Study buddies and class statistics
I've just had a great afternoon with two of the girls in my class, Jenny and Ruth. We had a very productive brainstorming session on our essay and also had great chats about a whole bunch of non-study things over coffee and cake.
My life at the moment revolves around uni - nearly everyone I know in Oslo is in my class and most of my time is taken up with reading, going to lectures, and working on papers and my main time-outs are going for a run or checking the news or tennis/cricket scores on the net. So different from my life in Canberra where I divide my time between work, part-time study, cricket, choir, friends, family, housemates and whatever else is going on.
It's good to be making friends so fast.
My class is relatively small - 17 of us in total with 9 Norskes, 6 Aussies, 1 Canadian-Australian and 1 crazy Mexican. Are all Mexicans crazy?
The gender mix is much more equal than last year - 9 girls, 8 blokes.
3 of the Norske guys are from the military and a couple of the other Norskes have had experience working for NGOs in places such as Palestine, Sudan and Afghanistan. A few of the other Aussies are public servants and others are continuing full-time students. Academic backgrounds are diverse, including law, environmental science, linguistics, education, international business, development studies and many with international relations.
Everyone is very nice and polite. In my genocide subject as an undergrad, my lecturer commented that he had noticed that at international conferences on genocide, people were particularly nice. Maybe studying the worst elements of human behaviour encourages people to try to bring out the best elements of human behaviour in themselves.
My life at the moment revolves around uni - nearly everyone I know in Oslo is in my class and most of my time is taken up with reading, going to lectures, and working on papers and my main time-outs are going for a run or checking the news or tennis/cricket scores on the net. So different from my life in Canberra where I divide my time between work, part-time study, cricket, choir, friends, family, housemates and whatever else is going on.
It's good to be making friends so fast.
My class is relatively small - 17 of us in total with 9 Norskes, 6 Aussies, 1 Canadian-Australian and 1 crazy Mexican. Are all Mexicans crazy?
The gender mix is much more equal than last year - 9 girls, 8 blokes.
3 of the Norske guys are from the military and a couple of the other Norskes have had experience working for NGOs in places such as Palestine, Sudan and Afghanistan. A few of the other Aussies are public servants and others are continuing full-time students. Academic backgrounds are diverse, including law, environmental science, linguistics, education, international business, development studies and many with international relations.
Everyone is very nice and polite. In my genocide subject as an undergrad, my lecturer commented that he had noticed that at international conferences on genocide, people were particularly nice. Maybe studying the worst elements of human behaviour encourages people to try to bring out the best elements of human behaviour in themselves.
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