A Friendly School Visit

This week our students that has chosen French as their third language, have visitors from France. I do not have French since I have German, however I do have traveling life so I am some what involved with this visit. Last week me and my friend, Camilla, volunteered our self to have a welcome presentation.

We started the presentation with asking the French students what they know about Norway and Norwegians. We got some interesting answers. One of them even said Norwegians loved football but was not very good at it. She honestly nailed it with that one.

We moved on to talk about out government, prime minister and Royal Family. In the presentation, we also showed them different types of food. They were correct when they said we eat plenty of fish for dinner during the week and we also eat potato a lot.

We showed them pictures of 17th of may. Told them about usual traditions we do during that day and holidays. We explained the usual family-life in Norwegian families. About how we are closer to our parents and grandparents, instead of the whole family including cousins and aunts/uncles.

The best part of the presentation was when I talked about 17th of may. I love that day and it is important to me. I was excited to share them something I am excited about and loves. I told them about our Bunads and the children parades. One of the French teachers also asked me some questions about my Bundad. She wondered if we ever used them for more then just 17th of may.

I honestly do love the fact that we have students from another country visiting our school, I was in America summer 2015 as a exchange student and it gave me so much to learn in a different country!

Making a Wish-List

For the longest time, I have been a person who has not challenged herself enough. After my trip to America this summer, I really felt like I grew as a person and became more independent.  Several times during the summer I had to rely on myself to make decisions and complete actions. Yes, I did have my host-parents with the all summer, but they were to take care of me not babysit me. Honestly, a big part of me wanted to go on this trip to challenge myself individually. I would have to challenge myself when it came to being social with family and friends I made. I had to have complete track over myself on the trip over the ocean and the entire month I spent in America. Like I said, my host parents were not my baby-sitters during this summer.

After the summer ended and life got back to normal, I missed the feeling of being at a new place and the excitement that came with it. I decided to make a Wish-List for experiences and journeys I would like to do during my youth. For now, that list is not very long, however I always try to think of something that sounds thrilling. I often hear someone talk about an experience and think if it might be something for me.

Even though I want to go through experiences, I do not want to do them alone. There is a saying that half the experience is the people you experiences it with and I believe that a 100 percent. Several trips and moments are made by the people you are with, so going through all of these experiences on my Wish-List would have to require someone I like, trust and can have a good time with. Otherwise the experience would be a waste.

The only thing stopping me now is time, money and school. Lets hope that dreams come true.

MINORITIES

It happens often that Hispanic and Latino becomes a common name for the ethnic groups of people who lives in South-America or race. In a daily situation Americans probably do not even think about the importance of using these terms correctly. What they do not realize is the important difference between the two terms Latino and Hispanic. 

There is a significant difference between a Latino and Hispanic. Hispanic is mostly refereed to the language Spanish. If the person or the persons ancestry come from a country were they speak Spanish, it is highly likely they identify as Hispanic. While the term Latino refers to geography. Especially to Latin America that includes countries in South-America, Central America and The Caribbean. As you can see, they both cover two highly different areas. 

In the US the term Hispanic was adopted during the time Richard Nixon was leading the country. The term ''Hispanic'' is often used in states such as Florida and Texas where most of the Hispanic immigrants come to and settle down. The term itself comes from a Latin word for Spain ''Hispania'', later on the word became ''Espania''. Hispanic is also one of the fastest growing ethnic minority in the U.S to this day. It has over 37 million speakers and a growing percent of 52,9. 

While the Hispanic is mostly used along the Eastern seaboard, Latino is mainly used west of the Mississippi where it has taken over from the word ''Chicano'' which is almost a modern way of saying ''Mexico.'' The government started to use the word ''Latino'' for having a word to identify and segregate the mixed white with black and native blood. ''Latino'' is also shortened from Spanish latino americano. The term is translated to ''Latin American'' and it had the meaning to identify the people from Central and South-America and the Spanish Speaking Caribbean Islands.

As of today, the Asian population is the fastest growing minority in America, but Hispanic is right behind and is still a dominating minority. It is estimated that the Hispanic minority will grow past the Asian minority. By the time we reach 2050 it will already have surpassed.