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L’Italia | up-rooted
https://jenaconti.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/litalia
Moving to/New to Norway? The other ambassadors warn me of famines, extortions, conspiracies, or else they inform me of newly discovered turquoise mines, or advantageous prices in marten furs, suggestions for applying damascened blades. And you? The Great Khan asked Polo. ‘You return from lands equally distant and you can tell me only the thoughts that come to a man who sits on his doorstep at evening to enjoy the cool air. What is the use, then of all your traveling? From → Uncategorized. Leave one →.
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Expat Blog | up-rooted
https://jenaconti.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/expat-blog?share=email
Moving to/New to Norway? On Friday night my son and I sat on the sofa watching. Snake Crusader with Bruce George. On Animal Planet. Bruce George is a licensed snake handler who lives in Australia and rescues all sorts of horrifyingly large, deadly or otherwise stomach-turning snakes from roadsides and the drawers of messy teens. ( You’d better keep that room clean, young man! Bruce George is my son’s hero and he has pictures of him tacked to the wall beside his bed. Nah I’m not going to live. Which bring...
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My editorial in the Stavanger newspaper | up-rooted
https://jenaconti.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/my-editorial-in-the-stavanger-newspaper
Moving to/New to Norway? My editorial in the Stavanger newspaper. A week ago Stavanger’s newspaper, Aftenbladet. Featured a two-page special section on schools in Stavanger. The article discussed the decision by the local government to give more money to schools categorized as having the worst living conditions in the city. The English translation follows. Stavanger: Storhaug raises my living conditions. To live in Storhaug. I admit that I did not fall immediately in love with the area. Its run-d...And s...
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Meeting the Neighbors – Part 1 | up-rooted
https://jenaconti.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/meeting-the-neighbors-part-1-2
Moving to/New to Norway? Meeting the Neighbors – Part 1. The first house we owned in Norway was in a sort of condominium association called a. In Norwegian. As all of the apartments were quite close together and had common playgrounds, we believed life in a borettslag would be the easiest way to become better acquainted with both Norwegians and Norwegian culture. Our borettslag. We lived in the first floor apartment of the yellow house on the right. Will you get another cat? I had no idea how I was going...
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The Mess on our Faces: On Being an Outsider | up-rooted
https://jenaconti.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-mess-on-our-faces-on-being-an-outsider
Moving to/New to Norway? The Mess on our Faces: On Being an Outsider. It goes without saying that we are outsiders in Norway. I vividly recall a sunny Saturday morning in our neighborhood last January when my family and I were walking up to the parking lot. We passed a group of three of our male neighbors who were chatting and laughing leisurely with their thermos coffees. But it was a sunny day and we weren’t allowed to escape. We were prodded this time in English: Norway? Who should win the skiing?
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Moving to/New to Norway? | up-rooted
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Moving to/New to Norway? Moving to/New to Norway? When we arrived in Norway we were given a very handy guide called. New in Norway: Practical Information from Public Agencies. This guide contains information on everything from opening a bank account to rules for hunting and fishing in Norway, from financial benefits for children to paying for your television license. We have consulted this book repeatedly — and still do! This information is now online in five languages at: http:/ www.nyinorge.no/. My Cou...
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The Interview – Part 1 | up-rooted
https://jenaconti.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/the-interview-part-1
Moving to/New to Norway? The Interview – Part 1. I’m proud to say that I have managed to get a few jobs in Norway, but I’ve only ever experienced one interview. Which is a shame, really, because I’m pretty sure I learned enough from it to excel at the next one. Or at least not to fail so miserably. When desperate for a job,. Job can seem like a perfect fit or at least it is easy enough to make yourself believe that you are a perfect fit for this permanent, worry-free guarantee of a. I can do this! I know...
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Assimilation Nation | up-rooted
https://jenaconti.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/assimilation-nation
Moving to/New to Norway? During the summer, when this blog and everyone else was on holiday, Aftenposten. Norway’s largest daily national newspaper, published a cover story with the headline: Født i Norge, føler seg som utlendinger. Born in Norway, Feel Like Foreigners . The subtitle read: Less than half of Oslo teens with foreign parents feel Norwegian. Even though they are born and raised in this country. And for whom is so it important? When do you feel Norwegian? When do you feel like a foreigner?
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Wanderlust | up-rooted
https://jenaconti.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/wanderlust
Moving to/New to Norway? This blog took an unintended vacation. End-of-term grading, a two-week visit by my parents, most of the country on strike, and the sun came out and stayed out all night! And it felt good to not think and just be. So that is what I did. Sindbad the Sailor set out from his home of Baghdad, the Abobe of Peace, because of the words of a poet:. A man must labor hard to scale the heights,. And to seek greatness must spend sleepless nights,. And to find pearls must plunge into the sea.
