I'm Norwegian, and I was in America back in 2011/2012 for my second year in high school. I though the American school was alot easier than the Norwegian school. It was so chill, out of all the clases I took, the only 2 classes where I actually learned something was Intro to psych and Cit/gov. I rarely had homework, the tests and finals were so easy, and I ended up graduating with a 4.0 (for just the senior year) I was way more stressed attending Norwegian school than American, but then again, I think the Norwegian school is better.
A Very Kind Guy Might be. I didn't take phychology in Norway, so I can't compare. But for math, economy and biology (which were some of my other classes) they were way easier in the US than in Norway
Celna Ens Those are regents level classes which is why. There is also IB classes which I'm taking 2 of right now they really aren't that hard (precalculus and business) then I'm taking 2 AP classes which are pretty tough (Physics and US History). Psychology is just an elective if I'm not wrong and electives here are usually super easy. If you were in normal Calculous though which at least for my school is always AP level and you thought it was easy then I think you have a future in math lol. I also agree that biology is very easy, I got a 99% on the final. And since you were in biology I'm thinking that you were in geometry is definitely the most simple math. Algebra 1 is probably a little bit harder which doesn't make much sense because we had to take it before geometry. When one of my friends went to Norway because his father had to stay there for some business gig he said the opposite and that you guys learned more life skills and stuff. It's not that way here unless we decide to take Care & Financial or something.
A Very Kind Guy Psychology was an elective. The only reason I took biology was because I was required by my exchange program to take some sort of science, and biology was the only subject that fit into my schedule. I took Algebra 2 actually. I think throughout the year, I only learned 1 new thing. I struggled alot with math here in Norway, so I definitely do not have a future in math xD
Celna Ens Algebra 2 was kind of annoying, especially when they first instated common core. I'm not sure if you got caught up in common core but it sucks. Trump wants to get rid of it so I'm going to cross my fingers and hope he does. I don't support Trump by the way so don't think that. He's a terrible person. But anyway, I don't have a future in math either lol. What state did you go to? I'm up in Ontario County, New York.
University is basically free in norway. You have to pay a "semesteravgift" each semester which is like 600 - 700 nok, and then you have to pay for your books. So it's not completely free, but still A LOT less than in the US.
I go to school in the US and have never been anywhere else but having fun in school sounds really fun. For the most part I don't even see my friends during school so this sounds nice.
This is a good video! We're moving to Norway soon and I'm watching videos like this to atleast get ideas of what to expect but what I'm worrying about the most is the language since I don't know how to speak the language of Norway and I heard they use their language in school. Anyway thanks for the infos!
+coleen gallardo First of all, Norwegian is hard to learn (I have been told :) ). As with every language, the best thing to do to learn it is to use it! When you have the basic verbs down, maybe try watching Norwegian movies (with and without subtitles). I have used this when learning french and it really helps! I would also suggest using Duolingo. It is a free website for learning languages and it is really good. I would focus on basic words and listening a lot, and once you get here you will pick it up quick. PS: everyone speak English in Norway, it is taught from we're 6yo so you'll have no problem understanding classes etc.
I'm norwegian, and I heard that the languages with the same alfabeths are easy to learn. Sine it's easy for a norwegian to learn english, it shuldn't work the other way too. I think the biggest difference is æ ø and å but when you have learnt these, the rest shuld go well. I an Sorry if i misspell something, i'm better at speaking english, so I write it the way I would have said it.
Yes! Thank you, our lunches are awful. 😡 Sometimes we eat a rib sandwich that's from McDonald's. My favorite class is also band where I play the Alto Saxophone. Your school sounds amazing, and we don't get a break. (At my school anyway) Lucky!
Kudos to you for doing something not a lot of American students do during their high school years. I did the opposite going from Norway to the US as an exchange student and man there is so much ignorance going on over there that could be prevented if only people had the opportunity to do exchanges and travel more in their teenage years. I could start a whole rant about this topic but that's not the point ;) And good job for learning Norwegian that well in only 6 months =)
"2,000 students" My school has OVER 40,000! That is not a typo. Half of those would be full-time. Some first year classes have over 100 kids. I'm going to study in Norway this year and can't wait! :) Thanks for the video.
We do have marching bands in Norway too. We don't march every month, we just march in april-may beacause of 17 of may. Otherwise, we play a lot of funny music, like movie themes and different pieces from great musicians, like Vivaldi, Holst, Grieg and lots of others :D
School in the U.S. wasn't so bad back in the 70's. Hardly any homework. I had an evening job all through high school. My Junior and Senior, I had vo-tech three hours a day which was really easy and I had one hour running the projector as library assistant. Most of my math classes were in vo-tech, which had better teachers anyway. Looking back, I wish that I had taken typing.
when you go back to the US you should just go around and speak Norwegian. just to confuse people. then you can still use the foreigner card like you can here. by saying sorry I don't understand. or now you can just say something random in Norwegian and no one will understand
ja. og en ting til. bare kom til Bodø å studere på universitetet. du er velkommen hit. de holder nå på å bygge det som de regner med at blir Norges fineste studentboliger så der er det i hvert fall et sted å bo. går du på VG1 og om så hvilken linje går du på? sorry. hvis jeg spurte vanskelig.
Summary: US school stresses me out. Norway school gives less homework and more free time. School lunch is better in Norway. US school is not like the movies.
08.55am - 2.35pm every single day at my school. 45 minutes per class, five minutes break after the first class, ten minutes after the other classes, half an hour for lunch and you are done after the last class. And yes, we have different classes every day, but the same every week, haha. (Have to apologize for my bad English) I'm a 9th grader (: I go to "youth school" directly translated to English xD
I live in Michigan, and in my school, we have six periods. I'm gonna be a senior this year, and I'm so happy. I hate American schools, and orchestra is my favorite class! My other classes were so stressful, and I hated them. Especially in junior year they stress you with SAT. I wish I was in Norway. (My family is from there) thanks for the video!
as a norwegian student i can say that the norwegian govorment has paymentprograms via lånekassa.no for public schools, like i go to the semester fee is at a little under 8000 kr and you can borrow that for free from the govorment, you only have to start paying it back 6 months after you finished your education. they also help you pay for student housing, food etc. privat schools cost a little more, but its still afordable with the govorments student loans. dont know how this works for forigners, but i know they have a lot of excange programs atleast at my school for students who want to go to school here , check it out ;)
Omg i don't feel the same way as you at all! I'm sooooo stressed ALL the time, and i'm always exhausted :// you are so lucky!! but maybe I just haven't experienced school in the USA...
hey, I am going to study in norway next school year, for my sophomore year. what exchange program are you using? any more detailed advice or information you can give? takk
Yes schools in America are insane with the homework the school systems really pride themselves on it and which sorta bothers me cause most other countries believe we are all just stupid 😑 and fat ... The fat part is understandable cause our food portions are fairly large but we take the rest of the food we don't eat home to eat later 😂 but yea is schools are hard as hell
Hey! I love this video! I go to school in LA and i agree so much with all he said about our schools! Im considering studying abroad in Scandanavia, and I have so many questions. I'd love to ask you them all, if I can, but can I just start with, did you have to do Junior year all over again?
English: Collage in norway is FREE, BUT it cost for membership in student...(I don't know quite how to translate rest of the name). It would cost 400-500 every half year. If you have that membership or what ever it called it gives you exemple: cheaper bus's ticket (you know you can buy bus ticket for a month, well they gives you little discount. The membership also gives you a possibility for a student apartment (alone I think 2000-3000 kr, depends on the size) (P.S This is how it is in Bergen, it's probably almost the same everywhere else but just so you know!) Norsk: høyskolen i Norge er GRATIS, MEN det koster å være medlem i noe Student Forening-greie. Det koster 400-500kr semesteret. Hvis du har medlemskap du får f.eks: billigere buss billett, du vet månedsbillett, i Bergen du betaler du 400kr pr. Mnd. Medlemskapet også gir deg tilgang til studentbolig /leilighet. Det koster 2000-3000 kr, spørs størrelsen (måtte korte ned på den norske pga. Ikke tillat å skrive så mye mer😅😓
I am a sophomore in Washington DC and I have 8 periods a day. With 2 hours of required after school activity a week. I have at least 2 quizzes a day and 1 test every week. Too much work. Norway sounds very nice.
+The Red One 123 school in Norway varies a lot too. Where I go we have at least two big tests a week, with school fro about 7 hours of school each day.
my friend was going on a biking trip in America with her family, so her and the older children took education for that year in American private school. She can come into norwegian high school, because of her choice of school.
I went to private school in the US, and although the workload was quite massive with tons of homework every single day, I still often say that school in the US is a lot easier than in Norway simply because it was easier to get better grades in the US. It was usually not very hard to get an A in the US if you did your work, while in Norway getting an A (6) is almost not possible. I had straight As over there, while back home in Norway I only had a couple of As - and mostly Bs (5). I found the tests a lot easier as they were usually not essay-type tests like home, but rather multiple choice or itsy bitsy essays. I was mroe stressed out in Norway as getting that A was a huge pain. But yeah, the biggest issue I had in the US was the day to day workload, and that we had exactly the same classes every single day...
you do have to pay for college here in Norway, it is a little cheaper (or they have been discussing to make it cheaper) if you decide to study in Tromsø or Trondheim because they want to move the population a little away from Oslo. but you get financial aid by the state, or a loan I guess, but if u graduate collage a big part of your loan gets turned into a scholarship and I think it's like 50% stays a loan which you have to pay back. but compared to the US? the loan your left with after a bachelor if u study here vs. US is ridiculously different!
+Vanessa H. K For public college it's just 950NOK/semester at the college I went to. If it's at a private college it's obviously charged for tuition. The financial aid most students take is for living expenses, rent, food etc. That isn't what people mean when they say that they have to pay for college in america. What they mean is that they have to pay the college a bill for the teaching. Maybe for instance 45000$ for a year of tuition. And then pay your rent and food on top of that. That's alot more than our measly 950 NOK administration fee.
Hi, i'm from Belgium, I was so excited to come in Norway for my last year of high school BUT, my country say that the last year student called "Rétho" can't go for more than 3 months ahha so I'm so so so freaking sad because I'll go there for college so as you and it's horrible because I would not be able to speak norwegian fluently, was it hard to learn norwegian ?
+Lina Mortrier hey! im not him, but i don't think you'll be able to speak norwegian in three months, although it depends on how much effort you put into it and how good you are at language. you'll probably make it understandable after a month or two though, but getting the sounds right is the hard part, as far as i know. oh and norwegian is my first language, so.... i dont really know
+lactarius 77 thank you for helping me! I'm pretty good with languages I think, I speak French, English, Dutch and Arabic, this year I'm learning German and I'm learning Norwegian too, Honestly it's not THAT hard because of the fact that I speak Dutch fluently (It's really like.. Similar) Men det finnes mange mange tinger at jeg forstår ikke men ja.. jeg prøver å lærer den beste jeg kan! Tusen takk for hjelpe meg :)
Lina Mortrier :) just going to give you a quick tip: ting is 'intetkjønn' so it does not have an ending in unspecific multiple. therefore its mange ting (hopefully that was halfway understandable x3)
+Lina Mortrier In my experience learning languages the key things are to A) Learn the sound script, those wierd characters in the dictionaries that explain how to pronounce and B) Listen to a recording of yourself speak, your own voice doesn't sound to others as it does to you due to the bone in your skull. Verify that you are are pronouncing correctly by listening to your own voice recorded with a software and a PC mic or something.
Love your videos about beeing in Norway! Where in Norway are you staying? I am actually going to your country to school after sunmmer, so I guess we will swap places haha!
Everything he said about the u.s food is so correct. The only kids I’ve ever seen buy lunch is kids who don’t have enough money to bring food or are poor.
I have allways wanted to move to the US, main reason is the weather. Im so tired of the weather in scandinavia i feel so down during winter time, you cant really do shit in the winters, everyone just sits at home and do nothing. it gets kinda boring after you´ve done that for 6-7 months straight. thats why i would love to move to Texas/LA/Arizona. but after hearing that you get homeless if you would get kicked from work or for some reason lose your job, im really starting to hesitate about moving.
Here is what everyone already knew: The school system in murrica is shite. The school system in Norway is less shite(still issues, like children getting homework when they're like 6-7, instead of being able to be kids).
PuroYO 6-7 year old kids only get fun homework like color filling drawings and practising their writing. Not that much math or hard content like science.
But you don't have to work in Norway, right? In the U.S...you have to earn money or you become homeless, or live with your parents, or friends.. In Norway you get wonderful state money if you do not work.correct? So, there is a big push to get the work done, get into the colleges in the U.S..so you can make big money..and be able to live in expensive neighborhoods..yada, yada....
+Jo S. Norway like all Scandinavian countries has the Lutheran work ethic welfare is available but having to rely on it is viewed as a failure and something you need to get off as soon as possible. Other cultures do not view things that way and love not having to work but not Scandinavians.
+Jo S. Living on welfare is not going to do wonders for your social life in Norway, on the contrary. If you are male you can basically forget about getting a girlfriend et cetera. So despite the welfare state providing you with life support if you do not work, there is a big pressure to get your working act together anyway.
That's partialliy correct. To get money you do have to aplly for jobs in different intervalls. The state will try to find jobs for you, and you have to attend meetings with your "state contact" and discuss possible jobs you can accept.
Kjernekar For certain benefits, yes, but there is one benefit they legally cannot deny you no matter how much you fuck up. It is the least of the least and lowest of the low of benefits, and it is universally available. No matter how many jobs you fail to apply for, how many agreements you fail to follow up and how many meetings you fail to show for et cetera, your “state contact” cannot legally deny you life support. They can only try to make your life miserable by postponing the payment for a while, but in the end you are entitled to that money every month anyhow. Which is as it should be!
1st year videregående is very easy compared to 2nd or 3rd year highschool in the US. Year 2 is much more comparable to the US. there is much more work to do.
15:40 lol about that i just had a presentation for an exam and i was supposed to talk for 10 minutes and all of a sudden my teacher told me that i had been talking for 20 minutes x3
Hei. Skole i Norge er gratis basiclly, men man må betale for å kjøpe bøker og ting man trenger for å fullføre eksamen på høyskole/universitet. Også er det et semesteravgift du må betale ca 600 kr hvert semester. Så ''college'' i Norge er mye billigere og kanskje bedre! PS: Man kan også ta skolelån, sånn ca. 60 000 kr pr år uten renter mens du går på skole, også betale det tilbake etterhvert!
I think you probably had a worse experience than other US schools, because me and most other people I know have block schedule which is only 3/4 classes a day. It sounds like you just do normal scheduling with all your classes everyday.
Kjenner igjen følelsen av å ikke huske morsmålet sitt. Var på utveksling i Tyskland i en måned, og det var vanvittig rart å snakke norsk når jeg kom tilbake. Jeg surra mye med setninger, og forventa hele tiden at folk snakka engelsk eller tysk til meg. Så jeg kan tenke meg til hvordan det blir for deg når du kommer tilbake til USA etter å ha vært her i et år.
Frida SE Depends. If you want to be someone in the US you need to challenge yourself. Take college level classes even (AP). At minimum you should take 3-4 years of a foreign language, math classes up to precalculus, and English class every year, science up to physics/AP physics, social studies up to government and economy, a creative class such as DDP and then you could continue that up to computer programming and some other PLTW courses, perhaps some medicine and business classes, etc. School here is really stressful and very hard, only if you push yourself though. You can't even drop out until 16, idk if it's the same in Norway. I had a friend go to Norway for a bit and when he came back he needed to take summer school. I forgot to mention the SAT which is out of 1600 points, and the ACT which is out of 36 points that we all take.
What I would like in norwegian schools, is clubs. Maby there are some, but I could not see anyone. But maby its just me, who think diffrent type of clubs would be nice. Then again, feminist clubs would probably spawn. >.> Never mind, can't have nice things.
Mayank Abrol depends what you want. Not the number or caliber of activities, but less competition with faceless multitudes. Most of the students will actually know you.
Hei! So I know this is a really old video, but i want to say that out of all the school systems i heard of, US is the absolute worst. Even in Serbia we have a way better system tbh...
You think americans have to much homework? I invite you to a brazilian private school, and we will show you what tons of homework (including books filled with nothing but homework and exercises so you can be able to go to a "good college") really mean. Besides lots of subjects that are completely useless - but, still, you're obliged to memorize so you may NEVER use it again in adulthood. Kisses.
+grimmra cloudshrom Many European countries' test scores show they do European countries out perform US students. Our schools are too set in traditions which are out of date. We need to learn from some of these other schools. Learning isn't just the lessons being offered, its the culture, the person learning. Most people in the US with just a high school diploma, unless it's in their field can't even remember basic science like what causes earth's gravity? Most say the spin of the earth... in fact all of my family members from my oldest brother who is 40 his son my nephew who is 20, my younger brother who just turned 30, and my dad who's 68 all quoted the rotation of the earth an elementary level concept that mass causes gravitational attraction. Anyways,our schooling system needs to adopt it's conflicted with culture, people aren't retaining what is learned and it shows in knowledge quizzes. It's no wonder we're such a dumb country that the oligarchs can easily control us, no universal medical system, many private utilities which literally a licence to own a monopoly and screw the consumers, destruction of labor unions, etc. We're becoming the stupid nation.
Hi, is it true that in Nowegian schools there are no subjects like literature, chemistry and physics (science), no history...??? I heard that Norway is the first country that wants to make their people stupid enough to contol them better. It is an experiment that European Union wants to apply in all European countries in order to make one big federation of them. They say that is also the reason why there are so many refugees accepted to Europe - to mix them with the European population and decreas the inteligent quotient (IQ) of Europeans. They want Europeans to be stupid enough to be controlled but clever enough to work... What do you think? Is it good not to have to learn and study? I guess the more we know the better. So it is definitely worth the effort and time spent over textbooks...
I'm Norwegian, and I was in America back in 2011/2012 for my second year in high school. I though the American school was alot easier than the Norwegian school. It was so chill, out of all the clases I took, the only 2 classes where I actually learned something was Intro to psych and Cit/gov. I rarely had homework, the tests and finals were so easy, and I ended up graduating with a 4.0 (for just the senior year)
I was way more stressed attending Norwegian school than American, but then again, I think the Norwegian school is better.
Celna Ens phychology and government are very easy tbh lol.
A Very Kind Guy Might be. I didn't take phychology in Norway, so I can't compare. But for math, economy and biology (which were some of my other classes) they were way easier in the US than in Norway
Celna Ens Those are regents level classes which is why. There is also IB classes which I'm taking 2 of right now they really aren't that hard (precalculus and business) then I'm taking 2 AP classes which are pretty tough (Physics and US History). Psychology is just an elective if I'm not wrong and electives here are usually super easy. If you were in normal Calculous though which at least for my school is always AP level and you thought it was easy then I think you have a future in math lol. I also agree that biology is very easy, I got a 99% on the final. And since you were in biology I'm thinking that you were in geometry is definitely the most simple math. Algebra 1 is probably a little bit harder which doesn't make much sense because we had to take it before geometry. When one of my friends went to Norway because his father had to stay there for some business gig he said the opposite and that you guys learned more life skills and stuff. It's not that way here unless we decide to take Care & Financial or something.
A Very Kind Guy Psychology was an elective. The only reason I took biology was because I was required by my exchange program to take some sort of science, and biology was the only subject that fit into my schedule. I took Algebra 2 actually. I think throughout the year, I only learned 1 new thing. I struggled alot with math here in Norway, so I definitely do not have a future in math xD
Celna Ens Algebra 2 was kind of annoying, especially when they first instated common core. I'm not sure if you got caught up in common core but it sucks. Trump wants to get rid of it so I'm going to cross my fingers and hope he does. I don't support Trump by the way so don't think that. He's a terrible person. But anyway, I don't have a future in math either lol.
What state did you go to? I'm up in Ontario County, New York.
University is basically free in norway. You have to pay a "semesteravgift" each semester which is like 600 - 700 nok, and then you have to pay for your books. So it's not completely free, but still A LOT less than in the US.
I go to school in the US and have never been anywhere else but having fun in school sounds really fun. For the most part I don't even see my friends during school so this sounds nice.
are you sure you are not dexter's son?
This is a good video! We're moving to Norway soon and I'm watching videos like this to atleast get ideas of what to expect but what I'm worrying about the most is the language since I don't know how to speak the language of Norway and I heard they use their language in school. Anyway thanks for the infos!
Btw, how did you learn the language fast? Do you have any tips? Thanks in advance :)
+coleen gallardo First of all, Norwegian is hard to learn (I have been told :) ).
As with every language, the best thing to do to learn it is to use it! When you have the basic verbs down, maybe try watching Norwegian movies (with and without subtitles). I have used this when learning french and it really helps! I would also suggest using Duolingo. It is a free website for learning languages and it is really good.
I would focus on basic words and listening a lot, and once you get here you will pick it up quick.
PS: everyone speak English in Norway, it is taught from we're 6yo so you'll have no problem understanding classes etc.
+Chris M that was a helpful advice thanks so much!! :D
It would be fun to learn you Norwegian since I live in Norway
I'm norwegian, and I heard that the languages with the same alfabeths are easy to learn. Sine it's easy for a norwegian to learn english, it shuldn't work the other way too. I think the biggest difference is æ ø and å but when you have learnt these, the rest shuld go well. I an Sorry if i misspell something, i'm better at speaking english, so I write it the way I would have said it.
Yes! Thank you, our lunches are awful. 😡 Sometimes we eat a rib sandwich that's from McDonald's. My favorite class is also band where I play the Alto Saxophone. Your school sounds amazing, and we don't get a break. (At my school anyway) Lucky!
In my opinion, school is REALLY stressful in Norway too. Let's just say that I've had a few mental breakdowns through the years 😂
Kudos to you for doing something not a lot of American students do during their high school years. I did the opposite going from Norway to the US as an exchange student and man there is so much ignorance going on over there that could be prevented if only people had the opportunity to do exchanges and travel more in their teenage years. I could start a whole rant about this topic but that's not the point ;) And good job for learning Norwegian that well in only 6 months =)
+Ingrid Åkernes You are so right about the ignorance. Thanks so much! :D
"2,000 students" My school has OVER 40,000! That is not a typo. Half of those would be full-time. Some first year classes have over 100 kids. I'm going to study in Norway this year and can't wait! :) Thanks for the video.
We do have marching bands in Norway too. We don't march every month, we just march in april-may beacause of 17 of may. Otherwise, we play a lot of funny music, like movie themes and different pieces from great musicians, like Vivaldi, Holst, Grieg and lots of others :D
School in the U.S. wasn't so bad back in the 70's. Hardly any homework. I had an evening job all through high school. My Junior and Senior, I had vo-tech three hours a day which was really easy and I had one hour running the projector as library assistant. Most of my math classes were in vo-tech, which had better teachers anyway. Looking back, I wish that I had taken typing.
when you go back to the US you should just go around and speak Norwegian. just to confuse people. then you can still use the foreigner card like you can here. by saying sorry I don't understand. or now you can just say something random in Norwegian and no one will understand
ja. og en ting til. bare kom til Bodø å studere på universitetet. du er velkommen hit. de holder nå på å bygge det som de regner med at blir Norges fineste studentboliger så der er det i hvert fall et sted å bo. går du på VG1 og om så hvilken linje går du på? sorry. hvis jeg spurte vanskelig.
+Olav Wiik Moland I actually have plans to do that and make a video of me speaking Norwegian to random people around my town x)
+Olav Wiik Moland Jeg går på VG1 Studies :) og ja eg tror at jeg skal til Bodø i tre år
LaneInNorway haha. I'd love to see that.
LaneInNorway det hadde vært kult om du kommer til Bodø. Lykke til med det. (PS. Får du skole PC i Norge?)
Do you have some tips for exchange students? I'll be an exchange nursing student at Diakonhjemmet Høgskole for the fall semester.
Summary: US school stresses me out. Norway school gives less homework and more free time. School lunch is better in Norway. US school is not like the movies.
08.55am - 2.35pm every single day at my school. 45 minutes per class, five minutes break after the first class, ten minutes after the other classes, half an hour for lunch and you are done after the last class. And yes, we have different classes every day, but the same every week, haha. (Have to apologize for my bad English) I'm a 9th grader (: I go to "youth school" directly translated to English xD
"youth school" is basically the same as middle school: a school made for a smooth transition to high school
I live in Michigan, and in my school, we have six periods. I'm gonna be a senior this year, and I'm so happy. I hate American schools, and orchestra is my favorite class! My other classes were so stressful, and I hated them. Especially in junior year they stress you with SAT. I wish I was in Norway. (My family is from there) thanks for the video!
I am considering studying abroad in Norway next year! Do you honestly recommend it? Is school work difficult in Norway? I am nervous to go!
Please go! You won't regret it!
Becca Engstrom Hello! Did you go to Norway?
Yeah, did you go to Norway? I frikin love Norway and I want to do the same. What it's like where are you living and what are you studying?
@@w.balazs6424 just need money for me if i have a money iam running norway
I live in Houston! Also everything you say about American schools is true
as a norwegian student i can say that the norwegian govorment has paymentprograms via lånekassa.no for public schools, like i go to the semester fee is at a little under 8000 kr and you can borrow that for free from the govorment, you only have to start paying it back 6 months after you finished your education. they also help you pay for student housing, food etc. privat schools cost a little more, but its still afordable with the govorments student loans. dont know how this works for forigners, but i know they have a lot of excange programs atleast at my school for students who want to go to school here , check it out ;)
Omg i don't feel the same way as you at all! I'm sooooo stressed ALL the time, and i'm always exhausted :// you are so lucky!! but maybe I just haven't experienced school in the USA...
hey, I am going to study in norway next school year, for my sophomore year. what exchange program are you using? any more detailed advice or information you can give?
takk
You pay a small amount for college/university, but it's a trivial amount. Most of your expenses will be books, food, a place to stay, etc.
Yes schools in America are insane with the homework the school systems really pride themselves on it and which sorta bothers me cause most other countries believe we are all just stupid 😑 and fat ... The fat part is understandable cause our food portions are fairly large but we take the rest of the food we don't eat home to eat later 😂 but yea is schools are hard as hell
Singapore is more tougher , I mean I know a lot of people that moved from Singapore to the US and they are finding school, a breeze there
Hey! I love this video! I go to school in LA and i agree so much with all he said about our schools! Im considering studying abroad in Scandanavia, and I have so many questions. I'd love to ask you them all, if I can, but can I just start with, did you have to do Junior year all over again?
Where did you go to school in Texas?
Have you ever been in Bodø? it's so beautiful here! Highly recomend you to experience the city and the beautiful nature surounding it! ;)
+marie hesjevik I haven't, but maybe I will visit soon! :D
+LaneInNorway you should really try living in Bodø, it is Norway's greatest city! 😊👌❤
English: Collage in norway is FREE, BUT it cost for membership in student...(I don't know quite how to translate rest of the name). It would cost 400-500 every half year. If you have that membership or what ever it called it gives you exemple: cheaper bus's ticket (you know you can buy bus ticket for a month, well they gives you little discount. The membership also gives you a possibility for a student apartment (alone I think 2000-3000 kr, depends on the size) (P.S This is how it is in Bergen, it's probably almost the same everywhere else but just so you know!)
Norsk: høyskolen i Norge er GRATIS, MEN det koster å være medlem i noe Student Forening-greie. Det koster 400-500kr semesteret. Hvis du har medlemskap du får f.eks: billigere buss billett, du vet månedsbillett, i Bergen du betaler du 400kr pr. Mnd. Medlemskapet også gir deg tilgang til studentbolig /leilighet. Det koster 2000-3000 kr, spørs størrelsen (måtte korte ned på den norske pga. Ikke tillat å skrive så mye mer😅😓
I am a sophomore in Washington DC and I have 8 periods a day. With 2 hours of required after school activity a week. I have at least 2 quizzes a day and 1 test every week. Too much work. Norway sounds very nice.
The only good things about school is band (I play trombone) and computer programming
+The Red One 123 school in Norway varies a lot too. Where I go we have at least two big tests a week, with school fro about 7 hours of school each day.
lanes depiction of GR is so on point.
+Brbpnad haha x) what's your name?
+LaneInNorway Ethan Jones
Bra video.
my friend was going on a biking trip in America with her family, so her and the older children took education for that year in American private school. She can come into norwegian high school, because of her choice of school.
I went to private school in the US, and although the workload was quite massive with tons of homework every single day, I still often say that school in the US is a lot easier than in Norway simply because it was easier to get better grades in the US. It was usually not very hard to get an A in the US if you did your work, while in Norway getting an A (6) is almost not possible. I had straight As over there, while back home in Norway I only had a couple of As - and mostly Bs (5). I found the tests a lot easier as they were usually not essay-type tests like home, but rather multiple choice or itsy bitsy essays. I was mroe stressed out in Norway as getting that A was a huge pain. But yeah, the biggest issue I had in the US was the day to day workload, and that we had exactly the same classes every single day...
+Molly P. i think you have misunderstood slightly. i dont think B is comparable to 5, but rather an A. 6 is like totally top notch, closer to A+.
you do have to pay for college here in Norway, it is a little cheaper (or they have been discussing to make it cheaper) if you decide to study in Tromsø or Trondheim because they want to move the population a little away from Oslo. but you get financial aid by the state, or a loan I guess, but if u graduate collage a big part of your loan gets turned into a scholarship and I think it's like 50% stays a loan which you have to pay back. but compared to the US? the loan your left with after a bachelor if u study here vs. US is ridiculously different!
+Vanessa H. K For public college it's just 950NOK/semester at the college I went to. If it's at a private college it's obviously charged for tuition.
The financial aid most students take is for living expenses, rent, food etc. That isn't what people mean when they say that they have to pay for college in america. What they mean is that they have to pay the college a bill for the teaching. Maybe for instance 45000$ for a year of tuition. And then pay your rent and food on top of that. That's alot more than our measly 950 NOK administration fee.
Hi, i'm from Belgium, I was so excited to come in Norway for my last year of high school BUT, my country say that the last year student called "Rétho" can't go for more than 3 months ahha so I'm so so so freaking sad because I'll go there for college so as you and it's horrible because I would not be able to speak norwegian fluently, was it hard to learn norwegian ?
+Lina Mortrier hey! im not him, but i don't think you'll be able to speak norwegian in three months, although it depends on how much effort you put into it and how good you are at language. you'll probably make it understandable after a month or two though, but getting the sounds right is the hard part, as far as i know.
oh and norwegian is my first language, so.... i dont really know
+lactarius 77 thank you for helping me! I'm pretty good with languages I think, I speak French, English, Dutch and Arabic, this year I'm learning German and I'm learning Norwegian too, Honestly it's not THAT hard because of the fact that I speak Dutch fluently (It's really like.. Similar) Men det finnes mange mange tinger at jeg forstår ikke men ja.. jeg prøver å lærer den beste jeg kan! Tusen takk for hjelpe meg :)
Lina Mortrier
:) just going to give you a quick tip: ting is 'intetkjønn' so it does not have an ending in unspecific multiple. therefore its mange ting (hopefully that was halfway understandable x3)
+lactarius 77 ok thanks!
+Lina Mortrier In my experience learning languages the key things are to A) Learn the sound script, those wierd characters in the dictionaries that explain how to pronounce and B) Listen to a recording of yourself speak, your own voice doesn't sound to others as it does to you due to the bone in your skull. Verify that you are are pronouncing correctly by listening to your own voice recorded with a software and a PC mic or something.
Junior year is awful, I just laughed at every crazy assignment in my AP Government class.
Love your videos about beeing in Norway! Where in Norway are you staying? I am actually going to your country to school after sunmmer, so I guess we will swap places haha!
Where did u live?
sing the national anthem of norway "ja vi elsker dette landet"
punkndisorderly preach norway sucks
@@alexanderlevinmr.cheese4241 norway sucks ? Lmao go the hell idiot
what school did you go to in Norway?
Nord-Troms Videregående Skole
@@LaneInNorway I've driven through Storslett once.
Everything he said about the u.s food is so correct. The only kids I’ve ever seen buy lunch is kids who don’t have enough money to bring food or are poor.
bro, read your comment again
Do you advice me to study in norway in I.T. and if i work and study in same time i can live a good life
i believe if you play your cards right then you can live a fantastic life in Norway
ehm. When i went to Videregående it my most common schedule was 0800-1600, so longer than what you said was your longest days.
I have allways wanted to move to the US, main reason is the weather.
Im so tired of the weather in scandinavia i feel so down during winter time, you cant really do shit in the winters, everyone just sits at home and do nothing.
it gets kinda boring after you´ve done that for 6-7 months straight. thats why i would love to move to Texas/LA/Arizona. but after hearing that you get homeless if you would get kicked from work or for some reason lose your job, im really starting to hesitate about moving.
toby Homelessness is a major problem. In fact I'm living in my car right now.
College and university in Norway is free, but you have to pay for school books, which can be expensive.
you don't really hve to pay for most of the books
Er du norsk eller amerikansk egentlig?
You should do the snow Challenge
Here is what everyone already knew:
The school system in murrica is shite.
The school system in Norway is less shite(still issues, like children getting homework when they're like 6-7, instead of being able to be kids).
PuroYO 6-7 year old kids only get fun homework like color filling drawings and practising their writing. Not that much math or hard content like science.
Erik Haugland Right, and besides, we do that in America too.
Erik Haugland are you a football player
Dude let's go icebathing ;) (200)
Do you have any public social media? :)
+Andwizzle yes pubic yes
am i the only one who think he is extremely cute 😊
What are the school hours in Norway?
About 8:45am to 3pm, but it varies :P at my old school we did 8:45am to 1-2pm
only 1-2 pm? im just in 9th grade and i have school until 4pm most days
Gruff46 yeah the school in norway is pretty easy
But you don't have to work in Norway, right? In the U.S...you have to earn money or you become homeless, or live with your parents, or friends.. In Norway you get wonderful state money if you do not work.correct? So, there is a big push to get the work done, get into the colleges in the U.S..so you can make big money..and be able to live in expensive neighborhoods..yada, yada....
+Jo S. Yes exactly
+Jo S. Norway like all Scandinavian countries has the Lutheran work ethic welfare is available but having to rely on it is viewed as a failure and something you need to get off as soon as possible. Other cultures do not view things that way and love not having to work but not Scandinavians.
+Jo S. Living on welfare is not going to do wonders for your social life in Norway, on the contrary. If you are male you can basically forget about getting a girlfriend et cetera. So despite the welfare state providing you with life support if you do not work, there is a big pressure to get your working act together anyway.
That's partialliy correct. To get money you do have to aplly for jobs in different intervalls. The state will try to find jobs for you, and you have to attend meetings with your "state contact" and discuss possible jobs you can accept.
Kjernekar
For certain benefits, yes, but there is one benefit they legally cannot deny you no matter how much you fuck up. It is the least of the least and lowest of the low of benefits, and it is universally available.
No matter how many jobs you fail to apply for, how many agreements you fail to follow up and how many meetings you fail to show for et cetera, your “state contact” cannot legally deny you life support.
They can only try to make your life miserable by postponing the payment for a while, but in the end you are entitled to that money every month anyhow.
Which is as it should be!
Jeg er norsk og hvor i norge bor du?
If collage is vidergående in Norway, it free here😂
1st year videregående is very easy compared to 2nd or 3rd year highschool in the US. Year 2 is much more comparable to the US. there is much more work to do.
15:40 lol about that i just had a presentation for an exam and i was supposed to talk for 10 minutes and all of a sudden my teacher told me that i had been talking for 20 minutes x3
Have you ever noticed that college in norwegian means high school?
Høyskole. High school.
I totally agree I'm norwegian American and I don't live in Norway I don't like school in USA
Run around Storslett in a skin-tight pink jumpsuit with Headlong by Queen playing in the background.
American schools place way too much emphasis on sports; besides cheerleading in the US is beyond ridiculous, IMO.
wow you are very handsome...
Jeg liker faktisk maten vi får på skolen😅
Hei. Skole i Norge er gratis basiclly, men man må betale for å kjøpe bøker og ting man trenger for å fullføre eksamen på høyskole/universitet. Også er det et semesteravgift du må betale ca 600 kr hvert semester. Så ''college'' i Norge er mye billigere og kanskje bedre!
PS: Man kan også ta skolelån, sånn ca. 60 000 kr pr år uten renter mens du går på skole, også betale det tilbake etterhvert!
Ja, om det uansett skulle være tilfelle, er det ikke i nærheten av det de i Amerika må betale! Bare en liten brøkdel.
School in US does not count in Norway. But I think an UK one does, not all, but some.
"Chose to take" is right
I think you probably had a worse experience than other US schools, because me and most other people I know have block schedule which is only 3/4 classes a day. It sounds like you just do normal scheduling with all your classes everyday.
#feelthebern
Kjenner igjen følelsen av å ikke huske morsmålet sitt. Var på utveksling i Tyskland i en måned, og det var vanvittig rart å snakke norsk når jeg kom tilbake. Jeg surra mye med setninger, og forventa hele tiden at folk snakka engelsk eller tysk til meg. Så jeg kan tenke meg til hvordan det blir for deg når du kommer tilbake til USA etter å ha vært her i et år.
The question is what school you go to, I got to much homework XD
+MsTTTess I go to Nord-Troms Videregående Skole, 1STA :)
I go to Haraldsvang aka the biggest ungdomskolen. XD
Weird. A lot of my friends said that us School is so much easier. I had School from 8-15:20 in high School (Norway)
Frida SE Depends. If you want to be someone in the US you need to challenge yourself. Take college level classes even (AP). At minimum you should take 3-4 years of a foreign language, math classes up to precalculus, and English class every year, science up to physics/AP physics, social studies up to government and economy, a creative class such as DDP and then you could continue that up to computer programming and some other PLTW courses, perhaps some medicine and business classes, etc. School here is really stressful and very hard, only if you push yourself though. You can't even drop out until 16, idk if it's the same in Norway. I had a friend go to Norway for a bit and when he came back he needed to take summer school. I forgot to mention the SAT which is out of 1600 points, and the ACT which is out of 36 points that we all take.
Man I really like the food in cafeteria lol. Jk it sucks🤢
What I would like in norwegian schools, is clubs. Maby there are some, but I could not see anyone. But maby its just me, who think diffrent type of clubs would be nice. Then again, feminist clubs would probably spawn. >.> Never mind, can't have nice things.
They do but schools do not support them.
We have 4 periods! 😱😈🇳🇴
Spansk hvorfor? Du burde ta matte fordypning
Go to a smaller school. Your experience will be totally different.
in a good or bad way?
Mayank Abrol depends what you want. Not the number or caliber of activities, but less competition with faceless multitudes. Most of the students will actually know you.
lol jeg bor i nord-Norge og på min skole er det bere 67 elever 😂 så 2000 må være stress ja
Gikk på en skole i fjor med bare 7 elever på studiespesialisering. Går nå på en med nesten over 1000 elever. (er vel kanskje 400 elever på stu.sp.)
Can't you stay in Norway and finish school there?Oops - should have held my comment - you're an exchange student from the USA.
Get it off our chest was correct 😂 American school sucks so much lol
Turn down the light, pls.
Hei! So I know this is a really old video, but i want to say that out of all the school systems i heard of, US is the absolute worst. Even in Serbia we have a way better system tbh...
You think americans have to much homework? I invite you to a brazilian private school, and we will show you what tons of homework (including books filled with nothing but homework and exercises so you can be able to go to a "good college") really mean. Besides lots of subjects that are completely useless - but, still, you're obliged to memorize so you may NEVER use it again in adulthood. Kisses.
Exactly my point American schools are bad compared to European schools
+grimmra cloudshrom Many European countries' test scores show they do European countries out perform US students.
Our schools are too set in traditions which are out of date. We need to learn from some of these other schools. Learning isn't just the lessons being offered, its the culture, the person learning. Most people in the US with just a high school diploma, unless it's in their field can't even remember basic science like what causes earth's gravity?
Most say the spin of the earth... in fact all of my family members from my oldest brother who is 40 his son my nephew who is 20, my younger brother who just turned 30, and my dad who's 68 all quoted the rotation of the earth an elementary level concept that mass causes gravitational attraction.
Anyways,our schooling system needs to adopt it's conflicted with culture, people aren't retaining what is learned and it shows in knowledge quizzes.
It's no wonder we're such a dumb country that the oligarchs can easily control us, no universal medical system, many private utilities which literally a licence to own a monopoly and screw the consumers, destruction of labor unions, etc. We're becoming the stupid nation.
At my school in Norway most days we go from 8.10 to 3.40
you are beautiful.
+Caroline P haha takk x) :D
What is with that polka dot tee shirt?You are very naive.
Hi, is it true that in Nowegian schools there are no subjects like literature, chemistry and physics (science), no history...??? I heard that Norway is the first country that wants to make their people stupid enough to contol them better. It is an experiment that European Union wants to apply in all European countries in order to make one big federation of them. They say that is also the reason why there are so many refugees accepted to Europe - to mix them with the European population and decreas the inteligent quotient (IQ) of Europeans. They want Europeans to be stupid enough to be controlled but clever enough to work... What do you think? Is it good not to have to learn and study? I guess the more we know the better. So it is definitely worth the effort and time spent over textbooks...
Dana Patricia Mary what the fuck
What are you talking about? I'm taking chemistry and physics right now in Norwegian high school, and we're forced to take history.