Yay, I am finally officially done with my Master degree! I could finally fetch it from the deans office as i was home for the first time in 4 months. I spent home 2 weeks, saw friends, had my graduation ceremony, went skiing.
On the 23rd, I came back to Oslo, to leave for the next trip to Belgium on the 24th of April.
We arrived late night and just found our way to our couch surfing host.
On the 25th, we had a look on Brussels, did the EU walking tour and mainly just walked around and enjoyed waffles.
On the 26th, we took the train to Bruges, then to Ghent, where we met our host who showed us the city for a bit.
On the 27th, we had another 2 or 3 hours in Brussels before we had to head back to Oslo.
Belgium seems to make a lot of things right. All of the three cities, specially Brussels, seem to be à l'aise (chilled/comfortable with themselves) and not making their lives comfortable. Thus, its a comfy place to be in. Also, the weather was really nice during the whole time. In Bruges, there were more tourists than inhabitants, but therefore the city is really picturesque. Ghent has a vegetarian Thursday, all official places just have vegetarian food. It's all so international and multicultural in Brussels, so many languages!
Recommendation to go and spend some time in Belgium: yes.
Sorry for the short post, it is going to be busy weeks again, lots of assignments and the first exam beginning next week....
2014.03.30 - Riga
As you may know, I participated this semester in the buddy program of the University of Oslo. Buddy system means the following: Students, who are already familiar with how the university works (how to deal with the organisation of the courses, registration progress, where is what on campus) are helping new international students to find their way. Another student and me decided to take part in the progress.
15ish students became part of our group, and we had weekly dinners, other activities and much fun together. (Becoming buddy is awesome, you never know who you meet there!)
For this weekend, a latvian student invited all of us to come to Riga to see the city and the culture and discover Latvia. He did a stunning job in organising everything, even opened a closed museum for us or got us onto a tower where we were not really supposed to be.
We arrived on Friday, had a wonderful dinner and very adventurous and diverse nightlife. On Saturday, we had a breakfast with a little health related calamity (everything turned out well), 1 hour train ride to Sigulda, where we went bungee jumping, back to Riga, then we had a cosy come-together in a flat, with seven giant pizzas, all gone in several minutes. On Monday, the last day, we had delicious breakfast in a cafe. Later, three people of the buddy group were interviewed by national TV on their next project: read https://www.redbullcanyoumakeit.com/teams/pumba/37/ -it starts in a couple of days. So, national TV, life, exciting! Afterwards, the occupation museum taught us many things about history. Then, we had some hours to explore the old city on our own and buy some cheap food. Then, already -back to Oslo. Thank you Riga!
15ish students became part of our group, and we had weekly dinners, other activities and much fun together. (Becoming buddy is awesome, you never know who you meet there!)
For this weekend, a latvian student invited all of us to come to Riga to see the city and the culture and discover Latvia. He did a stunning job in organising everything, even opened a closed museum for us or got us onto a tower where we were not really supposed to be.
We arrived on Friday, had a wonderful dinner and very adventurous and diverse nightlife. On Saturday, we had a breakfast with a little health related calamity (everything turned out well), 1 hour train ride to Sigulda, where we went bungee jumping, back to Riga, then we had a cosy come-together in a flat, with seven giant pizzas, all gone in several minutes. On Monday, the last day, we had delicious breakfast in a cafe. Later, three people of the buddy group were interviewed by national TV on their next project: read https://www.redbullcanyoumakeit.com/teams/pumba/37/ -it starts in a couple of days. So, national TV, life, exciting! Afterwards, the occupation museum taught us many things about history. Then, we had some hours to explore the old city on our own and buy some cheap food. Then, already -back to Oslo. Thank you Riga!
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