The winner takes all

In the UK, when they have an election, the candidate with the most votes wins everything. The other candidates can go home and live on with their normal lives and the votes people have used on these candidates are wasted. This is very different from Norway, where not only the party with the most votes is in government but also the parties that have a sertain amount of votes.

The weather!

The weather in Norway is really unpredictable. We have our four seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall. In the winter it's really cold and we often have a lot of snow - specially on the mountains, but it also can be really cold and wet. In the spring it gets warmer, but the weather is probably most unpredictable in the spring. It can be warm one day, and snow the next (almost).
I think the summers in Norway can be the best. If the weather is good all summer, there's no better place to be. Not too warm and not too cold. But the last summers have been really bad with a lot of rain.
And rain we have enough of in Norway you ask me. In the fall it often rains and rains and rains and it's only getting darker and darker. And it's so cold. The only time I think the fall is beautiful is when it's almost to the freezing point and sunny. Then I can live with it..

NATO (1949)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in 1949. NATO has members from 28 countries in Europe and North-America.
The Treaty of Brussels in 1948 is considered the precursor to the NATO agreement. The treaty and the Berlin Blockade was the reason for the establishing of the Western union's Defence Organization. But the participation of the United States was thought necessary in order to counter the military power of the USSR, and therefore they started talking about a new military alliance almost immediately and resulted in the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO).
It included 12 countries from Europe and North America. It was established because of fear of the Soviet and the communist's growing power in Europe

"The Parties of NATO agreed that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all. Consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence will assist the Party or Parties being attacked, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area."

The countries that founded NATO

• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• France
• Iceland
• Italy
• Luxemburg
• Netherland/Holland
• Norway
• Portugal
• Great Britain
• USA

Hi!
My name is Anne. I'm 18 years old and I've just started my final year in high school. I live in a town called Bærum in Norway. It's just outside Oslo. We've been told to make a blog in english class at school, so this is it..