Bergen, Norway

I had a wonderful time when I was in Bergen. It was a beautiful city and it was so nice to spend time with my roommate from Germany. I stayed with Line and Andre and their dog Amanda while I was in Bergen and their home was so quaint. It was on the mountainside, just like all of the other houses are in Bergen. The city is surrounded by 7 mountains and many rivers so there is no choice but to build the houses on the mountainsides. It was definitely the most unique thing that I had seen while I was in Bergen and I loved it. Everyone there was so nice and I got to spend time with both Line and Andre’s families. Everyone was welcoming and I felt very comfortable there. I also saw my friend Simen who studies in Bergen. It was great to see him again and his reaction to actually seeing me in Norway was wonderful.
Since Bergen is surronded by the mountains, it rains all of the time there. Even though it rained a lot, the city was still very pretty. The last day that I was there, the weather was perfect! Everything was beautiful and there were people walking all around the city. Bergen is a very active city, rain or shine and the people are all very diverse. Everyone spoke English, tv shows were in English and the radio was in English too! Norway celebrates all of the Catholic holidays so when I was there everything was closed on Thrusday and everyone had off from work. On average a person works 37.5 hrs a week and has 5 weeks off during the year…something very different than the US.
While I was there, I was able to go for a few drives around the city and to Line’s parent’s cabin so it was nice to see the country side. We also went for coffee a few times and we walked around the downtown area. Since Line and Andre live on a little island I was able to take a ferry to the main part of the city also. We went for a cable car ride up one of the mountains:Fløyen and then we walked down which was very Norwegian since everything is about nature there. While we were on line a Norwegian reporter came up to us and asked to take our picture and interview me for the Bergen newspaper! I don’t think that we made it into the actual newspaper, but it was still kind of exciting.
I really had a wonderful time in Bergen, I was able to learn some Norwegian words including Tusen Takk (thank you very much), God dag (good day), Nei (no) and Ha det bra (good bye), I learned some history of the city including the story about the famous violinist who tried to create his own state and I met very nice people who made my trip great!

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