17th of May-party

We had a great party at the 17th of May at a lodge by the lake in Rock Hill. Our host-families and new friends did a great job to make sure that we had a super celebration of our national day! Thank you everyone :-) We even had a guest who could speak Norwegian, he remebered it from 1972, when he spent a year in Ski as an exchange student. Amazing!
Linda took Christian and Martin on a shopping-tour to get hold of all the food we needed for our party. Gale helped me to shop for my baking-experiment (blotkake) while I was strolling around in the botanical garden. After a quick call to my sister to make sure that we had the equivalent American measures compared to my Norwegian recipe. It worked out very well, our guests thought it was a very good cake! I forgot to take a picture, so you have to imagine this: a white fluffy cream cake filled with strawberries both inside and on top. Mmmmmm.
As you can see from the picture, me and Kristoffer put on our best clothes, our national costumes. All five even sang our national anthem, like we always do on the 17th of May.















MY VOCATIONAL DAY AT THE IMAGINON
Friday I had a fantastic day in Charlotte, visiting the main library, and then having a tour of Imaginon, the children and youth library (ages 0 to 18). This quote I found outside the main library:



















Imaginon is a great library. I wish I could pack it in my suitcase and bring it back to Oslo. Imaginon is both a library and a children's theater, the house is full of activities, a great place to hang out.














I had to have a picture of myself in this comfortable chair made of telephone catalogues. The 6R Movement is a group of young people who work with different environmental projects at the library, for excample recycling old telephone catalogues into chairs.
















This is an overlooking view over the library, but to get a full picture of this fantastic library, you'll have to visit it. I enjoyed every minute of it.