I arrived the Lebanese soil Thursday night, after spending the christmas vacation in Norway. It felt good when I saw the nightlights in Beirut city from the plane. It was a joyful reception at the Hariri airport, where Camilla and Elie came and picked me up. I was very happy to be back, where I now would start once again my every day life here in Lebanon. I started my work already at Friday after a long vacation with my family, and at the same time I had to go through the cultural differences once again. I had already been through this when I arrived to Norway, I remember I was really confused when I didn’t know where I’d put the toilet paper in Gardermoen (Oslo, airport), there was no trash can for the toilet paper. I thought to myself “it is going in the toilet” and I laughed out loud to myself. It took a couple of days before I got used to the Lebanese style again, and I am now in to the more routine every day life again, it was good after I’d reloaded my batteries at home.
I can feel that the temperature outside is getting colder, even though the thermometer shows 14-18˚ celcius (which for us who comes from the west coast of Norway often would have called summer) I have taken out my wool underwear, and turned on the AC to heat up. The houses are not well isolated, so it actually feels colder inside, than it is outside. And yet they say that the coldest month has not arrived, already I walk around full dressed in the streets, with scarf, gloves and a hat, I am actually more dressed than the regular Lebanese person I meet on the street. I find this funny, because I come from the so called cold North, where we for some people are immune to the cold.
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