Hei folks.
I'm working for my finals (right now a course about the Swedish Erik/Sverker dynasties) and I hope you're all fine. Here in Paris the weather is pretty nice and the smell of BBQ starts flying
over my neighbourhood on sundays.
I have not said a single word about it since I created this blog, but my stay in Bergen has been planned for years. I visited the city several times and last year i visited a friend who was
studying there, see Flickr or Picasa (right column) for photos.
As written below y courses seem to have been accepted. So here what I'll do if everything goes as I planned it:
I met my "Erasmus coordinator" in December. A very "cool" guy. He seemed to appreciate my project. Last year I left my University because those wankers didn't want to let me go, so I moved to a
crappy University in the suburbs... but I don't care 'cause now I can go to Bergen in order to study for a whole year. So I met the guy and together we built a "courses-plan". He was OK but there
was a little problem: I had to respect the main lines of the courses of my home University. But in Bergen there are no courses focusing on Ancient/Modern history (mean Antiquity and post-Middle
Ages periods). The professor was saying that he didn't care about, but that he was not able decide everything by himself and that we had to find a solution. He wanted me to pass minor exams in
France after my norwegian ones. I was OK but he later changed is mind and said that I will have to pass the Bergen ones only.
On semester 1:
- History and Culture of Norway - 15 ECTS.
- Tradition and Culture of Norway - 15 ECTS.
- Norwegian language level 1 - 15 ECTS.
45 ECTS means a lot of work but I don't care, it will be during the winter so good times during the summer ;-)
On semester 2:
- Sami Religion - 15 ECTS
- Norwegian Language Level 1 or 2 - 15 ECTS
So now it makes 75 ECTS, and I have to get 60, so if I miss one of the exams it won't be the drama...
I don't know if I'm clear, i hope you got it...
By the way, I booked my ferry in December too, for good prices. Hanstholm/Bergen on 26/07/2007. My car, myself and another guy = 119 euros! Cheap Fjordline! Colorline is at least 245 euros and I
booked that in winter. Booking a few weeks before must be a Hell, i think prices increase a lot.
I got some news from UiB. I just threw them an email to ask them when I'll receive some news about my letter of acceptance, here is the answer i received:
Dear Thomas Moine Thank you for your e-mail. We have received your application form. Your courses are accepted. You can expect the Letter of Acceptance to arrive
in the beginning of May. Please contact me again if you have further questions. Jeepee!
Administrative stuff started. Have to send it back before March 19th.
To current / former students at UIB : If anyone could give me or lend me its conpendiums of the SAS12, 13, 14 courses it would be very very
great. I don't want to pay 150 euros just for a book made of copies. SAS 13 is the most important and expansive conpendium, so if you know someone who has it, please show her/him this post.
Takk.
Bryggen (image: UIB)
Short statement.
I'm going to Bergen July 26th 2007, for a Socrates/Erasmus uni exchange, for my History bachelor last year. I created this blog early just because i had time to spend and because i was bored a
lot. Of course its hard to wait so throwing my forces in that blog helps to be patient.
The blog wont be updated a lot til July. Of course I could present my project or the city or things about Norway but it would break some surprises or spontaneity. if you want some info about
Bergen, see the links in the left column, or my myspace page to learn more about me.
I will write in English only because most of the lectors won't be french readers. I could write also spanish and french but it would take too much time and space so i'll had some translator
links, even if its bad quality, its understandable.
I will probably add to each article, in the bottom, a piece of an Eddic poem.
Bergen vu depuis Sandviken (J.C Dahl)
Le blog sera en anglais. Pas par abandon de notre langue ou par soumission à Albion, mais simplement parce que la majorité de mes futurs lecteurs seront anglophones, plus que francophones. Je mettrai toutefois un script de traduction pour différentes langues, car même si les traducteurs automatiques sont loin d'être efficaces on les comprend. je pourrais faire un doublon de chaque article en Francais et en Espagnol, mais cela me prendrait trop de temps et prendrait beaucoup de place sur le blog...
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