Sky art
A few weeks ago I saw the first spectacular sky phenomenon since I'm here in Norway.
No, it's not an aurora borealis but something else equally stunning and beautiful.
The norwegian word for them is perlemorskyer: polar stratospheric clouds aka nacreous clouds.
It seems that these phenomena are quite rare, so I consider myself lucky to have seen them live!
I wasn't prepared for them, so I didn't take nice pictures, but at least these photos have the particularity to have been taken in daylight, and not during twilight as most of the great photos you can see in Flickr.
Take a look also to this amazing photos my colleague Claudio took in those days and shared with the mankind!
Now I'm looking forward to see the midnight sun next August when I will travel far north to Svalbard for a short trip!
Enclosure:
Snow!
A few times last week was snowing, at least where I live.
Nothing serious, but it was nice to look outside the snow falling down and start to cover everything of white.
It made me happy like a little child in Christmas time who wish the snow to go out and play... :)
Enclosure:
First months in Norway
It's been a long time since my last post and many things happened.
I moved to Oslo and started work at Opera Software as an Information Systems developer.
My duties at the moment are related to the MyOpera Community, I'm part of the MyOpera Team and we work hard to maintain and improve the community users' experience.
I met a lot of people in the company from something like 42 different countries in the world!
That's great!
This also is helping me a lot with my english since I must use it every time for communicate also with norwegians.
I'm planning to join a norwegian class, probably in August; meanwhile I'm trying to study a bit by myself (without too much success).
I moved to my own apartment almost a month ago and I'm very happy about it. It's small but it's enough for me and is located in a nice and calm place well connected to the rest of the city by buses and also a subway line.
I'm trying to enjoy the outdoors but these days the weather is not so good and stable, anyway I've joined the DNT and I'm planning hiking trips around Norway for this summer.
With bad weather I just exercise in the gym.
A few new blog posts and a lot of new ideas are bouncing in my brain... so stay tuned!