Monday, April 30, 2012

The averge day of a Norwegian

A typical day would be to wake up, go to work and shool, come home, eat then go to bed, right?
Not so much. In norway the schedules are genrally the same but have more detail to them than the average american. Norwegians will wake up and make breakfast for the whole family. The table will be covered in breads, meats to go on the bread  different drinks and everything else you can think of. When breakfast is done everyone helps clean up then head off to work and school. Students who attend school have to either walk to school or take the public bus because no school buses are provided. School starts at 8:30 am monday-Friday and ends at 12:30 pm. On certain days which will change from week to week the school day may end at 1:30pm.
When school is done, the kids will come home and with no hesitation sit right down at the kitchen table and do their homework. When homework is done, the chores get worked on until parents come home and dinner is made. I've personally seen a lot of americans buy frozen T.V dinners, pop them in the microwave and eat in front of the television. Norwegian families cook dinner together then everyone eats at the dinner table with the television off. There is family time spent together every single day, no matter what. Norwegians really live under the term "family comes first."` No work problem, no other problem what so ever comes in between the family.

I see a lot of kids these days who will back talk their parents, not help out around the house, do bad in school fr no reason and i highly believe it's because there isn't that family bonding time to get them closer, there for the kids push themselves away. I've yet to see that kind of problem umong norwegians. They have always been very tight knit.

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