It´s already several days I am living in Norway and I can´t help shouting a couple of things that have amazed me about this incredible country. First of all, efficiency and organization. I have been visiting researcher in Austria, Ireland, Brazil and the USA. I was very lucky in both of the first ones, because my organization arranged everything but in the second ones, I had to do it by myself (with some support, of course). Fundamentally versus the USA, Norway has proved much more organized: yesterday, my second day of work, everything was set. I had a cozy workplace with a nice screen, keyboard and printer at hand. I was picked up by my colleague Mushfiq and taken to a really well organized studenthouse where my name was already yesterday on the door. I have all kind of facilities and… you know, time to enjoy Norway.
So far, two things shocked me way too much: lunch and working hours. At lunchtime, they head a so-called “kantine” and get bread and a salad. And what else? Nothing. Wow. Again. Wow. Then working hours are also funny: from 8:00 to 15:00. And the rest of the day, just to enjoy.
Norway can be defined by just one word: oil. Being the fourth largest oil exporter in the world, they can just get another well and go sleeping. Life is very relaxed… It is gonna be fun.
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