Old School Skating

Yesterday we went skating, and it was SO cool! We went to the United Skates of America, which is a skating rink over in Providence, and we all rented a pair of old school skates, you know the ones with two wheels in the front, and two in the back? I haven't tried those since I was about 7 years old, I think, so it was a little weird in the beginning, but after a while, I really got the hang of it. I skated with Hannah and Steffi, and then with Martin, a friend of Mike's (we HAD to go girl + boy, because they had these theme thingies that we had to do). They also turned of the lights for about half an hour, so that we had to skate in the dark. It was really neat!

Some of the students went to Laser Tag, which is a type of game that you play with lasers. I didn't really want to go there, because I wanted to hang with all the other kids, and skate, cuz it was loads of fun!

Today we're gonna have a volleyball tournament, and it's gonna be so cool! I'm gonna be on the B3 team (my class), and we're gonna play everyone in our pod. Yay! We're gonna be in the big gym (which is HUGE after Norwegian standards), and there's gonna be three courts. Wow!

I might be able to upload some pictures from the skating later today, but I'm not sure if there will be time for it. We're all very busy here! :)

Excursion Mania

I'm back! Sorry for the lack of posts lately, can't really do anything about, becasue I've been on excursions everyday. On Friday, we went to Boston, which was really cool. Ingrid, Pernille, Elianne and I ran into two American guys (about 25 years old), who started asking us where we were from, what our names were, and how to pronounce them. Then they taught us about the American coins and bills, they were really funny. I think their names were David and Johnny. I also ran into some Norwegian and German kids from the Norwich camp.

Yesterday, we went to Newport, which is a city by the sea, much like the famous Newport Beach, CA. Wenche and I went shopping, and found some really great stuff. I got myself an Irish claddagh ring from an Irish specialty shop. Real cute.

Today we went to the Pawtucket Red Sox game in Providence. It lasted for about 3 hours, which is a bit much for me, so I think I dozed off a coupld of times... Anyway, the Sox won, so all's good. Yawn.

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What's up?

Not much going on today. I got a call from home, which was nice. I hung out with Hannah, Steffi and Mike between classes. We got a visit from our RM, which was cool, cuz she told us what to expect, how to behave, etc.
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Providence PALACE!

I got up really early today, to go meet the Taiwanese kids in teh Dining Hall. I met them yesterday, during the karaoke. They just came over, and asked for my anme, and stuff. Really cute! And they're only 12 years old, and speak perfect English! So they met me at breakfast, and they brought me lots of gifts (don't really know why), and took lots of pictures with me in them, and them doing the V-sign, of course. Typical Asian thing, I think. Cute though...

We had classes from 9am till 3pm, and then we rode yellow school busses (how cool!!!) to Providence Place, a huge shopping mall in Providence, the Rhode Island state capitol. Yay. I went with Hannah, and we went to a major bookstore, where I got Frou Frou and Death Cab for Cutie, and a magazine called Giant, and then we just walked around, checking out the shops. I found a Hot Topic shop, where I bought a "Vote for Pedro" sticker, a Star Wars t-shirt, and a Sin City t-shirt (both baby-dolls).

At around 6:30, there was a major strike of lightning, and the electricity was out for a few seconds, and every American in the building freaked! So funny! They freak all the time, over the smallest of things... Weird....

Anyway, I better get going, I really need a shower, and then I have to go meet the Taiwanese kids at 9pm, cuz I got them some small gifts at Claire. See ya!

Too Humid For Humans

Today's been a great day as well. We got up early, had breakfast, and then went to an info meeting in the Janikies Auditorium, in the Admistration Hall. We got to know all the staff and faculty members, the returnees, and the campus. We also got to know who would be our homeroom teacher, and mine was Kelly Peterson, from Texas. She's really nice, and she teaches Current Issues. She was really fascinated by the Norwegian school system, and her favorite word is 'neat'...

After about two hours of Homeroom, we got to go for lunch, and I had the usual: Pasta, pizza, and a little M&M's cookie. Afterwards, Hannah and I went to the Bryant University Bookstore and had a look around. I found this really cool giant version of the Rolling Stone cover with Greenday that was taken last year, so I just HAD to buy it! I also got a Bryant Uni. t-shirt, and a little flag with the Bryant University Bulldogs on it!

Later this week, I think it was Saturday, we're going to a Paw Socks game (Pawtucket Red Sox), and I'm really looking forward to that. I will also be going to the mall for four hours tomorrow, so I hope that I can get another adaptor there...

I taught Hannah how to say "haa-haaisann" today, just like my grandma! And I also taught Kelly how to pronounce my last name, which was really cool. There's a Norwegian guy in my class called Joakim, and she just could NOT pronounce the JO sound in his name. It was SO funny!

I've taken loads of pictures today, and I might try to upload them to Flickr later, so, stay tuned!

I`m back!

Finally, after tons of travelling, I`ve finally arrived in the US. We started out at Sola, then went to Gardermoen and then Heathrow. From Heathrow, we transferred to Boston after 4 hours of waiting, and arrived in Boston at 7pm, local time. We had to wait for a while when we got there, for everyone to get thorugh Immigration, and then we had to wait for the bus to come and pick us up.



The drive from the airport to the camp was about 50 minutes long, and most people fell asleep... When we got to Bryant, we were met by happy shiny people with bags of chrisp and sandiwches, and then we got our room keys. My room is pretty simple, with two beds and some storage units. I still haven`t gotten a room-mate, but I guess I`ll be getting one today, when the rest of the campers arrive. I`ll probably get a German girl, because 70% of the campers are from Germany.

Today`s been a great day! I got up at around 7am, ate breakfast, and had a walk around campus with my friend Wenche. Later, I met German girl Hannah, and we watched/played volleyball, and basketball till lunch. Lunch was great, but the food here is seriously unhealthy (cakes, eggs & ham, pancakes, coke, pizza, etc.)


Alumni gate

Right now, I`m sitting in Computer Lab, next to Hannah. We`re gonna be here till about 6pm, and then go watch "The Perfect Score" in the campus theatre.


The swimming pool at campus

Tomorrow we start school, and I can`t wait! We have to be in our homerooms at 9am, and then we got classes for the rest of the day, and then I think there`s a trip to a local mall in Provindence later.




The University I`m staying at

I got another hour on the computer, so I just thought that I’d drop in and edit my first post. I just got back form the movie theatre, and we watched a movie called The Perfect Score. And little did I know that Scarlett Johansson would be in that movie! I mean, I thought I knew her entire filmography, but obviously not…



It was a pretty decent movie, very teeny-ish, but I wasn’t really up for anything heavy, so I enjoyed it. It was really funny too; there was this druggie guy who was sort of funny, if like that sort of stuff…

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