This video is of me attempting the bicycle lift home from school. The local government wanted to encourage people to bike rather than take their cars so they built a bicycle lift so people would not have to bike up the hill. It is very had to explain but you can see how it works in the video. The word lift made me think it would be very easy but I soon found out it is actually very difficult. This is a video of one of my not so successful attempts but you will be glad to know that I have now mastered it. I use it twice a day most days to get home from school at lunch and home time.
Wednesday 28 August 2013
Bicycle lift
In Norway probably about a third of people bike to school or work. It is not uncommon to see someone biking in a suit or a dress and having appropriate clothing does not seem to phase them. So one of the cultural differences I have decided to embrace is the use of the a bike. My bike belongs to my host grandmother but she is kind enough to let me borrow it! It even comes with a 90's helmet which I get weird looks for wearing as no one here wears helmets either!
This video is of me attempting the bicycle lift home from school. The local government wanted to encourage people to bike rather than take their cars so they built a bicycle lift so people would not have to bike up the hill. It is very had to explain but you can see how it works in the video. The word lift made me think it would be very easy but I soon found out it is actually very difficult. This is a video of one of my not so successful attempts but you will be glad to know that I have now mastered it. I use it twice a day most days to get home from school at lunch and home time.
This video is of me attempting the bicycle lift home from school. The local government wanted to encourage people to bike rather than take their cars so they built a bicycle lift so people would not have to bike up the hill. It is very had to explain but you can see how it works in the video. The word lift made me think it would be very easy but I soon found out it is actually very difficult. This is a video of one of my not so successful attempts but you will be glad to know that I have now mastered it. I use it twice a day most days to get home from school at lunch and home time.
Monday 19 August 2013
Velkommen til Norge
Hello everyone!
Welcome to my blog! In case you don't already know this blog is about my afs exchange to Norway. I will be living in Trondheim which is in central Norway near the coast. I am living with a Norwegian family who are very good to me and I go to a local school called Thora Storm.
I arrived in Norway 3 days ago and landed at Oslo airport. I then went to a camp 45 mins out of Oslo where everyone from all over the world going to Norway was taught about language and other things to help prepare us. It was beside a lake and it was very beautiful (like all of Norway!). There is another girl from New Zealand also in Norway. She lived about 120km away from Trondheim.
Today was my first day of school. It is very different to New Zealand which I expected but it wasn't similar to anything I had expected either. There are probably 100 or more people in my year. I am in year 12 here but they call it vgs 2 (second year of upper secondary school) and it is much more like a university than a high school. The also have many more subjects than New Zealand which is very good for me as there are lots of things I enjoy on offer! I am taking Norwegian (for non norwegian speakers. Like esol in NZ I think), physiology, sociology, geography, statistics, social studies and German. Statistics and German will be interesting but it is compulsory to take a maths subject and they call it a 'global language' subject.
At lunchtime today I went walking around the town. I found all the important things like Zara and the MAC counter in no time. The streets here are very narrow and cobble stone which makes it difficult for walking as there it is uneven. I would hate to be wearing high heals on this and I don't know how people do it! There are lots of trees even in the very middle of town. Dunedin is naked compared to this. But because it is the middle of summer and I have come from winter I cannot get over how green everything is, even slightly blinding in places!
I arrived in Norway 3 days ago and landed at Oslo airport. I then went to a camp 45 mins out of Oslo where everyone from all over the world going to Norway was taught about language and other things to help prepare us. It was beside a lake and it was very beautiful (like all of Norway!). There is another girl from New Zealand also in Norway. She lived about 120km away from Trondheim.
Today was my first day of school. It is very different to New Zealand which I expected but it wasn't similar to anything I had expected either. There are probably 100 or more people in my year. I am in year 12 here but they call it vgs 2 (second year of upper secondary school) and it is much more like a university than a high school. The also have many more subjects than New Zealand which is very good for me as there are lots of things I enjoy on offer! I am taking Norwegian (for non norwegian speakers. Like esol in NZ I think), physiology, sociology, geography, statistics, social studies and German. Statistics and German will be interesting but it is compulsory to take a maths subject and they call it a 'global language' subject.
At lunchtime today I went walking around the town. I found all the important things like Zara and the MAC counter in no time. The streets here are very narrow and cobble stone which makes it difficult for walking as there it is uneven. I would hate to be wearing high heals on this and I don't know how people do it! There are lots of trees even in the very middle of town. Dunedin is naked compared to this. But because it is the middle of summer and I have come from winter I cannot get over how green everything is, even slightly blinding in places!
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