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I have been putting off posting because I originally wanted to tell you about Berlin first… but I have no desire to write about Berlin, mostly because every night when I was there I would write down detailed blog entries – so all I have to do is transcribe. And I hate transcribing, which means that there would be no posts for a while.

So I’m going to continue regular blogging – minus Berlin trip.

After I got back from Berlin it was a whirlwind. I had a presentation due the day after I got back and I had a cold. Thankfully I had cold medicine, which did it’s job when it knocked me out for about 12 hours.

As soon as I was done giving my presentation, me, Katie, Sarah, and Ruby hopped on a train to Oslo. The train took about seven hours to get there. It snowed the whole way there it was awesome! Of course I still had my cold but I did my best to stay away from everyone.

We were lucky to get accommodation for both nights we were there because we waited until the week before to book… thankfully one hotel had a cancellation and we were able to snag it! The four of us shared a two person room. So basically, it was two twin sized beds. We had a sink and a mirror, and shared toilets and showers with the rest of our floor. It was more like a hostel than a hotel in my opinion! Two of us slept on the floor the first night and the other two slept on the floor the second night. It worked out well.

Norway is… mostly just like Sweden. It looks mostly the same, they have mostly all of the same shops (although I didn’t see any Pressbyråns!). The biggest difference is that Norway is way, way, WAY more expensive than Sweden. The only thing I bought besides food was three postcards to send back to the USA. I didn’t even get my trademark souvenir – a bookmark… but the reason was I actually forgot. But still! I would have been more keen about shopping had the prices for everything been cheaper.

We saw a lot, and walked the whole city multiple times in one day. Amongst the sights we saw include the old city center, the castle, the palace, a sculpture park- where we had breakfast in the freezing cold, the Munch Museet (my favorite!), we almost went to the Resistance Museum, we even made it inside, but decided we wanted to see the Munch Museum more (closing times were quickly approaching for both museums)… what else? Oh yes, the parliament building, and the US embassy (which was a huge dissapointment, it looked like a prison! All of the other embassy’s we saw in Oslo looked so cute and pretty).

Now I am back and am thankful. I feel as though I have been pushing tourist overload… I love to travel but there is a point when you need to resume everyday life. And I definitely hit it in Oslo… it was like ooohhh yay another old building! Haha. But seriously. It will be nice to have the next two weeks to prepare mentally for my next trip – to PARIS!

Since I got back from Oslo I haven’t been doing much. Some of us started a Back to the Future marathon. We watched the first on Sunday and the second last night. We’ll watch the third possibly on Wednesday.

Yesterday we ran through the forest and had an impromptu hide and seek game. It was Jacob and I (the Americans) against a Brit and a Swede (the Europeans). Out of nowhere the Europeans disappeared, and so Jacob and I ran to find them. Then the Swede yelled, “Are you alive out there?” And I responded wittily, “No!”

So since she now knew that we weren’t alive, Jacob and I ran stealthily through the forest trying to make it to our destination before the Europeans did. Unfortunately, the Europeans found the path before us, and were standing in our way. We decided to creep through the forest around them and then make a break for it! But then the Brit saw us! And we lost.

After this we walked to the park and played on the swings and the playground like we were little kids. It was awesome.

Today I am making American pancakes for breakfast… er, lunch. We were supposed to meet in my kitchen at 11am, but then Lisa texted me and said that 11am was far too early to wake up, and could we postpone until 12:30?

So I am just killing time now. Only an hour an a half more to go.

xoxo for now!