Romy

Today we practiced biking down stairs! We were like BMX punks riding around the city hitting all the stairs (well, only the places that had a few stairs).

Jenn

Today we went riding around Trondheim and found this cool thrift store called Tante Isabel! I love it! (except it's not cheap)

Romy & Jenn

Undoing my hair thing in our shared office at school.

Jenn & Romy

On the red bridge around town in Trondheim on a sunny evening!

Romy

Romy being impatient for me to take his picture! We just went food shopping at ICA.

Romy

Today we moved bedrooms into Shou's old room, which is much bigger and has a comfy mattress. Romy is doing physics notes.

Jenn

Working on my crazy two phase double buoyant fluid dynamics program! Its being difficult right now! But our shared office is nice, and we can have all the hot cocoa we want. . .

Romy

Today we ate lunch on the roof of the Sintef building. It was so sunny and warm!

Jenn

Putting on my rain jacket for the bike ride to school, and still wearing my crazy striped slippers.

Romy & Jenn

This is us on the fjord having a mid-summer night's party. It is still light out and we still have our sunglasses on even though it is 1:30AM!

Romy

We just climbed three pumpy routes at Korsvika and now we are done! Coming down!

Jenn

Rock climbing at Korsvika, a rocky and cliff beach near the city of Trondheim.

Jenn & Romy

Today we went outside to have lunch in the flower garden in front of the main school building at NTNU.

Jenn

Outside of the Rema 1000, getting ready to bike home with our groceries.

Romy

At the Rema 1000 getting some juice. Norway is kind of devoid of fresh fruits and veggies, and with no juicer, we've resorted to buying the juice. It's only a bit more expensive than making it ourselves.

Romy & Jenn

Midnight on the longest day of the year! In Trondheim, although there is no 24hr sun, there is 24hrs of light.

Romy

Locking the front door, and going to school on another cloudy morning!

Romy

Enjoying the sun, and taking a break from biking next to a river in the mountains outside of Trondheim.

Jenn

Cleaning up our campsite in Hell!

Romy

This weekend we biked to Hell to go climbing and camping.

Jenn

Climbing in Hell!

Jenn & Romy

A little blurry, but this is us in the elevator at NTNU going to our shared office.

Jenn

Up in the TV tower, you can see all of Trondheim and the big fjord!

Romy

Today it was a nice evening, so we biked to the TV tower in Trondheim.

Jenn

The super awesome cappuccino machine in the break room at NTNU. I frequent this thing a lot.

Romy

Locking up the bikes at NTNU. We ride our bikes to the office.

Romy & Jenn

Today I redesigned the blog, and it was our first day of working together in one of the empty offices at NTNU.

Romy

Working on physics notes for the next semester of teaching.

Jenn

We had a big salad for dinner tonight, which probably cost us as much as you would pay in a restaurant at home! Almost all fresh food is imported.

Jenn & Romy

We walked all the way to this lake in Bymarka today. It was quite a hike (but most of it was urban). We were admiring the nice houses on the hill overlooking the fjord.

Romy

Taking a break on a bench with a scenic view of the fjord in Bymarka park.

Jenn

Riding our bikes through the park Bymarka.

Jenn

Today we baked banana muffins. Mmmmmmm.

Romy

There are so many bikes that people leave junked next to the garbage cans, but they usually have a bunch of good parts on them still. We found a junked bike that had two good wheels, a rack, and good brake pads. We are putting together a pair of bikes so we can do a long distance bike trip.

Jenn

We went to a really cool pub called The Ramp in "the radical" neighborhood or mini-Berkeley of Trondheim. Inside it was really retro 50's style, with wood parquet on the walls, and soft pastels all over, and cool tables and chairs. On the left, Birgitte, and on the right Shou.

Romy

It was so nice and sunny out, we went to the beach with a bunch of new friends and house mates (Birgitte, and 'Shou' in the picture) to have a BBQ.

Romy & Jenn

Tonight we went out with some grad students and house mates to try the beer at the only microbrewery in town. It was pretty good. Romy tried the San Diego IPA.

Jenn & Romy

Tonight we took a walk to the fort on a hill above Trondheim.

Jenn

Drinking tea, trying to stay awake!

Romy

Walking through the NTNU campus, where there are interesting buildings.

Jenn & Romy

Today we are still adjusting to the new time zone. We went for a walk around Trondheim, even though it was cloudy.

Romy

Waiting to pick up our luggage in the Oslo airport. The plane landed so late, we missed our connection to Trondheim, but we were able to get on the next plane very easily.

Romy

Happily sitting in the last row of the airplane. How did we get the last row?

Jenn

Getting ready to board our first flight of the day to Newark (but the plane behind me is going to Tokyo).