Exams
Last week was the week of the exams for a lot of people, but the exam period lasts from late october to mid-december. Therefore I had SAS14 (Norwegian Art and Culture) on Wednesday 21st and SAS13 (Norwegian Culture and History) on Thursday 22sd.
For SAS14, we had to choose one question. One was about the Norwegian theater in the traditionnal and modern theater, one was about art in a national-international focus from 1800 to today, and the last one was about popular culture and national identity. I took this last one.
For SAS13 there were 4 question, 2 for Culture, 2 for History, we had to take one of each. I don't remember exactly what were the other about but I took "Discuss popular beliefs in Norway in the early modern times" and "Discuss Norwegian foreign policy after 1945".
Eleven pages for each exam... I think I done it well, but I maybe wrote to much exemples/descriptions and not enought analysis/comments.
The exams in Bergen are hold in churches, being the only big buildings in Bergen with the concert venues... so it's kinda funny to take an exam under a big cross or in front of stupid verses from the Bible like "Vi elsker fordi han elsket oss først", which mean "We love (him) because he loved us first". By the way, another stuupid thing... here the exams last >6 hours in general, and you have to write with a biro on carbon paper. One sheet for the teacher (white), one sheet for you (pink) and one sheet for the mysterious troll of the forest (yellow). If you write you on your 3-pages block with another 3-pages block under, you will fuck up all you wrote before! At the end you have to link the pages with some sort of mini-rope...
Apart from that, nothing very interesting. My Norwegian written exam is on December 5th and the oral test is some days later. I will probably stay here for the whole Xmas/holiday period, roaming around with the few people doing the same. Could be fun.
For SAS14, we had to choose one question. One was about the Norwegian theater in the traditionnal and modern theater, one was about art in a national-international focus from 1800 to today, and the last one was about popular culture and national identity. I took this last one.
For SAS13 there were 4 question, 2 for Culture, 2 for History, we had to take one of each. I don't remember exactly what were the other about but I took "Discuss popular beliefs in Norway in the early modern times" and "Discuss Norwegian foreign policy after 1945".
Eleven pages for each exam... I think I done it well, but I maybe wrote to much exemples/descriptions and not enought analysis/comments.
The exams in Bergen are hold in churches, being the only big buildings in Bergen with the concert venues... so it's kinda funny to take an exam under a big cross or in front of stupid verses from the Bible like "Vi elsker fordi han elsket oss først", which mean "We love (him) because he loved us first". By the way, another stuupid thing... here the exams last >6 hours in general, and you have to write with a biro on carbon paper. One sheet for the teacher (white), one sheet for you (pink) and one sheet for the mysterious troll of the forest (yellow). If you write you on your 3-pages block with another 3-pages block under, you will fuck up all you wrote before! At the end you have to link the pages with some sort of mini-rope...
Apart from that, nothing very interesting. My Norwegian written exam is on December 5th and the oral test is some days later. I will probably stay here for the whole Xmas/holiday period, roaming around with the few people doing the same. Could be fun.