{"id":50410,"date":"2020-01-27T22:09:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T22:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=50410"},"modified":"2021-03-26T16:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:04:36","slug":"experience-kos-in-norway-on-the-sesquicentennial-arts-and-culture-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2020\/01\/27\/experience-kos-in-norway-on-the-sesquicentennial-arts-and-culture-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience “Kos” in Norway on the Sesquicentennial Arts and Culture Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DarceyThis May, I and my husband, Luverne Seifert \u201884, will be leading the Augsburg Sesquicentennial Arts and Culture trip to Norway<\/a>. All are welcome on this excursion, especially those with Augsburg ties. Among many destinations, we\u2019ll visit such sites in and around Oslo as the Viking Ship Museum and a stave church, even stopping at a festival to celebrate Syttende Mai.<\/p>\n

Luverne and I are theater people \u2013 he\u2019s a professional actor in Minneapolis and I\u2019m chair of the Augsburg Theater Department — so we\u2019re particularly excited about seeing Oslo\u2019s National Theater and amazing Opera House, as well as the museum devoted to playwright Henrik Ibsen, where we plan to share some of our insights on Ibsen\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

While doing a little research, I ran across a Norwegian word: Kos. <\/em>I don\u2019t speak Norwegian, but from what I can gather it\u2019s pronounced \u201ccoosh\u201d and describes all things that make you feel warm inside. It can literally mean a hot drink or the feeling that you get from spending time with dear friends or engaging with something you love like theater and art.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m embracing kos<\/em> as a way to describe how I feel about this wonderful opportunity to travel to Norway. It\u2019s always kos,<\/em> I would argue when you get to travel, learn and meet new friends along the way. Personally, kos<\/em> could describe how Luverne and I feel about Augsburg. As alums, Augsburg brought us together 32 years ago and introduced us to lifelong friends whom we still see regularly today.<\/p>\n

For example, this past summer, I joined a group of my fellow 1988 Augsburg theater graduates for a reunion at a house in the country, near Alma, Minnesota. We traveled from all over the country for a week of reconnecting. We\u2019ve all stayed in touch in various ways through the years, following each other\u2019s life changes, families, marriages, career choices and, well, everything. Together in Alma, we danced, cooked, walked, swam and sat in a large screened-in porch till the wee hours of the morning reliving the most beautiful, funny and poignant memories from our time together at Augsburg. This event and all those dear Augsburg friends embody the definition of kos <\/em>for me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Similarly, Luverne has many friends whom he met through Augsburg theater productions of the early \u201880s. For the last 20 years, a group of us have gathered three or four times a year for what we\u2019ve deemed \u201cDinner Club,\u201d where we choose a culinary theme and gather at one of our houses in the Twin Cities area to cook and enjoy a meal together. When we began, we\u2019d bring along diaper bags, babies and toddlers. Now our children are grown and off living their lives. Still, our \u201cDinner Club\u201d evenings renew us, ground us and give us the feeling of kos.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our years at Augsburg were such a significant time for Luverne and me. As first-generation college students not really knowing what the college experience might be like, we graduated with expert preparation for our fields, enjoying deep relationships with friends and with each other. We\u2019re happy to say that two of our dear \u201cDinner Club\u201d friends — Jenny Nordstrom Kelley and her wonderful husband, Kevin Kelley — will be joining us on this trip, which should bring extra Kos <\/em>to the journey. Please join us! Together, we\u2019ll make new friends, have our own late nights, experience the beauty and inspiration of Norway together, and cultivate a whole lot of kos<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This May, I and my husband, Luverne Seifert \u201884, will be leading the Augsburg Sesquicentennial Arts and Culture trip to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-travel-program","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50749,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50410\/revisions\/50749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}