A Little Corner of Aniia: Norway From Another Perspective
http://www.aniia.blogspot.com/2008/01/time-to-learn-lil-about-norway.html/
When I lived in Norway, and attended the university in
Norway, the Norwegian citizens were excellent hosts and
hostesses. However, when the Norwegians were busy with
work or school or family, I spent time in the hybelhuset
where I lived. My fellow students and I congregated IN THE
FELLESKJØKKENET . There were many Norwegian citizens
that were bilingual at the hybelhuset. They helped me
learn MORE Norwegian. Some of these Norwegian citizens
were from Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan, Poland and so on. I had
visited with many Vietnamese Americans, and some times I
couldn’t understand their American words and phrases; now,
they were TEACHING ME Norwegian.
Vietnamese-Norwegian citizens taught me Norwegian!
That was when Bjarte Leithaug was singing about the boat
people living in A BOAT in the harbor- hoping that Norway
would let them come IN and gain citizenship and then, they
would call NORWAY their home. Norwegians know that these
people escaped poverty, war, persecution and more. They
were in search of peace and prosperity. (Open to correction.)
I’ll try to find a link to this song by Bjarte Leithaug.
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I don’t have any answers to the questions that are being
asked in the year 2008, but I want you to know that I am
eager to reVISIT Norway, to spend time there to and to help
me to UNDERSTAND what is happening to Norway.
What has happened to NORWAY?
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