Wheeeeewwwwwwee
Man
Yea like i said i slept till about three in the afternoon listening to AnCo's "Campfire Songs"
It was great
I met my roomate
His name is Cristoffer, hes danish
So he can actually sorta sympathize alittle on the language barrier ordeal, coz even though danish and borwegian are really similar, i guess their not as similar as youd think?
But yea hes real tall hes got square ass shoulders
I met a whole bunch more people thoug, i think just about everybody is here, i think Lars said 69?
Lars is a second year student from germany, learned all the norwegian he knows just from this place
Its cool his name is pronounced "laush"
Irs hard to write down, you hafta imagine the "u" and the "a" as one sound
Anyway we ate food
It was good, it was a brothy soup with meat balls and like
Some kinda beef cubes and a big skinned potato i guess that your just supposed to plop right in the soup
We sang i think a total of 4 songs during dinner
I sang none of them of course, not knowing the lyrics OR the tune will kinda do that to you
After that though, we all danced
Yea we danced
We danced with eachother
Strangers all of us
Finn its kinda like that arabic thing, the debke or whatever except more partner based
Its to deliberately doscomfort you, and create a sense of mutual discomfort so that the only way to dance is to not care
And so i didnt care
I danced with a girl named Amelia, shes from norway i THINK
The actual dancimg bit of it starts of in a paired congo line sorta
And then you split and make a circle with an inside and an outside
And then the front of the circle goes througg the around the circle, replicating the first pairs movement
Of course you start with something simple, like holding hands
But when the repeating leader of the march is the head faculty dude (shit i forget his name) he makes everybody do some real hardcore ice breaker shit
Like we went around with arms around eachother
You gotta pinch eachothers noses
You gotta link both arms back to back and walk sideways
It was ridiculous, but fun
And it definitely does what its designed for, breaking ice that is
But yea after the whole pair thing we all got into a single file line and basically just ran around
And then they broke us into groups and we did some multilingual name games
And then multilingual pictionary
And then an assload of desert
Cakes and fruits all over the place
And then we talked into the night
And people gradually went to bed
I talked with one kid about soccer, heard my first trump joke (im sure therell be millions to come) talked eoth one guy about rugby, learned about language differences across scadinavia, learned that Fosen is actually the name of a region, learned from one kid (Bendik) that the train from oslo to trondheim SUCKED coz it was packed and him and another kid hadda get forced into paying for high class seats coz they were the only ones availabel... yea
It was good
And now here i am writing this post
I can hear still the remnants of kids still socializing
Its 1:18 in the morning
I think staying up really late is part of norwegian culture
I should fit right in lol
Im not sure if ill be able to keep up the long winded posts, and it really sucks ass that i cant post photos coz thatd make shit a million times easier
This is wonderful Gabe. You'll be able to figure out the picture thing. And I can't wait! I love the stories and the way you share this experience!
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING! Keep writing--so descriptive, so hilarious, so awesome. Viking boats?! What?
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