While it seems like I was only just writing about being two months into this exchange year, I now have less than two months left before leaving it. Most of the remaining weeks are filled with lots of fun plans, meaning they'll most likely only go by faster. May starts Tuesday, and that month is filled with tons of days off. June will just be a whirlwind, and then I'll be back in the US! Crazy...
Anyways, this week was pretty much the perfect school week. I finally have the friend group I was always envious of the other girls for having, but also have really good friends that I can hang out with alone. Monday I had dinner with my senior contact person, which is always nice. Tuesday evening I was itching to get out of the house, and asked a friend if she would want to go for a walk. One thing I miss about Portsmouth is everyone being relatively accessible; here I feel like plans need to be made a week in advance because most of my friends live almost an hour away with public transport. Thankfully, Mathea only lives a few bus stops away, and we ended up walking around, looking at the view, and swinging for a few hours. The weather was super nice and the sun doesn't go down till around 9 pm, so you can be outside pretty late and still have enough light to get around.
Wednesday after school I got to talk to my best friend in the US for about an hour, which was so nice after not having talked to her in several months. Thursday after school I went swimming (again)! Katta has an ice-swimming club that goes swimming once a month, every month. It was my first time going with them, and my first time swimming where we did. We jumped off a sort of wall into the water and climbed a ladder back out, and it was quite cold. The impact of the water made it seem colder than when I went swimming on Easter, even though the air was about 30 degrees warmer. Afterwards we ate ice cream, which sounds a bit counterintuitive, but once you were dry it was quite warm.
Friday after school I went on a little adventure in the city with some friends, and we ended up trying a bunch of guitars and ukuleles in a music store. Later that evening I went back into the city for a little class get-together in a park, and when some friends came we ended up playing around at a playground for a while. There are quite a few good pictures of me struggling as I'm not as small or nimble as the average playground child. I also don't like feeling as though I could fall, so I naturally felt as though my life was in danger as I climbed over some of the structures...
Yesterday began with a relaxed morning, literally I sat in a vegetative state on the couch definitely not doing the English work I had planned on doing. When I finally got my act together around 1 pm, I went into the center to meet friends. We had no real plans, but when we heard a huge marching band parade with school marching bands and the Marine band and king's band, we followed it along to the palace where they all played a song together. I love marching band music as much as I don't like marching, and it was fun to watch from the sidewalk instead of being in there and suffering myself :) Afterwards we sat in the grass beside the palace in the sun for a while. It's so nice that the weather is nice and it stays light out so much longer because I feel like I get so much more out of the day than I did in the winter.
Today I took a day trip out to the cabin where the rest of the family was. We spent the day jumping on the trampoline, sitting in the sun, painting the boats, and eating ice cream. Not much more you can ask for on a spring day!
In other news, Russetid has begun. Russ is probably one of the most Norwegian things about this country, and it really is only the Norwegians that have this tradition. All the third year high school students (the last year before university) can be russ, and their season technically starts at the end of April and goes through May 17th. I think I'll do a whole post about it another day because the season's really only just begun, but basically they go around wearing specific outfits (either jumpsuits or overalls) everyday and each study line has its own color. I'll go into more detail later, but it's one of those things you can't come to Norway in late April/May without noticing.
Word of the Post:
et slott: a castle/palace
Pictures:))
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| Friends who have photoshoots at the playground together stick together |
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| Cute streets:)) |
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| Thought this was where they filmed some of SKAM and was freaking out, turns out it's not |
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| More playground pics |
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| The next four pictures are a nice collection of me failing at being a child |
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| Always got to recreate the statues |
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| Trapped |
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