| Q1. | What's your name? |
| A1. | Kjersti. |
| Q. | Kjersti? |
| A. | K-J-E-R-S-T-I |
| Q2. | And where are you from? |
| A2. | Norway. |
| Q. | Which City? |
| A. | Oslo, city of the tiger. |
| Q3. | So could you tell me a little bit about yourself? What your doing? What you like? |
| A3. | Ok I am twenty-two years old. I have been traveling for three and a half months now because I needed some more air under my wings and it was perfect timing because I was in total harmony with myself . And I needed to change my job, even though my job was good because I had been working two years as a promotion manager in a record company but a lot of responsibility. Cool job you go to a lot of parties and you promote things, you handle stars. Yes it's a bad ass cool job. So I just need to broaden my horizons, and meet people because people are my fuel and experience and, as eyes as open as your heart that is my, kind of main goal. |
| Q4. | Say that again slowly? |
| A4. | Eyes as open as my heart, that's a thing you should work for. It is not very easy always, it's easy to get closed up. But I'm trying to keep the child in me, and it's because I love to, I'm a very observant person I will suck everything in, and I love to tell it, give it and describe it to other people so they can kind of experience the same thing I experienced. That's really what I live for in general so I have to be a journalist because it's kind of me. And except for that I, I think I am a very happy girl, I think yes I am a pretty harmonic person I have a lot of friends. I like to uh, do a lot stuff. I think I am active but it is has been a lot of partying and having a good time, I like, I like to party but controlled not like wild, I like taking care of my life too, and I like sports and I like nature and I have been fly fishing since I was eight, so that is a good contrast to being a city girl, so I think I've got a lot of assets. |
| Q5. | So have you? What other countries have you been in besides the United States? |
| A5. | OK Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Germany, France, Holland, uh, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Thailand, Japan, United States, I don't think uh, I think that is it actually. Yeah. |
| Q6. | Oh, your English is very good, how can you explain that? How would you , How would you say that you've learned English well, or learned to speak well? |
| A6. | I think that's a very interesting question that's easy to answer. I think the answer to this is that, OK, we start having English at school when we are like 8 years old, but so they do in a lot of European countries, so they do in Japan, I think: start early in English. But the main thing, the most important thing is that Movies and TV series are in English, if their American or English. Everything just has sub-texts or subtitles under, In that way children, they can recognize words, it comes, it's a thing that comes without effort. It can sneak in through your conscious, you get English for free, in a way. |
| A7. | Because you see the subtitles, you hear the words at the same time, it sneaks into your head. I think that's totally the reason why we pick up so much English, and our English is getting good. OK, the Norwegian school system is good, and they, we have at least five hours of English a week. |
| Q8. | And when you're seventeen you can choose if you want to take the easy English, three hours a week for your last, two last years of high school, or you can take the uh, uh, kind of difficult English with a lot of Kipling and literature reading, and, I took the difficult one. And I read a lot of English books, because my English is there. My passive vocabulary is much bigger than my active. |