Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Trip to Oslo



Its nice to share the experiences of the first tour to Europe. It was 12th May 2009, Scheduled to fly to Norway. The flight was at 8:30 pm. I was prepared a day before and it was really difficult for me to leave my parents. I thought of spending whole day of 12 th may with my parents but unfortunately I had to go to Sweden Embassy to Collect a paper which was missing due to the mistake of Embassy people and lack of information from our Dhaka office. At-last I could collect the most important document for entering to Schengen area along with Visa but I had to sacrifice 3 hours which I was suppose to spend with my parents. My brothers, cousines,brother in law, student and some other well wisher's came for the see off to Dhaka Airport. we reached Zia International Airport,Dhaka at 4:30pm. Waited for an hour to me some other relatives who were on the way to airport for my see off. Entered inside at around 5:30 pm. Got the boarding pass so easily. Entered into the Immigration area. The real pain started there. Immigration peaople started harazing us in different ways. We had to move and convince 9 immigration peoples to get clearance from Dhaka Airport. The filght was on time. I reached Doha Airport at 11:15 , local time. Took rest around one and half an our and again started our flight at 1:05am local time. Journey was long but it was comfortable in all the means. We reached Frankfurt on time at 6:00 in the morning. We had to wait there around 4 hours 30 minutes to get into next flight with Lufthan. We had to spend some time with Imiigration Police but they have treated us very well. We had to show the document which we have collected at the day of leaving dhaka from Sweden office. The flight was delayed by 30 mins. Reached norway around 13:25. Took around 1 hour to come out of Airport along with luggage. One of My colleague of Escenic AS received us from airport. The temparature was not disappointing. It was 10 degree celsius which is better than our expectation. We have got into train from Airport station. This was my first train experience at Oslo. We reached National Theatret , near our apartment(5A Hansteens Gate, Oslo, Norway). Had to walk for 10 minutes to reach home. Cooked food using the materials already bourght by Jobaer my colleague. Visited office around 4:30 to introduce with Colleague on 13th May. Next day went to collect work permit and Visa of 15 months. There was a long que. I was 117 in the line and it took 3 hours to get the Visa along with work permit. Then we went to register for Social ID and came back to office at around 4:00 pm. Next day 15th May we attended regular office at Oslo. On 16th May we went to Play cricket to Krinjso, meet with some Bangladeshi's and enjoyed cricket. On 17th we have observed the biggest event of Norway, Constitutional day. And finally we are at Hadeland for FR(Fredskopset) course from 18th May and Hopefully we can enjoy time with FK till 5th June.

Thats it from me for the tour to Oslo.

9 comments:

mitou said...

Wish U Best of luck Afzal vai. Hope u'll fall in love with Norway, The process which has already started i guess ;-).But Surely u'll miss Bangladesh too.(Miss Bangladesh!!! ha ha ha)

Unknown said...

hope u'll enjoy the rest of the days and will come back soon. :)

Afzalur Rashid said...

Thanks mitou. Yes...I already fall in love with norway. They are really good ... Yes I started missing Bangladesh, specially bangladeshi food.

ATIK said...

Hope U'll enjoy the rest of the days and will come back in time then share ur knowledge with us.May Allah Bless U.

Unknown said...

Hope ur all the best there and a happy return ih home.

Afzalur Rashid said...

Thanks ronu and Atik. I am passing busy time with Peace corporation seminars. After finishing the course on 5th June I will share everything part by part.

Unknown said...

Hello Mama,hope u r fine there. It's a pleasure hearing that ur in Norway :) . how long will u be there? i mean, how long i m going to miss You? :(

Unknown said...

Hi its great news , but befor leave we can meet, right?
The pictures are nice.

jOhnny said...

Assalamualaikum bhaiya. its good to find that u r enjoying life in Norway.. beautiful pictures! temptating!!