I hope everybody had a great week and weekend. This week I was given more of an idea of what I will be doing for Opera. Basically I will be split between, business development, marketing and analyzing stats. I’m not sure how much details I can give about the projects I will be working on because I signed this confidentiality policy. So in fear of them breaking my legs, if you have any questions about what I do exactly just ask me and I’ll send you a more personal e-mail. On Friday, we had our traditionally Friday beers. After a few pints a few colleagues and I went back to one of the offices and played Nintendo Wii for a few hours. The reason why this guy has a Wii in his office is because Opera provides the web browser for the Wii. It was the first time I tried the Wii and it was pretty damn fun ( the beer helped haha).
I am having trouble with my cell phone. I can receive and send text messages but I cannot receive or make calls. It’s the weirdest thing. When I first tried to call someone it gave me a long message in Norwegian. My roommate helped me out saying that I need to register my phone … no problem right? Well, in Norway, with some service providers you need a social insurance number to register your phone. I applied for my social insurance number last week and was informed that it would take about 4 weeks to get it. I am working to getting my phone to work faster. Here is my number and address for those who are interested:
Cell: +47 94 42 73 16
Address:
Asaveien 20
0362, Oslo
Norway
On Saturday night I attended a Julebord party that is normally held at Christmas time. A Julebord is the Norwegian equivalent to our Christmas. This was held by AIESEC and the reason it was held this late is because a lot of people went home for the holidays and were unable to attend it at the regular time. Julebord is basically the same as Christmas, there is a lot of eating and drinking! One thing that I found pretty cool was that in Norway, whenever there is a formal dinner, there are two toasts during supper; one for the men and one for the women. The way this works is that during the meal one guy holds a speech and toasts the women. After he is done the other men at the dinner stand up and sing a song in Norwegian that toasts the women. After that the same thing is done but it’s the women toasting the men. It’s pretty interesting because most of the speech is centered on bashing the other sex and the last few lines of the toast are to honor the other sex.
After the julebord celebrations, we went downtown to the bars. Downtown Oslo on a Saturday night is insane! Every single club or Pub had a line of at least 50 people! I’ve never seen a downtown area so busy. The club was ok, I only had one beer because it’s so freaking expensive. After that we went outside to get a cab. In Oslo, public transport stops at 12:30 … so all those people at every club needed a cab. There is something pretty weird in Oslo for cab services. Since it is so busy and impossible to get a cab by phone, there is an actual line to get a cab ! There are certain street signs in the downtown area with a taxi logo. So people wait in line next to these signs for the next cab to arrive. A friend and I waited 45 minutes in the freezing cold to get a cab! It wasn’t the best first night out in downtown Oslo, but now I know what to expect.
Tomorrow I start my Norwegian classes paid for by the company. I’m pretty pumped to start learning a new language.
Feel free to leave comments. I would like to hear from you guys!
Have a good week! I have posted some apartment pictures for those interested.
Miss you guys a lot!
Go Sens Go!
Jason
P.S. The picture is of our doormat. Welcoming ...no?
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