I have cold feet but not in the way it sounds. I think that “Kristie needs a new pair of shoes”. Actually, I need some winter boots. I am already feeling the discomfort of living in Norway’s cold winter after a few days of snow/rain/slush. My shoes have yet to dry…oh well, live and learn!

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I dont care about all the people who keep telling me how much I will hate it, and I’m sorry for boring you with more about the weather…but last night I went to bed everything was normal.
Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over [...]

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It is official, the ski season has started here in Oslo, Norway. Today it was announced that the slopes are open and ready to go!
I find it a little strange considering that it snowed on Wednesday and was beautiful, but then on Thursday it was POURING raining all day. Maybe not up in the mountains, [...]

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Guess what? Today it finally happened! I had to be up early this morning and when I walked outside it was still dark, but it was snowing and all of the ground was white! It snowed! It wasn’t a huge thick layer, and was gone by the time most everyone else had woken up…but I [...]

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Everyone here in Norway is complaining about the weather and how cold it is constantly. I love it and I am starting to think these people have issues because I think it is beautiful and really dont know what their problem is! If they hate it so much why dont they just move somewhere where [...]

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So, guess what? It actually snowed today. Nothing stuck to the ground but for a minute I saw snow! It was very exciting!
I had to get up much earlier today than I normally do, and I was walking across a grass park and I noticed that the grass was crunchy under my feet. I [...]

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Ever since I moved here to Norway everyone I meet has been telling me how much I am going to hate the winter here and how I am “In for it” when it gets colder. But so far, I have loved it and think its beautiful.
When I arrived in September everyone said to me “Just [...]

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It’s so fun for me to get to experience some of the new and different things about Norway since I’ve moved here. I am like a little kid at Disneyland sometimes because it is so new and fun.
For example today at about 4:30PM it was already dark! Its so cool! Now I know everyone who [...]

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Since moving here to Norway, I have heard of some new inventions that had never occurred to me before living in LA where the weather is always nice and warm. For example, I read that here in Norway (I don’t know where at the moment) they have heated sidewalks for the cold winter days.
Or like [...]

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My friend complains about how Norwegians always always are talking about the weather.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin~
But since I have moved here and have been here a while, I [...]

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