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Another thing I was thinking about in connection with my trip to bergen is the extreme focus all other regions in Norway put on Oslo - at the same time as they really don't like it at all.

They were all very certain that in Oslo you can get killed by just walking out on the street and living for them was apparently all about moving back out into the middle of nowhere where they were born after finishing their education in the nearest town with a population just large enough to provide for a college.

The most amazing thing about these misconceptions of Oslo is that Norway is incredibly Oslo-focused.

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This weekend I was in Bergen and it was the first time for a very long time that I have spend an extensive amount of time with "normal" non-political Norwegian youngsters. Well, not really, they were not all that unpolitical, but they were not on the extreme far left. Or at least not all of them were. I was attending the fall camp of the Pedagogy Students (PS) - the student chapter of the main teachers labor union.


CARO - coffe substitute
And then yesterday, I started reflecting a bit upon the the meaning of coffe-substitutes...

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Do you know those situations when you think you feel love (or have recently) for a person at the same time that you really despise their behavior? Well, that's where I'm at right now. It might not even be her behavior so much as what my subjective interpretation is of it: whenever she shows some positive signs - a smile, a brief, a flattering remark, a yell of my name across a room full of people - I almost always tend to interpret it as no sign at all or a sign of her trying to play with me. But then I got this dream (with Nazis and stuff), and I think that explained a lot.

Johannes at night

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Do you know those situations when you move too fast to reflect upon your? It feels like I'm trying to do that right now. Just looking at the time span between Thursday evening and until now (Saturday morning)...


Camping for a cause - in the background the Norwegian parliament

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Last Saturday we had two demonstrations right after oneanother. The goals of the demonstration were slightly different, altough probably most participating in one, could also have been in the other. However, they did turn out to be quite different.

While the first demonstration was against the Norwegian company Yara handing out an ecology prize to the dictator of Ethiopia, the second one was for a true left wing shift in Norwegian politics after the general elections next week, no matter how they turn out.

Now look at these pictures (more pics below). Aren't the differences telling?



Yara demonstration


Oslo 2005 demonstration

Actually, it's not even all about race, as I'll explain...

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