Immigrants

- Why did people leave Europe to go to America in the late 1800s? What was their 'American Dream'?

The Europeans including the Norwegians immigrated to The United States by the promise of free land. Many people were tempted by the opportunity to get a better life. If the immigrants were farming the land, they were granted around 600 acres of soil and a farm much bigger and better than any farm in their native land.

The immigrants “American Dream” was to get a better life by getting a bigger farm with more acres of fertile soil.

The immigration was a result of many push and pull factors.  Some main push factors that drove the immigrants from their country was religious persecution, poverty and political oppression. Some pull factors that attracted the immigrants to the U.S. was civil rights, freedom of expression, religion and a good economic opportunity.

The Irish immigrants were pushed from their country because of a bad potato breeding with an illness.  The potatoes were quite important for the Irish people, therefore many died and some decided to move. 

Do people still believe it can be achieved? 

Yes, most of them do, but every person that were asked had a different answer to what the amercian dream was and what it meant for them. I think everyone changes the dream to what they think are possible to achieve for themselves.

How has the definition changed?

The definition has changed together with the progress of the economy. Four years ago the economy was more stabilized than what it is now so people have shifted their dream to one that is more based on values and that is more affordable in the situation they live in today.

Two quotes by Oscar Wilde

Tasks

My own defenition of these words:

• then, than

Back then, funnier than

• which, witch

A dog which makes noice and a witch at a broom.

• through, threw

I threw a ball through the door

• there, their, and they're

There - place, their - has to do with people and they're = they are

• to, too, two

To someone, way too much and two dogs

• lose, loose

To lose something, a loose screw

Mr Anderson is a man in his fourties, he was born the 16th of January, at a wedensday actually. He is a very sophisticated man when it comes to other peoples meanings and thoughts, he is a member of the Democrats himself, but is against all the others. His religion is the Buddhism and he is a strong believer. Mr Anderson is born in Sweden but can speek both English and Spanish as well as his mother tongue. He is now living in Ohio but his dream is to move to Washington D.C. and visit the White House. In September it's a big day for Mr Anderson, the Vesak, a holiday in the Buddhist religion.

"I am not young enough to know everything." by Oscar Wilde
The socitey is always growing, the language is in a constant progress and you have to grow up with all of the changes and differences to know them. We can't keep up with the changes in the society, it is happening to fast.

Road trip in England

My friend Karoline and I have been at a road trip. We went to the UK, which was amazing. We started our trip in Bristol, a city East in England. We hired our beautiful car that we drove through the whole trip.

It matched with colours inside and outside the car.

 Bristol was a beautiful city both in day-time and night-time. Luckily for us the weather was great when we stayed there. We slept two nights in the city all together before we started at our real roadtrip.
We found a very nice hotel the first day which we stayed at both nights. It had a SPA which we were really excited about and also tried out the first day. Other than that we explored the city a bit, by walking in the streets. At the evening we ate dinner at the restaurant in the hotel.
The second day we spent in a shopping centre, when we came back to the hotel we did some exercising at the fitness room. We decided to eat dinner at a restaurant this evening. On our way to find an interesting restaurant, we saw the Clifton suspension bridge lighted up. I just had to take a picture:

We ended up at a restaurant called “Glassboat”, and it was literally a restaurant in a boat were every wall was made out of glass. It was so nice.

The third day we both took a SPA treatment at the morning before we packed our suitcases and started driving. We can call this an exclusive start at a roadtrip.
We started driving towards a place called Amesbury, the reason why we chose this place is because of the Stonehnge which we really wanted to see. The driving wasn’t going to smoothly, it was a horrible weather from start to finish and we drove for longer than we needed. The first problem came up when the wind blew up and it started to rain, it rained a lot. We didn’t drive more than around 8 miles before we had to stop because a tree had fallen over the road. We had no idea of what to do, so we waited for a while until we saw that it was a car behind us. A man came towards us and said that he was going to call someone that could help us get the tree out of the way. We thanked him, and about 45 minutes later, the tree got removed and we could continue to drive in the horrible weather. We switched turns at driving, and even though the weather outside the car wasn’t that good, we had a great time inside of the car. At the end this was the route we drove that day:

It didn’t take us 2 hours and 28 minutes but over the double because of the tree-situation and the bad weather we had. When we arrived Amesbury we ordered take-away and slept in the car. The next day were so exciting, we were going to see the Stonehenge. The weather was so much better that day, just some clouds at the sky, otherwise, perfect. Here is a picture of our visit: 

We used the most time of that day in the Stonehenge, took a lot of pictures and went for a walk around in the area around the Stonehenge. None of us will forget either the trip the last day or the Stonehenge-visit.
We slept in our car that night as well, before we headed over for London. Driving to London went much smoother than our first stage of the trip. The weather was so much better and we drove virtually straight towards London. This is the route from Amesbury to London:

We arrived in London at 1 pm. The first thing we did was to find a nice hotel were we booked 2 nights. The room was exclusive with two huge beds and a big tub at the bathroom. The view was unique and we could see London eye form our window.

We both took a bath and ate dinner and dessert at the hotel. After the dinner, we went to a cinema and watched a movie called “Dear John”. The movie was very good but sad, we both cried.
The next day was very exciting, we visited London eye and ate macaroons at a nice café in between all of the shopping.

Here is the view we had from the top of the London Eye and the macaroons we shared at the café.

 The last day in London we ate breakfast and leaved the hotel quite early because we had a long trip ahead of us to Skegness. Because we wanted to see a bit from the seaside in the UK we decided to drive a detour. The final route ended up like this:

It was a quite long trip, but it was worth it. The east coast in the UK was amazing. The weather wasn’t that good from the start, but after an hour or so it became better.  Outside the car window we could see many people like families, children, adults and old ones. We stopped our car to eat and buy some food for the next days. There was a huge market in Lowestoft, which was more or less halfway from London to Skegness. At the market there was so much to look at, we bought a lot of food and met many nice people. After a good rest, we continued the driving to Skegness. This is one of the beautiful views by the road:

 When we finally arrived in Skegness we were both tired. There was a camp where we was supposed to sleep. At the camp we met the owner and he helped us with the caravan we rented for the night. It was a small but cute caravan with enough space for the two of us. Here is a picture from the inside:

We ate some pizza from a snack bar near the camp before we went to sleep.

The next day our plan was to explore the places in Skegness. We had found an amusement park near the camp that we wanted to check out. There was a huge roller coaster we just had to try. It was so much fun and we loved it. Here is a picture we took from the top of the roller coaster:

After a funny day in Skegness, the car was calling and the last part of our road trip was about to start. This time the route was taking us from Skegness to Birmingham and this is how it was planned:

 Our plan in Birmingham was to visit the Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park. When we came to our hotel room, we placed the bags there before we went out to eat.  The restaurant was called Golden Dragon and the food was perfect. We ate the best beef I have ever tasted, served with potatoes and some salad. The dessert was even better. Chocolate mousse with cream and strawberry. After that, we took a train to the Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park. In the park we got to see a lot of different animals. It wasn’t the same as a zoo, but we both liked it. Here are a picture collage with some of the animals:

We went back to the hotel and talked about our fantastic road trip together before we felt asleep.

The last day was suddenly there and we had to pack our baggage and say goodbye to the beautiful UK. It was sad, but we both agreed that the trip had been perfect and amazing, we couldn’t wish for anything more.

I really want to thank my good friend Karoline for this funny and memorable road trip.

Task 2

Nazneen hurried out the door, she needed to hurry up before she started to regret her choice about going down to the tattoo lady. She walked down the stairs and slowly across the yard. When Nazneen finally came to the tattoo lady's door, she knocked three times and took a step back to wait for the door to open. The door handle went down and the door get opened, behind it the tattoo lady stood.
- Hello, she said in a way that Nazneen felt uncomfortable.
- Sorry, Nazneen said, this was nearly all the English language she knew. She was about to turn and walk home.
- No, don't go, said the tattoo lady. What are you up to?
- Sorry, Nazneen repeated and backed off.
- Come in, we can talk, you can get a cup of tea, the tattoo lady hoped that this would lead to a good deal and a tattoo.
Nazneen understood that she was invited in when the tattoo lady beckoned her in to the room.
- Thank you, she said and stepped inside. The walls were full of pictures were people had been tattooed.
-Sit down, said the lady and pointed at one of the chairs, then she quickly made to cups of tea.
-What do you want? she continued. Nazneen thanked her for the tea and tasted it. The lady waited for an answer, but wasn't getting any. She repeated the question, but wasn't getting anymore out of the strange woman. Nazneen started to think that to walk down here was a bad idea, therfore she tilted the tea cup bottom up, thanked the lady and ended the conversatoin with:
- Sorry, before she hurried out the door. Nazneen would never dare to visit the tattoo lady again.

The history of the English language

Here's a overview of the English language's history:

• The Anglo Saxons - 700 BC
  Most of The Anglo Saxons were farmers so the Old English is full of words related to farming
  They settled in England and lived there through many kingdoms
• 1066 and after
  William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwinson at the battle of Hastings
  The English went through huge changes
  It became the Middle English with around 10 000 words from french
• The Scandinavian Settlement - arond the 9th century
  Scandinavian invaders came in big groups mainly in the northern and eastern part of England and settled down
  England even had a Danish king ones
  The Norse contributed with some important, basic words
• Standardization - around 16th century
  The Middle English contained many dialects, but now the London English became dominant especially in printed scripts
• Colonization and Globalization
  The English language is now spread worldwide and has developed into a world language
  The contemporary and future will surely have influence in the history of the English history
  
  
  
  
  

Today I've seen to videos about the English Language, and now I'm going to write 5 sentences about them.

• The English language is becoming one of the biggest languages in the world, in fact one-third of the world's books is released in English and songs are written in English in almost every country in the world. 
• In the process of making the language they weren't making up the words, but they were stealing them from different countries around the world.
• Around 2000 words in English is actually from the vikings and they have absorbed around 10 000 words from the normans.
• English is a very well used langugae when it comes to work, many firms are international and worldwide and they use English in the everyday work.
• Very many is learning English, its actually more people that learns English and have it as a second language than the number of people that have it as their first language.



Dirt-road

Walking along a dirt-road

is like

walking through your life

you may stumble on some bumps

Task 1

I chose the quote:
"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."
 -Quentin Crisp
I think this quote is important because it tells us that the generations continues. Everything you do during the prosess of raising your child will be remembered by he or she if they're old enough. For him or her, you're their rolemodel and they will copy everything you do. The way you teach your child to behave, will most likely be carried through to the next generation of your family.

If you look at this in a really big perspective, you are participating to form the future people wich are going to take care of the world after you.

 

Our trip to Jotunheimen

Our clas went to Jotunheimen last week, it was a fun trip. We went to Galdhøpiggen wich is Norway's highest mountain. We were incredibly lucky with the weather. We have also been rafting, at a museum, inside an icedrift, "Kvitskriuprestinn" were we saw some columns of glacial material  and a place called "Helvete" were we saw multiples of potholes.

Here are some pictures from the trip:

 

This is my friend Oda and me.



This is the columns in Kvitskriuprestene.

 

 

It was quite steep on the way up to Galdhøpiggen.

 

 

Here we were inside a pothole.

Induvidual and society

I've listened to three different songs/poems:

• "I am a Rock" by Paul Simon
• "No man is an Island" by John Donne
• "You'll never walk alone" by Rogers and Hammerstein 

And now I'll compare them:
I think that "No man is an Island" and "You'll never walk alone" is quite similar. The songs/poems contains the subject of always having someone by your side. Also that you can't do everything on your own but need help and support.

My opinion of "No man is an Island" is that we're not just induviduals but need to stay together and cooperate. We can't just think of our selves but the results of what we do to each other.
"You'll never walk alone" is telling us that we always have someone by your side no matter what, you can always find someone that supports you.

 

The song "I'm a Rock" is very different from the two others, the message from this song is that relationship causes a lot of problems, very often more problems than goods. A sentence from the song, "If I never loved, I never would have cried" so the advice is just to stay away from relationships, then you don't ever need be sad or cry again. Something that I don't agree with.

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