You can NOT claim you have been assimilated in norwegian culture unless you go for cabin trips. FULLSTOP
As a city girl,my definition of nature involves common flowers occasionally living in my apartment, the trees at the sides of a street and city parks, animals like cats, dogs, goldfishes, city birds, snails and some insects which I prefer it if they avoid me (only a couple of exceptions on this thanks to my grandma's efforts to convince me that they are harmless). Please count also all the beaches and areas that the soil amount is higher than the concrete one but the percentage of the second is higher than 10% in total. That's nature in my comfort zone. And I had been VERY proud of myself that I never screamed aloud or other times too loud when always monstrous cockroaches invaded to my place but I was so amazingly courageous to fight them and heroically kill them! Usually even without employing the aerosol spray so that I'm consistent with my eco-friendly principles. (Sarcasm? Me? Nah)
The other nature- the real one- I enjoy in small and safe observatory doses.
The primitive part of it scares the hell out of me.
I grew up in a glove box. I'm a specie that belongs to urban eco-system. In real nature I'm a fish out of the sea. I met a cow at my 18 and a pig at my 23. I like Trondheim because to my eyes it is almost countryside.
My childhood outdoor expeditions was always and only in places accessible by car. If it was a non asphalt road then I was always feeling that we were deep down in the wildness. They were lovely. It is true that you can reach really beautiful places following these ''agricultural roads'' in which the car jumps up and down and the voice comes out in distorted sound waves. Magnificent places, really! But there were not real hiking trips, we were walking for 10-20 min and then we may had a picnic until we were back to car for further seated adventures....
Did I make my point clear? The background info is basically for my defense. To explain why I haven't been in a real cabin trip after two and a half years!! Coming to Norway inevitably had a tremendous effect on me when it comes to hiking and re-establishing my definition of nature. But it's a very slow progress. I'm pushing myself out of my limits and I'm becoming more and more a nature person but still .. SO very far away from a nature person!
Nevertheless, a cabin trip is in my plans. After numerous declines my friends managed to convince me. Since I agreed I keep flirting with the idea to cancel it. Uff...
Out in the woods, no electricity, no toilet, no immediate access by car (even though the parking place is pretty close), no Internet and that comes to my mind before the 'carrying your own potable water' (!!!) and the 'make a fire to get warm' (!!!).
Anyway, if I survive it, which I assume I'll do, provided I go, I'll come back with a celebrating post full of exclamation marks, a couple of photos and being slightly more Norwegian than before. If not you should be proud of me that I was fighting a bigger monster than the monstrous cockroaches; my(inert and scared)self!
Out in the woods, no electricity, no toilet, no immediate access by car (even though the parking place is pretty close), no Internet and that comes to my mind before the 'carrying your own potable water' (!!!) and the 'make a fire to get warm' (!!!).
Anyway, if I survive it, which I assume I'll do, provided I go, I'll come back with a celebrating post full of exclamation marks, a couple of photos and being slightly more Norwegian than before. If not you should be proud of me that I was fighting a bigger monster than the monstrous cockroaches; my(inert and scared)self!
Ok, this is the only weed free fun version I found in youtube, even though those apparently mexican cockroaches seem to me a bit high. :P
PS This song has a long and interesting story check it in wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cucaracha
