Transcript: Hi everybody! I’ve just finished up a rehearsal at Theater Manu and I'm walking home to my apartment. It's cold here today in Oslo; you can see your breath. I'm walking and it’s funny; I’m looking around and I think I’m the only person wearing orange. In Oslo people tend to wear black, blue, other dark colors and I’m the only person wearing this bright orange color. No one’s looking at me though. So, anyway I feel kinda special I’m rockin’ this orange color.

So my walk back and forth every day to work is about 15 or 17 minutes, which is fine, but soon I'll be moving to a new apartment. It's closer to transportation like buses and things like that. Everything’s fine today and it's looking good. Here's what my commute looks like. We're finally seeing blue skies! For the last week or so that I've been here it has been gloomy. It’s been dark and gray and we've almost never seen the sun. So this is the first time we’ve seen the sun, finally! But it is really cold; it's the coldest it's been since I've been here.

Here in Oslo they have a lot of respect for crosswalks. If a pedestrian is walking through the crosswalk and a car comes by, the car has to stop and yield to the pedestrian who will walk through the crosswalk first and then the car can continue. You can't cut off a pedestrian if you're in a vehicle; that’s strictly forbidden. It's not like the game of chicken that we play in America between the pedestrian and the car. Especially in places like New York where you’ve got taxis involved and passenger cars plus people, pedestrians and everybody is at war with one another. Here in Oslo the pedestrian goes first and I wish America could respect pedestrians in that way. It's one of the nice things about Oslo that I thought I would share with you.

Every day on my walk I look at these beautiful buildings in the old town of Oslo. The buildings are these vertical buildings that have different colors, so you're seeing different blocks of color as you walk down the street. I really like it; it's neat. Oops, I almost just slipped, see? I'm walking on some ice, maybe I’ll move over to the side. There’s a park on this side of the street. I'm lucky I didn’t fall because my shoes are completely flat. I have to be careful. I might turn off my camera for a bit because I have to save myself for the show. If I were to fall I would miss the whole thing. So I am going to turn off the camera now.

Now I've moved to my new apartment and this is the area; it's the shopping district, it's really nice. I thought I’d go look to see if there's a grocery store in this area and as I look around it looks like a really nice area. This is the first time I've been here.

Good morning! That's “good morning” in Norwegian Sign Language and I'm here on the tram right now enjoying the ride, and I'm on my way to Theater Manu for our first rehearsal of blocking, which is the movement on stage. For the first week or so we've been looking at the script and the words and the lines and incorporating all that into ourselves and getting the language right, and focusing on the mouth movements. You know, Norwegian Sign Language emphasizes mouth movements much more than American Sign Language. So we've been focusing on that, but now is our first focus on physical movement on stage. The tram ride is beautiful and my new apartment is just here. So I'm really looking forward to having a great first day!

Special thanks to interpreting student, Sam Dunning, for her assistance with this week’s translation and transcription