So, I joined the university's glee club, properly called the Musical Society. They were so eager by their stand during fresher's week; the guy recruiting people smiled so nicely and told me I could be super helpful even if I didn't want to sing, act or dance at all. So I joined them. It's not like I've got to come to rehearsals if I've got other ( Read more... )

I know, I know, I've been nagging about this before, but this is the last time, I promise. This is the final exam, so I won't nag about this again :)

Translation, again. I desperately need one or two native English speakers to run their eyeballs over my translation, just to point out idiomatic errors and/or things that sound strange. I'll post/send ( Read more... )

The Erasmus programme branch at the University of Oslo has decided to send me to Ireland for a semester, in fact, to the University College of Dublin ( Read more... )

Please, pretty please. We have a translation assignment due on Tuesday and though I think I have a pretty good idea of what I'm supposed to do, I'd feel a lot better about turning it in if somebody whose native language is actually English, would proof-read it first. It's not long; barely seven paragraphs about Norwegian national costumes (they are ( Read more... )

Ever since I discovered Irish folk music at the tender age of thirteen, I've had an intense and passionate love for anything Irish, in fact, anything of Celtic/Pictish origin. The entire culture of Ireland (and that of Scotland) fascinates and enthralls me endlessly. And I just found out that my university can send me to both the University College ( Read more... )

This is completely unnecessary, but I can't help it. I never considered myself the sharpest tool in the shed, but I just reviewed my grades from my university years so far (not finished, there are more to come) and I found the following ( Read more... )

Well, what can I say? I just watched the musical "Rock 'n Roll Wolf", or "Ma-Ma", for the first time and I now find myself strangely attracted to the big, bad, pipe-smoking wolf Titi Suru. He would be the mysterious creature on the left right here:


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I got an A! On my Modern Norwegian History exam! Oh frabjous day! C'mon, everybody dance now!

*does the Macarena*

I was going to post a long happy-rant about this, that and th'other. But I'm afraid I don't have time, since I've got an exam tomorrow and I still don't feel I've done my research. So. I'm going to go off and read about the inter-British unions of 1603, 1707 and 1801 now. Oh, and the English Reformation ( Read more... )

Ohnoes, I just found out I that I have to choose an extra lecture for next year (though, thankfully not until next spring) - and the choices are so wonderful I don't know which one to take! They're all related to the English language and/or culture. I have narrowed it down to the following five contestants ( Read more... )