Updated March 2020 Uh... yeah, I just counted how many foreign languages I've studied so far in my life and it's been twelve! Though in defense of the version of me that isn't 100% nerd, I only studied about seven of those languages with any real intensity or ...
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11 Ways Living in Norway Prepared Me for Social Distancing
Norwegians had winter break at the end of February, which now seems like very poor timing indeed to have been traveling around Europe. It's all very stressful and scary, but what's done is done, so what can we do now to prevent further spread of infection? Social ...
Thinking of Moving to Norway? Here’s What You Should Know
Yet again I'm writing a post I hadn't planned on, but my inbox has recently flooded with questions about moving to Norway that I simply haven't had the time to answer, so I figured it would be easiest to just do so in one big blog post. I'm not any sort of expert on how to ...
It’s Not Christmas in Norway Until These 15 Things Happen
Updated November 2019 It’s that time of year again - when Norway is at its darkest, but also its most magical! I love Christmas in Norway, and I love how perfectly Norwegian Christmas here is. Even before I moved to Norway my family usually spent most of our Christmases in ...
I Loved 2018, But I Want 2019 To Be Different
I just dipped into my blog analytics to check which were the highest traffic posts I published in 2018, and almost all of them were about Norway. And like, I didn't actually spend very much of 2018 traveling within Norway - I think maybe four weeks in total? I'm taking this as ...