Yea, how does the Norwegian school system work? Between the Swiss school system and the Norwegian is quiet a difference. There is a lot to explain. I don't know where I exactly should start...

I will just write about the basics in this Blog, maybe later in another Blog I will explain a bit more how modern and ahead the school in Norway is compared to my school in Switzerland.

Every Norwegian goes 10 years to primary school called in Norwegian "grunnskole". As soon as they finish they continue with the secondary school, which takes 3 more years. 

I am in a big school called "Bodin skole" the students here have to choose if they want to do 3 years with main focus on sport mixed with other subjects or do just the normal class with more different subjects.

The sport classes have 10 lessons of sport each week, 5 of them with a sport like football, handball volleyball. In the other 5 lessons each student focuses his own specific sport, some of them do athletics, gymnastics or many do snowboarding or freestyle skiing. The rest of the week they have also normal subjects as math, Norwegian, History, Spanish or French. The really positive side for the sport classes as far as I heard, are the many trips and excursions you will do with your sport class. They are often going out caving, climbing, kayaking, hiking. These trips often take several days and they will sleep in tents or in the winter even in igloos.

The normal classes instead can choose all of the subjects themselves. They have a huge variety of subjects in my school. For example Spanish, German, French, International English, science, art, history, tourism and traveling, photography, maths, physics, chemistry...and many many more. However they have just 2 lessons of sport each week.

I was soooooo lucky, because as an exchange-student, I got a mixture of the sport classes and the normal classes. They heard that I like doing sports especially in the winter snowboarding. So I have now in each week 5 lessons instead of 2 lessons. Each week I have 25 lesson of school.

(4 French, 5 International English, 5 Traveling and Tourism, 4 Norwegian, 2 History and 5 lessons of Sport instead of 2)

In my 5 lessons of sport class, I will join on Monday and Wednesday a sport class (18+) with and will train with them. I'm in a sport class which focus snowboarding and freestyle skiing. So in summer and fall we will train new tricks in the pool. Yea the school has a pool, quiet a big pool xD In the winter I will go every Wednesday from 4 to 9 in a ski resort, 45 min. to drive from here, to train there :) Yea here in Norway sport is taken very seriously in school. I'm very excited and hyped for the winter, my teacher told me my personal goal is doing a backflip in the winter (*^o^*) I have no idea how I should manage that xD

OMG I always came too late to my subjects, because I never found the rooms...Didn't understand a single word in school and had to organise quiet a lot xD Everything was new and exciting. I'm in the same class with another French guy, who is doing an exchange year. We helped each other out, because we had mostly the same problems.

Everybody told me that the Norwegians are a bit shy, however if you get to know them more, they are friendly, nice and interested in you as an exchange student. I was very surprised, when it didn't feel like that for me. I already got asked by some people of my class on the first day if I want to spend the lunch time together with them. They were really interested and asked me a lot of stuff, it is quite funny to see the difference between Norway and Switzerland.

Also very special and weird is the fact that almost everybody from the school knews who's an exchange student. It feels like it is tagged on my forehead. I met sooooooooooo many people, because they knew that I was an exchange student, but I had no idea who they were xD

In the first week my host family showed me the area and imported places in the city. I realized over the days that I'm soooooooo lucky. Norway in the north is so beautiful, especially the coast with the sea. Here some pictures...