Yesterday we (I, Otto, a friend from work and his friend) went out to an island to go swimming. I didn't know you had to take a bus to get to a boat, ride over the water, step of at an island, to go swimming. Apparently you do. Thats somehow makes sense in Norway.

But then for the rest of us nothing makes sense in Norway. Why should this?

The place we went to looked really like the Swedish lakeside ( = beautiful) and made me for the first time ever, since coming here, really miss home.

The water was cold but as soon as you came up you got warm again so it was worth it. (Although Otto wouldn't know as he refused to even touch the water.)