About to settle now I hope

The dust has now settled and we are now well into our year at Gloshaugen. I have enrolled into different classes, one more interesting than the other. A course in Japanes economy and politics is one that I have high hopes for. And I registered myself to a class where we learn japanese language as well and that is the most interesting lecture I have now. It is very cool the moment you feel you master those funny and to us, weird asian symbols and find out what they mean.

My situation as faculty representative goes on without any trouble. I like the work and the responsibility that comes with it. My colleague with me as faculty representative is very cool and in fact he studies the same as me, computer science at the moment. I said at the moment, because he is ont sure he is going to continue his grade on computer science yet. Also my volounteer work with www.dragvolportalen.no is going great. Today I visited Dragvoll, one of the two major campuses in Trondheim to ask people and to take their picture for a small story. I asked them what their internet-habits were as to visiting our site, dragvollportalen.no and using the interactive tools integrated on the web for students at NTNU. I got the idea for asking them since I heard that some students never use NTNU its own interactive learning tools in their education. But all I spoke with up at dragvoll use them. All though some have not yet visited dragvollportalen.no. Too bad.

And then there is plenty of seminars to follow for anyone who is intersted. And if there is free lunch, why not? Free food and an opportunity to learn something! Last week, on friday, I attended a seminar on the topic wether or not Japan`s economy has rebounded or not since the last down-period. Many great lecturers from Norwegian Foreign Affairs to Universities in Japan and North-America. It lasted all day and we were quite tired at the end of the day.

Today Sun Microsystems and JAVA are arranging a seminar at Gloshaugen. I am going, there is pizza served at 16.30. And then at five o`clock the japanese language course begins.