---
title: "When you're new..."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/13/when-youre-new.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/13/when-youre-new.html"
published: "2004-03-13T20:43:00"
updated: "2004-03-13T20:43:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Rory talks about starting out when nobody knows you (or it's the other way around) at a new place. I know his feelings. Doing 2 months in Norway was much like that... only imagine that everyone at the party is as quiet…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# When you're new...

By Roy Osherove March 13, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 13, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Rory talks about starting out when nobody knows you](http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/4292.aspx)(or it's the other way around) at a new place. I know his feelings. Doing 2 months in Norway was much like that... only imagine that **everyone** at the party is as quiet as you... and it's **dark**... and you have to eat a cheese sandwich for lunch everyday :)

Of course, the people there were wonderful, but still, starting out there was a pretty hard thing for me. Good luck Rory.

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## About the author

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