SNOW!
Its snowing in Norway!!! Thursday night at around 10 it started to snow in Hamar and it didn't stop for a day. It was beautiful. It was very exciting for a lot of the International Students who don't see a lot, or any, snow back home. Even the other American's who are from Washington don't see a lot of snow back home and were very excited when it started here.
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| Hamar in the snow |
MARYN!
Kate's friend Maryn came to visit this weekend which was great!!! We had a lot of fun. On Thursday we made a nice dinner and then went out into the snow to the Disco. From the Disco we took Maryn to get late night kebabs and then got home around 3:00AM. Friday we went to Lillehammer to show Maryn around the Nansen Center and around town. Steinar took us up to the ski jump, to a Norwegian museum and to an art museum which was great! Plus its much snowier up there. Friday night we made tacos and then had a movie night, Bring It On and Social Network. Maryn's brother Glen was in Hamar on this program in 2008 so Kate and I tried to make sure and show her all of the things that Glen probably saw when he was here, which included the Cathedral, the lake, the train station, downtown and the student pub. It was in my mind a hugely successful weekend and I am really glad I got to meet and hangout with Maryn :)
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| Lillehammer in the Snow |
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| Me quenching my thirst with some snow |
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| At the top of the ski jump with Steinar |
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| The view from the top |
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| Fred=Peace in Norsk |
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| At the Art Museum |
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| Maryn and I discussing how creepy Katie is when she takes pictures |
LILLEHAMMER
AKA: Field Study or The Longest Paper of My Life
So the due date of my research paper is November 29th, the paper is approximatively 20 pages long with some (in my mind) intense formatting regulations, including an abstract and table of contents. That is much more extreme than any paper I've written at any point in my academic career thus far. It should be interesting, and by interesting I mean rather awful since I have some where around eleven days to write the whole paper.
Other than that things at Nansen have been going well, Kate and I have been interviewing people, both staff and students. It's interesting the different types of things that the peace center does, though not many of them actually pertain to my research. For my research I have been reading a lot of articles from Ebsco Host and a few books from Nansen's library.
THE FUTURE
My time in Europe is rapidly diminishing. On Friday I head to London for the weekend to visit with Austin. After that (and before) it's full on writing time until the 29th. The 26th-28th Kate and I will be at a seminar in Lillehammer that is about Democratic Leadership. We present our papers formally the 30th- Dec 2nd and after that we are basically done. Dr. Feller leaves the 5th so Kate and I have decided to also leave the 5th and go to Paris for a couple of days. The 10th we are still planning on going into Oslo to see what we can of the Nobel Presentation. Then Kate and I head to Brussels the 11th. Of course none of these travels are set in stone yet since we haven't purchased tickets... but it is the general plan. The 15th I head back to the states.
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