Day 5: Hot and Cold, i.e., Fevers and Snow

Anya’s fevers continued today, which means she won’t be going to school at all this week. The weekend should be good for plenty of time to return to wellness. However, the body’s need to sleep while sick will delay Anya’s jet lag adjustment. Again, the weekend will provide more time.

I stayed home with Anya working on online banking, Hebrew, Norsk, and preparing for laundry and bread making (using the breadmaking machine) tomorrow. So, I now know that the Norsk word for yeast is tørrgjær. I can spell it, but I don’t think I can pronounce it.

With a light snow outside, I felt warm inside all day.

Here’s some of what I learned today (I’ll spare you the Hebrew and Norsk):

• A hard slate roof can last up to 200 years!
• Schools in Norway don’t provide lunch. Everyone brings their own.
• Norwegian paper currency: I read a bit about each of the five people on the five bills. Two of five people are women! The woman’s face on the 200 kroner bill is Kirsten Flagstad, an opera singer who made it big in the USA at the Metropolitan Opera but returned to Norway during WWII. Evard Munch is on the 1,000 kroner bill. Others include a Nobel literature prize winner (the other woman), a multiple Nobel science winner, and a collector of folk tales.

A few of my favorite things:

• Heated tile floor in the bathroom!
• Good tasting water, drinkable from the tap.
• Knowing that we’re thought of and prayed for here in Norway!
• Congratulating (and thanking) my parents on their 59th wedding anniversary!