I really love it here! Friday afternoon, I went to the Oslo Opera with a couple other exchange students and then we walked around the city center a lot. The weather here this past week has been absolutely beautiful. I arrived back to Sogn at around pm and did a little grocery shopping at the Rema right near my residence before going up to my room.
We still decided to dress up anyway and I was glad I did, because all our new Norwegian friends looked so good! Before I arrived, everyone who had either been to Norway or had a connection to Norway told me that Norwegians are so hard to get to know.
I can see where they are coming from in certain ways, but as a foreigner to get to know the people of Norway you have to really put yourself into a position that allows you to get to know them.
I am so grateful to have had such a wonderful and welcoming buddy group. After the first day of our buddy group, before we met the Norwegians, our leaders told us to come back and meet them at am the next day to go to the park with them.
The first day we had like 25 people in this group, the following day only three of us came back and I am so glad I made that choice to come back. Those other 22 people definitely lost out on the opportunity to get to know the people of Oslo and their fellow Norwegian students. I feel like that was such a lost opportunity for them. I really do hope that I will be able to continue to get to know them because I have really enjoyed the last week with them all.
