Norway adventure!

This blog is totally dedicated to Armand!!!
I know i have not been updating my blog! but hey I been busy. Le t me tell you that I signed up for the first presentations (like always) and I actually forgot which one I was doing so EVERY single time I remember that I had a presentation, it was 3 days before I had to.. So YEAH! its official Scotland has made me stupid. Anyhow I manage to survive through those presentations YAY, ME! And must be said that Brock has an amazing plan and have taugh me so much that I came to repeat that knowledge here. For one presentation I realized that Baxter Moore’s classes about the music industry were invaluable and that Gillespie’s class (shut up Armand) about invented tradition will come handy for my Mega Events class. WOW! Really coming to this university has taught me that the education that we are getting is really good. After my disastrous three weeks of presentation, I manage to organize my first trip, destination OSLO!

Oslo is beautiful quite unfriendly though. I really enjoy the weather, not cold, not hot, not windy, not dry, a little bit of snow... I manage to book my fligh for only 5 pounds... yeah 5 freaking pounds. I dont think there is something similar in Canada. When i got here, I was nervous specially when i crossed the security... U know just my luck at airports.. Everything went smooth except for when the migration officer ask me “Dont you think your a little bit lost?” at this moment I learned that pee my pants in public is not the funniest thing in the world, so ask him why. He smile to me and say “Well I dont know why you are here, when u could be taking the sun in Mexico” I just smile and said well Im not tan for the sun hahahahaha. After this experience, I realized tomake a list of people that should not joke at work: 1. obviously migration officers better said any job that your job title ends in officer, seriously not joking. 2. judges, actually will be funny to see if a joke will say your not innocent, and then he said “oh joking joking” it would be cruel but funny!. 3. Doctors, I actually like my doctor she is direct and dont fool around but hey i went to other doctors that make jokes to break the awk of me nude in that sterile table, but hey is already awk and no joke makes it easy, specially if you are an old man that could be my grandpa!!!
Anyhow after my short list Im gonna resume to my story. So Im in OSLO!!! (yeah I will keep saying OSLO!!!, so suck it) and i need to take a bus to go to the city because obviously im not in OSLO !! im in a city 2 hrs away of OSLO!! but hey I was ready for the adventure. This freaking bus cost me NOK600 which is around 45pounds that is around 90 bucks my ride to OSLO! In this ride I find out that I dont know Norwegian :) but a guy keep on staring at me when I ask him what was wrong, he said to me that nothing just that I look really different... Lets say that I was the only brown girl in that bus. He ask me where I was from and why I was there and yeah he was nice and drunk. Finally Im in Oslo!!! (yeah lowering my excitement) Walk for about 20 minutes and got to the Hostel (anker hostel) got in my room with smelly backpacker roomies. WOW they stink, they are so friendly and swedish! They are egger to meet me and talk to me and I tell them who i am and answer the awful question of where I am from (well Im mexican, living in Canada, temporarily in Scotland) so difficult. Anyhow, I decided to go to eat OH my god! before I continue, I need to tell you that before i left my room I was talking to Brian (my lovely Brian) and I was telling him that I was having a bad feeling about this trip, so I was right, when im walking looking for food I heard loud noises and i realize that the store across the street was getting robbed!!! yeah I was actually a witness they left the store pointing their guns, and I actually felt like I was in COPS and i did not like it. I just freeze and did not move, they start running and cops appear from nowhere, oh holly cow, I was so scared. I think they stop the guys, I hope so! And they were asking questions, well I think so! They say something to me in Norwegian and i just say English and they ask me if I was ok... and I said yeah just that I will be diabetic after that awful situation. They let me go, so I walk and i was shaking... I got to this place and i sit there and did nothing. So I went to Norway the number one place to live and I witness crime that I never witness in my life. Anyhow decided to eat and ate salad and fries and coke because that was the only thing that the guy understood from me. DAMN!!!!! Went back to the hostel and went to bed.
Day 2 in Norway... My lovely roomies woke up early.. (I dont have a watch or anything that tells me my time) So I rolled out of bed, get dress and do some sightseeing, when Im leaving the place I asked for the time and they told me is 8am ...WTF??!! and Im up so I said fuck it! so I went sighseeing pretty much my plan was to walk to this park where they have this cool statues. In my journey I find a Queen and her palace, Yeah in Norway they have a Queen! I took amazing pictures of the guard and he even let me take a pic with him and he said CHEERS!! lol I said to my self “One day Cynthia, One day!” I manage to get lost ... stupid letters and name of streets! Hey the best experiences come from getting lost, I met this old couple that have family in Canada and they were telling me that they love it there and they love the weather. This couple told me how to get to this statue place, so I got there and I was so excited the statues are promising. I love it so much, so peaceful! and relaxing. Continue my sightseeing and went to many building and I even went to this place to get my prize that I won... you might have heard about this is called Nobel, anyhow they were going to give it to me but I told them that Im only flying with my carry-on so I dont think i could pass that through security! anyhow... a lot of pictures will come! I got to this store and i bought some crap! yeah crap because lets face it who is gonna wear a viking hat ??? not me ! Went to eat and I went to BK (burger king) ask for a veggie burger, It was a veggie burger (it was the bread and vegetables) there is not a vegetarian culture here everywhere where I ask for a vegetarian option they give lettuce lol
Finally I got back to the hostel and is 7pm already.. Im so tired and my feet hurt so badly. I decided to get some rest and write this blog. Tomorrow will go to the viking ship museum and more sightseeing.
Love,
Cynthia