The idea is simple: Follow a few of the newcomers to Norway as they learn the language and learn about the country they plan to live in.
Choose to follow Eva from Cypros (Norwegian boyfriend), Rafal from Poland (wife in Poland), Sophida from Thailand (Norwegian husband), Josi from Brasil (Norwegian husband) and Rudy from the Dominican Republic (Norwegian wife) and you make a funny and interesting TV program. There will be six episodes, we are told. We are about half way through.
The Norwegian language is of course one big challenge, but life outside the classroom shows how these Beginners also try to cope with the «Norwegian way».
Brazilian Josi goes to a football match in Oslo between Brazil and Norway, dressed up in her Brazilian costume, showing her Brazilian temperament, and saying relieved when the match ended 1 -1 : «This way both my Norwegian husband and I win a little!» And then «After the match the Norwegians went straight home, when we Brazilians wanted to party!»
Eva from Cypros prepared, together with some other girls from her Norwegian class, the recipee for Skjulte Pikekyss (Hidden Girls Kisses) she got from her boyfriend's mother. Her efforts to buy the right ingredients in the shop and the efforts of three newcomers to Norway to actually prepare the dish according to the instructions written in Norwegian, did not meet much success till they turned to their secret helper - the Internet. In the end, forgetting the difficulties, she exclaimed «That was sooo easy! Or was it?»
In another episode, the girls went to a mountain cabin (hytte in Norwegian) to spend two days hoping to learn how to ski. They discovered that the cabin had no electricity, an outdoor toilet and no running water! Only Sophida from Thailand knew a tiny bit about skiing from explanations given by her Norwegian husband, but despite falling again and again, the four of them did not give up. Quite impressive what they knew after such a short time!
Rafal from Poland finally had a visit from his wife from Warszawa. Only two days, but this included a visit to IKEA where his wife bought a few things to make Rafal's little apartment a little more stylish, and a visit to the Holmenkollen Ski Jump to first wave the Norwegian flag and then the Polish flag, as Polish Adam Malyrz won the ski jump competion!
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