Today is May 26, 2025. Today is the third official day here in Oslo, Norway! Today is our first day of classes. In order to get off on a good start, I was able to go on a run around the city before class! I wanted to focus on good health and wellbeing. Not only was I able to get some exercise in, I was able to take a tour of the city of Oslo! I loved being able to see the various architecture styles of the buildings. There were many others out around the city that were also exercising. This was a great sight to see at such an early part of the day! The past few days were a bit rainy, so it was such a great sight to have our first warm, sunny day.
Beautiful views around the city, Oslo.
Beautiful views around the city, Oslo.
Beautiful views around the city, Oslo.
Oslo is a very walkable city! I have been able to observe this through my morning run. Additionally, all of us students that have traveled here to Oslo have decided to walk to the Lovisenberg campus as a group. I can really observe the focus on wellness as there are many people walking around the city to get to work, class, or to see friends. It was such beautiful weather allowing us to observe the path to school and have great quality time with our peers and professors!
Walking to campus.
The city and school have been very welcoming to us! As we were having discussions prior to our first morning class, we were provided with free coffee and Norwegian chocolate! It is so great to observe the differences between the USA and Norway. They provided the coffee in these little cups that also had small handles attached to the cups! This was such a useful and cute touch to make the cups more functional.
Functional cups and free coffee.
Continuing the day off strong, we attended our first course. This course was “Intro to course: Urban Health”. It was so amazing attending our first class in a Norwegian classroom! We were able to discuss the meaning of marginalized groups as an introductory topic for this Urban Health course. This helped provide an overview of the course and helped us think a bit deeper about the course content as we are getting started!
First class at Lovisenberg.