We were in the paper!

When we got home from our Portugal vacation, Lauren had saved this newspaper for us. Last year someone interviewed us at an INN ice skating party, and they interviewed everyone again this year when we visited the Oslo Folkmuseum. The article is titled “Oslo for Beginners.”

This picture was taken last year when we went ice skating. C was not really up to it, and it was hard deciding which kind of skate would be better for him: the full boot skate or the strap-on blade thing. I think that’s what they are deciding in this picture. Chris and C gave it a good try, though, as Ruby and I hung out on the sidelines.

A better scan, maybe.

I didn’t do a very careful job merging these two scans, but you get the idea. The big headline says “Oslo for beginners” and the byline says (something like) “Norwegian businesses hire them, but foreign workers often leave in frustration over life in Norway. Now there is help for specialist foreigners and their families.” On the next page on the bottom is a picture of Chris and our friend Kripanjali at the Opera offices. The caption says something like “Sometimes it takes so long to get our new employees settled here that it’s hard to keep them motivated, says human resources leader Kripanjali, at the Opera offices. There are over 400 employees from about 40 countries, among them Chris Pine (right) from USA…” I think that’s all it says about Chris.

The main headline says “I was a little surprised to find that Norway was more strict than China” and brite means he’s british. I don’t really know what he meant by Norway being more strict that China… in the text he tells a story about how when he worked in China someone took his papers to the police for him and got him all registered. He’s telling this story at 6 am as he stands in the line outside the police station (in December) waiting until it opens so he can get a number and then wait some more. That sucked, but it’s really just less efficient, not more strict. Well, that’s Aina in the middle of the big picture. She was tremendously helpful when we first moved here, and continues to be kind and helpful. And, there’s Chris and C in the middle. The caption says “INN arranges outings and meetings for the foreigners in their group. Here, American Chris Pine and his son take a break from ice skating.”