The Happening City of Tromso

This college town of about 65,000 people is one happening place. While walking to and fro from the university I have found a Godfather's Pizza, a 7-11, a Thai restaurant,  a Chinese restaurant, three kabab places, one of them Turkish.

 Thrilled to see donner kababs outside of Turkey, I went in and had a nice conversation, in English, with the owner.  Over kababs he told me how he and some friends came to Tromso on a college break.  They wanted to see the northern lights.  His friends returned home, but he found odd jobs, and got the Norwegian equivalent of a green card.  He started his own business, married a nice Norwegian girl, who works for a vet, and he has been happy ever since!

Tromso is the starting point of many Arctic expeditions. People have lived in this area for thousands of years. While on a break this morning, I got to look through the rest of the museum our class was at.  I learned that stone age people did not have cavities!  Also, they have found tar with teeth marks in it, perhaps the first chewing gum. 

We even have a branch of the LDS church here.