Norwegian Saga

I’m taking a Norwegian course as you all know and it’s turning out to be very fun. We’ve learned some simple sentences and questions (Hva spiser du til frokost?) and I’m able to more and more understand things that people are saying around me. Of course there’s no real chance of communicating beyond asking what someone had for breakfast (the question above) or how old they are, but it’s fun. One interesting thing that I have noticed with the local Norwegian speakers is the tremendous variation in pronunciation. The word tremendous doesn’t do it justice. I’ve never come across such variation. I’ve been here for about five months now and I still hear Norwegian spoken in some dialect that I think is actually another language. It’s strange.

The days are getting longer so now I get to enjoy the sunlight until about 16:20. This is still a far cry from the 18:30 I was getting in Kitchener. Summer will be the reverse though with incredibly long days, I’m looking forward to it.

My Britain class has an essay due as the final exam and I’m trying to find a topic that will link into my thesis nicely. Who wants to do more research than they have to right. If I can find a slew of sources and learn a great deal and then apply that to my thesis, all the better. However, trying to link England and Iceland and the honour system is proving to be a little difficult.

If you couldn’t tell not much has been going on here lately due to the weather, which is snowy and about 0°C. That added to the darkness just means that I sit around a watch a lot of movies. I’m also getting over a cold. I will endevour to have more interesting news for all of you in the coming days, especially as my sister comes to visit me .