Well…looks like it’s Friday and I forgot to blog all week…woops! Guess that’s what happens when you’re busy with school, hikes, zumba, reading, knitting, laughing, telling stories, and taking trips to the store! For once, I don’t even have many pictures to document the week, I better get on that. So, I suppose I’ll just give a little rundown of the week.
Monday: On Monday, I had the students write letters to me in English. I told them they could write about anythign they wanted, as long as it was in English and it was about them. They were given the whole class to write a letter telling me anything they wanted me to know. When I read the letters that afternoon, I was very impressed! Their English skills are really good. There are some common mistakes that I am starting to see that I hope to work on, but for the most part, they wrote some really detailed letters. Also, it was sooo interesting to learn about their lives. They shared some really cool things with me about their lives and their families. I’m really glad I had them write these letters! My cooperating teacher was really impressed with how much they wanted to share with me so that’s a good feeling. I’m also hoping these letters will help me start to learn their names. (half of which I can’t even pronounce if I do remember them! Doesn’t help that they actually have 3 more vowels than we do and I can’t even make the sounds correctly) For dinner, Ashley and Jenni made homemade mac and cheese which was delicious. I’m soo glad I have them here to cook for me J I help out when I can…I’ve gotten really good with a cheese grater haha
Tuesday: We went to Svein’s house for dinner and he cooked the fish for us that we had caught on Sunday. It was absolutely delicious, by far the best fish I have ever had! He cooked it with onions, leeks, carrots, other vegetables, and a creamy sauce and we had potatoes with it. It was sooo good. Apparently some of the past groups of student teachers haven’t like fish that much, so they were excited to hear that we all love it! None of us are picky at all, so that’s great. Svein also showed us some videos and pictures from trips he has taken and told us some stories about his life. It was a lot of fun and we were there for about 5 hours! He lives in Seimsfoss which is a town near Rosendal, so we just walked home when we were done. It was about a 3 mile walk which was right along the fjord. We’re getting some good exercise here!
Wednesday: After school, Jenni, Kristina, and I went for a run which felt great. Then we decided we should have American night and cook some burgers and fries! We also made chocolate chip cookies and put green food coloring in them for Saint Patrick’s day. It was really nice out, so we got the great idea to try to eat on our dock. We got the picnic table set up and everything out there and about 5 minutes into dinner, we decided it was a little chilly and windy so we ended up coming back inside. It was pretty funny though and the food was good! I’m really starting to miss fast food from back home…I could really go for some Fazoli’s or B-Bops! If someone wants to ship me some, that would be great J I also finished reading Charlie St. Cloud this week which was really good..definitely recommend it!
Thursday: Yesterday we were pretty active! One of the teachers from the elementary school took us on a hike and showed us a bunch of different trails we could take when we have some free time. This was great because we weren’t really sure where we should all go! Then at night 3 of us girls went to a zumba class which is kind of like a dance aerobics class. One of the teachers from the school told us about it and took us to it. I had never done it before, but it was a lot of fun! In the video, they have little clips of different types of dances and one of them was called American dance. We about died laughing when they start doing country line dance and Elvis style dancing…I’m pretty sure I have never done any of those when I have been out dancing! I have been having the students teach me different phrases and words in Norwegian. A student taught me how to say I understand what you’re saying (Eg Svjonner va du sier!) in case I ever notice that students are talking about me..pretty funny!
Today I helped some students with a math problem that they couldn’t figure out, and I’m pretty sure they think I’m a genius! J They were working with area of trapezoids and they couldn’t figure out how to find the missing sides of one of them and I helped them out…it was great!
Tonight, we are going to head to the local pub again and possibly test out our singing voices! I think we’re going to sing a song as a group, just not sure which one yet. Tomorrow we’re taking a girls trip to Bergen. Aaron is going in the beginning of April to run a half marathon, so he decided not to come with us. I think he’s about ready for some alone time after spending 2 weeks with 4 girls! We’re going to spend Sunday with some distant relatives of Kristina and they are going to take us to see an island and cook dinner for us. On Saturday, I think we’re going to do a train ride up a mountain and visit some other sites. It sounds like there’s a lot to do in Bergen! My students also insisted we try kebabs for lunch.
We’re also hoping to get our travel plans for Easter break finalized tonight. As of now, we’re pretty set on spending the week in Oslo, Norway and Ireland! We’re hoping to spend a couple days in Dublin and a couple in Cork. Hopefully we get it all figured out!
oh, and I got my bangs cut...hahaha
Well, that’s enough for now…should be a good weekend!
Eg elske Norge = I love Norway!
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