Reminiscing on Norway

Since it's the end of term I thought I would spend a bit of time doing a blog on my trip I took a couple months ago to Norway. So during summer I had the opportunity to take a 2 week long expenses paid cultural trip to Norway, with a group of people and my dad being the chaperon were I stayed in Helsefyr but pretty much took the tram to Oslo everyday where I spent most of my time.

I can honestly say my time spent in Norway was an extremely helpful experience for me, not only did it happen to fall just after my first year here at DMU which turned out to be a really difficult year for me. It also really gave me some time to go away to a pretty place and just do some kind of Self finding, which I seriously needed. Another really good thing was I got to have some father daughter bonding time with my dad which I really enjoyed.

Since it was a group trip we would spend the evenings together for an evening group meal trying various restaurants from an Irish pub to a Cantonese restaurant, go for walks around Oslo, the  Docks ect and I also got to go and see one of the new X-men movies that came out while we were there. The rest of the time was really for me to explore either with my dad if he didn't have other things to work on with the others or to mainly just complete some sketches, visit some sites and to take what I consider pretty pictures. I also ended up spending some time on top of the Opera house, which because of the weather being extremely hot and the building being made completely out of marble, I caught the sun. Sure it was pretty awesome coming back to rainy Britain with a tan but definitely not the sever burning I got. I also went to the National art gallery in Oslo where they had the original "Scream", which was definitely an amazing experience in general.

Norway based purely on  my site seeing in Oslo and Helsefyr is a beautiful place. I loved it way more then I ever expected to and I definitely want to go back there. Everything over there was so different compared to what I'm use to, in general the place just gave off a safe and happy feeling.

I guess one of the main reasons that I loved it there and felt it helped me alot to the point it gave me somethings I could use when doing this course is that because it was so fresh and new it fed my creative curiosity, it gave me my drive back, it stopped me from completely giving up especially since last year when I originally started her at DMU I didn't manage to pass. Plus I feel that from the experience there and the photographsIi had collected I have some new insights to use through out my projects.

These are a few of my favorite photos I took in Norway.