Kristin

From now on I will write in english to give my international friends the opportunity to read my blog! And for you norwegians its good practice:) Today we have learned about development and its history. We have been studying economics, and how market liberalism does not necesarily work in every geographical and cultural setting. I have learned that there are lots of other factors playing a role as well. Even though the development has gone in the "right" direction for the industrilized countries economically, the development for the poor countries has not really been only positive, and in some cases it has gone "backwards"... A lot of places people have felt that the western culture has been pushed on to them. And the western way is not necesarliy the best. We have a tendency to see other countries through our "western glasses", for instance without democracy we don`t consider them as "developed". Well, that was just some thoughts from today`s class...

I had a really nice weekend- Amund came all the way from Trondheim to spend some quality time here at Hald! I was really happy to have him here. He got to meet a lot of my new friends and take part in the lectures and also go to Strømme foundation`s office in Kristiansand. And of course I showed him the beautiful city of Mandal!