Friday 30th of October two of our groups spent a nice time talking with several Norwegians. The happening took place at the café of the City Hall. Jan Hansvold, an active pensioner in the Kongsberg society, took the initiative to invite several politicians and resource persons from the town’s commerce to a chat with immigrants.The theme was not fixed, since the plan is to repeat this café-meeting 3-4 Fridays in the following weeks. This first meeting therefore served as an introduction for all participants. They talked about themselves, their lives in Kongsberg in general and about their leisure time in particular.
One of Fredheim’s groups consisted of people who have attended Norwegian course for some time now. The other group started in August, but did extremely well in this setting. They all managed to participate in the conversations, and many times there were great laughs around the three tables.Next week we hope to see more Norwegians joining this activity, and hopefully we will also manage to bring the local newspaper to join us. Jan Hansvold has just had a very interesting article published here, where he pointed out important aspects around the theme integration. In his opinion this is not only a matter for the immigrants, but something we Norwegians must consider as something we all can contribute to. If the immigrants cannot have an open and friendly dialogue with the population, how can they ever take an active part of the society?
3 comentarios:
Hello Norway,
It must have been really wonderfull meeting and also instructive.
Oh,,, its a great and interesting idea.
Only two things: if its possible, could you record a bit of the nexts meetings? We could include a resume of it in our final report.
And, I hope you will get to bring the local newspaper. If you get it and they publish something, dont forget to keep the article.
Perhaps, if the newspaper goes to the talks, you could try to invite them to all the activities of your project, in order they can do a follow, if they are interested. So, you could have a newspaper working with you. Not sure if its possible, but nothing we loose trying it.
Yes Pedro, I'm working with it. Hopefully the newspaper will come and visit us either this week or the coming. What is positive after our first café is that the local Rotary club send 3 of their members the coming Friday to hear about or immigrants thoughts, problems and ideas. So we are making progress...
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