Indian/pakistani lunch on Friday

On Friday, after our visit to VG, we will have lunch in a small indian/pakistani restaurant not far from the city centre. This is a well known place in Oslo, not only for it's good food, but also it's characteristic atmosphere. From the outside it looks more like a fast food restaurant, but inside you often meet the whole family that runs the restaurant, and the food tastes wonderful!

The chef at Delhi Tandoori Restaurant have given you two choices: You can have Lamb Curry or Chicken Curry. The Department is paying for the lunch, but you will have to pay for your drinks.

This will be fun! : )

Students wanted for filmfestival in Italy

Interesting email from AsoloArtFilmFestival:
Message addressed to all students from all over the world

Are you a student between 18 and 26 year old?
Would you like to share with other students your passion for cinema and art?
We are looking forward to create an intercultural platform to exchange ideas, projects in a totally new creative setting inspired from the local tradition.

Participate at the XXVIII edition of AsoloArtFilmFestival August 28 – September 6, 2009!

For interested students they will offer free accommodation by filling out and forwarding a form.
Email me, and I will send you the form!
Or contact: ospitalita@asolofilmfestival.it, +39 0423 1995235-36

By the 10 August 2009








More information:
AsoloArtFilmFestival launches a new initiative addressed to Italian and foreign students interested in the XXVIII edition of the festival as well as the lands of Giorgione, Andrea Palladio, Paolo Veronese, Lorenzo Lotto, Antonio Canova, Robert Browning, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Eleonora Duse, Carlo Scarpa, Freya Starkand and many others.

Twittering with the world

Twitter is an arena for debate that is expanding. Here you can follow a lot of people's latest opinions and experiences. Among the Norwegians on twitter we find the Prime Minister, loads of newspaper editors, journalists and correspondents, politicians and other people in powerful institutions. There are also well known scientists and academics. Even Barack Obama is there.












Have a look at Twitter.com!

I will challenge all my students to start twittering about important issues, for instanc identity, medias and journalism's roles in the world, films, gender, power and other subjects.

Here is my twittering avatar. Come to twitter, and we can follow each other! : )

Affordable room in Copenhagen?

Luis from Portugal is going to Copenhagen for six months to attend Master Courses in Film and Media Studies. Does anybody know about an affordable room he can rent?

Norwegian news in English

Unfortually it's not easy finding Norwegian news in English, but here are two links to Norwegian News.

One of them is called The Norway Post. This is a site primarly for tourists, so you will find a lot of information and commercials in addition to some news stories.


Aftenposten, the paper Liv Skotheim works for and that she told you about the first week of the course, used to have an english version. But they don't anymore. Some of the staff from Aftenposten still have continued translating news into English. You can find their blog here. (They also have a facebook profile!)

Visiting VG and NRK

Soon we are visiting VG, the largest, tabloid paper in Norway and NRK - Norwegian Boradcasting.

At VG we will meet Helje Solberg, News Editor in VG. She will talk about the paper's news profile, and how they are working. Afterwards we will meet someone from the International News Staff before we'll get a giuded tour around the house. Here is a link to more information about VG - in english



In NRK we will start the day with a guided tour, before we will meet people form the international news staff in Norwegian broadcasting television and radio. Hopefully we will meet the news editor, and also two international correspondents. But they told me that they can't promise anything, in case something happens. Here is more information about NRK in english

I'm also hoping that we can visit Democratic Voice of Burma and RadiOrakel.

The days will be a little longer than we are used to, but since the department are treating us with lunch on a café nearby, I hope we will have plenty of energy to visit several places.

PS: I still haven't figured out where to have lunch, so if anyone have som good ideas I will consider them! : )

Back in Norway

I've been horse back riding in Sweden the past week. Out there, in the middle of the Swedish countryside, I couldn't connect to the Internet. When coming home to Norway I was eager to read the blog posts, and I've read so much good stuff (even though several must have forgotten their home work this week!!). So many interesting wievs on the past week's films, and also about Rune Ottosen's lecture last week. I also realised that there have been discussions I really wanted to take part in, and are sorry that I missed. But now I'm back! : )

I'm looking forward to see all the beautiful people in the class tomorrow!