Nidelva by eivinsiNidelva in Trondheim (Photo: Eivind S. Simonsen © All rights reserved)

It’s over a year since I left Trondheim, my university city in Norway.

The year has been great (as this blog proves) and I’ve met loads of new, kind, cool and awesome people abroad and I’ve been able to travel a lot, both in France and in Europe. It has been a great experience!

That said, it’s also nice to be back too.

It’s cool to meet old friends again, to get back to “my” apartment (I rent it) and to be back with my apartment mates Ellen and Andreas.

I’ve spent the past two months mainly in Oslo, where I’ve lived at Kringsjå student housing. I haven’t felt properly at home, a bit too institutionalized. Even though I’ve just got back to Trondheim and my life is still in a set of boxes in the attic, I still feel at home, relaxed and excited about the semester and school year to come.

Here’s my initial plan for this fall:

- Get into NTNUI volleyball team, probably team 2 or 3 (tryouts this Wednesday, wish me luck!)
- Start working out (jogging and iron pumping, you know ..)
- Be a “parrain” for a foreign student (I’ve already signed up, but don’t know what’s happening).
- Save money for traveling (must travel more!)