My international dinners

May 4, 2009 linlinwang

I can hardly believe that I’ve already been in Oslo for three months and it’s only one month left before I leave. I get along so well with everyone and we all learnt a lot from each other.

I remembered the first farewell dinner is held by Kristine, a Danish girl. The daytime was not as long as it is now and everyone just came one time when it got dark. Then people moved to a pub and turned the farewell to an awesome party, though I were not there.

Several weekes before, I had two different dinners from Charlene and Tanja, coming from France and Finnland. Both of them had a nice dinner and we talk to each other a lot. However, hardly anybody arrived in half an hour after the appointed time.

Last week, I went to two Portugues friends’ dinner. I’ve been told to arrive at eight in the evening and also heard of that Portugues are not clock-worship as most Latin people. Thus, I arrived thirty minutes late but found I was the only one who was not on time. It was a really embarrassing moment when I enter the kitchen and everyone was just having their meal. Then I was told that they can be late at any situation but a dinner invited by others.

I was also involved into a French and Hungarian goodbye dinner on Thursday. As I told them before, I was almost one hour late when I rush into the kitchen. However, I can tell that they just started eating around ten minutes or so. Therefore, I just caught the time.

See, how complicated the handle the time according to different people, different places and different situation!