Last Thursday, Misha and Kristina from the 2nd year class invited Anette and I over to Misha's apartment for dinner. The buildings here are very old and have a lot of charm. 4 girls lived in Misha's "apartment" but she only knew one of them. The living situations here seem strange because there are so many students, and it is so expensive, that people just live anywhere. I told them that in the US, you get apartments with your friends and it is very uncommon of to live with people you don't know.
Misha made us an AWESOME homemade pizza with corn on it and wheat crust...sooo good! And to start we had chips with homemade guacamole, YUM! We heard about a concert downtown and decided to go. We got there after it started and got in freeee!! Whoo! They were actually really good, sort of a jazz-pop-rock group. Afterward, we headed to a "cafe"...bar and got a drink. We met some of Kristina's friends, who had all been to the US, and talked until we were all tired. Then we had to make the trip back to Misha's, borrowed some warm clothes for our trip, and walked alllll the way home. Friday brought another earrrrllyy class, but also another classmate dinner (3rd year students)! Some of us met at Majorstua to get groceries and rode the tram to Stina's apartment. She lives by herself and has a huge living room, but since the building is so old, they share a toilet...so strange, I've never seen anything like that. But her place was very cozy. The 5 of us made tacos together, pineapple included (totally new to me), and they were delicious!! Soo good, 2 homey meals in 2 days...SCORE! We chatted about class and watched YouTube videos. They showed me "Eurovision" winners, and I showed them Will Ferrel's "The Landlord". Good times...
Sunday: We got up EARLY and met Susanne at the central station to take a ferry to an island. Our first time out of the city (THANK GOD!). We headed to Gressholmen (Grass Island) on the ferry, which was my first time on a ferry, very smooooth ride ;) There were only a few houses on the island, and it was very relaxing. We made our way all the way to the other side and went out on a mini-peninsula and had a seat. We enjoyed some tea and just watching the boats go by with no cityscape in the back ground :) We headed back to the other side to wait for the ferry and I layed down and just soaked in the sun and environment. Sooo relaxing that somehow laying on rocks was comfortable!!Today we had class again, we are done with 3 of the 5 of that class already. After class I went to pick up a sleeping bag and mat that I am borrowing, but the international coordinator forgot them! So I have to get them tomorrow... So I walked over to the housing office to get a laundry card...annnnddd they closed at 3. Well guess what? I had class until 3:15! Grrr...So I didn't really accomplish much after class. BUT Hermine decided to take us out to dinner, we had Chinese and it was SOO GOOD! I'm still full! After watching a Norwegian TV show, Hermine and Sebastien showed us how to do laundry, yayy:) But apparently someone is stealing clothes...how immature some of the people here are just blows my MIND!
