Oslo Cruise

Before I get to the goods about the Oslo booze cruise, I must update on the few days before take-off.

Wednesday--Dino and I had plans to go sight seeing around Copenhagen but the weather was so crappy there was no way I was doing that. My only pictures at cool places with wet hair...?? Ehh.. I dont think so. So that plan flopped. I had morning class (Sports Econ workshop), then we tried out the wellness center in the gym. It's pretty cool--jacuzzi, sauna, and steam bath. That night we tried out our cheffing skills with a toasted Italian sandwich. Very good, I think we're actually getting the hang of this... that night, the exchange kids all went out to LA Bar. A fun/interesting night with a lot of laughs and stories.

Thursday--Early morning workout w/Dino, lunch at a place by school (Italian place), then a full afternoon at the library. Later in the afternoon/evening we walked down Stroget all the way down to city hall and to the central train station. The train station was really cool, it has news stations and radio broadcasts all on the top of it that you could see into. When we stepped out on one side we were in the ghetto and the other side we were back to the downtown area. That night a few people went to Nexus but Dino and I stayed in and I packed for the Oslo trip.

**hilarious moment of thursday night.. (sorry if no one else finds this funny, but i just really don't want to forget this): So Dino and I are at the central station and I'm at a 7-11 type store getting a snack. He came over and I had picked up honey roasted peanuts already ("Honning ristede"), they had a picture of peanuts and a huge honey jar on the front so it wasnt too hard to guess what they were. Not to mention the name similarities.. so anyways he comes over and I said "oh i got some honey roasted peanuts" he looked at me with the most serious/stunned face and said "How did you know that?!" It was HILARIOUS! My response.."Im not a complete idiot.." I couldnt stop laughing, he was seriously shocked that I figured that out. While we were waiting for our train we were reliving it and I asked him, while pointing at "honning ristede" how you really say that anyways. He replied "K-i-m-s Pea-n-u-t-s". I KNOW ENGLISH!!! After that I just lost it and couldn't stop my laughter. Just now as I'm writing this he's here and I asked him how to spell honey (i was assuming he would tell me what it was in danish since I'm writing about that) and he replies "H-O-N-E-Y".. ahh hilarious language barrier jokes.. I don't think they will ever get old

Friday---OSLO!!!! I had stupid class that morning.. raining and I could only make an hour of it.. it was in the movie theater because our classroom was being used for this case competition. After class I came back and we all headed off to DSDF station to board our ship. The ship in general was pretty cool. More of a ferry than a cruise ship, we found this out when we noticed that our sleeping deck was below two decks of cars. The rooms were sooooo small!! Four people with bunk beds and about one square foot of moving room. That night we had dinner at 7 Seas restaurant on board and it was a buffet. Some of the BEST food I have ever had, I ate so much I wasn't sure if I could physically walk out of the restaurant. Amazing though... after that, the party began. Everyone was hittin up the duty free shop for cheap booze then a little pre-partying in our cabins/deck, then to the club that was reserved for CBS. I felt a little motion sickness but got over it pretty quickly after taking a pill for it. At the club there was karaoke and a lot of dancing... so much fun

Saturday--morning breakfast, more buffet... still amazing. Then Oslo---we walked around to the fortress, downtown by city hall, the parliament, the royal palace, down some main streets, saw the National Art Gallery, ate lunch, and walked (far) to Statue Park. Whew. Everyone was a little tired but we made the most of our time in Oslo. I thought the atmosphere there was definitely different than that of Copenhagen. For a Saturday morning/afternoon the city barely had a pulse. The weather there, again, was not beautiful so that didn't add to the atmosphere very much. For some reason it seems like Norwegians are obsessed with naked statues. At Statue Park it was just a bunch of weird/sexual positions. It was the WEIRDEST thing ever!!! Definitely nothing I expected to see in Oslo...

Back on the boat there was more buffet dinners and then 60s night. So many people were getting motion sickness because there was a really bad storm that night so only about 1/2 of the students went out. The dance floor was hilarious to watch because everyone swayed as the boat did. There was more karaoke, 60s music, and then some popular music. At karaoke, all of our residence sang "We are Family" it was a good time for sure. The night ended pretty early because of so much sea sickness and tiredness from the night before/day.

Sunday we woke up, ate breakfast quick, and were off the ship. Back in Tordens, there was a lot of napping going on. I woke up relatively early and got some homework done. Then talked to mom on msn for awhile, worked out, ate dinner, and tried to start on a paper. I think even if I worked out for 4 days non-stop I still would not have made up for the amount of food I ate over this past weekend.

Today (Monday), I had no classes, but like the closet nerd I apparently am, I was at the library by 9am. Dino and I stayed there until 1, had lunch, and ended up talking for about 2 hrs about random stuff. That's a really easy way to lose time in a day... so its already 3 in the afternoon and we went to fitnessdk to workout, then grocery shopping. I had zero food in my cupboards/fridge so we went to Irma (really expensive grocery store)... never going there again.. too expensive so I only bought a few things that you can't get anywhere else, then to Fotex for the rest of the groceries. We made lemon pepper chicken, homemade soup, and salad for dinner. Our spring break group met to try to plan/organize our trip... veryyy long and hard to do. Now I'm back at the library trying to work on this paper and update this blog. Glad this is up to date now though..still can't believe its march!!!