Parties, parties, concerts, dancing, then the family came over, and work-deadlines...
Oh, only Lucia knows how deadlines work with me. She used to see me writing a 20-page-essays the day before the due date, seating all day in the same place, without moving nor speaking, only writing and smoking, occasionaly standing up because my ass was hurting.
But now it's Christmas time and Oslo is beautiful, with lights, snow, Christmas food and all these julebord...
The "julebord" is the Christmas party, and besides the one with your friends, your association etc., you always have one with your colleagues. There are many stories in Norways about the work julebord because usually companies hold it outside Oslo, rent an hotel, people get very drunk, and no wifes or husband is allowed so...
Our department julebord was absolutely fun. First of all we had in one of the coolest underground club in Oslo (it's a place that hosts an Art school in the morning and in the evening concerts). Then we were all dressed up but very relaxed. During the dinner we had lots of activities, speeches of course but also Christmas songs, dancing, prizes and...a competition: building a house with peppercaker (biscuits), sugar, chocolate and nuts!!!
This is how it was supposed to be
But the team was composed of me, Nele, Aike and Wael (four Non-Norwegians who had always thought that biscuits are made to eat, not to create something stable!)) and the result was..broken biscuits, all the chocolate in our stomachs and the sugar on our faces :) We tried to convince the jury that our masterpiece was called "The power of deconstruction" or The Post-post-modernism in remembrance of Haiti 2010 etc., but we didn't get any prize!
But since when stability is considered to be a value????
Oh, only Lucia knows how deadlines work with me. She used to see me writing a 20-page-essays the day before the due date, seating all day in the same place, without moving nor speaking, only writing and smoking, occasionaly standing up because my ass was hurting.
But now it's Christmas time and Oslo is beautiful, with lights, snow, Christmas food and all these julebord...
The "julebord" is the Christmas party, and besides the one with your friends, your association etc., you always have one with your colleagues. There are many stories in Norways about the work julebord because usually companies hold it outside Oslo, rent an hotel, people get very drunk, and no wifes or husband is allowed so...
Our department julebord was absolutely fun. First of all we had in one of the coolest underground club in Oslo (it's a place that hosts an Art school in the morning and in the evening concerts). Then we were all dressed up but very relaxed. During the dinner we had lots of activities, speeches of course but also Christmas songs, dancing, prizes and...a competition: building a house with peppercaker (biscuits), sugar, chocolate and nuts!!!
This is how it was supposed to be
But the team was composed of me, Nele, Aike and Wael (four Non-Norwegians who had always thought that biscuits are made to eat, not to create something stable!)) and the result was..broken biscuits, all the chocolate in our stomachs and the sugar on our faces :) We tried to convince the jury that our masterpiece was called "The power of deconstruction" or The Post-post-modernism in remembrance of Haiti 2010 etc., but we didn't get any prize!
But since when stability is considered to be a value????
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