Cheers for that about being in another country- yeah I love Britain, so coming over here was a no-brainer, when I found out I got in to UCL. Only downside is for just over a year me and Amanda are separated for like 2 or three months at a time (although she's coming to London for three weeks at Christmas!)- but then there's always Skype to keep us in regular contact! I'm doing Geography, Maths and Physics at Uni, so I've got a lot of work to do these days! Geography's definitely my favourite subject of the three- and I'd definitely consider myself a human geographer, I love learning bout the countries- and we always get to go on great feild trips at the end of the units when doing human geography! There's one other Scandinavian at Uni, a Swedish guy. We're good mates, so the feild trips are always great fun with him and the other lads! I'd never heard of the place Plymouth until last month- when they knocked us out the cup . Never really been round England so I don't know many places other than London I'm sure it's a got great University though- what else did you take ?? And would you consider yourself a physical/human geographer ?? As for Amanda, I think I chose some pretty bad photos of her for my thread "Who Are Ya?"!!! Thought I'd put one or two others on instead .. ! View attachment 18735 View attachment 18736 And here of course is our favourite photo of us together: View attachment 18737 It was only from September- when we met up in Norway, as both of us have our birthdays near the start of September (mine's the same as devonFRATTONiser! . We were in a place called Larvik- I recommend you visit the place, it's where I grew up. Lots to do, whether you like winter sports, or the scenery of Southern Norway! As for the moving back to Norway thing- I finish Uni in one year- but my next move isn't decided yet. Amanda and I plan to move in together- but what country we don't know yet! .. I want her to come over to London, but I guess if she doesn't want to, I'll agree to her decision. I know she's quite keen for us to live in Denmark or Norway, but you never know, maybe we'll end up in London (hopefully!). Unfortunately I've never been trips to such exotic places as you seem to go to! Just living here, and my visits to Norway/Denmark every few months take most of my money- and I can't even get a penny of my parents to help me fund my lifestyle! So it's all mostly things in minibuses round the UK and Ireland. What else did you take at Uni ?? Plus I think you have better teachers/lecturers that us!!
Oh dear, oh dear. Yet another load of Pony from SB3! Well, if we did go down we will still be a division higher than Pompey, SB3! Anyway, I have no problems with you Pompey lads and find that you are a good bunch who have stuck by your local team through thick and thin. I hope you find a new manager quickly, and that your comment about "relegation-fodder" doesn't come back and bite you severely on the arse. Obviously.
As always you have got it wrong sb and the word fiddling comes from the Pompey Board Room along with a few Ponies in Harrys reign.
A pony was never enough for poor Harry. Pompey_London having read this thread and the other I can now understand why you banter is just that unlike most of our dear friend SB£. Education. As for where you end up with your lovely lady maybe you will be able to get her decision after your Uni course by the offer of a really good job over here. Good luck either way.
PL I have just had a horrible thought, as Norway is not in the EU do you have to pay international fees to study here? We aren't like those nice Norwegians who let you study for free.
Yes that is quite a history lesson.........another is that you have gone broke 4 times to our one.......so hows that for another history lesson..... All your prizes cost you dearly though didn't they?
Haha! I see what you're saying, but it doesn't matter in most countries any more if they're in the EU or not. If you chose to study abroad- you have to pay international fees! I applied for a few universities, one in Norway, UCL in London, and two others in other countries (Romania and Finland). London was my first choice though .. When I looked into those Unis (or my parents did while I was still living round at home doing nothing but partying, playing sports, video games ( A LOT of video games, used to get Amanda angry )and just being up to no good )they found every country had very expensive Uni costs ( I'm paying £3,350 per year to go to UCL). Your feckin government want me to pay £6000 per year now, as they raised the cost you are allowed to charge for a foreign student already studying at a British Uni! Thankfully, the University are making up the difference for me , or else I just wouldn't be able to afford it. UCL certainly look after me well, as a 19 year old here on my own- I need all the financial support I can get! UCL help pay for me and two of my friends' flat that we share, so we still can save up a bit of money for later life. Cheers. Hopefully she'll like London when she comes over next month, (She's not in the Norwegian European Championship handball squad in December as she's out with a shoulder injury she picked up mid season playing handball for Viborg HK, but never had treated.) I've planned out some things for us to do in the three weeks she's over here, to hopefully convince her London's a great place to live. Did anyone else here study in a foreign country ?? I'd just like to know how you got by for two/three years!
I saw a news item, that in Holland, courses for the main subjects are run, in English at a third of the price in this country. Hey wow, you can believe it.
I don't know how you live away from your girlfriend! Long distance relationships are tough. I spent the last three years living with my girlfriend while at Uni (we both went to the same Uni), but now that we've finished we live back at our parents houses while saving the money to buy a house together. We don't live that far away from each other but only get to see her once a week (which is nothing compared to how long you have to wait to see your girlfriend, but I still hate not seeing her everyday!). Wow, that's impressive! I just did straight Geography (not smart enough for anything else ). Good luck with it all, you must have one hell of a work load! What are you planning on doing your dissertation on if you are doing three subjects!? haha so you're a Human Geographer (the enemy ), as you may have guessed by that remark I'm a Physical Geographer, but that's not to say that I don't find a lot of Human Geography really interesting, I even chose a Human Module 'The Third World' in my second year, and a 50/50 module 'Coastal Zone Management' in third year. There was one guy from Finland in my year doing Geography, had really really long hair and an impressive beard. A couple of my lecturers were Dutch (and both were bonkers), but that's as close as I've come to meeting any Scandinavians. Plymouth is a great place, another coastal city but a smaller city and more isolated then Portsmouth or Southampton with a lot of rural farm land surrounding it. I loved the Uni there because the whole campus is in one place right in the middle of the city, and then a 5-10 minute walk through the city centre and you're at the sea. As a football club they have fallen on tough times in recent seasons going into administration and dropping from the Championship, to League 1 and now League 2 in consecutive seasons. You certainly have a very attractive and successful girlfriend so good work on that!, shame about the football team you support though If ever I visit Norway I'll be sure to check the place out. I've been to Iceland before (amazing country) and in my head Norway looks very similar? How big is Oslo in comparison to London? I guess job's will be a big decider in where you end up settling? Won't the fact that handball isn't big in this country prevent your girlfriend from living here if she want's to continue with that career?
For the same reason that train fares are astronomical - severe cuts in state subsidies, and both have to make a profit now.
Well, as I said in my previous post: "Your feckin government want me to pay £6000 per year now, as they raised the cost you are allowed to charge for a foreign student already studying at a British Uni! Thankfully, the University are making up the difference for me , or else I just wouldn't be able to afford it. UCL certainly look after me well, as a 19 year old here on my own- I need all the financial support I can get! UCL help pay for me and two of my friends' flat that we share, so we still can save up a bit of money for later life." They seem to raise the fees every year. You particularly like ripping off the foreign students, here in the UK! Double standards or what ??
It's a political decision PL Stewie. Colleges/Universities, especially the lecturers, believe that education should be free. Politicians however, don't. I worked in the finance office of a college in one of the most run down boroughs of South East London for a couple of years and saw for myself how central government funding is being cut and cut and cut. It was quite sad to watch young men and women struggling to find the money to fund courses, usually out of their income support, trying so hard to make themselves employable, having already been let down by an inadequate education system. You are very lucky to have financial assistance from your university - the poor souls studying at that college couldn't even get assistance with their bus fares.
You're right, sometimes being in a long distance relationship can be tough- but we skype each other most days, and we meet up for a few weeks every 3 months or so anyway. It's only around 9/10 months until we move in together, so it's only for a little longer, then we'll always be with each other. So how did ya meet your GF ?? University ?? It must be great living with her at Uni- it's a shame me and my girl have to wait a little longer until we live together! Well great- Geography's the best subject, so I'm sure you had fun doing that as all your work. Physics is fun for me, but maths at Uni is frikin impossible. Don't know what I was on when I picked the combination of the three ?? But it's all going well at the minute, in my final year of studying. Scandinavians are the nicest people on earth, trust me. If you ever have the opportunity to visit Norway in particular- go there! I guarantee you you'll have a great time, whatever you're in to. Cheers bout Amanda, she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And about your last point- obviously you're correct about that. I guess my career choices are available in any of the three countries, but hers is best in Scandinavia, where handball is the second most "favourite" sport, behind football. In Britain, your Christmas day revolves around food and the Queen's speech. In Norway, everyone crowds round the TV to watch the Norwegian girls win gold on the handball pitch! We'll probably end up in Norway/Denmark- but if it is her preferred choice, that's fine by me. Oslo's a nice city- but nowhere neara as nice as Larvik- where I used to live, and where I met Amanda. Words couldn't do the place justice- just visit it for a few days/ a week, and you'll have the time of your life, wherever you go in the city. Denmark has some nice places as well- all the ones you know of, Copenhagen e.t.c, as well as Viborg, where Amanda currently lives. I've visited her twice in the past 5 months, and she's been to London once. I prefer going over to hers, so maybe Denmark would be the best place for us after all. How many times did you get to watch Plymouth, when you were over there ?? Now I'm in England- I love driving down to Portsmouth, meeting my cousins/uncles, and going off to the Pompey match, and my female cousins/ aunts go off to Gunwharf Quays e.t.c! Ut's always great fun, and they all like my Scandinavian accent, especially my 12 year old cousin. (They're all British through and through, it was only my parents who moved to Norway!) So what did you make of your Finnish mate's accent ?? It's slightly different to a Norwegian one, but the British people seem to like mine a lot!
I guess you do mate..... but there again that is one record we do not want to break to be honest.....
A team called Grena/Gretna FC, a team who used to play in Scotland, hold the record for record administrations Poss. They went bankrupt a whopping six times in around 50 years. In the year 2000, they were permanently put out of business. So it's not our record to break!
