My home, Lørenskog

I come from a town called Lørenskog, 20 minutes with train from Norway's capital, Oslo. I've lived there since I was four, and I don't remember that much from that time, but what I remember is that there were old buildings, not that many of them, and a lot of family houses. A lot have changed in Lørenskog since that time.

Lørenskog don't have a city status, something that the mayor desperately want. Lørenskog is getting bigger every year, with extended malls, upgraded and new schools, a new culture house, new buss terminal, a new public park, a new hospital, and this only in a few years. It is getting discussed if we are getting the metro from Oslo all the way out to Lørenskog too. In addition to all of this, it has also been build a lot of new houses, residential areas and a lot of people are rebuilding their houses to big "Hollywood" houses.

The people has also changed a lot, when my family moved to Lørenskog, we were three families with children in the street. A lot of the older people have moved to smaller apartments and sold their houses to new families with children. My family is one of the old ones in the street now. I live in a perfect place to race children, ten minutes walking distance to the primary school, lower secondary school, and one of many upper secondary schools. We live in between the train station and the center of Lørenskog, with the malls and buss terminal. We also have a big forest on the edge, it's a nice place to take a bike trip, and in the winter we get ski tracks.

I like to live in Lørenskog, I'm not the biggest fan of all the building, but it makes it easier to get around.

Here are the view from my bedroom - you can also see one of the big new houses to the left