After a long hot and sweaty autumn, we have at last had two days of rain, not your tropical downpour but the weaker continuous sort we are used to in the UK and in Norway, and with it a fall in the temperature to a comfortable mere 20 degrees Celcius.
This must have been disappointing for the group of Norwegian students They were doing a course on Inter-cultural and religious understanding at Menighetsfakultetet in Oslo, known for short as MF. Originally an alternative to the university faculty of theology, it is no longer just an institute for training would-be pastors but offers a wider range of studies to deacons, teachers and more. The programme for one of the days included a lecture on Chinese religion by John LeMond, who then guided them around a Taoist temple – alas in the rain. However, on Sunday the weather though grey had picked up sufficiently to go to the beach. At 20 degrees C the sea was more than warm enough for Norwegians.
This must have been disappointing for the group of Norwegian students They were doing a course on Inter-cultural and religious understanding at Menighetsfakultetet in Oslo, known for short as MF. Originally an alternative to the university faculty of theology, it is no longer just an institute for training would-be pastors but offers a wider range of studies to deacons, teachers and more. The programme for one of the days included a lecture on Chinese religion by John LeMond, who then guided them around a Taoist temple – alas in the rain. However, on Sunday the weather though grey had picked up sufficiently to go to the beach. At 20 degrees C the sea was more than warm enough for Norwegians.