Drinks

A drink in Norway involves a high prosentage of alcohol mixed with some kind of sugary water. A drink in America is of course any kind of beverage, including water. And if you want a Norwegian kind of drink here in Berkeley, it’s not gonna be easy. The first time we went out we did it Norwegian style. "Vors" till you’re more than proper drunk and get out for more drinks. The bar we went to, which is supposed to be one of the more attractive bars in Berkeley, did not serve ”hard-alcohol” drinks. And they closed at 1am. What about all these rumours of the American way of partying? Suddenly I felt like a barbaric viking from a drunken country. And not in a negative way..
After that bar experience we decided to buy or own liqueur, vors at home (as usual) but start reeeeeally early so that we would be tired around 1am. The problem was then finding a liqueur store. There was none. In a city of 35.000 students there are NO liqueur stores! Fine, you can get beer and wine almost everywhere you go – even at the Pharmacy (they’ve got it all at the Pharmacy)- but nothing more than 20%.
So we had to walk and walk and walk (in the rain, the thunder and lightning – i’m not kidding!!) to the next city to get to the Liqueur store. We asked 4 gas stations for directions and we finally found it in a scary back alley. (that’s not 100% accurate, but it fits the story.)
Four grand bottles and a 10 min discussion about our I.D.’s later, we headed home, in even heavier rain, happy about our mission's success.