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Dan Nye writes about experiences l)an Nye, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Nye, Shelton, is presently in Norway in a Rotary International exchange student program. This letter was written about his experiences there: Oslo November 16, 1978 Deal" members of tile Shelton Rotary Club, Greetings, from myself, and from the members of the Grorud Rotary Club of Osio, Norway. Last week, November 8, 1 conveyed Shelton's greetings to the forty nelnbers of Grorud, my host club here in Oslo. (There are several different clubs in the city.) I talked about Shelton (a pleasant town of 7,000 or so inhabitants ... on an arm of Puget Sound... chief industries: lumbering, pulp and paper research, shellfish c u I t i v a t i o n ... Christmastown U.S.A.), and spent some time in the "hot seat" fielding assorted questions. Listened to quite a few opinions as well. It seemed a good number of the members had been in the U.S. but few as far out west and up north as our comer. I was made to feel very welcome, and am looking forward to further contacts with Grorud, and other clubs. It's rather difficult to believe it has been three months since I got off the plane at Fomebu Airport twenty miles south of Oslo. That crawling ride in my Norwegian "brother's" (son of the family I lived with before), Renault through the pouring rain and traffic jam on the Drammen freeway into town seems all too recent. Time's passage has accelerated the busier I've become. I'm living in student housing at Sogn Student Town, about a fifteen-minute tram ride north of Oslo. I have my own room and sink and share a kitchen and shower/W.C, with five others. (Not simultaneously!) They are all Norwegians although there are foreign students of every imagineable nationality in the town. There is a grocery store and a restaurant down the hill and laundry facilities across the street. We also have newspaper b; TN. rooms atttla sauna: We six live on the top floor of a six-story building and have a wonderful view of Oslo and its fjord. From the door it is only a fifteen-minute walk uphill to Nordmarka, Oslo's many square-mile forested park area. The hilly terrain is crisscrossed with trails that are so well signed even a foreigner can't get lost. At intervals there are also old farmhouses that have been converted to stopping places where one can get a cup of coffee or some fresh-baked Allen Phinney in Korea Airman First Class Allen D. Phinney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan L. Clark of Rt. 2, Shelton, has arrived for duty at Osan AB, Republic of Korea. Airman Phinney, a pavement maintenance specialist with a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, previously served at Francis E. Warren AFB, Wyoming. The airman is a 1975 graduate of Bentonville, Arkansas High School. pastry. When the snow falls, which the weather bureau keeps promising will happen any day now, Nordmarka becomes a mecca for Oslo's cross-country ski enthusiasts. I'm told that includes every citizen who can walk. There are lighted ski trails, which makes a great deal of sense. Already now the sun is down and it's dark out by 4 p.m. The trains, whose runs end where the trails begin, install ski racks on the sides of the cars. Though there's been no skiing yet, I've had some fine weekend hikes. Picked quite a few blueberries and buckets of lingonberries (like small cranberries), in October. Guided by the recipes on the back of the Norwegian equivalent of a Certo bottle, I tried my unskilled but eager hand at some jam. I got a variety of interesting results ranging from near-jam to, well, let's be kind and say, syrup. The berries are gone now, so Oslo, and 1, await the snow. Sogn will no doubt be a fine place to have one's residence when winter arrives. But the temptations of Sogn aside, I spent most of my time at my other "place of residence." I have a desk where I study at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law. I'm following instruction - lectures, seminars, colloquia - in international maritime law, petroleum law and contracts. Instruction is in Norwegian - or Swedish or Danish, depending on the instructor. This is a Scandinavian institute, supported by the governments of Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. My fellow students are therefore a mixed group. We lack an Icelander presently, but otherwise the Nordic slate is complete. We have also an Egyptian colleague, and have had visiting students from the Far East: Japan and Hong Kong. The institute occupies a sizeable corner of the "Aula" building, one of three buildings comprising the "old" University in downtown Oslo. The schools of law and medicine are located here. The rest of the University has moved into new quarters at iLndem , near Sogn where 1 live, When I say this campus is downtown, 1 mean exactly thai. The buildings face Karl Johan Street, Norway's Pennyslvania Avenue, between the Royal Castle and the Parliament Building. Directly across the street is .the National Theater, for which Henrik Ibsen wrote. , As one might expect in seafaring Scandinavia, the support the institute seems to be less than paltry. Quite at contrast with much of the rest of the building, which groans under "decorator pastels" and sandlewood, the institute revels in moss green and teak -real teak. The light fixtures are solid brass and obviously have done time aboard ship. There are several wonderful etched-glass panels over doors and here and there, with ship and seamen, mainsails and even Minerva. These generally salty surroundings are thoroughly "peppered" with ship paintings, ship models and other marine paraphenalia. The crowning glory has to be the large, and LOUD, ship's bell which hangs outside the door of the institute's founder, Sjur Braekhus; who is Norway's "grand old man" in FOR SALE: EVERLASTING PEACE Although peace of mind is priceless, you don't have to buy any medicine or spend any money to achieve it. All you need is a sincere desire to attain it. During the coming Holidays visit the Church or Temple of your choice and listen to inspired sermons which can help you find the way to eternal tranquility and peace. Our sincere wish Is that you have a Nell's Pharmacy Fifth & Franklin St.--426-3327 Open Daily, 9:30-7:30 Satu rdays--9:30-6:00 maritime law. The bell is rung exactly six tilnes, at exactly I 1:45 a.ln., every day, to call us together for lunch. All the rooms have shipboard names, so students and faculty gather in the "Mess." There, most of us munch on brown goat cheese sandwiches (Norway's equivalent of peanut-butter-and-jelly, available in the U.S. as Ski Queen Cheese). Here, as everywhere, we wash them down with good old instant coffee. As instant coffee amidst teak and brass 'might suggest, despite the somewhat glorious surroundings, day-to-day routine is not that different here than elsewhere. Books are books and work is work. There is another aspect of being in Oslo that • merits comment, nevertheless. It is something quite different than anything l've experienced, in America or in Norway. It is attributable, ! think, not so much to my being in a foreign country, but to where I find myself within that country. Though it has only 500,000 inhabitants, Oslo is a national capital. This casts a whole different spell over the city, and gives things occurring in it an importance beyond what one might otherwise expect from a city its size. Karl Johan Street, which I walk down every day, is Norway's Pennsylvania Avenue. That I've mentioned. There's so much more. The Oslo lawyers who attend the seminars the institute holds, are some of the top people in Norwegian maritime law. The King rides past the University on his way to speak to the Parliament. The National Theater is across the street, and the National Gallery of Art is just around the comer. At the Rotary meeting I attended last week, many of the Rotarians were involved in businesses and occupations not only of city-wide, but also of nation-wide importance. True, the nation is only a small and relatively unimportant one on the international scale. Even so, there are those moments when world attention is focused here. The Nobel Institute, where tile awarding of the Peace Prize to Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin was announced, is right up the street. The prize itself will be accepted in the reception hall of the same building the institute occupies, and where 1 sit now and type this. This feeling of having a whole nation, and occasionally the world, turn its eyes on the place where one lives, works and sits on the sidelines taking notes, is quite a heady one. 1 didn't foresee fully this aspect of this year in Oslo, and delight as I stumble upon it again and again. Living in a capital has its negative sides unfortunately. The first thing I saw as I left Fornebu Airport three inonths ago in that little Renault was "Tom's Drive-In: Hamburgers, French Fries, Pizza Pies, To Go." Did I get oil a wrong plane? What happened to goat's cheese and Edvard Grieg? Billboards and signs surfaced through the rain and foggy car window: "Coca Cola," "Kodak," "ITT," "Saturday Night Fever." Norway had been doing some changing since last I was here. Changes, of course, come first to a capital city and thrive best there. Foreigners and natives alike are bewildered by these changes. For a foreigner, they can be most unnerving Jet travel moves one too far and too fast anyway. One gains no great psychic distance between "here" and "there." Particularly on the Scandinavia-Seattle flight, there were no great cities or natural wonders to be pointed out, marveled at, and uxed as guides to how far one had come. Seattle and Oslo were both socked in and soaked, as were most points in between. One grey flight behind me I was suddenly "here" and not "there" anymore. Sights like "Tom's Drive-ln" can make one wonder if those preceeding nine hours weren't spent in a holding pattern over Sea-Tac. "What's so foreign about this place'?" one 5 OUR HOLY BIBLE--Part 5 I I NEW ..... TESTAMENT SCRIBES s s i I Ethel B. Dinning A .continuance of our New Testament Survey. First Thessalonians was the first of the PAULINE LETTERS. It was written from Corinth, on his second I clever experience of making known to the idol-worshipping, missionary journey, AD 51 (Acts 18:1). llaving just had his superstitious Athenians, the power and majesty of THEIR UNKNOWN GOD TItAT TItEY HAD TUCKED AWAY AMONG THE HUGE KNOWN ONES (Acts 17:15-31). The recipients of his letter were a newly' converted group from first letter with 1 Thess. 4.'13-18. idolatry and were interested in the future, so he concluded his Later when Timothy and Silas stopped and told him that ! they were excitedly preparing for the immediate, the second ] coming of CHRIST, HE WAS SO DISTURBED TltAT itE i WROTE TIIEM A SECOND letter, assuring them that much € would happen before CIIRIST would have enough people to fill a NEW EARTH WITHOUT OCEANS OR MOUNTAINS (Rev. 21:1; 16:20; Zech. 14.'4). He exhorted them to be ready I against the terrible deceptions that were to come, that they were to work earnestly and patiently and not be weary of welldoing (2 Thess. 2:2-16; 3:3-5). First Timothy was written by Paul, AD 63, after his first I trial and acquittal in Rome. On the road again he has many memories of Lystra and Derby (the latter the home o]' Timothy) where he was stoned and left for dead (Acts[ 14:1-5,19,20). It contained much commendation for his work I during his absence as well as instruction for his new responsibility at Ephesus (1 Tim. 1.'3; 3:4-6; 4.'1, 7; 6:3-20). Second Timothy, Paul's farewell, /'or he is back in Rome i condemned to die under the edict of the cruel Nero, who had burned Rome as a background for his musical inspirations as well as for an excuse to kill thousands of Christians that he condemned as the arsonists. He is now old and still suffering from the bright lights of Damascus [Acts 9:1.9; 2 Cor. 12:7-10). Luke is the only one with him and he feels the need of Timothy as well as his cloak and writings (1:1-13; 2.'1-3). Ills closing message is touching and still an inspiration to all believers, for his future was assured (4:1,5-8). To Titus, one of his beloved young workers who has just been given charge of the church on Crete, and just before the burning of Rome AD 64. In their working closely together, his { name has been mentioned 12 times in his other'letters (2 Cor. 2:13; 7.'6,13,14; 8:6,16,23: 12:15; Gal. 2:13; 2 Tim. 4:10). This letter portrays the finest description of a life of a true practicing Christian, living by the power of TItE (;RACE OF CtlRIST (2: ! 1-15; 3:1-9}. [ Next to Phih, mon, which is a one-chapter plea that comph'tely portrays Paul's character, his deep spirituality and his burden for the salvation of all. Seems like in his traw'ls he used to visit with him when in Colosse where he had met his servant Onesimus. hnagine his surprise one day when the servanl turns up in Rome al Paul's prison. Ih, had stoh,n mone.v from his master and come to see the bright lights of Rome, but like the prodigal he had h,arned tho, were only a had glitter. Under I'aul's influence he was converted and became extremely helpful to Paul as son and companion, i/is lesson well h,arnel, he fi, lt he should return, hut was Ibar/'ul But with the encouragem(,nl .from Paul that he n'otthl write a h'ller, tcllitlg of the change thai had heen wrottght arid ask his master not only to Jbrgive him attd accept him as a true brolher, as well as staling./hat It(' wouhI he Itapp.l' to pa.|' arty atnott¢;I thai was o wing. This is olu" o 1' the I'w letters /hal Pull/ hilhS('ll wrote, [ instead ol /us/ his usual sahtlution (Gal. 6.'1/," ('ol. 4: I R: I ('r. ( 16:211. Note Ihe .I)'ne way lie words his Idea, I "hi lime pasl to //tee ttnprolilahh,, hut n,pu, prolilahh, Io thee and me" (Vs. II}. 5 TRIll, Y A (;II"T SIIA RI:'I) IS T/1/C/('/;" III.I'.'S,W,,'I). Page ' ' - - Shelton-Mason County Jou|nal - Thursday, December 14, 1978 in Norway asks. that the pulse is drowned out or For natives the situation can replaced by rhythms much, only be worse. Expecting a much too familiar. Nowdays a capital to be the highest person runs into them in almost development of their national any large city, it seems. Certainly culture, they find its crossroads every airport. Most large hotels. status has nlade it a germination Even in our own little Shelton, it point for the seeds of the sure seems things "ain't like they breakdown of that culture, used to be." My visit to Mandal, Norwegians call the development the town where I lived in "Americanization" but on Norway before, confirms reflection ! find this small-time Norway is also not nomenclature flippant and immune. The strains seem directly misleading. It disguises omni-present, yet, somehow, the development's real source, alien just the same. in many The United States didn't regards it seems the world might bring "Tom's Drive-In'" to Oslo. be better off without these A corporation did. And here, as troublesome things called everywhere it seems, Norwegians nations. Nevertheless, one bought burgers and joined the wonders if we aren't paying too ranks of the "billions served.'" high a price for "'ltamburgers, We speak of things like jet French Fries and Pizza Pies: To planes, telephones, television and Go.'" radio as shrinking our world and I haven't given up though. think in terms of distance in I'nl sure there must be some time. The byproducts of these lutetisk sliding about on a plate developments, multinational somewhere. I'll keep you posted! franchising and mass-marketing, Regards, shrink our world to an even Daniel A. Nye greater degree in terms of lost diversity. As a result, though one And queen may hope to hear the beat of a Reason is tile mistress and queen nation's pulse by living in its of all things. capital, one stands to discover Marcus Tullius Cicero You Should Knc CLINT Wll Are you running the disinheriting your child?  NORTHWESTERN LIFE INSURANCE HOM[ OfFICe . Ph. 426-81 39 BOOTS-o- BOOTS • BOOTS • BOOTS • BOOTS • BOOTS .i I| "m ordor'n,.,ew WO,. 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