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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>My reading of “The Hunger Games” by
Suzanne Collins. </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Theme<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reason why I chose this paragraph<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But it’s tempting, so tempting, when I see the
bounty waiting there before me. And I know that if I don’t get it, someone
else will. That the Career Tributes who<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">survive the bloodbath will divide up most of these
life-sustaining spoils. Something<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">catches my eye. There, resting on a mound of blanket
rolls, is a silver sheath of<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">arrows and a bow, already strung, just waiting to be
engaged. </span><i><span lang="EN-US">That’s mine,
</span></i><span lang="EN-US">I think.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-US">It’s meant
for me.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I chose this particular paragraph because it describes the theme
(which is survival) very well. Katniss is a quite experienced archer and we
just know that this is going to end well when she says that the arrows and
the bow are meant for her. There are of course other paragraphs that say
something about the book’s theme. In an interview, Suzanne Collins said that
the themes are severe poverty, starvation and effects of war among others.
Survival is also one of them, in my opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reason why I chose this paragraph<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just as the town clock strikes two, the mayor steps
up to the podium and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">begins to read. It’s the same story every year. He
tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a
place that was once called North America. He lists the disasters, the
droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so
much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained. The
result was Panem, a shining Capitol ringed by<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">thirteen districts, which brought peace and prosperity
to its citizens. Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against
the Capitol. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of
Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder
that the Dark Days must never be<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">repeated, it gave us
the Hunger Games.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is only one of the paragraphs that say something about the
setting in the book. By reading this one, we know that the story takes place
in Panem which once was the North Ameica and that the storyline takes place
in the far future. It’s basically a post-apocalyptic world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reason why I chose this paragraph<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just as the town clock strikes two, the mayor steps
up to the podium and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">begins to read. It’s the same story every year. He
tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a
place that was once called North America. He lists the disasters, the
droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so
much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained. The
result was Panem, a shining Capitol ringed by<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">thirteen districts, which brought peace and prosperity
to its citizens. Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against
the Capitol. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of
Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder
that the Dark Days must never be<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">repeated, it gave us
the Hunger Games.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You may have noticed that this paragraph is exactly the same as the
one above. Well, that’s because it is. This paragraph is excellent because
contains some information about both the plot and the setting in the book. <br />
I would say it tells us a bit more about the plot than the setting, but there
are of course other paragraphs that do the same. The plot is that each
district has to choose a random tribute to participate in the Hunger Games.
The Capitol came up with this idea to prevent the remaining twelve districts
from rising up against Capitol like District 13 did. Katniss and Peeta need
to find a way to survive the Hunger Games. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Character development<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reason why I chose this paragraph<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Prim!” The strangled cry comes out of my throat,
and my muscles begin to<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">move again. “Prim!” I don’t need to shove through
the crowd. The other kids make<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">way immediately allowing me a straight path to the
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">is about to mount the steps. With one sweep of my
arm, I push her behind me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I volunteer!” I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The reason why I chose this paragraph under “character development” is
because Katniss makes a very mature decision when she volunteers as a tribute
instead of her sister Prim, even if she’s fully aware of that she might die. When
she does this she shows us that she has become more mature than she was
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
is definitely one of the better books that I’ve read. I liked how the author
described the characters and the situation they were in. Even the beginning is
so good written that it makes you want to read the book even further. You
really can’t stop reading it when you’ve read the first three pages. At least I
couldn’t. I definitely recommend this book to everyone who likes action and
adventure. I also recommend you to watch the movie because it's one of the best movies when it came out. It was a bit like the “Hobbit – An epic
journey” when it came out; everyone wanted to watch it! In my opinion, this is a movie that you can watch multiple times without it getting boring. Of course not everyone thinks so, but I am the one who does.<br />“Hunger Games” is a book that is certainly worth reading, and
Suzanne Collins deserves a Nobel Peace Prize in literature for writing this
amazing book. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I'm back!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Hello, folks! I just wanted to say that
I'll be back working on my blog quite soon. I've been too busy working on our
book project that I didn't have time to update my blog. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But now we are completely finished with
our book and we hope that we will sell many copies of it. It will be available
in standard paper version as well as an eBook version. We don't know what the
price will be yet, but I'm sure that we can find a fair one. It will not be
expensive, in other words. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book provides you with information on how
you can improve your learning at school by using different websites and
learning tools. You can also learn how you can improve your skills with technical
devices by reading our book. I recommend to reading the book in order to get to
know all this interesting stuff and how you can become a true professional when
it comes to modern technology such as tablets and smartphones. Hope you’ll stay
tuned! :)</span></span></div>
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</a></div>Dimitrije Obradovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461351942173137337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848272795662192800.post-54882367525559388742013-01-15T13:01:00.000+01:002013-01-15T13:01:11.397+01:00Last week we started to write a book in during our English class.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www4.clustrmaps.com/user/f54fe425"><img src="http://www4.clustrmaps.com/stats/maps-no_clusters/englishclass-schoolblog.blogspot.no--thumb.jpg" alt="Locations of visitors to this page" />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">English class week 2</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Book Choise </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our task
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="today:0" grmarkguid="3dbdc8f8-0b42-4b0c-aecd-4b3210622fda" gruiphraseguid="1ee63844-fe19-4c2f-b3db-1f241ce28feb">today</span> was to choose one of seven different books and read them until the end of the
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="semester:0" grmarkguid="071894b4-bdf8-41a4-ac6c-547ad4722ea2" gruiphraseguid="b14af037-1ee2-41f3-91d4-6805bf813453">semester</span>. The books we could choose about <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="are:0" grmarkguid="70387d91-fe8c-4809-8514-5d25389e6df1" gruiphraseguid="a78c604d-ea65-4551-8be0-2bef65cea397">are</span> The Hunger Games by Susan
Collins, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, White
Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Twice Toward Justice by Claudette Colvin, Ender’s Game
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="by:0" grmarkguid="1bea023f-a407-46b0-a6f0-b06fe218176b" gruiphraseguid="31e48163-83a8-4bfa-88af-10b1bb6fcca6">by</span> Orson Scott, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and The Life of Pi by Yann
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My choice
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="is:0" grmarkguid="d3d08b23-5efb-4483-8350-d7bf03bb5081" gruiphraseguid="8fce025b-ea85-4732-9294-a68a141d04d4">is</span> The Hunger Games because I have heard the book is amazingly fun to read.
There’s also a movie based on the book, and as you already may know, people
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="often:0" grmarkguid="1b717c3b-6412-4e1f-8d07-2e1c2305c9cc" gruiphraseguid="fd6c46a3-8139-4fe9-8848-a7a6d9a47b16">often</span> make movies based on good books, not the bad ones. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today at school we got an opportunity to choose one of two tasks about WWII, and I chose the task about why the<b id="internal-source-marker_0.4758001286536455" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">story behind why Norway
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The reason why Norway give the UK a <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="Noewegian:0" grmarkguid="1b6d7378-7bee-4c3c-b07d-cab7ec798b30" gruiphraseguid="d6f326c5-2d30-4a10-9d39-a63980839c63">Norwegian</span> Christmas tree every year
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="as:0" grmarkguid="73cf94b7-735c-4779-a809-a32c338544ea" gruiphraseguid="db4a7666-c2fb-483f-b4c4-9d525d28844b">as</span> a token of friendship, is because <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="og:1" grmarkguid="28e76f87-bf58-4a83-afb7-47fbc5880fc1" gruiphraseguid="db4a7666-c2fb-483f-b4c4-9d525d28844b">of</span> the help which Britain provided for Norway during the WWII. <br />The Norwegian king migrated to Great Britain because it was the nearest safe country to Norway at that time. As you <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="allready:0" grmarkguid="8c8c371b-fd38-4da4-b9c1-938dc9e33884" gruiphraseguid="0d5045c4-b72c-49c3-909b-c5348b8bf14e">allready</span> may know, the Germans failed to capture Great Britan, which is why UK remained independent and quite safe. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />A more detailed reason of why he moved is because of the Hitler's plan to capture <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="Norwegian Royal family:0" grmarkguid="e7b473e3-ed40-45e2-b934-d4e8ce7fc382" gruiphraseguid="6b52d219-408e-402a-8a25-2ca225acab39">Norwegian Royal family</span> and the Norwegian government so that he could take over Norway and include. A German ship called Blücher and its crew were <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="ment:0" grmarkguid="108ed8a2-0ee7-463d-9153-06bb64433c43" gruiphraseguid="38f8d6b0-3dfd-4382-b26b-05fe2a62dd74">ment</span> to accomplish this mission. But luckily enough, the Norwegians on "Oscarsborg", a Norwegian fortress with cannon and torpedo batteries, managed to sink Blücher, allowing the Royal family and the government to escape just in time before the Germans would manage to imprison them. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another reason why a Norwegian Christmas tree is to be seen <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="on:0" grmarkguid="d731061d-7810-4a83-949c-01834ed5945a" gruiphraseguid="061f9368-41ef-4be1-a998-7405f89e9a34">on</span> Trafalgar Square, is perhaps less familiar than the one above. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Since the Germans lost "The Battle of Britain", </span><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="UK:0" grmarkguid="d5e5629b-1fdc-4816-b542-2ee2d09144dc" gruiphraseguid="a4f0a9ac-d564-4186-b895-8ddff8d8e1d9" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">UK</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;"> remained an independent state, and also one of the safest in Europe when it comes to military training. Norwegian and Canadian soldiers, along with some </span><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="other:0" grmarkguid="6b7f0b2f-6f9d-40bb-941e-2e1af11d3b87" gruiphraseguid="dc7b1b53-f6ec-4ba1-b185-4693ad0fd2e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">other</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">, were trained in Great Britain during the WWII. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Source: I got this story from my history teacher in 9th grade. He didn't say this is the reason why we give a tree to UK for Christmas, he told only the part where the Norwegian <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="sodiers:0" grmarkguid="d0c0c887-f404-49f9-af77-231904869b91" gruiphraseguid="efda1605-92b1-4cf3-9145-e1a7ec9830ea">sodiers</span> got trained in the UK and the story about the Norwegian king migrating to Great Britain. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This year I would like to nominate
the following student blog in category best student blog:</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Julia's blog: </span></span><span style="line-height: 24px;">http://juliazofiaa.blogspot.no/</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I would also like to
nominate a blog in the category best teacher blog: </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 24px;">http://annmic.wordpress.com/ - My English teacher's blog</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Library/ Librarian blog: </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 24px;">http://metaingrid.blogspot.no/ - School librarian's blog in Norwegian</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Americans were not the first people to set foot on
Alaskan soil, neither were the Russians. </span><br />
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The first people to ever settle in Alaska were Alaska’s indigenous people who
settled there for more than thousand years ago. Many different tribes and
cultures were established there at that time, and in the 19<sup>th</sup>
century Americans and Europeans began trading with native people in Alaska. They
traded food and clothes which the habitants have developed to protect
themselves against the harsh climate in Alaska. Whale meat is an example of
food that Alaskans traded with Americans and Europeans, but also with Russians
and British later on.</span><br /><span lang="EN-US">
Well, since there are quite a lot native Alaskan cultures and tribes out there,
I suggest you to go to Wikipedia or some other site and find these tribes there.
I can however tell you something about the Athabascan tribe.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">There are many native Alaskan cultures today,
where each culture contain one or more tribes. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">The Athabascan or Athabaskan tribe is one of the
largest in North America because a very large number of the Atabascan people live
in Canada and Alaska, while the minority lives near the Mexican border and in
USA’s west-coast. Athabascan is actually a language family which is spoken by
the Athabascan tribe. It is divided in three mains groups: Northern Athabascan,
Pacific Coast Athabascan and Southern Athabascan. These three language groups
are also divided into many languages. Northern Athabascan is consists of 31
languages, Pacific Coast Athabascan consists of seven other languages, and the
Southern Athabascan language group is divided into six languages. All these
languages are not as similar as you may think. They can be compared to each
other like the Indo-European languages which we have on planet Earth today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">Well, I hope this text helped you guys a little
bit even though it isn’t that much information in it. As I mentioned before I
found all the information I needed on Wikipedia, so if you guys find any
mistakes or of you know more about Alaska natives, feel free to post a comment.
</span><span lang="EN-US">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Here are the links that I’ve used and that you can
use if you want to know more about the Athabascan tribe or Alaska’s indigenous
people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabascan">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabascan</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Group work - Presidential Election in the USA</b></h2>
<span lang="EN-US">Today is
the president election day in the USA. This is an important day, not only in
The US but also for the rest of the world. Because America is such a big and
important country with a lot of power will the result influence all of us. Today
the republican Mitt Romney and democrat Barrack Obama are fighting for the
throne. Many people are sure that Barrack Obama is the one who will win the
election this year too, as he did in 2008. Even though Mitt Romney is getting
more and more votes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /><br />According to
Voting and Registration Data - US Census 2008, the United States of America
voter turnout was 58%. To compare with other countries, in Norway 76% of the
people voted. The best thing would be if
100% voted and used their right to vote. The politicians also use a lot of
money during their campaign. Obama spent 852.9 m $ and Romney spent $752.3 million on the election this year to get peoples votes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />Obama and
Romney have quite different opinions. Obama wants girls to have abortion rights,
he thinks it should be allowed to abort and girls should get the morning after
pill on prescription if they want to. Romney used to support abortion, but is
now against them. Furthermore Obama also supports gay marriage. In USA today
gay marriage is only legal in some states, if Obama wins he will make a
difference so that gay marriage is allowed all over the country. Romney is
against gay marriage, as a Mormon he don’t think it’s right to let people of
the same sex get married. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />When it
comes to taxes Obama wants everyone who can afford it and earns a lot of money
to pay more tax so that the ones who are struggling can pay less. Obama wants
wealthy people to pay at least 30% of their income while Romney wants to drop
all the tax rates. He wants to lower the taxes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />They both
want to improve the education system in America and Obama says that he wants
the American schools to be the best. They also agree to a lot of things when it
comes to decisions about war, the military and they both want to get more
people jobs. Romney says that if he gets elected as president he will get
12million new jobs out on the marked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><br /><br />Barrack Obama’s plans:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />If Barrack
Obama gets elected for president, his first plan is to help people who were hit
by the storm Sandy to recover form it economically. This wouldn’t be a big
problem, he says, because USA is a county that gets back on its feet very
quickly after a natural disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />Obama has a
long- term economic plan that involves investment in education, small
businesses, clean energy and lower taxes especially for companies that brings
jobs back to United States of America. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He wants to
cut taxes by 3 600 USD for the typical American middle class family, allowing
them to get a paying of 50 00 USD per year. Obama’s long- term economic plan
also involves that USA has to use more of its own energy sources rather than
buying energy from other countries. This means utilizing the American made
energy to its maximum while the climate doesn’t get affected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />When
President Obama was in charge, America has experienced 32 straight months of
job growth, 5.4 million more private sector jobs, and nearly 479 000
manufacturing jobs since the year 2010. This is a clear sign that Barrack Obama
will make a good US President. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />President
Obama was the one who ended the war in Iraq and returned US troops home from
Afghanistan. Now his plan is to use half the savings from the war to pay back
some of the debt and to invest in new building projects in the US. Another plan
is to help young and hardworking immigrants who were brought here as children
to get better healthcare and better paying, as well as less hard work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><br /><br />Mitt Romney’s plans:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />Mitt
Romney’s plans when it comes to economy are quite similar to Obama’s plans. Mitt Romney also
wants to lower the taxes, for instance. He wants to make a smaller, a simpler
and a smarter government by cutting the taxes for the typical middle class
families in USA and increasing the taxes for the rich people in the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />However,
Mitt Romney’s plans don’t involve withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan.
His further plans are unknown. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />Another
negative thing about Romney as US president is that he refused to help
immigrants who came to USA as children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />Well, I
don’t think I have to say more about Romney’s plans because I’m 100% democrat. I
really hope that Obama wins the election even though I don’t live in the USA. I
think he made a very good progress the last four years and that he would make a
great American President.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We think
everyone is entitled of their own opinion and who they support when it comes to
the election. Obama is our favorite candidate and we hope to see him win and
become the president of The United States once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /><b>Links where we got the information from: </b></span></div>
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<a href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance"><span lang="EN-US">http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /><a href="http://www.whoromneyis.com/PoliticallyRelated/Obama/StandsForObama.html">http://www.whoromneyis.com/PoliticallyRelated/Obama/StandsForObama.html</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
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</span></span><a href="http://www.mittromney.com/jobs">http://www.mittromney.com/jobs</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.barackobama.com/plans/">http://www.barackobama.com/plans/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/videos/opinion/politics/2012/11/05/1682773/">http://www.usatoday.com/videos/opinion/politics/2012/11/05/1682773/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/videos/opinion/politics/2012/11/05/1682775/">http://www.usatoday.com/videos/opinion/politics/2012/11/05/1682775/</a><br />
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NOTE: This post is NOT only made by me, but also two other girls in my class. This means that 33,3% of the credit goes to me and the other 66,6% goes to them.<br />
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<b>Soko J-22 Orao - What an Amazing Aircraft!</b></div>
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Informal Text</div>
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I recommend you to read my formal text about the Soko J-22 Orao first because you'll understand this text much easier and with more context. My plan was to place formal text on top of the blog and this one underneath it, but it didn't seem to work very well because I posted this text after the formal one, and that means that this one is now on top insted of the other one. If you guys know how to move newer posts down so that the older come on top of the blog, I will be very grateful. :-)<br />
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Now, if you thought that I chose to write about the J-22 Orao because it's Yugoslavian, then I have to admit that you're right. Besides that, I also like this plane's design because it's so simple but good (it's simple because the plane is from the 1970s). When I discovered that J-22 Orao is a Yugoslavian fighter jet for the very first time (a year ago or something), I was very surprised. Even though I knew the country was very powerful at that time, I didn't know that aircraft were made there.<br />
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This particular aircraft osn't the most advanced and the best aircraft out there, but it is pretty good to be Yugoslavian. You probably know about the car Yugo which was very popular in the US in 1970s and 1980s. It was considered the worst car ever built by the Americans and the rest of the western world, but believe me, the car isn't as bad as everybody think it is. My grandpa has one of these. He has a 1992 Yugo Koral 55 which is still running like a brand new car (almost). I haven't experienced any problems when I sat in the car, so I guess you can say that it is still in a tip-top shape after all these years. But enough about this car, let's get back to the Soko J-22 Orao.<br />
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You all know that J-22 Orao was both a Romanian and Yugoslavian project if you have read my formal text about this aircraft, but there is one thing I forgot to mention. I forgot to mention that there is a Yugoslav version of this plane, which is the Soko J-22 Orao, and a Romanian version which is a IAR-93 Vultur made by Avioane Craiova. I will not talk about this plane because it's off topic and its name is so long and so difficult to learn. :-)<br />
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Well, that's all, folks. I hope you enjoyed reading this informal text about the amazing Soko J-22 Orao. It was mosly my opinions about the aircraft becaues this is an informal text and a part of my homework. This is after all a school blog, you know. If you want to know the difference between formal and informal text, you can find it somewhere on the internet because I really don't know how to explain it in a good way. Cheers!<br />
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<img height="223" src="http://auta5p.eu/katalog/yugo/yugo_45_01.jpg" width="400" /><br />
This little red fella is a Yugo (model unknown). It is very similar to the one that my grandpa has, but I think this one on the picture has a bit darker red colour than my grandpa's. I also think this one is a Koral 45 or 55 because of the side skirts and the red stripe on the front and the back bumper.<br />
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<b>Why is the text above informal?</b><br />
If you know the difference between a formal an an informal text, you should be able to tell that this is an informal text. At first, this text has a lot of my own opinions and is written in first person. This is perhaps the main reason that makes it informal. Another reason is that this text has words that are quite common in the society. These words are "don't", "doesn't" and "that's" instead of "do not", "does not" and "that is". Well, that's pretty much everything that makes this text informal and not formal.<br />
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The Soko J-22 Orao (orao is Serbian for eagle) is a Yugoslavian subsonic jet fighter currently used by the
Serbian Air Force. The aircraft is powered by two jet engines and it is a close
support, ground attack aircraft which comes in two versions; a single seat main
attack version and a two seat version for advanced flying or weapon training.
Another version of this particular aircraft is the Serbian Air Force's acrobat aircraft .<br /> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Soko J-22 Orao was developed as a part of the Yugoslavian and Romanian project “YuRom”. With
the Romanian Doctor-Engineer Teodor Zanfirescu and the Yugoslav Colonel Vidoje
Knezevic as the program leaders, the project seemed to develop very well, and
the replacement for the lightly armed Soko J-21 Jastreb - the J-22 Orao - was
successfully fulfilled.<br /> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">On 22nd of November, a Yugoslav test pilot named Marjan Jelen managed to break the sound barrier with the Soko J-22 Orao in a shallow dive above Batajnica airport, making this jet fighter the first ever Yugoslav aircraft to break the sound barrier. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Even though Marjan Jelen successfully achieved the goal of breaking the sound barrier with this fighter aircraft, it was considered a subsonic aircraft because it was not capable of exceeding mach 1 in level flights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">At present the Serbian Air Force consists of sixteen J-22 Orao fighters, seven
NJ-22 trainer aircraft, eight IJ-22 reconnaissance aircraft and two INJ-22 reconnaissance-
trainer aircraft, among many other Russian and Yugoslavian fighter- jets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What makes the text above a formal text?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The text above is a formal text because it contains a lot of information and is written in third person. Another thing that makes this text formal is its complex structure. It is also 100% based on information and doesn't contain neither my or anyone else's opinions, and words such as <br />" I "and "you" or "doesn't" and "don't".</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">This may sound a
little bit strange, but in this post I will write about what I did in my
English class last Tuesday. This is after all a school blog, and that means
that the posts published here are mainly about what I do during my English
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Last Tuesday we
worked in groups of two or three. Our task was to make a presentation about a
topic that my class mate who I was working with and I liked. We couldn’t figure
out what our common interest was so we decided to make a presentation about a
short story. The short story that I have chosen was “Man From the South” by
Roald Dahl and Victor’s, my class mate’s story was “Thank You, M’am” by Langston
Hughes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">If you want to know what the short story “Thank You, M’am” is about,
you can simply click the link: </span><a href="http://www.americanliterature.com/Hughes/SS/ThankYouMam.html">http://www.americanliterature.com/Hughes/SS/ThankYouMam.html</a><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">If you want to know what Roald Dahl’s story “Man From the
South” is about, you can either check out my post on my blog about the story and
its unexpected ending, or you can click this link to read the whole short
story: </span><a href="http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/south.html">http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/south.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Even if our plan
for the lesson was to finish the presentation before the end of the class, we
didn’t quite manage to do it because Victor had to take a test which the rest
of my class and me had in week 40. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, that was more
or less everything we did that Tuesday and hopefully we will finish our oral
presentation about the two short stories this Tuesday (tomorrow). </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The unexpected ending in Roald Dahl's
short story called "Man From the South"</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As some of you may already know, this short story is about an old
man with a Spanish or Italian accent who is offering a young Amrican sailor a
bet. He told the young American boy that if he manages to light his lighter ten
times in a row the old man would give him his brand new Cadillac. If the boy
loses the bet, however, the old man would chop off his pinky on his left hand.
After some discussion the boy accepted the bet. The boy, his girl, thte old man
and the narrator of the story, which probably is an English man, all og to the
old man’s room to have a drink and to bet there because there is no wind there,
the old man said. After they had a drink, a Martini I think, the old man bound
the American sailor’s left arm to the table so that his little finger on his
left hand was ready to be chopped off if he failed to strike his lighter ten
times in a row. The boy managed to light his lighter eight times before a
woman, the old man’s wife came into their room and took the chopping knife away
from Carlos’ hand. The unexpected ending in this story is that this woman comes
into the room just after the 8th stike. I, and probably many other, thought
that the boy either would get his pinky chopped off or win the Cadillac. But
this didn’t happen I was very surprised to see that a woman came into the room
and stopped the old Carlos. And when she put her hand on the table to take her
car keys, I was even more surprised to see that she only had one finger and a
thumb on her left hand. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I think «Man From the South» is a quite interesting short story
and is among the best stories that I have read. Roald Dahl truly was one of the
best British writers of all time. Personally I don’t think he was one of the
best British writers, I think HE was the best of them all. Actually I don’t know that many British writers and that’s the
reason why I think Roald Dahl is the best of them all. <span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Free Online English Dictionaries </h2>
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Hello and welcome to my blog! I have found several different online dictionaries and I would like to share my thoughts about them with you. Some of these dictionaries here are monolingual, while other are bilingual.<br />
In monolingual English dictionaries we can only find word explanations, while in bilingual dictionaries we can both word translations and word definitions. Bilingual means "two- languaged". In this text I will talk about a few bilingual and monolingual dictionarieas that can be found on the internet. That's right, online dictionaries. </div>
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<b>Cambridge Online Distionary</b>: <a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/">http://dictionary.cambridge.org/</a><br />
Cambridge Online Dictionary is the most popular dictionary on the internet. It is both monolingual and bilingual and it has word definitions for British English, American English, Learner's English, Business English, Essential British English and Essential American English. This dictionary has also three different combinations of tranlation. The language combinations are English - Turkish, English - Spanish and Spanish - English.<br />
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<b>TheFreeDIctionary (by Farlex):</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/</a><br />
This is a monolingual dictionary that has everything you need! The English monolingual dictionary has the standard word definition dictionary, a medical dictionary where you can get explanations to word such as acne and paradox, it has a legal dictionary and a financial dictionary. Besides all this, TheFreeDictionary also has an dictionary where you can get your acronyms and idioms answered. The reason why I like this particular dictionary so much is because when you want to search, you can choose to search a word that starts with "eng" or ends with "lish", for example. Another thing that I find very interesting with this dictionary is that when you search for a country, you get very short but precise information about the specific country.<br />
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<b>Merriam - Webster:</b> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/">http://www.merriam-webster.com/</a><br />
Merriam - Webster is a very good dictionary as well as the two above. It is both bilingual and monolingual and has also a thesaurus - a synonym dictionary. There is only one opportunity when it comes to language translation, and that is from Spanish to English dictionary. Even though Spnish is one of the most spoken languages on Earth, I think there should be more opportunities to choose between. Like French to English, for instance. Otherwise this is a very good online dictionary with a medical dictionary and an encyclopedia as well.<br />
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In my opinion, the Cambridge Online Dictionary is the winner here. I like it because it is so simple, but still gives a full explanation to many words. Another reason why I like the Cambridge Online Dictionary is because of its design. I would recomend this dictionary to everyone who like simple dictionaries, but for you people who like something more advanced, I would recomend TheFreeDictionary because it has almost EVERYTHING an online dictionary should have. Cheers!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Living in Norway</span></h2>
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Hello, folks! Welcome to my school blog! As the title says, this blog will contain information about the life in Norway. If you are interested in how life in this fabolous country is, lean back and enjoy your reading.</div>
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My name is Dimitrije Obradovic and I am from Serbia. Although I have been living in Norway for fully seven years and have Norwegian citizenship, I will never forget my home country. I was nine years old when I left Serbia with my father, my stepmother, my little brother and my little sister. At that time, I knew only a few things about Norway: I knew the country where we were going to was located in North- Europe and I knew the climate is colder than in Serbia, but I didn't know how the people are like. I didn't know if they will accept me or not.</div>
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In 2005 we lived in a small town called Kyrksæterøra. This town is located a few hundred kilometers away from one of the largest cities in Norway, Trondheim. The 29th of May 2006, ten months after we moved to Norway, my little sister Sara was born. In 2007, one year and four months after Sara's birth, on 30th of September, my little brother Marko was born. The same year in November we moved to West - Norway. We now lived in a huge house in Lye, Time Kommune. Lye was a small place located only 30 kilometers from Stavanger. I stayed in Lye for two more years before we mover to our current place. This moving was the hardest because I had many friends in Lye and now I had to leave them behind. <br /><br />I am now 16 years old and I'm going in <i>Sandvika videregående skole</i> (Sandvika High School). I live with my father, my stepmother, my two younger brothers and my two younger sisters. My 14 year old brother and I have the same mother. Our mother lives in Serbia and we visit her every summer and winter. </div>
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Life in Norway is fantastic! You are free to do whatever you want to as long if it's not against the law and as long as you don't hurt anyone. People in Norway are very kind. They are perhaps the kindest people on this planet. They really like to help and they would stop every time you have to cross a road because they are never in a hurry. Many people think about Norway as a cold country, which in fact is true. But here in Oslo, the temperature can be up to 28 degrees celcius during the summer and down to -25 degrees celcius during the winter. These weather conditions are ideal for skiing during the winter and swimming during the summer. </div>
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