Exchange Student in NTNU, Trondheim, Norway | Mon Amie

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[sander]

Your experience as an exchange student is really similar to mine 2.5 years ago. Great video for newcomers. The bus was not that expensive in my opinion.

[veronicajimmy]

I visit Norway Trondheim one week ago and I think I was near to your university look amazing I hope soon I can be able to come to study there

[Luredreier]

5:34 I think you lived just a few houndred meters away from where I live right now.
Moholt Studentby right?
6:53 Yeah, figured that was the right place. =)
I live in the same building as the Kiwi is located in. ^^
7:33
The price of bus tickets for a student is actually quite low if you buy a long term one.
If you pay for 180 days with a proof that you're a student you can get those 180 days for 2280 NOK, or in other words a little over 12 NOK pr day.
That said, walking or biking is of course cheaper. =)
8:15 That only applies to Gløshaugen campus.
NTNU has several campuses around Trondheim.
The two big ones are Gløshaugen and Dragvoll.
Let's just say that Dragvoll is *not* close to the city center.
They're about equal distance from Moholt though.
8:46 That's the student society.
There's a *ton* of student activities you can take part in if you get involved with that community.
Well worth doing.
8:54
It's not a town, it's a city.
The third or fourth largest in Norway depending on how you calculate it.
Oslo and Bergen is of course both bigger then Trondheim.
Stavanger is bigger or smaller then Trondheim depending on how you calculate what is or isn't a part of the city.
Tromsø is the city that's just behind Trondheim and Stavanger on the list being a little bit smaller then both.
Remember, the downtown area is only a small part of the city as a whole. ;-)
That said, I agree that it does have a small town vibe to it in a lot of ways. =)

9:48
I'm glad you where here a year when we actually did have snow...
But even in those videos you showed the amount of snow was somewhat limited...
Coastal cities like Trondheim is getting less and less proper snow.
The natural weather in the city is meant to include snow on the ground pretty much all winter even along the coastline.
However due to global climate change we're getting less and less of it, it's less reliable, it melts more often, its warmer and wetter snow often close to being sleet etc...

And yeah, that ice you mentioned, that was uncommon in the past (15-20 years ago) but now it's the new norm for the winter...

11:16

Make sure you have shoes that can fit thick socks comfortably with enough room to spare to allow them to fill with air that can work as insulation and to let the blood flow freely through your feet.
You *need* thick wool mittens as well as woll underwear.
It's not good enough with a single thick layer of clothing, you need several layers so you can strip of some of it when you get hot to reduce the amount of sweat as that'll make you deadly cold when you cool down again.
Mittens are better then gloves because your fingers are together in the same "pocket" in the mitten sharing heat instead of being separated like in a glove and the surface of the mittens is smaller in a way with more air inside it that kind of acts kind of insulating also wear a wool sweater.
Due to my Icelandic heritage I would actually recommend an *Icelandic* lopapeysa instead of something Norwegian as those are way warmer due to the much more loosely spun yarn allowing more air to be trapped inside the sweater and therefore more heat.
That does come at the cost of those being less durable and harder to produce though (meaning that the price tends to be high, but well worth it).
Lopapeysa is actually made in the same way that Norwegians made their sweaters back in the early middle ages.
The vikings didn't have knitting yet so they used another tecknique (that actually favours that kind of yarn) named nålbinding in Norwegian.
And when new more modern ways of spinning yarn was introduced the lopa type of yarn fell out of favour in Norway because it's harder to knit with since it's so loosely spun and because clothing made from it was less durable, a major drawback in those days when making clothing was way more labour intensive then it is today and the relative cost of new clothing was higher.

11:50

Yeah, lakes don't need to be dangerous at all, but there's warning signs you should look out for, things you should avoid doing etc...
For instance avoid walking on the ice near where the water might be moving like where the water is draining out of a lake as the ice there is generally thinner.
Check reports on ice thickness.
It can be smart to bring a tool to test the strength of the ice up front.
You might want to bring tools to help you climb out of the water if you *do* end up falling into it.
And there's courses you can take to teach you how to do so more effectivly.
Also, use cloths made out of wool as the innermost layer of clothing (as well as most of the other layers) as those will maintain some of the insulating effect even when wet once the water has settled inside the wool as the water won't move very much allowing you to maintain some more of your body heat.
Of course you *still* need to get out of the water as soon as possible and try to get as much water out of the wool as you can.
The wool will actually not feel wet once you get the amount of water down to less then about 30% of the weight of the wool itself.