A Few Quiet Weeks

So I've spent the last couple weekends in Trondheim.  I suppose sometimes you have to catch up with your studies.  The courses aren't very well organized, which can be quite frustrating.  I've got one where the professor clearly doesn't want to be teaching at all, one where there is a visiting professor who has a hard time explaining things or answering questions, and one where the lectures are given by someone different every week, leading to a predictable lack of continuity.  Soil Mechanics is still good, though!  Interesting that that's what I would've studied at Berkeley...

But being in Trondheim hasn't kept me from doing interesting things!  In fact, this past weekend I hiked out to a lake (Tømmerholtdammen), which I found by accident while running.  It's about 20 min hiking from my door to get to the park where the lake is located, and it took less than an hour to get to the lake itself.  That's something really great about Norway.  There are 3 more lakes as you hike deeper into the forest, so I've got plenty to explore... though maybe with skis...

Swimming in Bekken (a regional park)

I also got a haircut, which isn't that interesting, but it led to a funny picture.

Marcio the Maniac

This weekend we're going to Lofoten, a set of islands just north of the Arctic Circle!  I'm really psyched, though there will be a lot of transportation time (ferry north then bus tour then train south).  The following weekend I'll be headed south to Bergen and Stravanger to see some more fjords!