In Norway.....

...The ambulances are yellow:

you can always find skolebrød and skillingsboller in the bakery section at grocery stores:

fish comes in every imaginable shape and form:

 heart shaped:

...and pickled for breakfast

Putting fish eggs on top of chicken eggs is normal

The plugs look like this:

Everything is expensive: 

...but a normal starting wage is around $17 an hour, so it balances out, plus they get it back in healthcare, welfare and other services.

It's normal to see troupes of preschoolers and elementary kids trekking through the forest and playing in the mud, wearing yellow vests. The leader is almost always in a one piece blue snowsuit:

Everyone gets a laptop in school, and uses it constantly:

...on some tests you're even allowed to use any notes/files saved on your computer, although they (generally :P) shut down the internet for tests.

There's a lot less multiple choice and short answers on history and language tests, and a lot more essays and writing.

There's a huge range of packaged mixes for sauces, soups and baked goods:

They have the highest coffee consumption per capita in the world (some sources say second after Finland, but still):

The liquor stores are state run and very regulated; they close at 3 pm on Saturdays, and aren't open on, for example, new years eve.

The bread is thick and dense, rather than fluffy and light:

I never really liked sandwiches with plain bread before I came here

Sliced red pepper is a really common topping on bread and knekkebrød:

(Dad, I always thought it was weird that you put red pepper on your sandwiches, til I came here :P )

Semi trucks look, for lack of a better description, less scary:

(on the left, compared to a normal truck on the right)

They rarely put a top slice of bread on sandwiches:

The commercials are pretty random, to say the least: This one was playing non stop a couple weeks ago on the main channels; at the end it says "it can be fun to save power"

Neither of these two commercials really have any talking

At the end they suggest, among other things, showering together to save power...haha only in Norway

Or this older one for caviar:

Radio commercials can be just as random; one just starts singing ostpølser, ostpølser (cheese sausages) over and over again really enthusiastically, another has the sounds of a woman giving birth. In general there's a lot more - strange songs and noises in radio commercials, and like TV ones, they often have very little to do with what they're actually selling. I think the woman giving birth commercial is for a phone or wireless network or something, saying that you even get service in the maternity ward of the hospital or something odd like that haha

Theres way more varieties of black liquorice than at home - you can even get black liquorice gum.

These are my favorite; black liquorice is another thing I've grown to like here:

...you can buy single serving yogurt and granola containers in vending machines:

Packaging is much smaller here (one of the not-so-efficient parts of Norway - it's not like they use less of things, just buy more packages of them)

Normal sized margarine containers at home and in Norway: (hard to tell scale in these pictures, but you could fit like 5 of the norwegian ones in the one on the left)

-Big 4 litre milk jugs are really uncommon, most people buy 1 litre cartons

...The toilet flushers are on top of the toilet, and pulled up instead of pushed down. The stalls are usually completely enclosed with a red or green sign on the handle indicating vacancy. Doesn't usually work to look under the stall doors to see if they're free here! 

There's not much of a bulk section in most grocery stores, its way more common to buy little packages of things than fill up bags in bulk.

...the one bulk section you're guaranteed to find everywhere is candy:

That's all that comes to mind for now

To finish off, today we had no teacher in art again. So, what do we do?

Good night =)