Living in Norway

In this blogpost i will be elaborating how it is to live in Norway in comparison to china. This might be somewhat hard since I haven’t actually lived in china before, but I’ll at least try. China and Norway are two completely different countries in many ways, and maybe the most noticeable different is the amount of people living in the two countries. In Norway it live about 4,6 million people, while in China it lives about 1,3 billion!

The education system in Norway seems like it’s a lot more laid-back than the one in China, but we see that Chinese students score a lot better on international school tests. So it seems that even though Chinese students have to work harder, it will pay off later. The economy in the two countries is also very different. In China they mainly get their income from industry, while in Norway we get it from oil. The GDP (gross domestic product) is also much larger in China than in Norway, but since it’s so many people there, the GDP per person is a lot lower. The cultures are also very different, and just to be a bit stereotypical, all Norwegians like to go skiing during the winter and eat cabbage and lamb, while all Chinese know karate and eat about everything else. Although this is not true, the two cultures are also very different.

In conclusion, the two countries are very different, but that’s something we should be fascinated by, not scared or feel that it’s something we should just repel, but rather learn from. All in all I’m pretty happy about living in Norway, except when it’s too much snow, which it tend to be during wintertime, but there is a lot of other things to do during the winter.

Project Lesotho

This week we have a project, to collect money for a school in Lesotho. The money will then go to giving the school internet so they can use it for their schoolwork. The first week we were planning how and what we were supposed to collect the money. One idea was to sell cake, and that’s what we ended up with. We split into four groups, one where going to sell at the school, one at the station, one in Oslo, and the last group where filming it so they later can make it into a movie/sketch. 

I was on the group who were supposed to well at the school, so baked a cake the day before the sales. When we arrived at the school we did the finishing planning, made a poster with the cause and the prices written on it, and hung it on the table we were selling our cakes and cupcakes. We sat and sold for about two and a half hour. At the end we hadn’t sold all the cakes, but all of the brownies where gone, but some cupcakes and applecake were left. Clearly brownie is people’s favorite. 

All in all the project went pretty well, even though we didn’t collect as much money as I hoped, but I don’t know how much the other groups collected, and maybe they did better. Even though it didn’t have much to do with English, the project was a good way to do something new, and not just sit in the classroom all day, and it was all for a good cause!