I am a member of Mensa. This is unpopular with many Norwegians,
in part for political reasons.
For me, one of the biggest positive surprises on joining Mensa was being
treated as a quite normal, equal and complete human being, although I happen
to be a single female!
I was invited to parties, to picnics, even to a wedding!
All very unusual for me: some of my well educated non-Mensa 'colleagues' once told me: "this party is only for couples" !!
I was 25 years old at the time...
In Mensa, we can be single, married, just living together, divorced
...
We can be wine lovers, teetotallers, religious, atheists, agnostics;
all speaking together in a friendly way, and as I once told that preacher:
"Nobody tries to convert the other person to the opposite thing".
So If you're interested: look up Mensa Norge
or
Mensa International
As a Mensa member one has access to a number of international resources, such as:
"SIGHT" - a network for travelling Mensans. Meet a friendly guide on the other side of planet earth!
A number of international meetings. The one I've visited several times,
last in August 2004,
is "Mensa at Cambridge", always an interesting summer event.
We Mensans have a bit of non-standard fun, now and then
- once I was asked: "Excuse me, are you the Alien?"
The question referred to that time when I pretended to be an
extra-terrestrial, camouflaged as a small overweight human being.
My listener bought the story - he was an UFO believer.
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