Nancy Aarsvold spent a year studying in Norway when she was 20, and things haven't been the same since. Currently, she works as a Norwegian Instructor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She is also a partner with Kari Lie in the business, NorWords.
(Griffin at the top of Preikestolen. Photo by Trinara)
In Aftenposten today, there was an article listing the 10 most popular mountain hikes in Norway. They are:
1. Preikestolen
2. Besseggen
3. Gaustadtoppen
4. Kjerag
5. Galdhøpiggen
6. Rallarveggen (the most popular biking trip in the mountains)
7. Fra Ulriken til Fløyen i Bergen
8. Aurlandsdalen
9. Trekanten i Rondane
10. Slogen
One of my projects for the summer is to update all of my digital presentations so that they have a unified design with the same background color and fonts. Since I'm a Mac fan, I have chosen to use Keynote with a simple black background and white text (Gill Sans). In the end, I hope to have a large number of slides ready ahead of time that I can later mix and match as I prepare presentations for different contexts. I will post some of the slides from time to time this summer.
This slide shows the palace in Oslo. The caption reads, "The palace is located at the end of Karl Johan's Street and was built during the period 1824-1848."
I går kveld satt jeg på hotellet og leste, og da ringte telefonen. Det var faren min! Han og moren min hadde kommet fram til Oslo om ettermiddagen. De hadde vært på en 12 dagers tur sammen med en gruppe fra Pacific Lutheran University. Faren min fortalte at gruppen deres skulle besøke Vigelandsparken og museene på Bygdøy dagen etter. Derfor bestemte jeg meg at jeg skulle dra til Vigelandsparken og overraske dem.
(Last night, I was sitting and reading at the hotel, and then the telephone rang. It was my dad! He and my mom had arrived in Oslo in the afternoon. The had been on a 12-day tour with a group from Pacific Lutheran University. My dad told me that their group was going to visit Vigeland Park and the museums on Bygdøy the next day. Therefore, I decided that I was going to go to Vigeland Park and surprise them.)
Jeg stod opp tidlig i dag og dro direkte til Vigelandsparken. Det var mange turister i parken, men jeg fant ikke gruppen til foreldrene mine. Jeg trodde at jeg hadde kommet for seint, så jeg bestemte meg for å dra videre til Bygdøy. Der fant jeg ut at det ikke var så lett å finne folk hvis man ikke visste akkurat hvor de var. Jeg var innom Folkemuseet og Vikingskiphuset, men der fant jeg dem ikke. Derfra tok jeg bussen videre til Bydøynes hvor Kontiki-museet, Fram-museet og Sjøfartsmuseet ligger. Det var min siste sjanse. Heldigvis stod de utenfor Kontiki-museet sammen med de andre i gruppen sin. Det var moro å overraske dem og få hilse på de andre menneskene i gruppen deres. Jeg gikk på museet sammen med dem, og etterpå satt vi ute og spiste pølser og drakk kaffe på en utekafé som ligger rett ved fjorden.
(I
got up early today and went directly to Vigeland Park. There were many
tourists in the park, but I didn't find my parents' group. I thought
that I had come too late, so I decided to go on to Bygdøy. There I
found out that it wasn't so easy to find people if one didn't know
exactly where they were. Jeg stopped by the Folk Museum and the Viking
Ship Museum, but I didn't find them. From there, I took the bus further
to Bygdøynes where the Kontiki Museum, the Fram Museum, and the
Maritime Museum are located. It was my last chance. Fortunately, they
stood outside the Kontiki Museum with the others in their group. I went
to the museum with them, and afterwards we sat outside and ate hotdogs
and drank coffee at an outdoor cafe that is located right next to the
fjord.)
På veien til Bygdøy går bussen forbi en båtforening.
(On the way to Bygdøy, the bus goes past a boat marina.)
Stavkirken på Folkemuseet
(The stave church at the Folk Museum)
Statuen utenfor Kon-tiki-museet
(The statue outside the Kon-tiki Museum)
Fram-museet
(The Fram Museum.)
Foreldrene mine og jeg satt ute ved fjorden og spiste pølser med lompe til middag.
(My parents and I sat outside by the fjord and ate hot dogs with lompe for dinner.)
På Rådhuset i Oslo finner man fantastiske trerelieffer malt over tema av norrøn mytologi. Trerelieffene ble malt av Dagfin Werenskiold (1892-1977), en norsk maler og billedhugger som var sønnen til den kjente, norske maleren og tegneren Erik Werenskiold.
(At the City Hall in Oslo, one can find the fantastic wooden reliefs painted about themes from Norse mythology. The wooden reliefs were painted by Dagfin Werenskiold (1892-1977), a Norwegian painter and sculptor who was the son of the famous, Norwegian painter and illustrator Eric Werenskiold.)
Norske rundstykker — kjempegodt!
(Norwegian rolls—very good!)
Det er godt med sterk kaffe eller te om morgenen.
(It is good with strong coffee or tea in the morning.)
Senga mi på hotellet med dyne og flere puter
(My bed at the hotel with a down comforter and several pillows.)
Arbeidskroken min med skrivebord, stol og datamaskin.
Her er det også trådløst internett — og det er gratis!
(My work space with a desk, a chair, and a computer.
Here, there is also wireless internet — and it's free!)
Norsk TV. Veldig lite sol i værmeldinga til i morgen!
(Norwegian TV. Very little sun in the weather report for tomorrow!)
Vi mistet bagasjen vår, og derfor har jeg bare disse tre små veskene.
Ingen klær eller toalettsaker!
(We lost our luggage, and therefore I only have these three small bags.
No clothes or toiletries.)
En fin dusj!
(A nice shower)
Et norsk toalett
(A Norwegian toilet)
Kultursjokk! Bare ett håndkle.
(Culture shock! Just one towel.)
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