September 13, 2011

  • So I am home from my mini Oslo trip =]. It was nice being able to catch a glimpse of Oslo and to be able to spend more time in Copenhagen this time (it was finally good weather in Copenhagen yesterday!) I think one of the highlights of going to Oslo was the part where I entered into the Castle while it was raining and came out to find the sun shining! (It was raining quite badly when we first arrived on short Oslo on Sunday morning). When this happened, everything looked a lot more charming and people came out to enjoy the sunshine so the streets were covered with pedestrians, as opposed to the morning when there were practically no one on the streets. My description of Oslo after spending 7 hours there is that it has a lot of family and equality related statues, a really huge royal palace, an old castle which has a good museum (not amazing because there weren't that much to see in there) and really expensive food (like. really).

    As I went to Oslo by a mini cruise with my lund friends, I was happy that we got to enjoy the moon on 中秋節together on top of the ship deck sharing the mid autumn festival and moon cake story to some of our foreign friends. Eileen also brought moon cake so we shared that and I was pretty 感動！

    Copenhagen was definitely a highlight to the trip as we took the cannal tour this time and caught a glimpse of some of the buildings we didn't see on our previous adventure. Too bad the national museum, as well as other museums, were closed on Mondays so we couldn't enter in to see them. We also visited "Our Saviour's Church", which towers up 398 steps up a flight of circle staircase, and reached the top in approximately 30 minutes time. The top view is just amazing (pictures soon to follow). There is also "The black diamond", which is a continuation of the Copenhagen royal library, and inside, you'd find that the building has a very unique structure, as well as the outside which is made up of glasses that reflect the images of the water from the sea (as the building is right by the waters-it really looks like a huge diamond).

    In this week and a half, I realized how 感動 one can feel when another appreciates their cooking, and as I cooked for my friends no matter for a normal dinner at the dorm, or for the cruise trip (food was not provided on the ship, hence the cheaper price), I felt more and more joy and more and more happy digging through recipes, doing the laundry, and cleaning up my home. I think I'm starting to understand the joy a mom must feel when her daughter appreciates her cooking, or when she looks forward to having her daughter eat with her. =] I will definitely enjoy my mom's cooking a lot more when I go back. Not just because it tastes good, but because I now understand the effort she must've put in to make the dinner enjoyable for others (because quite frankly, that's what I'm doing now! 很有家的味道 =] ).

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