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a Editorial

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me! I wonder sometimes if I can be a real Norwegian, those
whose reputation is to go out skiing and jogging in a winter landscape
in shorts

Perhaps what Anna Morrow Lindbergh wrote might be appropriate:
"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the
instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me."

I have friends who went off on holidays to theAntarctic to see the beau-
ty of the icebergs, the snow, the penguins, the whales and all the rest.
Before they left they kindly asked if I wanted to join them... something I was quick to politely declme.
I'm sure it is a wonderful experience and worth tiying for those looking for adventure, but...

Clich6s about one's "national reputation" do not apply to everybody. Last January I was part of a group
of fifteen journalists who went to Poland. It was a nice but a very, very cold experience-the one
looking like a teddy bear wrapped in thick layers of clothing was me...

One of my colleagues is always feeling hot and orie of our most frequent "territorial disputes" concerns
the window -should it be open or shut. She would like to have some air, whereas I want it closed.

Luckily, I tend to adopt a conciliatory attitude to "neighbours" who accept to live in a diversified
society ...

One day one of my friends came to me all smiling and laughing: "Now I lmow why you are always
feeling cold - 'the stork dropped you off in the wrong place'." She had been watching a cartoon on TV,
and iim'nediately she had made the "connection"

There is always a plausible explication to every problem ... May I just quote Albert Camus: "In the
depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible suxni'ner."

We here at DIVAwish you all a wonderful holiday season.

Marit