Questions, questions, questions - that's what life has been filled with lately. Everyone seems a little confused about what I'm doing in Rauland right now, and while I'm confused about pretty much every other aspect of my life at the moment, this is one question I am able to ...
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Norwegian Cabin Life
Oh hey, blog, I remember you! It's not that I've been meaning to ignore you, it's just that I've been distracted. By what, you ask? All the cabin things. Dan and I moved into my grandmother's cabin in Rauland on Tuesday, which was also when we started our super ...
December 2015 – 5 Months in Norway
Usually when I write these monthly recaps I go on about how the past month just flew by, and can we believe it's over already? Uh, not this month. And I don't mean that in a "it was so boring time crept by painfully slowly" way, but instead it felt like at least three months ...
Holiday Greetings from My New Home!
A lot of places saw an unusually warm Christmas this year - my parents said it was nearly 70 degrees in Massachusetts! - and much of Norway was no exception. Trondheim was snowy when I left and Bø was snowy when I arrived, but by Christmastime all that snow had been rained away. ...
The Best (and Weirdest) Norwegian Christmas Traditions
Wait, it's already December 21? Forget blogging, I need to go downtown and buy some wrapping paper! Then again, I still have a cup of hot chocolate to finish, so I guess I could stay for a bit. Plus, I have photos of Christmas cookies to share and Norwegian Christmas ...