Today Lara and I went to the National Art Gallery in Oslo. It's free to everyone on Sundays (yeah man!) so we decided today was as good as any other Sunday to see what it's all about. The prime exhibit there is Edvard Munch's The Scream. Like I said before, I am not a huge art person. I take pleasure in the ability to view what other people have created, I appreciate it, but I am by no means an educated art viewer nor does my interest go any further than that. The national museum had quite a few works by Munch, though there is also a museum specifically dedicated to Munch in Oslo so not too many. There were also a few Picasso paintings, and some Manet and Monet. Mostly it was Norwegian artists that I had never heard of, except for maybe Johan Christian Dahl. The museum was set up so that each room was a different era of painting. It was smaller than I expected, only one floor of artwork, about 26 rooms. It took Lara and I about an hour to get through, though it could have taken us much more time if we were avid art followers.
It's been snowing for most of the day today. Walking around in the city is a little rough because there is slush everywhere but otherwise it's kind of nice. It's supposed to be in the positive degrees (C) this week, which is great, except the snow is probably going to melt and then refreeze into more ice later :(.
I have been working on my language homework today and am basically done for Tuesday. I always feel like I understand it in class and for most of my homework but then when I get to class the next day I get nervous.
Family Dinner Night was fabulous! We made lasagna (with spinach instead of meat) and it was deeeeelicious. And with garlic bread on the side-simply amazing. My belly is still happy, even hours later. After dinner we watched a Norwegian film called Troubled Waters. There wasn't much action; it was more of an emotional film but it was good. It was the story of a man who was released from prison after serving a sentence for the murder of a young boy that he was charged with when he was young. Basically he ends up playing the organ for a church and meeting a woman who has a son very similar to the boy whose death he had a hand in. They start a relationship and everything is going pretty well until the dead boy's mother recognizes him and causes a whole bunch of havoc. It was in Norwegian but the subtitles were in English and I didn't think that affected the quality of the movie whatsoever. We started the movie in building 14 but about 30 minutes in the fire alarm went off, so we moved into my building.
Tomorrow I am participating in a short psych study for a fellow student-something to do with the reaction to pictures.. I have my Norwegian Society course in the evening and then I might be going to a free dance class after (boogie woogie!). Should be a pretty good day.
Night all.
It's been snowing for most of the day today. Walking around in the city is a little rough because there is slush everywhere but otherwise it's kind of nice. It's supposed to be in the positive degrees (C) this week, which is great, except the snow is probably going to melt and then refreeze into more ice later :(.
I have been working on my language homework today and am basically done for Tuesday. I always feel like I understand it in class and for most of my homework but then when I get to class the next day I get nervous.
Family Dinner Night was fabulous! We made lasagna (with spinach instead of meat) and it was deeeeelicious. And with garlic bread on the side-simply amazing. My belly is still happy, even hours later. After dinner we watched a Norwegian film called Troubled Waters. There wasn't much action; it was more of an emotional film but it was good. It was the story of a man who was released from prison after serving a sentence for the murder of a young boy that he was charged with when he was young. Basically he ends up playing the organ for a church and meeting a woman who has a son very similar to the boy whose death he had a hand in. They start a relationship and everything is going pretty well until the dead boy's mother recognizes him and causes a whole bunch of havoc. It was in Norwegian but the subtitles were in English and I didn't think that affected the quality of the movie whatsoever. We started the movie in building 14 but about 30 minutes in the fire alarm went off, so we moved into my building.
Tomorrow I am participating in a short psych study for a fellow student-something to do with the reaction to pictures.. I have my Norwegian Society course in the evening and then I might be going to a free dance class after (boogie woogie!). Should be a pretty good day.
Night all.
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