Onwards: as I wandered around with my friend, who graciously served as a knowledgeable tour guide of Norway, I was fed many interesting tidbits of information about my surroundings. One of the most interesting pieces I heard was the fact that the American embassy has the highest surveillance of all the buildings in Oslo. There are tons of cameras to monitor the facade and street. To me, it looked like a prison on the outside. I wonder if they were able to perform facial recognition on me as I passed by to see if I was a terrorist or a U.S. citizen? I digress. The building is super creepy, maybe the plants out front aren't doing the trick?
Not too far away from the embassy is a park.
You may be thinking to yourself: "this park isn't that great, why are you telling us about it?" Well my friend, it is because it is not quite like any other park I have been to. That pole-like thing in the picture above is actually a stack of a bunch of naked people:
(Pardon the blur)
Yup, that's right, they're all nakey.
I imagine this park has a lovely, official name, but I decided to give it a name of my own. I call it The Nakey People Park--quite fitting, don't you think?
What would a trip to The Nakey People Park be without a lovely picnic?
And a picture I am sure I will regret floating around the internet (to my future employer(s), sorry):
The other tourists were certainly getting a kick out of my posing!
My Norweigan culturing didn't stop there! I went to the Edvard Munch museum. Regrettably, I wasn't able to take any pictures from within the museum, but here is a google image of his eminent painting, The Scream:
An interesting bit of information about Munch is that he would often times paint a picture and then repaint that picture from a different angle or perspective, include or exclude a certain element. There are numerous copies of The Scream, but they are all pretty similar. The museum also did not have this as a major display, it was on the wall with copious other works.
This was one of my favorite pieces, The Sun:
My last day in Norway was jampacked! Back at the Rygge home we played a bit of frisbee and had a little going away party--the cake was amazing!
I imagine this park has a lovely, official name, but I decided to give it a name of my own. I call it The Nakey People Park--quite fitting, don't you think?
What would a trip to The Nakey People Park be without a lovely picnic?
And a picture I am sure I will regret floating around the internet (to my future employer(s), sorry):
The other tourists were certainly getting a kick out of my posing!
My Norweigan culturing didn't stop there! I went to the Edvard Munch museum. Regrettably, I wasn't able to take any pictures from within the museum, but here is a google image of his eminent painting, The Scream:
An interesting bit of information about Munch is that he would often times paint a picture and then repaint that picture from a different angle or perspective, include or exclude a certain element. There are numerous copies of The Scream, but they are all pretty similar. The museum also did not have this as a major display, it was on the wall with copious other works.
This was one of my favorite pieces, The Sun:
My last day in Norway was jampacked! Back at the Rygge home we played a bit of frisbee and had a little going away party--the cake was amazing!
The next morning I woke up at 7 AM and I was off to the train station to begin the rest of my journey alone!
