Hello! This weekend was the Rotary district conferance, and we all went to Kristiansund. You can see it on the map at the left. It is on the West coast of Norway, Where the Fjords are. The exchange students from the Hamar\Oslo Area all flew there, and I found it quite cool flying over the Fjords, because ThIS weekend, My host family is taking me to Flåm, By car, so we will see it all! While we were there last weekend though, we walked around the city on friday (I went with Some other students and Quinn, who lives there, so we got to see all the interesting stuff, not just the historical sites, though we did see those as well) That evening we put together another presentation, only this time for a lot more Rotarians! Saterday we Preformed it, and then That evening We went to a...well, almost a ropes course, but minus some ropes!!! We Put these little harnesses around our waists, and the sent us to climbing through this course. It was Sleeting, and it was completely dark. our last obsticle was a straight down freefall from a log bridgeing two trees. It was pretty cool!
Sunday was the last day, and we took a bus tour of "The Atlandic Road." It is basically a chain of islands connected by Strangely constructed bridges. It is considered to be a Structual Marvel of Norway, and it was quite beautiful! At the top left, I posted a map of the area, so you can picture the Geography.
This week has been a good one as well. Wedensday Was a "special day" (according to everyone, "Just Because") so class started at 10 as usal, only it was in the middle of a forest. All the people in my class just met at this place in the middle of nowhere, and I Don't know how, for if I hadn't have found some class mates earlier, I would have been completely lost. We spent the day in small groups, Identifying trees, finding mushrooms, and catching bugs. It was so suprising, the bug catching. We all had these nets, so it looked like a very bad day to be a bug, but whenever some one caught one, it was placed ever so carefully in a magnifing container, passed around gentley for investigation, and then released in the exact spot it had been taken from. I Imediatly thought of Beth- You would have loved to see these spiders! Class ended at 2, and I went to my friend May Kristin's house, and we drank Hot chocolate until we had thawed out!
Also this week I went with some friends to a fair- Remarkable similiar to ours- And also to A Norwegian rap concert! that was pretty cool. Their name was "Karpe Dium", which I thought was pretty funny- White boys, rapping in Norwegian, with a Latin name. I liked it a lot, even though I didn't understand it! Now I am just relaxing this morning, until I have class at 12. This evening I am going to the Rotary meeting, since the Governor is coming! I will make another post when I return from Flåm. (lots of pictures!)
1 comment:
Hi young lady!
I think I would really enjoy the schools over there, no better place to be than outside and yes I would LOVE to see those spiders. I am so glad you can spend so much time outside. Take more pictures (especialy of the bugs) :) I guess your Mom told you about Candy's and Chelsea's little adventure. I really think Candy thought you might be at Julie's and she was on her way to find you, Chelsea was just going along for fun. Chelsea looks great, I saw her today and she is starting to cut teeth. She will be just right for you to ride when you get home. Everything here is going along just fine, we think of you often.
Beth
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