><br><br><br>

... our housing was built for the 1994 Olympics and then given to the college. Lillehammer College is mostly for students studying tourism, social sciences, and film. Here is a picture of my roommate Siri and I in our flat. We discovered that tucking your pants into your socks doesn't look too cool, but it works a lot better when putting on your boots! :) All of ...

... where immigrants take Norwegian classes for 37.5 hours a week. Therefore, I was able to be understood, thanks to their patience! Anyway, it was the coolest experience to actually understand the whole conversation, even though I could not contribute as much as I could have in english. This is a huge stepping stone in my acquisition of the Norwegian language, and again I am so thankful for this opportunity to be here in Norway for these ...

I decided to take my writing to an advertising-free space, so you can read about my Norwegian experience here: http://cobi.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/no rway-is-amazing/

... from Bedford to Milton Keynes at 5:50am and then catching another bus from Milton Keynes to Stanstead airport. My bag was thankfully under the Ryan Air limit so after securing all liquids in my checked in luggage (including lipgloss!!) and having my shoes X-rayed I enjoyed a peaceful flight into Oslo Torp. From there it was a 2 hour bus ride into Oslo and after locating the station a 2 hour train ride from Olso to Hamar. Wenche met me at the ...

... now desperately trying to find a way to send proof that he, the father, had legal residency in Norway while his son waited 3 days to hear from him. We tried faxing the papers 3 or 4 times without any success, and the process took at least 15 minutes every time it failed so we quickly wasted an hour. It turns out this man was living with a guy from the Congo who I had met at school and had also met all of the Namibians that we have classes with, so we all ...

... have had instruction in English which they can use to explain whatever extra is needed, although often English is not their mother tongue. If I was teaching ESL, there wouldn't really a back-up language quite like that. Unfortunately for the Norwegians, not everyone speaks English, so they do have to be creative sometimes. Being in the classroom made me re-consider trying to work with adult-ESL rather than with school age kids. I really enjoyed being there.

... with "two beautiful American girls from Seattle". They remembered our names from the beginning, and I couldn't tell you even one of their names. After a rather tiresome two hour meeting with a few of Lillehammer's local politicians at the city hall, the group was invited to a tour of the city hall. Taking pictures in the different offices, they pulled each of us into several of their pictures. "Hey, we want Christy!" "Lauren, come be in our picture!" I ...

... so there will be steadily less and less daylight. Fortunately, there are things to do on each end of the commute. Today we had a lecture from Steinar Brynn who works at the Nansen Center for Dialogue in Lillehamar. I heard him speak at PLU last year, but I was just as impressed today as I was then. I am completely convinced that dialogue is the only way to have a lasting impact on groups under conflict. I was really interested today in how ...

... which I personally LOVE. It was fun to see it with Norwegian subtitles too since there were a few places where the subtitles didn't match up at ALL with what the characters were saying, but they were just as funny. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and I hope we do it again. We were also invited to go to a sort of an open-house party at the student pub area at the agricultural campus near Elverum, so we caught the bus at 9:40pm and headed up there. There wasn't ...