the ski jump
the metro stop
the metro stop
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8 November 2011
aker brygge is a fancy schmancy place–all except for the back end, which faces several warehouses. but now even these have been camouflaged with some pretty coverings:  5 November 2011
A common difficulty for Norwegian learners is to distinguish between the different “thinking” words. Using the right word for the right context is not always easy–at least if you’re worried about offending people. jeg tror = I think, but only in circumstances for which you are uncertain about something. for example, “I think he is 32 years old”–implying that you don’t know for sure (if you did, I suppose you would say “I know he is 32″ or simply “he is 32″). as a result, it is mildly offensive if to say something like jeg tror du er pen (“I think you’re pretty”): the uncertainty in the word tror implies that you are either unsure or lying. interestingly one uses the same word for religious belief: jeg tror på gud = I believe in god. jeg synes/mener = I think, in the sense of “in my opinion”. So you can safely use this one if you want to say that “I think he is nice”. jeg tenker på = I think about, as in, the actual process of thinking (“I think a lot about work”). Only after a year do I actually get it. Or at least I recognize now when I’ve used the wrong one. (Knowing is half the battle, right?) 2 November 2011
Last weekend we did something very Norwegian: the Sunday hike. We took the T-bane all the way to the end stop of Frognerseteren, with the aim of hiking to Sognsvann (about 15 km). On the way there we stopped for coffee at the cabin at Skjennungstua, where–amongst the sea of Norwegians in their fancy hiking boots and colourful goretex jackets–we saw some most adorable dogs:   30 October 2011
 the wonderful bún at Lille Saigon 1 (not to be confused with their competitor Saigon Lille Cafe up the street–a splitting of ways apparently caused by some nasty divorce). but really, what could go wrong when you combine rice vermicelli, pickled carrots & daikon, fresh cucumber, fried onions, bean sprouts, peanuts, tofu fried with lemongrass, and sweet/spicy fish sauce? nothing. Lille Saigon 1 |
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