Laughing through the unknown: Implementing humor into guiding work by international students in Alta, Norway
There can be different views and opinions about what it takes to be a newcomer when travelling for educational or work purposes. Some people can find it fairly uncomfortable when faced with new social norms, languages, rules, and regulations; while others are eager to embrace all challenges and imme...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/27876 2023-05-15T14:59:45+02:00 Laughing through the unknown: Implementing humor into guiding work by international students in Alta, Norway Zakharov, Maksim 2022-05-12 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27876 eng eng UiT The Arctic University of Norway UiT Norges arktiske universitet https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27876 Copyright 2022 The Author(s) VDP::Social science: 200::Sociology: 220 VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosiologi: 220 VDP::Social science: 200::Psychology: 260 VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Psykologi: 260 guiding tourism students humor humor in guiding laughing cruise boat guide performance tourist experience international students role of guide Alta Hurtigruten Northern Norway Arctic humour laughing through the unknown REI-3910 Master thesis Mastergradsoppgave 2022 ftunivtroemsoe 2022-12-22T00:02:49Z There can be different views and opinions about what it takes to be a newcomer when travelling for educational or work purposes. Some people can find it fairly uncomfortable when faced with new social norms, languages, rules, and regulations; while others are eager to embrace all challenges and immerse themselves into the new environment. Norway overall, and Alta city particularly, provide international and exchange students with once-in-a lifetime opportunity to experience multiculturalism, Nordic educational system, pristine nature, and last but not least the aspect of work life, even though part-time; and this aspect, still and all being part-time and ultimately non-essential for study purposes, can be of great interest for above mentioned students, as it provides them with such valuable things as a new network in local businesses, real-life work experience (often related to the studies), and additional income, to name some of those. When I came to Norway to study Arctic Adventure Tourism in the distant glorious 2017, I also got a part time job as a guide in one of the local businesses, but my first tours were not staggeringly successful, to put it lightly. Even though the company I have been working for has invested a lot of time and effort in training all new guides and has been very helpful in providing the information about the area, for me, as a newcomer it was quite hard to memorize all the facts about the region, partly due to the fact that it was my first months here, and since I have never lived in the Arctic before, everything was new and exciting, from dazzling radiance of the midnight sun at 3 AM, to mysterious romance of polar nights; and party because even if I memorized all the material, it was quite unnatural, and honestly seemed boring for me to just cite the facts by memory. Thus, I had a feeling that there was something essential that I was lacking in my performance makeup as a guide. As months went by, I came to meet more and more guides who were, same as I, international students and were ... Master Thesis Arctic Northern Norway midnight sun University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Alta Norway Newcomer ENVELOPE(-58.100,-58.100,-62.025,-62.025) |
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There can be different views and opinions about what it takes to be a newcomer when travelling for educational or work purposes. Some people can find it fairly uncomfortable when faced with new social norms, languages, rules, and regulations; while others are eager to embrace all challenges and immerse themselves into the new environment. Norway overall, and Alta city particularly, provide international and exchange students with once-in-a lifetime opportunity to experience multiculturalism, Nordic educational system, pristine nature, and last but not least the aspect of work life, even though part-time; and this aspect, still and all being part-time and ultimately non-essential for study purposes, can be of great interest for above mentioned students, as it provides them with such valuable things as a new network in local businesses, real-life work experience (often related to the studies), and additional income, to name some of those. When I came to Norway to study Arctic Adventure Tourism in the distant glorious 2017, I also got a part time job as a guide in one of the local businesses, but my first tours were not staggeringly successful, to put it lightly. Even though the company I have been working for has invested a lot of time and effort in training all new guides and has been very helpful in providing the information about the area, for me, as a newcomer it was quite hard to memorize all the facts about the region, partly due to the fact that it was my first months here, and since I have never lived in the Arctic before, everything was new and exciting, from dazzling radiance of the midnight sun at 3 AM, to mysterious romance of polar nights; and party because even if I memorized all the material, it was quite unnatural, and honestly seemed boring for me to just cite the facts by memory. Thus, I had a feeling that there was something essential that I was lacking in my performance makeup as a guide. As months went by, I came to meet more and more guides who were, same as I, international students and were ... |
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