First 10 Things I Noticed in Norway

Just for memories and kicks, time for a list of the first 10 different things I noticed when I arrived here.

1. The toilet flushers are never in the same spot - sometimes buttons on top, buttons on the side, we're handles that you have to pull up (it takes forever to figure out, I swear). Far to complicated for foreigners, or Americans atleast..or maybe just me.
2. When you finally manage to flush the toilet for the first time, you get unexpexted fright and adrenaline rush. It's a huge whoosh, loud, and over in the blink of an eye.
3. 99% of the showers fail to keep water inside of them, so your bathroom floor is nearly always flooded.
4. Luckily, to help fix the flooding issue, extra drains are placed all over the bathroom rather than just in the shower. Why not just build a higher wall when you step into the shower? I do not know.
5. You have to pay to use public bathrooms. Like, wtf?
6. Stalls all have full walls, doors, and legitimate locks. No worries about people peeking :]
7. Over half of the differences I noticed are in the bathroom.
8. People on the streets don't look anywhere but straight ahead while walking and being friendly is just being too friendly.
9. Beds are low to the ground and you have one blanket.
10. Stealing apples from people's trees is quite common.

Well there you have it. There are many more things I could add but that's it for now. I'll update about my life later.

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Accomplishments of the Day:

• I got a humorous, Norwegian birthday card for my sister that she won't understand.
• I did my English homework in 10 minutes.
• I gave Torgeir a (coughveryshortcough what?) piggy back ride without falling over.. he ways twice as much as me.
• I resisted my Deli De Lucas tea addiction and got chocolate milk instead.
• I learned how to say "I'm Freezing" in Norwegian.. "Jeg fryser."

Hello there. I'm still adjusting to this new blog situation here but I think it's going to go well. Now, for a start, I'll just do a normal update.

Yesterday was Nynorsk testing day at school. I'm not being tested on Nynorsk so I didn't have to go to school at all, which was grrr-eat, frosted flakes style. At 11:30 I took the T-Bane to National Theatret and was mauled out of nowhere by Rebecca! It was a walk, walk, strut, look around, admire and smile, JUMPEDONADRENALINERUSHSCREAM situation. Luckily, I had my bag ready to whip people with if I was being mugged, which at first I thought I was. I am far too oblivious to my surroundings. Anywho, after our..er..greeting, we went shopping for Bente's birthday gift and found this teenage cafe. I was completely stoked when I saw it. We are going next week to hang out there. I also boguht a book called "50 Crazy Things to Do in Norway." I love it, I want to do everything. After Bente's shopping and the book, we went to a food store and I experienced love at first site - a perfectly shaped, flawless breadstick. It was a few minutes of staring at it and the perfect cinnamon bun next to it. After spendingabout 10 minutes total deciding which one I wanted, I resorted to my usual and bought both because I am a terrible decision maker. All in all, though, that was one good piece of bread.

After buying cookies and soda, we went to a music store. Rebecca needed to get some new guitar strings for her spiffy new electric guitar and I drooled over the pianos and keyboards. Then, it was like love at first site again! A uke, a full out, legitimate ukulele. Julie and I decided it was adorable and I remembered my plans for the last two weeks of buying one at some point after Martijn gave me the idea. After being childishly excited over it, we booked it to the nearest mini bank and back and I bought my Uke :] His name is Zuko. Uko Zuko Conrad, to be extact. I love my Zuko. [[Zuko and I]] --->

Time to speed things up - we then wen to a costume store and then back to Rebeccas house - barely, you can't breathe on these darn public buses! - and ate our cookies, drank soda, played with Zuko, rocked out, listened to Rebecca play the el guitar, and drew. I tried out the el guitar too - so freaking fun and badass feeling. I jsut felt so hardcore in those moments of pretending to play the guitar well.. and the uke. For dinner we made scrambled eggs and watched a Norwegian comedy series about three brothers. I forget the name. Good times. We also had a bit too much fun with the massager at Rebecca's.

Today - I walked to school with Helene at 8:30. I love starting late. It was a nice and we walked from Natinoal Theatret to school. Today was "Dignity Day" so we did a lot of activities with our classes and the school until 11 and then an extended lunch and normal classes. The only class I had today after lunch was English so it was a good day. After school Julie, Synne, and I went to the bookstore so I could get a birthday card for my sister to mail to her tomorrow - her birthay is in four days! We also went to Narvesson and again, I experienced my huge issues with decision making. Bolle, or Stratos? Bolle, or Stratos? 3 Boller for 25 kr. or 2 Stratos for the price of one? Finally, I resorted tot he usual again and got both. That's two days in a row this has happened! In these situations I should just not get anything. Way too much junk food for one day also. Julie and I then went to her house and watched Avatar (of course) like all afternoon and had good pizzas for dinner. At 9:40 we ran to the T-Bane stop and I took it one stop to Makrell-Bekken and walked home. It was so nice standing in the middle of the street on the way home and just looking at the street lights, listening to the quietness, and seeing the stars and moon. I do miss the Maine sky though where you see Millions of stars everywhere rather than just a few in the city. Full moon soon.

Jeg må sov nå... god natt, ha det bra.

Klem, Patricia.

It's time. Time for a real blog.

The last few days I've noticed how isolated my Tumblr blog is. I only know a few people with Tumblrs and everyone else has a blogspot/blogger. After much debate, I decided to switch to Blogspot so I can follow my friends on here and just make life easier.

My old blog was also just a mess. It was rushed updates about what I've been up to and not as legitimate as I would like. So from now on, I'm going to being writing a real blog and (hopefully) update it almost every day to remember my time here in Norway and such.