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• 1 RennyBA // Oct 30, 2008 at 8:43 pm

  Actually I think the pics both before and after the snow was beautiful!

  I think I’m ready for a real and snowy winter here in Oslo, Norway too and hope you Californian girl can experience a nice, white winter

• 2 Jade // Nov 2, 2008 at 5:53 am

  OMG Kristie those pics are sooo beautiful! I dropped by to say hi and to see how you were doing. Miss you!

• 3 UmmeAaiman // Nov 10, 2008 at 4:45 am

  Awesome breathtaking pics………

• 4 Stefan // Nov 11, 2008 at 8:37 am

  Growing in California as well, snow was always fun for me too! Even after moving to an area that snowed, it was still fun after a few winters. On top of the beautiful winterscapes, it’s makes summer that much more fun to look forward too.

  I grew up in San Diego. We had two seasons. Fall and Summer. Boring.

• 5 Claire // Nov 11, 2008 at 6:34 pm

  Hello,
  I tried to contact you by e-mail but the form wouldn’t let me fill out any of my information. Anyway, I would be very appreciative if I could ask you a few questions via e-mail about working as an expatriate in Norway. I am an international business student in the U.S. and I’m doing a presentation on business culture in Norway. Please let me know if you can help at all or know someone who can. I promise I won’t take much of your time. Great pictures by the way!

• 6 Shannon // Nov 11, 2008 at 8:51 pm

  Hei! Wow beautiful pictures of Oslo. I’m bummed that I missed out on Fall in Norway but I guess I’ll be in for some winter fun. I’m from Ohio so I’m used to snow and cold but its unpredicable in Ohio not cold all the time as I’m sure I might run into in Norway. I leave for Norway Dec. 20th and I’m spending 2 weeks there. I enjoyed my 3 month stay this summer and can’t wait to go back. Though I’m not looking forward to the cold, snow is always pretty no matter where you are. I didn’t forget about your email Kristie just been busy with finishing my Masters Degree and now I have more time to figure out my future move to Norway.
  Shannon

• 7 michelle of bleeding espresso // Nov 12, 2008 at 5:02 pm

  GORGEOUS photos! I love snow having grown up in the mountains of Pennsylvania, but we don’t get much near me in southern Italy…thanks for sharing

• 8 kist // Nov 16, 2008 at 6:35 am

  i am pretty much glad to have stumbled upon your blog. it was my first time in norway just last october 3rd til november 6th. twas my first time to see snow reading your blog gave me ideas of what i need if i push thru moving there. thank you. im from cali too. reading your blog gives me an idea of how it is to move out there and i really want to move just not sure how to do everything. i think i stayed there near oslo too. twas like 30 mins away… hoping yud write more

• 9 Karen // Nov 20, 2008 at 11:43 pm

  I just saw that you posted a comment on my site. It may have been about a year ago or so. I haven’t been there much lately, but maybe I’ll be coming back to it. I’ll explain on there why I have been so busy.
  But I will come by here more often too. Looks like a great site you got here!

• 10 Maricris // Nov 22, 2008 at 1:09 am

  Great pictures! I love the quick transition from Fall to winter. So lovely! btw, stopping by here via EC

• 11 Kirstin // Nov 23, 2008 at 12:16 am

  I just stumbled across your website while looking for resources (and I could not get the contact page to work), and wanted to tell you how helpful and entertaining your blog is!
  I’m engaged to a wonderful Norwegian man, we will marry in 2009 (here in WA state), and most likely move to Norway within the first year of being married…I spent my whole summer there, so am familiar with the culture, and the locations, my Norwegian is pretty good also…but I cannot help being super nervous about totally uprooting myself from my home-country to become a proper Norwegian wife!
  I’ll continue to read and stay in touch, thanks so much for sharing your life and precious info about being an expat in Norway!

• 12 Kristie // Nov 24, 2008 at 4:35 pm

  @Kirstin: Kirstin…thanks for the great comments. Good luck with your marrige and move. Please keep me updated! I would love to hear how it goes for you. I am always looking for others opinions to share with all of my readers about their experiences in Norway. So it would be great to hear more from you. Sorry my contact form is not working…I know I need to get that fixed!

• 13 Romancing Italy // Nov 30, 2008 at 10:21 pm

  I too am from California and now living in northern Italy. I was excited when we got a little snow…little for us, but elsewhere not too far, meters upon meters to trap in enough country folk for the day. I think you would have loved it. Chances are, you will have more than your fair share this winter.
  Bev

• 14 Stephanie // Dec 5, 2008 at 4:30 pm

  wow great pictures. i’m a studen who’s probably going to norway for an exchange program, and i was just surfing and ended up at your website. have to say i love the pictures. a side question – how do you rate the cost of living? because everyone seems to be railing about how high it is and expensive the place is!

• 15 Sharon // Dec 6, 2008 at 2:52 am

  I’m really excited about the snow too! We are hoping to move to Norway this summer.

• 16 Area 51 Aliens // Dec 8, 2008 at 2:08 am

  The pictures look amazing! I love the snow

• 17 Shannon // Dec 9, 2008 at 8:53 pm

  Wow Kirstin… looks like we have something in common. I also spent the summer in Norway and I also got engaged while there to a Norwegian. He and I plan to marry in 2009 as well. I plan on getting married there as well as moving to norway. Let me tell you getting married to someone from another country is a crazy mess but I think we have finally figured it out. Anyone have any great ideas or know any good companies for shipping your belongings there that don’t cost a fortune? I’m not shipping a ton of things but somethings I just can’t do without like my art stuff.
  Congrats to you as well and best wishes!

• 18 jazz // Dec 16, 2008 at 8:50 am

  Hi, it’s nice to read about your blog. My father is an expat too and he is working in Doha, Qatar at the moment. Keep up your blog. Love the photos.

• 19 Tracy // Dec 19, 2008 at 11:07 pm

  That is absolutely beautiful!
  The first year I lived in this Colorado ski town I was looking forward to the snow and it did not come until the end of Nov. The ski hill ended up opening 10 days late it was so bad. But when it starts it really gets going.

• 20 Kumar // Dec 22, 2008 at 2:11 pm

  Hi, Thanks for the info about Norway. I might end up there soon. Tananger. Pure vegetarian..
  Any new inputs for a pure vegetarian ?
  I belong to India ( Good to see the Taj Mahal ) in your website..

  Thanks kindly
  Good luck
  Kumar

• 21 Vibeke // Dec 27, 2008 at 12:28 pm

  Hey,

  Kinda off-topic here. I wanted to send you an e-mail through the ‘Contact Me’ form, and I couldn’t type anything into it in either IE or Firefox.

  Of course this might be a problem on my end, but I just thought I’d let you know.

  Keep on writing!

• 22 Ed Harris // Dec 28, 2008 at 7:38 am

  Located here in Ohio. Winter Wonderland today.
  70 degrees! Hard to believe, but true.

  Unfortunately, Sunday we’ll be back in the 30s.

  Ed Harris

• 23 shiling // Dec 28, 2008 at 6:51 pm

  hey~ i’m glad i found your blog! i’m going Norway for exchange trip next year fr aug to dec and i’m equally excited about the snow i’m goin to see! i’m from Singapore, a country in Asia near equator. so i only get sun n rain.

• 24 Anna // Dec 31, 2008 at 5:23 am

  I’ve wanted to visit Norway for the longest time, and those pictures are gorgeous. I like the second and third ones the best; they are beautifully captured; completely worthy of being published in a calendar or advertisement, I think.

• 25 Kristie // Jan 4, 2009 at 10:20 pm

  @Anna: Thanks

• 26 Kristie // Jan 4, 2009 at 10:25 pm

  @Vibeke: Sorry… I know its been broken for a while, I have to fix that!

• 27 Kristie // Jan 4, 2009 at 10:29 pm

  @Stephanie: It is…after you estimate your ‘cost of living’ according to what you think it will be here, then double it because its always more expensive than you expect.

• 28 Jack // Jan 12, 2009 at 10:49 am

  Hi there:-) I found you by typing into google “my life in norway”. I was thinking about sharing my time here as well. Maybe you could contact me when you have a moment, (I assume that your contact does not work based on all the other comments:-) Life abroad changes us over the years. After 14 years in Tønsberg, I feel like I do not fit in here or in L.A. sometimes. I guess that is a good thing as well depending on how you look at it:-) My journey/story has been pretty strange but I have a happy familly and company, both filled with daily challenges that make life…living!

• 29 KZBlog // Jan 17, 2009 at 6:45 am

  What beautiful pictures. And how great it is when snow just suddenly falls and covers everything.

• 30 Northern Dream // May 18, 2009 at 10:59 am

  you’re so lucky ’cause where you’re are now is dream of all my life,Now I try and try each day to be there 10 or 20 years later. And I ‘m not sure that Would I can be there or not???
  Everynight I pray to be an Norwegian in next life, but I have to try to be in Norway thought once in this life time.
  I love Norway so much.I hope you can share more about life in Norway.

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