Archive for the year 2010
The New Holmenkollen Ski Jump Posted by kari on Mar 9, 2010
A while back, I wrote a post about Holmenkollen, Oslo’s famous ski jumping arena. Well, it’s about to get more famous and attract lots of international attention next weekend during the World Cup trials. Just to give you some background information again, the first competition at Holmenkollen was back in January of 1892. So, that…
Hilton comes to Oslo Posted by kari on Mar 6, 2010
The hotel giant Hilton is in the process of building a hotel in downtown Oslo tvers overfor (right across from) The Grand Hotel; it will be a Doubletree Hotel, just like the other 10 Hilton hotels in Europe. With 500 hotels verden rundt (world wide/around the world), Oslo will be the first city in Skandinavia, much less Norway, to be…
a-ha is ‘’Ending on a High Note’’-the title of their upcoming tour. Posted by kari on Mar 5, 2010
Did you know that the famous “synthpop/rock” band is Norwegian? I didn’t know this for a long time. a-ha is Norway’s best selling musical artist ever and they are going on a special tour in August and September around Norway before they go on to perform their last konserter (concerts) at Oslo Spektrum in December-unfortunately these are…
The elderly wave doesn’t hit Oslo Posted by kari on Mar 4, 2010
”Eldrebølgen treffer ikke Oslo.” Oslo seems to be becoming more and more popular among younger people in Norway. The proportion of older people to younger used to be much greater than it is today. More young people are choosing to remain in Oslo after graduating from university, for example. Two women, Anne Cecilie Isaksen and…
Norwegians in Chile Posted by kari on Feb 27, 2010
As most of you have probably already heard, a massive jordskjelv (earthquake) has just hit Chile-8.8 magnitude, det femte sterkeste skjelvet (the 5th strongest quake) since jordskjelver were measured på Richters skala (Richter’s scale) in 1900. I thought it would be appropriate to write a post about this tragic event because there are many nordmenn…
training Posted by kari on Feb 26, 2010
å trene. I would like to stay with the Olympic theme since the 2010 Vancouver winter games are on most peoples’ minds and they are nearly over 🙁 . I have been thinking a lot about how intense it must be to be an Olympic atlet. Think about the kind of disiplin one would have…
Norwegian athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics Posted by kari on Feb 24, 2010
There are currently over 100 athletes representing Norway in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In case you are curious about the events that Norwegians have excelled in so far during these winter games, the following is information including navn, alder, hjemby, idrett, og medalje(r) (name, age, hometown, sport, and medal(s)). There are 15 sports in these winter games…