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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