The fan section...
As you can see, we were pretty close, FYI, the black team is FBKHere is a video from the hockey game...you can hear the fan section, thats how they were the whole game and you can see some of the people i went with! A mix of spanish, german, and finnish.
On Saturday, Karlstad University sat up a day trip for exchange students. We went to a place called Boda Borg. It is hard to explain what it is becuase we having nothing like it in US. There are 22 courses and at least 3 rooms to each course. There are physical and logical tasks that you have to do to pass each room. If you pass, a light turns green and you can go through the door to the next room. If you fail, it turns red and you have to start the course over. If you make it through the course then you get a stamp for completing it. We were there for about 4 hours and my group only got 4 stamps. The challenges were so hard! Sometimes it was a logical challenge that you had to figure out. For example one room was about vincent van gough. There were different parts of the body sculpted to the wall and there was also a sculpted knife. Well you had to figure out that he cut his ear off with a knife. So some one had to touch the knife on the wall and someone had to touch the ear in order for us to pass. At first, we had no clue what was going on, but the more rooms you went through, you kind of got the hang of it. The physical tasks were sometimes crazy rediculous! You had to climb up latters, through tunnels, hang on to stuff on the wall and make it across with out touching the ground, etc. It was a really good work out! Today I have bruises all over my legs though. But I think we should def. get one of these in Indiana!
Since I have been here, I have been learning about different cultures since I live with people from several countries. It is a lot of fun, but sometimes the differences surprise me a lot. In the past couple of days I have learned that there are things that we do as Americans that are just completely American. I have never thought about some of the stuff being strictly to our culture, but I guess there are a few. For example, it is very American to say I love you to your family. I was talking last night with 2 finnish girls and they asked what we say when we hang up the phone. I thought about it for a second and I told them when i am talking with my family I say "bye, love you." They started laughing (not in a mean way of course!) and said that was so American. I guess in finnish culture, it is just understood that you love your family, you dont have to say it. The other day we were at a little cafe and I was with 2 germans, 2 finnish, and a swedish girl. I ordered hot chocolate and it came with marshmellows and some of them pointed out that was not common at all to have marshmellows in hot chocolate. Also, two of the girls ordered sandwiches and chips came on the side. They also said that they had not seen that before. It is fun learning about all the differences!
That place you went with all the different rooms sounds like a lot of fun! I dont think we have that in Norway. It just sounds like something fun to do that is different from things we usually do. They should get that here too! Me and bjarne went snowboarding yesterday, and I was thinking about you. We should def. do that when I come over, or when you're coming here. It is so much fun, I think you would like it!
ReplyDeleteI love the pictures and the video. That hockey game looks like it was a lot of fun. I am glad that you are having a good time and you are meeting lots of great friends.
ReplyDeleteLove you!!