"Luke, I am your father".... :P

I think the Norwegians have been keeping a dark secret from me. A secret that is only revealed when their guard has been left down... This secret......DA DA DUMM...is actually quit funny. The secret regards my name. Well, not my actual name (Lucas is my birth name for those of you that don`t know that).. but anyways. I was at this party last weekend and for some reason all the Norwegians realized that I happened to share the same name with a certain stars wars character.. Yeah I sure you guess it right away from the title of this post. "yeah totally, its Darth Vader, right?" ummm... No, actually Luke Skywalker. Just kidding. But really, apparently that is what most Norwegians relate my name to once they hear it. I can`t tell you how many times I heard was "Luke, I am your father".... and I was just like "hey you know what f-U buddy" ha ha. Just kidding. I thought it was funny. People haven`t associated my name with Luke Skywalker since I was like four. So its cool I like it, I mean Luke Skywalker is pretty awesome... Of course besides being a little strange like making out with is sister and acting like a wimp after his hand has been cut off and he learned his father is Darth Vader.. I mean really, getting your hand cut off isn`t really that bad and crying that your dad just cut your hand of and is a super evil guy of the universe, no. big. deal. But I will accept being called Skywalker on special occasions :p. But it made me wonder: Do most of the Norwegians I meet think of Luke Skywalker the first time they hear my name? Comment on my blog or facebook me, I would really like to know.

Thanks for reading :D

Luke

Norwegians are not at the least shallow.

Yesterday I had a realizing revelation about the Norwegian people. I was having this interesting conversation about religion. Its very common that Norwegians aren`t religious or just simply atheist. One very different thing from America. Some people would think that with no religious ties, people would not care about the afterlife or spirituality. But in all truth these people are extremely deep. I know I will probably get grief from saying this, but Norwegian teenagers have a quality that in my opinion is very important. They actually question the world and its workings. Not that blind faith is wrong. It is the key to all religions. But it is truly intriguing how Norwegians view the world and spirituality.

Copenhagen-The LAS VEGAS of Europe :P

Well, its been quite awhile since I updated my blog. So heres an update on whats been happening. Last week I had fall break. I spent it in Denmark visiting my best friend Nicolai. It was awesome:D Copenhagen was great. Although, another week would have been nice of course ha ha. After walking around ravaging the cheaper clothes than Norway I noticed something funny. After about around 3.00 p.m about 80% of the people are walking around with beers in the streets. This is so different from Norway, well and of course Minnesota. But this really reminded me of Las Vegas and from what I hear, you can find a party every night.

After the break, the horrible illness that every student fears set in...again.. Senioritis! Except I guess it would be call Russitis here ha ha. (Russ is what the "seniors" in Norway are called). I am definitely at the point in my life where I feel ready for university or college. I mean school is good now. But still feel like college now too ha ha. So I am waiting for senioritis to pass again. But I have started my search for universities again. But this time its in Norway and Denmark now. A few days again I was only set on Norway, but now I have began researching some school in Denmark too. Although its hard deciding on what I want to study. I have made a list: Architecture or Design, English, Media studies or anthropology. It is really hard deciding, but I think I really am going to work towards something to do withy Design or architecture. Who knows what the future brings. But wish me luck!

Just some Pictures :P

I just thought I would upload some pictures of Norway and stuff. 

 Norwegian Royal Palace

Verdens Ende (The world`s end) 

 My School 

Slottsfjell

Tønsberg, Great City :D

Restaurants and Clubs (Definitely fun times here ;P) 

Bred and brown cheese. Delicious! :P but where is my Lucky Charms!!!

There are always new experiences when you travel to a new country. In my opinion one of the biggest changes is the food. I especially experienced this when I moved to Thailand for five weeks. I have to say that Thai food is not my favorite ha ha. But Norway, by far has better food than Thailand and America. All my favorite foods are here!! It is great. But it still is different, it just takes some time to adjust. There are two things, food-wise that I am getting used to. In Norway, they eat much more bread and cheese than I am used to. For example, for breakfast I will either eat musli (pretty much granola) with milk or yogurt. Or I will have eat smørbrød, bread with brown cheese or white cheese. It is yummy :P But it is a little different than typical American breakfast. I actually do miss some of my sugar cereals. Like Fruit Loops or Lucky Charms. I think Americans eat more sugar than Norwegians. So it was just different. But that doesn`t mean Norway doesn`t have super delicious candy!! The candy here is 1000% better!! Like the chocolate actually has flavor ha ha. It is so damn good! Then there is this candy from heaven called Bilar, it probably is my favorite candy. I can eat, bag after bag of them. The food in Norway is so good, even the reindeer. Yes, I have eaten Rudolf the red nosed reindeer :P 

Norway: Land of Greatness and....Apple Products??

Norway is so great, so far I love everything here! For those of you that are reading this that don`t know, before Norway I was living in Thailand for six weeks. And let me tell, that made me just the more excited for Norway. I think everyday (because of the heat) I would say "I can`t wait for Norway". I was so happy when the plane landed in to find that it was a cold and sort of a rainy day. Complete and utter refreshment. After living in a extremely hot climate, you really learn to appreciate changing season and coldness ha ha. Norway does remind me of Minnesota, but just by the wildlife. Norway, of course has hills and mountains. Not like flat home. So I think it is definitely hard to get home sick, when Norway is so similar. But yeah, so far everything has just been wonderful. My host family is so great, I am really lucky. I like School way more than school back in Minnesota. This is how school works. We have the same classes the whole year. But we don`t have the same classes everyday. They switch between days and weeks. Somedays we get off school early, somedays I don`t even have school somedays, but that isn`t very often. Plus, we don`t get very much homework. But when we do get homework, it is very hard for me because it is usually reading and I read really, really slow!! But I am getting faster, it is just taking time. The nicest part of Norway is everyone is so nice here :). I mean seriously, when I think about it I have not met non-nice person. Everyone is more than happy to help me with the language and just getting around. Its great, I feel really at home. But back to my title. I was so surprised when I went to school, because it seems like everyone has iPhone!! It was crazy, I don`t even know one person with a iPhone in Minnesota. So people have them here, its funny.