Oslo-ian adventures!
the last week has been quite full of school - these intensive classes are really intensive!! i've been working on a group assignment all week, and im quite already behind in my readings. yeeks! but i took the day off on Saturday, and im glad i did!! me & some new friends took the train into Oslo and had ourselves a grand day of exploring adventures...!!
Here we are (well i'm behind the camera!) at a parliament building... from L-R: Laurent from France, Florent from France, Kiara (one of my roommates) from Italy and Emilien from France.
yess we are in norway... complete with vikings and trolls!!
a nice outdoor icerink in the middle of town...
where of course we proceeded to practice some ballerina spins in our shoes! not that we needed to find an ice rink... since
all the roads were complete sheets of ice anyways!! poor Laurent slipped twice before we even got to the train station!
at the king's palace! (we made the guard stifle a chuckle afterwards with our broken norwegian "Hyggelig å møte deg, ha det bra" (it's nice to meet you, have a nice day!)
from an old military area at the top of a hill, kinda like in quebec city. we were really spoiled with some amazing views...
this one was my favourite! just so gorgeous!
we were planning to have a *real* norwegian meal while we were out, but quickly abandoned that idea when we found out that any sit-down restaurant had meals STARTING from about $40 CAD. yikes!! i guess we are in the most expensive city in the world afterall!! but we went to a bagel and smoothie bar which was yummy and more student-budget friendly... and it was the first time that Kiara and the Frenchies had ever seen a bagel!! Florent actually asked the server what a bagel was, and she showed him, before we decided to stay. haha.. they enjoyed it though! =) its funny always being in the company of international students, cuz we're jsut so strange to each other sometimes. Kiara was so excited when she found out that i can make pancakes (which i will maybe next weekend)! she visited Canada (including Vancouver actually!!) once before and she said that pancakes were the most memorable thing from the trip! "There was even a HOUSE OF PANCAKES, it was so great!!!" ahh, yes... good ol' IHOP!
hanging out with the Frenchies has been really fun though, im totally having a chance to improve my french!
here's Emelien and Laurent acting out "le petit chaperon rouge" (little red riding hood) for us, when we asked them to tell us a story in french! they're hilarious!
and finally at the end of the day... back to me & Kiara's apartment for dinner, where she made us *real* Italian spaghetti carbonara. much fun!! i made us a stir fry the other night but ill have to step it up and learn how to cook something really chinese!!
im not actually really looking forward to back-to-school this week cuz by tomorrow i'll be even more behind in readings... but it'll be alright. i just need to better balance my school time, spending time with friends time, trying to get to know roommates better time, cooking and cleaning time, and fun & being active time. i went running with debbie today, on some really nice quiet farm roads.. and the gym here is really great - they have spin classes and yoga and capoeira and volleyball and floor hockey and all sorts of fun things every day! actually last week it'd started to snow when i left the house to go to a spin class, but the gym's so close (5 minutes maybe) that i just ran over in my shorts. but by the time i was coming home, it was blizzarding with a good 2 or 3 inches of snow on the ground... i think people i passed on the way home, bundled up with their parkas and scarfs and toques and mitts must have thought i was crazy jogging by in my shorts!
oh and just one more picture - meredith's roommates GIANT dog!
hehe.. anyways thanks for coming with me on my norwegian adventures with the blog! and thanks for all your emails too!!
much love!
rainbow =)
Here we are (well i'm behind the camera!) at a parliament building... from L-R: Laurent from France, Florent from France, Kiara (one of my roommates) from Italy and Emilien from France.
yess we are in norway... complete with vikings and trolls!!
a nice outdoor icerink in the middle of town...
where of course we proceeded to practice some ballerina spins in our shoes! not that we needed to find an ice rink... since
all the roads were complete sheets of ice anyways!! poor Laurent slipped twice before we even got to the train station!
at the king's palace! (we made the guard stifle a chuckle afterwards with our broken norwegian "Hyggelig å møte deg, ha det bra" (it's nice to meet you, have a nice day!)
from an old military area at the top of a hill, kinda like in quebec city. we were really spoiled with some amazing views...
this one was my favourite! just so gorgeous!
we were planning to have a *real* norwegian meal while we were out, but quickly abandoned that idea when we found out that any sit-down restaurant had meals STARTING from about $40 CAD. yikes!! i guess we are in the most expensive city in the world afterall!! but we went to a bagel and smoothie bar which was yummy and more student-budget friendly... and it was the first time that Kiara and the Frenchies had ever seen a bagel!! Florent actually asked the server what a bagel was, and she showed him, before we decided to stay. haha.. they enjoyed it though! =) its funny always being in the company of international students, cuz we're jsut so strange to each other sometimes. Kiara was so excited when she found out that i can make pancakes (which i will maybe next weekend)! she visited Canada (including Vancouver actually!!) once before and she said that pancakes were the most memorable thing from the trip! "There was even a HOUSE OF PANCAKES, it was so great!!!" ahh, yes... good ol' IHOP!
hanging out with the Frenchies has been really fun though, im totally having a chance to improve my french!
here's Emelien and Laurent acting out "le petit chaperon rouge" (little red riding hood) for us, when we asked them to tell us a story in french! they're hilarious!
and finally at the end of the day... back to me & Kiara's apartment for dinner, where she made us *real* Italian spaghetti carbonara. much fun!! i made us a stir fry the other night but ill have to step it up and learn how to cook something really chinese!!
im not actually really looking forward to back-to-school this week cuz by tomorrow i'll be even more behind in readings... but it'll be alright. i just need to better balance my school time, spending time with friends time, trying to get to know roommates better time, cooking and cleaning time, and fun & being active time. i went running with debbie today, on some really nice quiet farm roads.. and the gym here is really great - they have spin classes and yoga and capoeira and volleyball and floor hockey and all sorts of fun things every day! actually last week it'd started to snow when i left the house to go to a spin class, but the gym's so close (5 minutes maybe) that i just ran over in my shorts. but by the time i was coming home, it was blizzarding with a good 2 or 3 inches of snow on the ground... i think people i passed on the way home, bundled up with their parkas and scarfs and toques and mitts must have thought i was crazy jogging by in my shorts!
oh and just one more picture - meredith's roommates GIANT dog!
hehe.. anyways thanks for coming with me on my norwegian adventures with the blog! and thanks for all your emails too!!
much love!
rainbow =)
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crazy international crowd! gorgeous pics, bow!
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