Fantoft

I feel like I should now write a little about the place where I will be living for half a year.
I’m slowly starting to get used to the small dark kitchen, the big bedrooms make up for it and besides, Ana (my flatmate) and I have started a beautiful wallpaper consisting of cutouts of our favorite Flatbrød boxes. What I love most about it is that I can see Mormor from my desk if I keep my door open. Wonderful.
Since we are poor students (poor students in any other country become, by default, even poorer when living in Norway – I’m scared of one day realising I will not be able to afford food anymore and starving to death) we try to get as much free stuff as we can. We’re pretty lucky, too, because it seems like the people living in Fantoft are too lazy to walk to the garbage containers to throw stuff away – so old clothes, broken computer keyboards, etc… appear from nowhere in the staircase. It has become a habit now (and I’ve been living here for four days only!) to walk up and down seven floors to find things.
So far, I found:

  • a pair of ripped denim jeans
  • a pair of khaki pants
  • a white long-sleeved shirt
  • a lot of random midnight blue silky cloth

we also adore people who move out of their apartments and fly back to their country leaving a lot of things behind. One of those being Ana’s friend Sara, from whom I got:

  • a really cute turtle laundry basket
  • a winnie the pooh cushion
  • a neon green desk lamp
  • a permanent marker
  • a yellow highlighter
  • a set of speakers
  • a pillow! (finally)
  • fishing wire
  • wood glue

we also got all the tools to make beer (we were going to buy them in town tomorrow, but we were lucky), an extra mattress in case we have guests, a red pillowcase, and a duvet.

better than being Freegan!

8 thoughts on “Fantoft

  1. making beer? i wanna see that :D
    well if you need anything else (that fits in my backpack) you need for your flat, let me know.. :)

  2. oh and all the clothes.. do you really think they were supposed to be thrown away? ;) maybe people just forgot them when they were drunk and undressed themselves.. or they already put off their clothes on the way to their rooms? who knows.

  3. it’s a known fact around here that the people who move out just leave all their shit around in the staircase hoping that someone will take it.. and in the telephone booths that we have on every floor. it’s hard to explain but i will show you when you get here ;) [they also leave their garbage though, wtf?]
    oh and i think students even have beer making competitions on who makes the best one! that’s how desperate they all are…

  4. haha i guess i should bring some bottles of vodka and gin and other stuff so you don’t have to make beer yourself :P
    is it like some DIY-kit?! take a picture of the ‘tools to make beer’ please :D

  5. my stepfather also makes his own beer, when he first did it some years ago, we tried it before a band rehearsal and could´t play because the beer was that strong that we were not able to handle our instruments after only one bottle…yeah! looking forward to the `DIY or Die´ Beer!

    and about the things for free, well that´s how everything could work :) just one room in every house, stuffed with all the things you only need once in a while, when you need them take them, when you don´t need them anymore give them back so that someone else can use them…sharing…I have a dream :)

  6. haha, it’s the best when college folks leave, they ALWAYS leave behind so much stuff. We’ve rescued couches, tvs, someone even through away a pretty nice computer (at least for the time period). And brewing your own beer is awesome…but so easy to fuck up. i’m sure you’ll brew a beer that has a very high…alcohol content… :D

    candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker

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