Showing posts with label cold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold. Show all posts

Sunday, December 26, 2010

fitting in

Trish lives in what I would call the "arab quarter" of Oslo. Lots of brown immigrants. So I fit in great...
One plus of living in this area is having a lot of delicious food around me. I can smell curry from the sidewalk in front of her house. I should go eat some if its not over 10 euro (which it probably will be considering how ridiculously expensive it is here.) I might just have to settle for some muesli (granola).

so i wore 2 layers of wool socks today, i found long johns that a havent taken off for over a day now. i wore 6 layers on top (including my fleece and coat, and leggings over the long johns, gloves, 2 scarves (one thin, and one giant one over it, and a beanie. i could hardly move.

bundled up


I went to watch the sunrise today, and i trespassed on the opera house (dont know why there were no respassing signs, i thought it was allowed so i ignored them) and i got there late, becuse it was broad daylight, but i still couldnt see the sun because 1. it was mostly cloudy and 2. it was coming up from behind a MOUNTAIN...so i waited for an hour and the sun was being really slow, and i never saw it come out from behind the mountain so it was a bit anti climactic. now i am going to go eat something and then go to the munch museum.

opera house





frozen ocean



this reminds me of one of my enclosures projects from arch. school

oslo and the opera house

the sun was supposed to come up over the mountain on the right

cozy in the snow

glass sculpture that looks like an ice berg

snow

oslo

more frozen ocean water

Friday, December 24, 2010

perfume and freezing nostrils


it reminds me of my mom.  i discovered it when I was in salamanca i believe, and now when I'm waiting in the airports i go  in the duty free stores and go straight for it.

on a more {generally} relevant/important note: the inside of my nose froze tonight when I was walking to catch the bus. a new sensation I suppose i'll have to get used to. oh another new sensation: your face hurting from the cold. I also cant wear glasses in this weather because they will inevitably steam up and then freeze . also, wearing glasses, because its metal, make your face feel much colder than it actually is. I feel like i understand my parents more in just having come to norway. My parents lived in Minnesota for 8 or 9 years when they first moved to america. They were living in temperatures similar to what I am experiencing now. (but it gets darker in oslo faster)

thats all for now!
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