#WeekTwenty

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I decided to progress with the tip top factory as I am interested in the relationship between nature and urban waste. I started by creating a structural model of the site on revit which I then took to rhino to start playing with ideas for the path

[whereareyoureallyfromfrom]

Week Eighteen-Twenty

Week Eighteen/Four and a half months Week Nineteen/Almost five months Week Twenty/Five months:

On the language front:

I've finished the first two levels of my Norwegian course and we started level three this week.

Last week I posted a list of the things that I am confident talking about in Norwegian.

In the last two classes we had before the break I formed two sentences that I was really proud of, both about grammar:

Adjektiver er ord å beskrive substantiver. [Adjectives are words to describe nouns.] Adjektiver med siste bokstaver 'ig' har ikke 't'. [Adjectives with the last letters 'ig' don't have a 't'.] [As I explained in a previous post adjectives are conjugated along with the gender of the noun they are describing. One of the exceptions are words that end in 'ig' (such as koselig [cozy], hyggleig [nice/pleasant], deilig [delicious].]

Due to the holiday season we spent a lot of time with family and my Norwegian tends to improve when I'm around more people speaking Norwegian and holiday drinks don't hurt either.

I've been joking about how my flatmates don't feed me unless I ask for things in Norwegian, but really it's a good way to practice everyday words. Kan jeg få smoret? [Can I get the butter?] With all the dinners over Christmas I got a lot of pratice in.

I was required to read all of the gift cards on lillejulaften [the day before Christmas Eve] and the four “young people” (yes, including me) took turns on julaften [Christmas Eve].

On the last day of class before the break we sang a few traditional Christmas songs and the fiancé and I spent an afternoon going through them to make sure that I understood everything (it was actually quite hilarious, but when I wrote it down it felt like one of those 'I guess you had to be there' situations and I had some formatting issues so I didn't post. On lillejulaften I got to choose the song we sang so I picked the one that I knew best and it was a success.

On julaften svigermora reads one of the Moomin books in which they prepare for Christmas. I first heard it two years ago and understood nothing. This year I understood some words, but not sentences or full thoughts. We've decided that it will be a good measure for how well my Norwegian is coming along, whenever I spend Christmas here.

Weather:

All the snow melted before Christmas and we didn't get any more. I have to admit that I feel a little cheated. If I was to specifically go somewhere seeking a white Christmas Norway would be high on my list.

The ‘not that cold’ temperatures have persisted.

It snowed really hard yesterday, but it didn't stick.

I kinda feel sorry for my North American friends and family this week, judging by my Facebook newsfeed people are losing their minds.

Culture:

Christmas and New Year's Eve

This post is behind schedule because of the holidays. I'm trying very hard to differentiate between typical Norwegian behaviour and just my new family things, but it seems that Norwegians celebrate for the entire month of December until the beginning of January. Romjul is the period between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and the majority of people have it off as holiday.

Christmas Eve is the big deal over here and is usually reserved to spend with family. The days before or after can be spent with friends.

As a couple we've tried to arrange a schedule to take turns spending the holidays with my family in the US, the fiancé's family in Norway, and my family in the UK.

I've found that because the holiday is somewhat stretched out here there are more traditional things to do. I started to list them all but it was too long. There were like eight bullet points.

We also watched a helluva lot of films which I will list and review another time.

It has been decided, I am getting a new phone! Hopefully an iPhone, but I may have to wait unitl I get paid at the end of the month. I still miss Instagram… In the meantime the following is a list of images I would’ve Instagrammed if I had a new phone:

My first “sewing project” in which I didn't even use my sewing machine.

My new doll, Mini-Lee, which was handmade in Tehran. My fiance' gave her to me for lillejulaften. I have visions of getting some sewing practice by making clothes in miniature for her.

My for real bowtie that I tied by myself.

[52specialingredients]

Week Twenty: Rice

Lemony Prawn & Chorizo Rice Pot

Recipes Adapted From:

Aprons & Sneakers

It's time for a Rice challenge and this week we made ourselves an incredibly tasty Lemon Prawn & Chorizo Rice Pot. A pretty straight forward recipe except for one catch that caught us off guard. Instead of having to cook the rice separably, you throw the uncooked rice into the pan with everything else. The uncooked rice cooks perfectly while the chorizo and veggies are cooking. I've personally never implemented a cooking method like this before with rice, so I was a little worried it wouldn't turn out right. Thankfully it was perfect!

We also had to substitute the Saffron in the recipe for Turmeric as we forgot to buy it. It didn't make much of a difference, it was still nice and spicy.

Next week's challenge is French themed and we'll be cooking it early this week as Agnes is off to the mountains for the weekend. Stay tuned for week twenty one!

[jessmith18]

"STRONGER" (2010) - Dance Screen on Tour

This piece shows a lot of different camera angles and shots which I think create the piece to become more interesting alone. For me, because of how the camera is set and the angle the dancers are filmed I wasn't sure if they we're traveling up a very steep hill or it was the way the camera was shot which I liked. The dancers movements also looked almost impossible yet I wasn't sure if this was because of the style of dance or the way the camera was angled when filming them. The variety of follow shots, jump cuts and top shots I felt were nice and really enhanced the strength and interest in the movement.

[jessmith18]

While we believe that the essence of dance can never be captured or fully reproduced through any technology, digitally mediated spaces are useful because they allow us to create multiple representations and the interact with these representations in space and in time.

Lisa Naugle and John Crawford (2012)The International Journal of Screen Dance Reflections on Heidegger: Performing Translations in Active Space Environments

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"STRONGER" (2010) - Dance Screen on Tour

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"STRONGER" (2010) - Dance Screen on Tour