A journalist from the local newspaper on Tysnes came by to make pictures and ask some questions. He said he would write a little article about us and our arrival on Tysnes.
Walking into the supermarket on thursday, to pick up the news paper, I did't expect this:
Translating the big lines: Move from lower altitude to higher altitude & From that they leave behind to Tysnes. The journalist wrote a nice story about our motivation, plans and hopes. So now everybody knows our story and we get recognized in shops and streets. Welcome to a small island community!
Just like normal people :-), the kids go to school and play sports. Sam has joined the football team and Emma has started to play handball. They really like their sports and see many of their classmates again this way.
Jasper and I have gone to norwegian classes this week. We joined an advanced class with bulgarian, vietnamese, greek, and philippine ladies. It sounds quite ambitious to get into this class, but the dutch language has so much in common with norwegian that we can move on quickly through the chapters.
We get by allright in reading norwegian, and understanding (when people speak slowly) is reasonable when we know the topic. The speaking part is the challenge we encounter. Yesterday I asked my first supermarket question in norwegian and the lady understood!!! Emma was amazed.
A bit complicated is the fact that Norwey has two kinds of norwegian: nynorsk and bokmål.
On Tysnes they speak nynorsk and Emma and Sam learn nynorsk. We, however, get taught bokmål.
I don't know why, but I've been assured the norwegians understand both. Lets hope they understand my ny(nke)norsk as well.
On saturday we went to Bergen to check out the Bondensmarket and meet up with Mieke, our friend from Terschelling who just did the hurtigruten-route. It was a beautiful day and the market was full of people. The bondensmarket is a foodmarket with local producers in all kinds of food. It's on every other week and we are supposed to be their as well, but our cheesewagon is broken so we had to skip this one. Too bad, because there is a lot of money being spent there. But next market we will be there!
Driving back from Bergen takes about 40 minutes to the ferry. You can see Tysnes on the other side when the weather is clear. The ferryride takes about 25 minutes.
In the meantime Holland got a new king and "kingsday" went by in Norway as a normal day. Apparently we get to experience the norwegian national day on the 17th of may. From what I've heard it's pretty formal with lots of ceremonial stuff and traditional clothing etc. No secondhandsales on the streets, concerts or "oranjebitter"... we'll see...
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