“Hug Afonso” and other ideas

Quite often I write posts saying “this is great, Norway is incredible” “Norway is like this…” but I have been realizing how lucky I was with family, school and community. Some other AFSers also in Norway aren’t having such a nice time. It makes me deeply sad and even more to hear someone blaming them, saying they are not making an effort. To all those who aren’t having such a nice time, I really hope this will change soon.

It’s true that Norwegians are shy. They are quite humble as also. They refuse most of the complements to their culture by saying “that’s because…”, they enounce with pride “two generations ago we were farmers and fishermen” and they keep asking “why did you choose Norway?”, they are the first ones to applaud your effort and don’t laugh at one’s mistakes, especially when they understand the effort in the other side.

I’ll try to write more often but in order to do it I need to keep the posts shorter. If you have an idea of something you think would be interesting to read about in my experience, please let me know.

I’m quite surprised with the weather… I was told there was going to be snow by this time but the weather forecast enounces 10 degrees for the rest of the week. Jeg gleder meg til snø.

Eventually it will get cold. Norwegians are quite used to it but I am not. Therefore, I’d like to come up with an idea I had. It’s called “Hug Afonso”, it’s free, brings heat to two persons and happiness to one. Give it a try.