Norway 2003, Part I - People and Country
The first part of my very short and extremely biased photographic travelogue from the International Summer School, a great institution bringing together every year appr. 500 students from all arround the world to live, study, and interact in the friendly environment of the University of Oslo.
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The ISS was about both representing our own culture (left: the Slovak stand during the Cultural Evening) and sharing the best of the global civilization with new friends (right: the International Relations class in the t-bane, Oslo's subway). |  |
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The Norwegian Kingdom is a typical welfare state. There are small private cars (the picture taken near the Oslo Domkirken), but lavish public buses (a colorful Pakistani bus in front of the Folk Museum in Oslo). |  |
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Norwegian culture does not include only big guys like Ibsen, Munch, and Grieg. It plays a significant role in lives of ordinary people. In the Blindern Dormitories, there is a piano even at the toilet. |  |
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Back to the real art. You can get to the Viking Ships Museum by ferry. The line is a part of the Oslo's Public Transport System, whose stops are decorated by astonishing advertisements. |  |
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In addition to paintings, Oslo offers an amazing variety of outdoor and indoor sports... from a football match in the Vigeland Sculpture Park to a fight against a dangereous musk in the Polar Ship FRAM Museum. |  |