It has been tough times lately for Culture Shock. Mainly regarding making any money from this blog. I love writing my blog so much and have so much fun working on it, but it seems any venues for making money with my blog are all dried up. So if anyone would like some advertising space [...]

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Sometimes I battle going the ‘professional’ route or the ‘creative’ route with my blog. Thats because I am a creative person. So, I am just letting you know that although I have been battling my inner demons between just going straight through the series or also writing other things at the same time, I’ve decided [...]

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Okay, I just have to share…because I am having the most bizarre experience as we speak. The guy that we live with is a little…um…strange. He just got playing the sound of music sound track, but in some weird language that I don’t know. Now he is blasting music that is remakes of 50’s classic [...]

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One other thing that I have been doing for my recovery of my trip to India (besides catch up on all of the great reality tv that I love so much) is I have been eating MEAT! Oh, I miss meat so much. It is so good (I am sorry to all animal loving vegetarians [...]

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Now that I am back in Norway with a real kitchen and a real internet connection (and no Indian food in site…yay!), I have started my ‘recovery’ from my three month stay at the ashram in India. This started with a full day of catching up on all of the episodes of The Real World: [...]

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I have been here in India at this ashram for almost three months now…and I have survived. It is a miracle. But now I have to study. It is so difficult sometimes for me to take tests and exams and things like that because sometimes my memory is not so good. Well, it is what [...]

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The weather here in India has been strange. First it seemed like a few months ago that the monsoon season was coming early. But then it went, and now there is no rain. It is really terrible for the farmers in the villages because they depend on the rain to grow their crops. Right now [...]

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So much traveling and so little time for me in the past year! But I am really not complaining. The only problem is that my suitcases are starting to really fall apart on me. I think it might be time for me to start researching on the internet to buy some new good luggage.
Do you [...]

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I found a great website for someone like me (an expat who lives in Norway…but is in India at the moment). The kind of site that really spreads the love all over the world. What kind of love you ask? Well, that would be the love of television and movies :)
If you have been around [...]

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I am tired. I am going home, back to Norway, in about two more weeks. Everything that I am learning and doing here at the ashram are really great, but tiring. I am looking forward to some kind of break. But it will be back to work when we get home.

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