orwegian Wood What did I know about Norway
were dynamic .. For those who have
others . The
and norwegians? Almost nothing,
not guessed: Th ey are Camilla and
way
except that you have got a beautiful
Caroline. And I have got their phone
welcome us,
country. This was the main reason
number.
take care ol us,. make ,me
which mad e me ch oose Berg en instead of going to Gothenburgh or
you
I was
50
exhausted after 2
think that «the
nights in the car that I wanted to drive Copenhagen. I wanted to discover all
HQspitality .. as fast as I could to get there. At the
of Scandinavia, but to live in the most
really belongs border, as I hM nothing to declare,
beautiful country.
hikk, the most beautilul policewoman
to the norwegian cultu re,
I knew that the daily life was
I have ever seen, let me th rough with
very expensive, whi ch doe sn 't allow
all my illeagal Ireight. Deceiced by
you to buy such vital products as wine
being unsearched, I luckily passed
and al cohol. .. hi kk . That's wh y I
the point of entrance, I again let my
decided to come by car and bring all
eyes toward the ever brighter horizon.
the stuffs that you need to survive . I
Fascinated by thGbeautyolthe lands-
bought30bottlesofwine, fewofvodka
cape, I was driving like ,n adream,
. and whisky ... hikk. The problem was
looking at the lakes with their wood
that the day, hikk, I left Marseille, my
made «environmental houses» wh ose
mother , sometimes a very determined
colors create a rainbow on the slopes
The sec ond purpose of th is
person , read something about import
of the mountain§>. I could not keep
week was also attractive to us. Fi rst,
companies, playing football..
the nature, the prettiness of the people
rest ric tion
a
myselffromslowing down. The speed
we discovered Bergen as a . big vill-
invited a few nice girls for a drink in
and the NHH school ; the business
consequence, I had to repack all my
limit apparently does not only serve
age ». In 10 minutes driving, you can
down town . As the frencl1 usualle do,
sch ool
lugg age while under close supervis-
the purpose to increase safe trattie on
go out of the center and find a very
I wanted to pay': but they just refused
level I will be new ambassador who
ion. It was with great caution and
curvous and sincurvous roads, rather
quiet place without any cars and any
and prefered to share the bill.
will try to make his fami/y and his
secrecy I managed to add a lew bottles
it lends the drivers an opportunity to
noice, which is very appreciable to
prior to my departure.
really consume some of the attractive,
make a break. Afterwards we started
fair, pretty, handsome, gorgeous ,
our apprenticeship about the night
astonishing ... landscape.
Iife. Klubben was the first stage.
and could be an excellent exa mpl e lo ll ow
to for
some french people who
on
alcoho l.
As
I left with about 100 kilos of
food but forgot to take any clothes for Arriving in Bergen in the night,
miracle ol the fi rst 15 days of septem-
I realized how nice th e people were in
ber seems to be over.
Norway, and how lamous and good the school was . I asked an old lady
through France, Germany and Denmark, I took a ferry fron Hirtshals to Kristiansand. Du ring the trip , I calculated how many kilometres I had to drive to get to Berge n, and
wheter she knew the school or not.
seen Norway and the Norwegians alter 3 weeks. As a conclusion, you
Everyhting can happen everywhere and at anytime (up t03 p.m. I have not
3 main reasons: the sublime beaty ol
Bulle for 20 år siden
care about the speed limit and , some-
have ever seen . It gave me the impression ol being on holidays again .
Bulle på besøk hos BI , Hvordan det er å lage
som nettopp har fått sivøktittelen«Lørdag var det BI-ball , og
the Norwegian culture is beer. The
morgen i 12-tiden og lortsetter ut-
der gikk dere glipp av noe .
young people, the old one, like that
over kvelden . Tirsdag fortsetter
Rand ers var også der. Han kom-
glorified drink. There 's no restriction
der mandag slapp, og som en
mer til NHH og foreningsmøte se-
eller annE!n kjendis har sagt, «å
nere, og skal snakke om «Hvorfor
(sometimes yes, because of hig hest price) in all the planets of the galaxy. Women can be drunk just as men.
I had a n a ppointment in Ber-
week was a presentation ol the diffe-
gen on Sunday afternoon with 2 girls
rent courses, the different persons
ol the International Committee, who
who could help us during this semes-
appeared to be as beautilul as they
ter lor some ol us, and one year lor
trøkke eller ikke trøkke , det er
BI er bedre enn NHH .. . Dette
spørsmålet". Og det er det Kåre
trodde han v.ar en spøk, og vi var
som avgjør med si n suverene veto-
en ig iat det kunne høres sånn ut.
Everybody is equal and have the same
rett. Og den benytter han ofte, den
Vi l år se . Victor N. skal være vår
rights.
dritten. Men det er jo det samma
man n. BI-rektoren sa under mid -
even drive drunk ... hikk. The purpose ol the welcome
rundetider ned mot 38 b lank. »
Bulle. «.. .Arbeidet starter mandag
loreign person, which prooved how
splendid , and the most beautiful 'l
net raser rundt i blodet vårt med
been to a «nachspiel .. ).
me the way. She was not afraid ol a
T he vie~ from my room was
Pierre Nicalek
country is really worht being seen for
crazy fridays and saturdays' nights.
Another important value of
Franee but not the least, we don't
times (it can be often lor some), we
friends come here.
week with all the quiet places and the
take, she got into my car and showed
trustful people could be here.
with Klubben ... hikk. At my
This, how a little Irench guy has
Instead ol explaining the direction to
converted the 450 kilometres in four hours ol driving. The last point about
Piene Nicalek er utvekslingsstudent fra Marseille
value long time ago .
There 's a huge contrast between the
the «nice weathe r ~ we will have. The
After two days ol travellin'g
have lost that
det, bare tida går. Likevel hvis alt
dagen at han ønsket sterkt sivøk-
I wouldn'n e xpect myself
går som det skal (noe det selvføl-
tittelen . Dette gjorde meg veldig
seeing so manywomendriving buses,
gelig ikke gjør), tusler redaksjo-
glad, lor jeg hadde den med som
working as police officers, teaching in
nen hjem ved firetiden om morge-
gave fra foreningen, og den hang
nen, mens koffeinet og adrenali-
på stolen min . «
high school, being the head of
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