Leaving for six months. Staying forty-five years.
Episode 35 · 1h 10min
Christine moves to Norway for love in 1980, knowing very little about the country.
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In this conversation
She expects to stay a few months. Then comes work, a sense of familiarity, children, everyday life… and six months turn into forty-five years.
She recalls Norway in the early 1980s, Stavanger during the oil boom, everyday culture shocks, the challenges of the climate, raising a family across cultures, a move to Paris and a return to Norway. And that particular feeling of no longer being entirely French, without feeling entirely Norwegian either.
A warm and funny account, with the perspective of time, of building a life between two countries.
Topics in this episode
Moving & settling in · Language & cultures · Couples & family