Crazy Norwegian Orientation

So this week is Fadder week which as far as I can tell means its orientation week. There are activities for us to do almost every night. Our group has gone to a couple of them including Wednesday night's big barn party and last night's pub crawl. Yeah you read that right pub crawl... with the first years.

Wednesday's barn party was tons of fun. The Americans didn't drink really but the Norwegians certainly did. I was talking to another exchange student from Slovenia and he said that in the Norwegian culture it is a very accepted thing to do.

Regardless we had a great time doing a lot of dancing... here are some pictures.

Ted and Daniel

Just hanging out

Daniel is an intense dancer

Kirk saying come hither

Daniel photo bombs all pictures

More dancing

Daniel taking a rest after the dance off

Here we are at the barn hanging out

We had a great time and made some good friends. Then yesterday we went with the University on a Pub Crawl. This seems like a strange thing for the University to be promoting, but I guess they just want the students to know what the safe places in town are. We traveled around with some students from Namibia, Spain, Italy and Portugal. It was great we all got along really well. Then afterwards we had dinner and hung out together in my room for a while.  Over all it was a night I will never forget because we met so many people from so many different places. We are making all sort of plans to travel together while we are here. Tonight we are going to a disco concert and then having a quieter night in. 

So the surprise that I left for today was that we made Digital Stories this week in class. A Digital Story is basically a movie of pictures with background music and you narrate over it. Generally it is some sort of story that tells about you. Here is mine. 

-Noreen

3 Observations of Today

1. There is such thing as cross country roller skiing

2. Wild raspberries are delicious

3. Karma exists