Everyone was invited to the semester-opening ceremony in Muséplass. A lot of important people spoke, including the rector, the mayor and the minister of education and research. It was a great day for it, and not even the scaffolding on the museum could dampen anyone’s spirits as we all slapped on suncream and waited for things to get started.
The rector giving his speech.
The university’s done a good job of arranging lots of interesting things for the new students to get involved with – international and Norwegian – and today I wandered along to a ‘meet the locals’ session which involved the welfare service telling us all the ins and out of living in Norway, such as this delightful titbit:
If you smile at a Norwegian in the street, the Norwegian will assume..
(a) that you are drunk.
(b) that you are insane.
(c) that you are American.
(d) all of the above.
Sociable sorts, these Norwegians, as you can probably tell :)
They made us dance to some Norwegian pop number or another (I kid you not, but seeing as everyone joined in it was actually quite entertaining), and then plucked four volunteers - one from each of America, Europe, Africa and Asia - to sample typical Norwegian delicacies including cod liver oil (and none of this capsule nonsense - æsj!), mackerel in tomato sauce and brunost (a kind of brown, sweet cheese).
l-r: Africa, Asia, Europe and America
And it was such a nice day that I took these photos on my way back down to the tram.
Johanneskirken next to the Humanities building at UiB
Festplassen, cooking merrily in the afternoon sun (I saw Satyricon here last summer!)
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