Ready or Not, Here I Go!

     Hi! As most of you probably know, this is Bente's blog.  I have started it since tomorrow (techinically today, I guess), I am boarding a plane and heading to the country I was born in, Norway.  I will be living in Lillehammer and visiting other places in the next four months through a program called Scandinavia and the Baltic.  This is a really great opportunity for me, and I am really grateful to be able to go, since it kind of fell into my lap at the last moment, right at the end of the 09-10 school year.  It's a great program because it will meet the Concordia requriements I still have while allowoing me to study abroad for a semester, something that's fairly rare for an elementary education major.  I also didn't have to know any Norwegian to be able to go, so that's good, but I am excited to learn some, and share some with you, my readers :)  If I'm really brave, maybe I will eventually attempt a whole post in Norwegian.

     I am really excited to leave tomorrow, although I don't think it's really sunk in yet.  Maybe that's because I have procrastinated, as usual, and am not completely packed yet.  I don't have any nervous butterflies or anything...like I told a few friends I've been chatting with as I finish up packing, I feel normal, which isn't normal. 
 
     I'm not really a person that likes to share--I don't see the point of Twitter and I rarely update my facebook status, so this blog thing feels a little weird to me.  We'll see how it goes. As I've been going through my room in the last month, I have found a few diaries that I started as a child, and none of them had more than 3 or 4 entries.  My goal is to keep you all a bit more in the loop and use this as a place to talk about what is happening in my world.  Let's see how I do with beating my childhood record of journal keeping! 

Just a fun note: the picture on the background of this blog right now is a picture I took in Lillehammer when I visited there with my family in 2007.