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CHRISTMAS EDITION

WE ARE Writers: MORSK Zahra Ahmed, Interaction Design Rebekka Sofie Bardal Johannessen, Graphic Design EDITOR IN CHIEF REBEKKA S. B. JOHANNESSEN Illustrators: GRAPHIC DESIGN Ingrid Eriksen, Graphic Design Amalie Bjørnhom, Graphic Design COVER ILLUSTRATOR Ugne Abramovaite, Graphic Design LARS AURLAND Aina Iren Volden, Graphic Design GRAPHIC DESIGN Melinda Lindseth, Graphic Design Henrik Kongsli Gjerde, Graphic Design HEAD OF DESIGN Nina E. Martinsen, Graphic Design JØRGEN WESTMO Preben Nilsen Kemi, Graphic Design GRAPHIC DESIGN Elin Hansen Akerhaugen, Graphic Design Gabriela Jankowska, Graphic Design GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Lisa Marie Solheim, Webdesign NINA E. MARTINSEN GRAPHIC DESIGN design: Jørgen Westmo, Graphic Design BENDIK JACOBSSON Nina E. Martinsen, Graphic Design GRAPHIC DESIGN Bendik Jacobsson, Graphic Design PROOFREADERS Print MIE KRISTENSEN by Kobolt Printshop MASTER INTERACTION DESIGN Run: 200 pcs Paper: 240g cover, 150g Typography: Calluna 9,5/13,5pt, Niveau Grotesk & Butler Want to write for MORSK? Something on your mind? Ideas keeping you up at night? Desperately want the students of NTNU in Gjøvik to know something or advertise? Reach out to us at [email protected]. Anything sent to us will be given feedback regardless of whether or not it gets published. Contact Teknologiveien 22, 2815 Gjøvik A­bygget, A259 E­post: [email protected] facebook.com/studentmagasinetmorsk

All I want for Christmas is… Perhaps you read this during your hectic exam pe­ Americans and put up all the Christmas decora­ riod and think «not now…», with an exhalation tions already in November, or even earlier. While that your only hope before Christmas is to pass others may wait until the first week of December... your exams and get through the stress of all the gift preparations. While to others, Christmas may be a There are two things during this time of the year motivation to look forward to, because that means we can never agree on, that is: that this semester is almost over. 1. Which Christmas soda is the best? Christmas holidays are, for some, a time to go 2. Pork ribs, stick meat or Grandiosa Pizza? home to your family and meet relatives you ha­ ven’t seen in a while. For others, it is the time of Even though we can’t agree, there will always be so­ the year where you do like the birds and fly to a meone that will hate that others drink Christmas warmer place. Like us Norwegians, we have mixed soda long before December. Anyways, we are very traditions all over the place. Some like to do as the excited to give you this extra edition of our stu­ dent magazine. Our creative members have made some incredible illustrations, even a comic (!) and a Christmas story. Hopefully this will provide you with a little holiday spirit. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Rebekka S. B. Johannessen Editor in Chief Aina Iren Volden, Graphic Design

Amalie Bjørnhom, Graphic Design

Ingrid Elise Kind Eriksen, Graphic Design

Ugne Abramovaite, Graphic Design

A Surprisingly Colorful Christmas by Zahra Ahmad It will be fine they said. mind for this Christmas. I wanted to be in You will be freed they said. the overused comfy chair in the living room Oh will I…? of my parents’ house, with hot chocolate and I was manipulatively convinced by my fri­ my nyan cat slippers. Not in this cold where ends to come out to my parents this Christ­ my toes and fingers are freezing. The good mas, thinking that coming out can’t possibly news is that I finally see the cabin, and… there ruin this holiday. I was wrong. Not only did are two parked cars in front of the cabin. For it ruin christmas, it also led me to run away some reason all the curtains are drawn but from home to a friend’s cabin. He said that you could still see their silhouettes because he could meet me there and hand me the key. the lights are on. The curtains moved and So here I am, walking from the train station someone was looking through the window to the cabin. We usually use the cabin in the and several people were all up and moving. I summer – with the lake, the mountains and managed to get to the terrace, getting to the the wildflowers on the side of the road, it’s door, and opening it. quite idyllic. Now, everything is covered with I was welcomed with a “Surprise!” I was snow, and you can see the shape of the trees shocked! Not so much about them being and the mountains. It’s so quiet – it feels there, but because the sheer volume of the abandoned, and it kind of is. The houses in crowd was beyond the capacity of human this area are mostly summerhouses, and are ears. Taking off my winter cap, I asked, “What therefore quite cold in the brutal winter. is this? Why are you guys yelling at me?” “Oh shit!” I almost fell again. I can’t believe this is how the road looks like in the win­ “We are not yelling!” Julia shouted, ma­ ter. Knee high in snow is not what I had in king my point. Everybody, including me, looked at her. “No, but seriously, what is this?” I insisted.

“Well, we wanted you to have a proper Christ­ cold? Do you want us to pick you up from mas! And if you can’t have that with your somewhere?” parents, you will have it with us. Granted, there won’t be pork ribs and good stuffings “No, mom. I am at Kevin’s cabin. And even but there will be a home cooked meal and the girls are here. I am not cold, just so you hot chocolate.” Said Maria with the others know…” nodding. “Oh, good”, she responded, and after “And loads of hugs and kisses!” Said Julie, a moment followed by “Honey, we didn’t a little too loud. We all laughed again. mean to push you away. I hope you know we love you. We really do, sweetie. It was “I can’t believe you guys did this for me.” just a surprise since you have always liked “How are you?” asked Adam after I had girls and been with girls. We didn’t mean to taken off my jacket and gotten settled in. seem like we are not okay with this. You can “Well, better now, but I didn’t think it love whome­ ver you want and we would still would go this bad, you know.” love you.” “None of us did, if it helps. Your parents seemed so open about things. But apparently “Whom…”, I said without thinking. Every­ not everything.” Kevin responded from the body in the room started laughing. And my kitchen counter. mom just respond with a “What…?” “Have you talked to them since ‘the big talk’?” Julia asked. “I can love whoever I want not whom­ “No, I haven’t…” ever I want.” I only got a laughter in return. After a bit of quietness, I heard a phone vibra­ Suddenly my dad chipped in with “Don’t you ting. Nobody reacted, so I assumed it was correct your mother while she is telling you mine. I got up and went to get it from my whom you should or shouldn’t love.” jacket. The display had lit up, and the word And that got me. After I started laughing, Mom was flashing before me. Hesitantly, I my parents started laughing, and everyone answered “Hey, mom.” Everyone in the in the cabin started to awkwardly laugh as room looked at me. Adam even took a step well. After a long phone conversation with closer to me. my parents, we made up, but I still ended “Sweetie, I was worried about you. I know up spending Christmas at the cabin with a your dad and I didn’t do so well, but you decent home cooked meal and hot chocolate. didn’t have to leave. Are you okay? Are you We stayed for the rest of the year, not out of our own choice – we got snowed in. But we still enjoyed every moment of it.

Lisa Marie Solheim, Webdesign

Nina E. Martinsen, Graphic Design



Henrik Kongsli Gjerde, Graphic Design





Melinda Lindseth, Graphic Design





Gabriela Jankowska Graphic Design

Preben Nilsen Kemi & Henrik Kongsli Gjerde, Graphic Design