Rice University

We also have a course at Rice university during these months. 3 hours a week. The University is ranked among the top 20 universities in the US. The campus is pretty nice, not like Blindern! :)

Hei og hå!

Pop Tarts

A lot of strange things to buy in american supermarkets. We will now give you the recipe for pop tarts, it is quite easy to make.

Step 1: Buy Pop tarts in supermarket (choose your own flavor. We bought the chocolate chip).

 

Step 2: Remove bag from box

Step 3: Remove pastry from bag.

Step 4: Insert pastry in toaster.

Step 5: Set toaster to the lowest heat setting.

Step 6: Remove pastry from toaster.

Step 7: Wait for pastry to cool.

Step 8: Enjoy!

Hei og hå!

Interning

So, as we're suppose to be interns as well as going to school, I thought I would share what we're doing with you.

Christian Müller - Christian will be working at a newly established company called Groupraise(.com). Groupraise is a company that matches up restaurants and non-profit organizations to benefit from each other.

Asbjørn Ræder - Asbjørn got a job with Caesar Systems. He'll be doing some fiscal taxdimy or something like that. I have nooo idea, to be honest.

Pål Torgersen - Pål's intern position is at a firm called Testmasters. Testmasters is a company that helps high school and college kids prepare for national tests such as SATs

Christer Lunnan-Reitan - I will be working at a firm called NatSent, which develops a web site that will help you customize a news site, and will work as a social network as well

So, I hope this gave you all (ya'll, as we've learned to say here in Houston) a quick overview of where we'll be working. We don't know what we'll be doing yet, so expect more updates from us.

And, like Pål wrote earlier; we've got a lot of posts to write about Pop Tarts

Cowriters

We (Christian, Asbjørn, Christer and me) will now (probably) all contribute to writing this blog! Some of our future work will be on the topic of pop tarts!

We have arrived(but we didn't have an internet connection to tell you we did!)

After a long flight we finally arrived in Houston. Christian was greeting us on the airport with homemade name signs. We found a cab that didn't have a clue where we were going, and just drove us somewhere else. And we told her and showed her the address at least ten times. But after one hour and thirty minutes we finally found the hotel. :)

Christian and I spent the night in a kingsize bed at Extended Stay America. Big room and ok standard!

The next day we took a cab to Camden Greenway Apartments where we are staying the next three months. MC Müller will show you the crib:

We will be back with more!

Hei og hå!

Ambassadebesøk og visum

Da har vi vært på "intervju" på den amerikanske ambassaden. Jeg var heldigvis tidlig ute og var førstemann inn. Det tok ca 15 minutter fra jeg ble sluppet inn til alt var greit. Jeg likte reklamefilmen de spilte på venterommet godt, ingenting er vel bedre en glade amerikanere i loop :)
Etter intervjuet tok noen av oss turen til Waynes Coffee. Det var hyggelig å bli litt bedre kjent med reisefølget.

Vi har også fått tildelt leiligheter. Jeg deler rom med Christian som jeg kjenner fra masterstudiene på UIO. Leilighetskomplekset ligger lokalt i sentrum av Houston og ser absolutt lovende ut! Men bilder kan jo ofte lyve, så vi får se! :)

Gleder meg spesielt til å se det de skryter mye av, nemlig "Crown Molding". Som egentlig bare er taklister med struktur!

Har hentet pass og visum på postkontoret i dag. Så da er det meste av papirer klart!

Hei og hå!

Picture source: http://apartments.camdenliving.com/houston-tx-apartments/camden-greenway/AptPropertyDetail.aspx