And so it begins

From 12:30a to 3:30a, I was wide-awake. I was i-chatting with my friend Bill, who suggested that I should try to get some sleep. It was good advice. I managed to get back to sleep until 7:30a. I went downstairs and joined my colleagues from U.T. for breakfast. There was a buffet of wide ranging foods that I wasn’t sure how to approach, so I held back, watched, and replicated the actions of two hungry teenage boys. There were many loaves of various multigrain breads, marmalades and jams. I also had an assortment of crackers with different spreads including caviar (served in a toothpaste-like tube), pickled herring, shrimp spread, and what I think is a salmon-paste.

After breakfast, our group was picked up by a group of 3 taxis and delivered to the School of Business at Bod0. We were given a tour of campus and each of us was given an “official” business school hoodie as a gift. After the tour, we used an empty classroom and officially met for the first time and started to get down to business. We were encouraged to look for opportunities to explore and form research collaborations with other international students. I got the impression that there may be financial and institutional support available for U.S. students to spend a semester abroad, living in Norway, working on a research collaboration. Oooh, that would be fun. I’ll keep my eyes open and see what happens. We had a quick lunch in the school cafeteria, the highlight of which was a waffle with a sweet goat cheese spread.

The group of UT Students posing in the Bod0 School of Business

(The blonde dude next to me is Jan (pronounced "Yan", our host)

My friend Kerk and Professor Larry in the cafeteria

The Business School (love the emphasis on natural light)

Our group getting a guided tour of the school.