The next morning we enjoyed a decent breakfast and a stroll along the main street in Katoomba in search of some good coffee (we did). We then hopped in the van towards Jenolan’s Caves for the most breathtaking guide I have ever had in a cave. Not that I have been to many caves, but…
For the first weekend of student orientation I had booked myself onto a trip (mostly for us eager internationals) with Shawnee to visit the Blue Mountains. The whole weekend started hideously wrong, I hadn’t checked the timetables for the buses from campus East that early in the morning and realized quickly they wouldn’t get me…
After the beautiful field trip around Vestfold, we finished off our first module with an group assignment. It was a 30 page essay discussing the topic of “Frivillig Vern” (Volunteered conservation), a government lead, legal phenomenon in Norway where land owners (mostly of forest) are encouraged to volunteer and donate their land to the government…
I swear I wasn’t planning on it being 3 months until I got round to writing a new blog post, but then life happened and my life as a blogger was abruptly ended for the rest of the semester. Commuting to uni, classes, assignments and tutoring has left me with no room to blog in…
So as you might be able to tell I’ve moved to Oslo because I did indeed get accepted for the masters at NMBU! I’m so happy I did, I honestly don’t think there are any other master programmes suitable for me and my interests. After a good year of working out what I like and…
As you probably can tell (since it’s been ghostly quiet on my blog for over a month now), life has been overwhelmengly hectic this last month. In mid-August I packed up my things, loaded it into my car and headed off over the mountains to the capital. Earlier this year I applied for a masters…
If you asked me a year ago if I had any sentiment towards courgettes I would have given you an answer of indifference. But after this summer I have bit the courgettemania bug. As you already know, I have attempted to grow some vegetables this summer, and the courgettes were by far the most exciting…
The Fledgling 