Another week

There were no trips or extra special activities this week, but I thought I should report back nonetheless.  I have my literature class three times a week now, which is a lot.  Furthermore, Sigrid, who was doing the lectures regarding short stories, had a heart attack (she'll be alright it sounds like), and so now we have a young masters student from Oslo who is filling in.  On Tuesdays and Thursdays I've been getting a fair share of Nynorsk, as our professor, Olav, more or less speaks it pretty truly.  However, I felt good after getting quite a bit out of Thursday's lecture.  Next week me and the German girl have to talk about one of the short stories for Wednesday...yay.  

On Tuesday nights we've begun teaching SiTel employees English.  They come into quite a bit of contact with students who do not understand Norwegian, and there're about eighteen of them who are participating in it.  They assigned each of us about three of them according to how good they were at English and how good we were at Norwegian.  Mine were supposed to know little to no English, but it turned out that one of them knew quite a bit more than he reported.  Another one can form some sentences, and the other hasn't tried yet.  The one who hasn't tried yet has said that he never had English classes, and I'm not sure about the other two (well, I guess I know the "liar" took some a while ago).  So this last Tuesday we sort of went through and thought about the objects and rooms that they deal with on a regular basis (they are caretakers for the dorms, etc) like kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, and objects found therein.  Wow did we cover a lot of words!  So now at least if they need some vocabulary to at least find out what is broken, they will have it.  This Tuesday I think I'll bring some grammar for them all, it's sort of necessary.  After "teaching" we watched episode four of Star Wars up at Breisås, whichI mostly slept through (in my defense I had just eaten) as Chenoa and Sarah took pictures and tried to do stuff to me.  

Wednesday we tried to go dancing again at the pizza place.  We got there, and it turned out that there was some sort of meeting going on amongst the people who are there dancing everyweek.  While we were waiting for the meeting to get over we played a round of euchre, and then I learned out to play Rummy.  Good time!  We finally started dancing at nine, to a different set of fiddlers, and I didn't stay too long, just for a couple of songs.  

Thursday I mostly spent studying until I had class at 1:30, and after class I did my usual evening studying. About 6:30 we had a taco dinner.  Me and Sarah bought stuff at Rema on our way to Grivi, and I found out that chicken hamburger is quite a bit cheaper than its bovine "equivalent"(regular is still better).  After tacos we played some Rummy, with two decks, and it took FOREVOOR.  There were only six of us, so I think it woulda been too difficult with just one deck.  

Yesterday I went to the library to get some materials on Ivar Aasen, the "creator" of Nynorsk, as I'll be talking about him on Tuesday in Norwegian class.  And then I spent the rest of the night jotting down notes about him and organizing what I'm going to say.  

Today I've only gotten out of bed, done a bit of laundry, and walked down to the Bø shopping center to do a few things.  No significant plans for the rest of the weekend otherwise.  And I've been beginning to think that I really need to do some weekend trips, unfortunately the next weekend is not any good, and the next weekend the whole group will be getting back from Dublin.  So!  We'll see how the planning goes, I do have time.