Good ol' days

My building looks like this from the outside and the red square is the window to my bedroom :) As you can see, the building was not built yesterday. This becomes a lot clearer when you come inside my castle. The elevator makes you feel like Humphrey Bogart is just around the corner - or - running the actual elevator, as some strange post-acting retirement job. The elevator is "fra før krigen" as we say in Norwegian, "from before the war". And when we speak like this there was really only one war; WWII. This is not something out of my imagination, there is a plaque posted in the elevator with the year 1939. Enjoy the images below and envy me my Humphrey B lifestyle - I am of course Lauren Bacall........

From Norway with love......

.......to norske ting har tydelig reist til Finland. Den ene er slå-seg-på-brystet-aktig flott: tegneserien Nemi! Jeg har ikke forsøkt å lese den finske oversettelsen, men gratulerer til forfatter Lise :)
Den andre er mer av typen ehe-flau-rødming-i-butikken:



Regner med stor takknemlighet blant leserne over at jeg henger rundt frysedisker og filmer.... Og som dere kanskje ser, her er det et hav av ulike Grandiosa-pizzaer..?*!? Til opplysning koster en vanlig grandis her rundt €4, gang det med dagens Euro og man ser straks at nei, den ble ikke billigere av å reise til Finland.

Becoming a true Finn.....

There are a few things that you 'must' do just so that you can say that 'Yes, I have lived in Finland'.
One of these things is without a doubt sitting in a wooden sauna and hold on as long as you possibly can. Here is the sauna some class mates and I went to on April fools day - just to make a point :)

A typical sign of when you most likely will start running for the door any second is when yet another Finnish guy throws water on the sauna stones. The temperature gauge shows 120+ degrees celsius, your ears feels like they will fall off any second, and your skin is telling you that tiny needles are poking you everywhere.

You run out - and there, much to your relief is the ice covered lake! Aaaaw, bliss.
So, here I am - in lake Näsijärvi.

BI-rektor trekker (u)logiske slutninger

Aftenposten:
BI-rektor Tom Colbjørnsen er ikke spesielt overrasket over at kvinner får mindre igjen for utdanning enn menn. – Menn er mer ensporede, og legger mye mer tid ned i jobben. Kvinner prioriterer kanskje andre ting enn jobben, for eksempel å gå på utstilling eller å være sammen med venninner, sier Colbjørnsen. Link til klokskapen i Aftenposten.

.......eh, flaut Colbjørnsen? Eh, ja....