A Culture Festival

Two of my former Indian classmates dressed up for the occasion, I did not

With over 160 different nationalities attending Hult, you are met with new cultures and people all the time. And the day they all clash together? Hult Culture Festival. I am lucky enough to be one of those foreign students studying abroad.

Every country has the option to create their own personalized room to present their country’s culture and traditions. Sadly the hype to create a Norwegian room was too low, something we all agree was a mistake in heinsight. Luckily I got to experience so many different types of food, see so many different nice dresses and talk to so many nice, and different people.

I have gotten to know so many cultures so far, but it was not until today I realized how diverse our school really is because it's been easy to communicate with peers despite the cultural differences. While I was nervous at first, the cultural differences does not seem to play a role when it comes to who you get to know. It is way easies to get to know each other here than in Norway

There were some really nice dresses, and this national dress from Taiwan was definitely a highlight

I ate food from about half of the world it felt like, and if you take away the Chinese tea with cheese in it, everything tasted great. I really hope I will get to experience something like this again.

This is a modern Congolese dress, with some strange food.

Going through all of these rooms with all the different countries, I wondered to myself if Norway has any “rich” culture in the way other countries have. And I realized that we do. While nothing compared to the likes of India, Brazil, China and Russia, we could have come up with dishes I personally would think would be awesome. Our national dress, Bunad, looks awesome. We have a history with plenty of ups and downs (lately mostly ups) and twists and turns. All in all I have had one of the best days at school I have ever had. I regret not having a Norwegian stand, but I was allowed to participate and

And to be fair, there were some bad ass dancing out there. Don’t think the Norwegians at Hult would beat that on short notice.