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“GATEAKADEMIET: Springboard or A Parachute”

“GATEAKADEMIET: Springboard or A Parachute” “ Life sometimes asks for springboard or a parachute.” A springboard to push you forward when you feel like you have been stuck in certain point in your life or you don't have any strength or motivations to move forward. Or you might need a parachute to just to relax and let your life slowly move forward, this might be very helpful for those who have been doing too much in their life or have a lot of expectation they feel like they need to fulfill in their life. The above two metaphor which exactly explains the students you meet at Gateakademiet and which is a place that can be both springboard or parachute for them depending upon what they need. This can be traced back to 1998 when the group of youths in the city of Kristiansand came together to form a theater group called UGRESS. These were the same people who were trouble maker of the city and they needed a place to be and Ugress was that place for them. Most of the yo

I GOT NEW FAMILIES FOR CHRISTMAS

"What did you get for Christmas?". This might have been the question that probably many of you asked each other after the Christmas celebration or not.  But for the first time I got to spend Christmas outside of my country and it was a very good experience. To begin with I just want to explain in summary in brief how Christmas is celebrated in Nepal. There might be different ways of celebrating it depending on where you live in Nepal too. But for all this year I have been celebrating Christmas by “ EK CHAK MITHO KHAYERA, EK JOR RAMRO LAGAYERA”, which if directly translated in English will be “Eating one plate of delicious dish, wearing one pair of nice clothes”. Also, in Nepal Christmas is celebrated on 25 th where people gather at church and have a celebration whole day and night (in some places). In contrast to it, Christmas celebration here was very different but good different. Christmas here is all about families and spending time together with them and lots