Spring effect on Norwegians.
You can’t say you know Norwegians if you haven’t spent a whole year with them. In Norway. The reason I say that is because they change personalities from Winter to Spring. It’s proven by NASA. Or should be. And I agree with them. In Brazil, the seasons are pretty much the same. We have change […]
How to find our inner balance during quarantine? The importance of ME time.
Covid-19 pandemic has changed our lives drastically. These times of insecurity and lack of control affect us all and may bring anxiety, impatience, quarrels and instability to our relationships. Admit that we can’t control Corona crisis. (It also works for all kinds of anxiety). Once we admit it to ourselves, we are not stuck on […]
International Women’s Day. From an immigrant woman’s point of view.
Norway is a wonderful country that values and makes efforts to guarantee gender equality. Some immigrants who come from chauvinist societies may be surprised or even in shock in a country that allows the father to stay at home with the baby so that the mother can go back to work after the first months. […]
My Barnehage word book for foreign parents in Norway.
As a mother who was raised in Brazil, I got confused when my kid started at kindergarten. It was a whole new world for me. I had passed Bergens test (a high level exam in Norwegian language), but kindergarten vocabulary is quite unique, and you don’t learn how to be a latin mom in Norway […]