It's been one week since I got here

And what do I think?  Well, it's definitely pretty.  The trees have been sort of perpetually covered in either frost or snow since the sun doesn't get too high to melt much.  Speaking of sun, the days get longer quicker right now than back home, I think.  Today the sun came up at 9:11 (this is in Oslo not Bø) and will set at 3:39.  Mid February it will be coming up about 8 and setting about 5.  On my last real day here (June 14th) it'll come up at 3:55 am and go down at 10:41 pm.... long day!  And I don't expect to be rising with the sun!  

Anyway, those aren't my thoughts about Norway.  One of my friends asked me if it's like Richland Center... it sort of is.  Both towns have about 5,000 people, and the only radio station is country (even in Norway I guess), which I haven't listened to yet.  Everybody seems really nice, if I drove a car around in the country I might be able to know if everyone waves to each other or not, so for now that one goes untested.  In the immediate area it's kinda just hilly, but there are mountains, which we definitely don't have in RC.

It was mostly a farming community I was told (though it still looks like it mostly is), but now a lot of the people work for the Høgskolen.  One thing they don't have is a lot of churches, but they make up for it in age for sure.  There's an Old Church and a New Church, so they call them apparently.  The Old one was built before 1300 for sure, and the new one at least 200 years ago.  I'll maybe post the exact dates when I go there, this is just hearsay right now.  Another great thing about here is the well water, it's tasty!  It's a clean area, so in that regard it's different than RC because it's not really industrial (I don't think that there're really any factories that I've seen).

They say their 'Gs' here.  So in words like 'farlig' or 'ferdig', which we were taught to say 'farly' and 'fardy', they say 'farlig' and 'fardig'.  Kinda cool.  Some of the pronouns are pronounced different as well, but I'm sure I'm way more interested in that than y'all.  The 'Back in Bø' party is tonight at the student club 'Kroa' (not sure what it stands for), and I hear it's supposed to be a blast, so hopefully that's good.  Also whalesteak is tonight, pizza last two days, hopefully it smacks good.