My day started early today (definitely not bright). I was angrily awoken by my alarm at 7am to get up for class. Mind you, I am a morning person at home and would rather not sleep past 9 on most days, but Norway is a bit of a different story. It just feels slower here. Perhaps that's because I haven't really had much to do yet as far as routine, but we will see..
Anyway, my first class went well. We had four "lessons" today. A lesson here is about 45 minutes I take it. After that we get a fifteen minute break. I like it that way. It breaks it up more. I had to leave today after the third lesson because I had an appointment at the police station. Everything went smoothly with that. They will be sending me my residence permit in the mail within 10 days (I hope).
The language class looks like it's going to be pretty intensive-way more intensive than any language course I have ever taken. The teacher started the first lesson speaking Norwegian! I know, what did you expect? She asked someone her name and luckily she knew what she wanted and everyone else just followed suit. I learned how to say my name, where I am from, what language I speak and a bunch of other phrases that I can't really remember. We also had to spell our names using the names of the letters of the alphabet. Not too difficult, but different. The last thing I did in class was we each had to interview two different people and then introduce one to the class. That was nice because we got to know some people and also got to practice our Norwegian.
Okay so here's how you say "my name is.." "Jeg heter Allison." (It sounds more like Yai hat-ay but don't quote me on that). Jeg kommer fra USA "I come from the USA" (Yai comme fra oo es ah).
I thought I was going to get the book for the class at half the price from someone's friend, but she decided she wanted to keep studying Norwegian (who knew!) and thus keep the book. So I'll have to go spend 440 NOK at the bookstore unless I can find it before tomorrow. Our professor assigned us some exercises and I hear she checks all the homework, not that I would ever skip out on it. I think our professor is one of the tougher ones, but that is probably a good thing. I heard one of my friends gets chocolate in every class.
As the title mentions, I tried my hand at potato soup today. I found a very simple recipe online (butter, milk, flour, onion, salt and pepper) and it turned out pretty well. Not as good as my mother's famous ham and potato soup of course, but definitely worth eating again. I have about four servings left and I think I am sharing with Lara and Sarah tonight. Sarah made apple pie last night :) I did burn some of the bottom of it though. Not quite sure when that happened, but it did-and pretty badly, so I am letting it soak for a while. Otherwise it turned out very well. And I ate some of my applesauce with it for lunch. So good.
I think now I'm going to do some reading for my Family, Gender and the Welfare State class tomorrow. Enjoy your day! (for some of you in WNY a very snowy day).
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