– It’s cool to get to eat some Norwegian food. She enrolled in the Norwegian course on top of her courses for her English and German degree which her university back home required. Sandra Blanc from France was one of the few exchange students there. – Gammalost! It was really good, he said. He has lived in Norway for five years but there was one food item he hadn’t tried before. student, was enjoying a plate of lapskaus while chatting to a group of students he had just met that evening. Myrvold named what they had to offer that evening and shared a cute anecdote about being rewarded with Søstrene-Hagelin fishcakes as a child to convince the students to try them at least once. FOTO: PATRICIA VALECILLOS MARCANOĪ short presentation about the food followed the introduction. Anna-Marie Kjøde Olsen, another assistant professor for the courses, was on waffle duty for the evening. – It was great to hear so many students speaking Norwegian to each other. Professor assistant Molde had happily noticed as well. Most students did their best to follow suit and put English aside and speak Norwegian for the evening. All of this was, of course, said in Norwegian. There would be Norwegian food, a quiz about Norway, a musical performance in Norwegian and in the end there would even be a little crash-course in traditional Norwegian dancing. By 19:10 there was almost no place to sit and several groups were standing around while chatting.Īt 19:30 Myrvold took the stage to welcome everyone and introduce the schedule. The event would start half an hour later. Full HouseĪd Fontes, the student bar at the Humanities Faculty of UiB, was scheduled to open its doors at 19:00. Myrvold and Else Berit Molde are both assistant professors for the courses and thought a “Norwegian Evening” was needed to give their students a chance to get to know not only each other, but also a bit more of Norwegian culture. Most international graduate students attend Norwegian language courses at the Humanities Faculty of the University of Bergen (UiB). Before we’ve had smaller events like film nights, so this is very exciting, said assistant professor Pernille Myrvold. We thought it was important to organize a social event for those students that usually do not have them.
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