2009年8月15 日，独自背着行囊和拖着几十公斤重的行李箱从上海出发，踏上异国求学的旅程。十几个小时的空中飞行，再加上抵达挪威是午夜不得不在机场露宿的时间，接近四十个小时未眠。丝毫感觉不到困顿，从机场到学校所在地波什格伦镇（porsgrunn）的火车上，相机快门不停的闪烁，内心感到无比的兴奋。准备了那么久，等待了那么久，终于真实的踏上这片梦想的国度。传说中的北欧风情，童话般的静谧，此刻正是安静的展现在眼前。
       顺利的被学校的志愿者接到后，大家热情的介绍了自己，七手八脚的帮我把行李搬上车拖到宿舍。虽说是宿舍，按照国内的标准，这该是一栋栋美丽的小别墅了。二层的楼房，独立的房间，设备齐全的洗浴间及厨房，储藏室。这样的住宿条件让习惯了多人宿舍的我们，忍不住的相互打趣：“到了挪威，提高到别墅待遇了”。
      安顿好一切，推开窗，静静的享受一切的美好。宽阔得草地，连绵得远山，洁白得云朵，碧玺般的蓝天，然后内心无比笃定告诉自己，我的人生将要翻开崭新的绚丽之页。

At the second weekend in school, our students come from China are so honored to participate into the annual International Food Festival with the leadership of Ms. Inger in the center of Telemark, Skien City.

For this event, we have worked continuously two days at Inger’s home and produced more than 1000 spring rolls by hand as the representative of Chinese traditional food. Besides the Chinese traditional food that we are familiar with, there was a kind of dessert with ice-cream, some sort of drink made by the students study in the International school.

Tourists both from home and abroad have attended the event. To satisfy the appetite and interest on the food with diversity tastes come from different country. People can enjoy the foods from Europe, Asia and other states, even you have never seen it before. Of course, the total is well known that Chinese cuisine has enjoyed premiere fame over the world. Our spring rolls all sold out, despite the bad weather has been raining. In addition to delicious and pretty food, the festival presented many programs combining the entertainment and sightseeing.

I am so honored as a volunteer whom can sell the traditional handmade food of our homeland in the international activities. And I also depth fell that this event is setting a grand stage to introduce and promote the world food culture and the taste of the food from home and abroad as well as a cultural exchange of east and west.

As the new students come from China in Telemark University College, we are so lucky to be invited to an activity named “Crash Cultural Weekend” at first week. This is not only the first time we leave our campus and have a short trip in Norway, but also an very important experience to feel the cultural differences between East and West, to learn how to take a better life in Norway.

Maybe most of the students are not stranger with the term cultural shock, or we can say crash culture. We have written more than one occasion when we were still in our home country. It express the lack of direction, the feeling of not knowing what to do or how to do things in a new environment, and not knowing what is appropriate or inappropriate. The definition becomes a reality after we leaved China to a new country—Norway. This feeling becomes very strong in the first few days, the way that we lived before is not accepted as or considered as normal in the new place. Everything is different, for example, not speaking the language, not knowing how to use banking machines, not knowing how to use the telephone and so forth. Coming weekend of the crash cultural is very timely.

This is a special weekend to prepare for the Chinese students by the Inger who is responsible for the studylink. Because the story of Inger’s family and China, we are so lucky to have the chance came to the beautiful mountain and live a wonderful night in the wooded house with green grass. Everyone was shocked when they expressed the warmly welcome in Chinese smoothly. Then the feeling of shocking changed to admiration, cultural conflict and integration is perfect reflected in them. And now us, the new student came from East and studying in the West, are experiencing the culture of conflict and learn how to melting it.

With the meticulous arrangement, we walked into the famous Norwegian woods to break fresh air and to enjoy get blueberry, we also have a wonderful lunch of Chinese tasted. But more significant, we learned a lot the way of the Norwegian life. For example, enjoyed a variety of Norway food to get used to the Western diet; learned how to identify and use a variety of cleaning tools; know more about the living habits of Norwegian and so on.

Two days are very short, but each of us got from it further longer than the time. We understand the essence of the “Crash Cultural Weekend” is that:'one can experience real pain from culture shock; it is also an opportunity for redefining one's life objectives. It is a great opportunity for leaning and acquiring new perspectives. Culture shock can make one develop a better understanding of oneself and stimulate personal creativity.'

12 June 2009, it’s a very impressive day for the graduates in Agder University. They got their master degree and started a new life.

Several professors gave speeches to graduates, especially to the Chinese students. They expressed their wish for all students to continue following the spirit of the university and to keep on doing their best in their future work.

There are 8 Chinese students who have graduated this year. Some of them are going to work or PH.D study. Most of them will stay in Norway in the next several years. Let’s wish them have a wonderful future.

       2009年6月25日，泰勒马克大学学院部分中国留学生来到studylink项目负责人尤爱琳女士的家中制作中国传统食物——春卷。

       在大家的共同努力下，一共包了超过200个春卷，用于参加第二天在Porsgrunn市举办的国际日活动，向挪威友人及其他国家的朋友们展示中国的传统食品和文化。

       在第二天的活动中，200个春卷销售一空。活动组织者之一，Porsgrunn国际学校校长Paul表示，随着中西方文化交流的广泛深入，在多种文化共同展示的过程中，中国文化和食品被越来越多的“老外”所接受，并扮演了很重要的角色。

       据了解，留学生们还将在今年8月份参加Skien市一年一度的大型食品节活动，继续积极推广中华美食和东方文化。

2008年5月12日，一场突如其来的灾难降临到了中华大地，无数遇难者失去了他们的生命。5.12地震是唐山地震后的又一次旷世灾难，但是这场灾难并没有让中国人失去信心，我们也无时无刻不在用实际行动证明着自己作为中华家庭一份子的责任和义务。

灾难发生后，挪威各界华人也都迅速组织和动员，参 与到抗震救灾、义卖募捐活动当中；同时，中国驻挪威大使馆还向各大院校、各大团体的中国留学生发出了号召，希望我们能够行动起来，组织各种形式的募捐活 动。作为泰勒马克大学的中国留学生，大家都积极的行动起来，从网上搜集了大量的资料和信息，制作了多张宣传板；同时，我们还联系了学校、红十字会以及当地 警察局，希望能够得到他们的许可，允许我们上街组织募捐，同时希望他们能够提供协助。期间，学校管理层以及工会还向中国大使馆捐款2笔总值达到数万克朗，我们在学校的募捐箱也收集到了数千克朗的捐款，可以说，我们的所有工作都得到了泰勒马克大学的大力支持，在这里，我们深深的感谢那些在困难和灾难降临时，曾经帮助过我们的挪威友人。

5月24日，我们的募捐申请得到了批准，所有泰勒马克大学的中国学生都走上街头，参与到募捐活动当中。我们在整个市区安排了三个地点进行募捐，同时还有同学在街上散发传单，虽然天气阴霾，下着小雨，但是大家的干劲是火热的。整个募捐活动从早上10点起，一直持续到下午5点，无数挪威友人慷慨解囊，为灾区的受难者献上了自己的爱心。很多挪威友人还在记事簿上留下了他们的祈祷和祝福，希望灾区人民能够克服困难，重建家园……

在中华民族最需要帮助的时候，众多外国友人伸出了他们的援手，无数华人的行动也证明了“一方有难，八方支援”的道理。在这里，我们要感谢那些泰勒马克大学、感谢那些为灾区同胞慷慨解囊的人们，感谢所有为灾区同胞奉献爱心的人们！

The April 17 2009 was the most waited date by all international students. The Telemark University College had organized the winter trip for all international master students. All international students gather at Jotunveien parking area at 14:00 to take part in winter trip. The trip coordinator by Atle, our Norwegian language teacher, he welcomes all of us at parking area. The bus move form there around 14:30 towards the destination ‘Frøystul’ high. It took about two and half hour to reach our destination. On the way it seems everybody was enjoying the natural view of Norway. Most of the international student may not have been to the hill side of Norway. We saw many frozen lakes, rivers, forest and many more. Finally we reach at our destination where Atle had booked cottage for us to spend two nights three days. Atle booked four cottages at different location. We divided into four groups and went to our own cottage. The cottages are  located close to each other, most of us went to visit the other cottage and have some gossip.

I am now working as a post-doc researcher in NISlab (Norwegian Information
Security Laboratory) at GUC(Gjovik University College). I joined the
research group led by Prof.Christoph Busch in NISlab from January 2008
doing research work for the European 7th Framework Project TURBINE(TrUsted
Revocable Biometric IdeNtitiEs) (integrated project) undertaken by GUC.
TURBINE is a 3-year project with a 6.3 M€ funding from the European
Commission, aiming at security and privacy enhancement of current
fingerprint based biometric systems which are increasingly imposed to
potential security concerns on fingerprint template's storage and abusing.
My research work for TURBINE is mainly focusing on algorthm design and
evaluation for fingerprint template protection and interoperability
testing.

Besides, I am now a Norway national body representative to the
international standard organization ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 27, engaged in pushing
ISO standardization on biometric template protection and output TURBINE's
results to the future ISO standards. I proposed Norway's official comments
(generated from TURBINE's new template protection strategies) on the last
working document (3rdWD) at the ISO SC27 meeting in Cyprus, 2008, and the
4th working document accepted our proposal as the largest major progress
to the original document.

I am now also having close cooperation with GUC's media technology
department engaging in preparation of media security course. My research
interests in the media security field include percpetual image/video
encryption, media data authentication and wateramrking, ..., etc.

During my over one year stay in GUC, I am very satisfied with GUC's
working environment and research atmosphere in technology innovation and
cooperation. Besides, I enjoy the natural environment here in Gjovik as
well. Living in Gjovik is peaceful, relaxed and comfortable, which makes
me able to concentrate on my research interests and refresh myselve every
time I am facing hard problem in researches.

Bian Yang

宋晓洁 （25岁） 上海

在挪威时间：2006.8——〉现在

境况：软件应用工程师 （康士伯控制系统有限公司 Kongsberg Maritime）

2年半的时间说长不长，说短不短。2年半前本科大学毕业的情景还历历在目，而今我已经完成了硕士的学业，工作了半年了。很多时候我感觉到自己很幸运，也很庆幸当初自己选择来挪威，来到Telemark University College 学习。挪威独特的自然风光和巨大的就业市场，是许多其它国家所无法比拟的。

在Prosgrunn求学的日子，有辛酸，也有快乐。初来乍到的不安和好奇，文化差异的不适应，中国人的彼此照顾，学校老师的真诚负责，自己就这样慢慢地蜕变着，成长着。“当时只道是寻常”，随着毕业后大家各奔前程，快乐的时光永远留在了大家的记忆中。

其实现在的留学生活已经和10多年前大不一样了，没有人还需要靠在中餐馆中打工来赚取学费，也没有人餐餐只能清水白面包的果腹。在Porsgrunn的生活，中国学生之间常常聚餐，也会自己买啤酒加入挪威人的聚会（挪威的啤酒可不便宜）。大家也不是死读书拼文凭，而是更加享受生活，融入挪威的生活。留学的目的变得更加广泛，留学生活也越来越多姿多彩。

生活还在继续，故事也会不断发生，新的挑战在等待着我。没有人喜欢一成不变的生活。所以我想对所有想来挪威学习的学弟学妹们说：挪威将会成为一个令你没有理由后悔的选择。

My name is Wang Ning. I was graduated from Telemark University College in Norway, and received Master Degree of Science in Energy and Environment Technology in 2008.

挪威是世界上最富有的国家之一，有着良好的就业环境和社会保障制度。针对国内日益发展的石油业、工业和加工业，挪威更加需要广泛的国际合作及强烈的创新精神。因此挪威政府非常注重吸引人才，其硕士研究生毕业后工作的年薪约为税前36至40万挪威克朗。攻读博士学位的年薪约为税前30至35万挪威克朗。留学挪威是你最正确的选择！