Last post from Norway!

Ladieeeees and Gentlemeeeeen! This is gonna be my last post which I gonna write here sitting in my room in Norway, Halden. Maybe I continue to blog maybe not.. I don't know yet.

Last weekend I was at the cabin of Eirik with him, Knut and Espen. We were going to go to a party on an island near there on Saturday. The sea was quite wild and almost everytime we drove the boat we got wet. On Sunday when the guys drove me back to Halden with the boat (I had to leave a little earlier) we decided to wear rainsuits. Look how pretty we were!

On this picture you can see the new Svinesunds bridge. If you have kind of hawk eyes you can see another bridge and this bridge is..

..this one. It's the old Svinesund bridge. On the left side you have Norway and on the right side you have Sweden. The border goes in the middle of the fjord we're driving in.

I had to be at home earlier from the cabin because we had our last meeting with AFS Østfold. We were meeting at Kari's place, she was my local contact and I ate every second Tuesday dinner there.

Yesterday I was drivingn around with Eirik in his car. I love his stereo system! When you're sitting in the back seat and he's turning the bass on, you get a really good back massage :-) Yesterday was also a really nice sunset. Unfortunately we came a little bit to late to take a picture when it was at his most beautiful.

Today I got my school certification. I'm not gonna write some comments about it. It is how it is. ;-)

I wish you a very nice time and my next post I gonna write sitting in my room in Switzerland! Did I tell you when I gonna travel home? I think I did but I just gonna say it once more: I gonna travel home on the 30th June. 8 days left :-O.. 5 in Halden.

Silvan

Göteborg

The time is just running away. In 13 days I'm already in the last AFS Norway camp.

I was in Göteborg with my hostparents, Anne Marit and Alexander (her boyfriend) last weekend. For the people who don't know where or what Göteborg is: It's the biggest city on Sweden's westcoast. We took the car and drove ca. 2 hours on Saturday morning. We had a **** hotel in the middel of the city. The first thing we said when we entered the hotel: I'm looking forward to the breakfast.

Thursday one week ago we had Historyday in school. All the students from the 2nd class walked up to the fortress and a teacher who was also guide in the fortress told us interesting storys there.

Thorvald asked me if I can help him with painting the garage. I worked ca. 4 hours and I got some money for it.

I love this car, and this girl :-)

Who can find the special "thing"?

Woohoo Göteborg! Ale and me were tired after 1 and a half hour shopping but Anne Marit wasn't finished at all, so she continued alone for 2 hours. In the evening we watched the fotball matches in a O'Larries sportbar. Ale works in the O'Larries at Gardermoen and therefor we got the beer quite cheap.

On Sunday Anne Marit, Ale and me went to Liseberg, an amusement park in the center of Göteborg. I took this picture after we were on a water coaster. Anne Marit and Ale got really wet but I stayed dry :-)

Yeah! That's the best roller coaster in Liseberg. Kanonen is it called. Somemone who knows the Europapark in south Germany would compare this coaster with the Bluefire there.

Aaaatmosfeeaaaarr! Two pictures below I explain what that is.

We took a little break in the crystal house for relaxing after that much roller coasters.

Aaaand this is Atmosfear. It's the highest free fall in Europe. It's 118 meters high and the first time I was on it, it was really scary. You sit there and it's driving up and you think: shit it's already really high but then you have a look up and see that you are just in the middle of the tower. The most scary moment is when it waits on the top for ca. 10 seconds. The fall is actually not really crazy. After 2-3 seconds it's over already. The second time we were on it this day Ale and me could persuade Anne Marit to come with us :-)

We went also to the spooky house. That was fun. There were working real people who's job was just to scare the visitors.
On the way out we stopped at a wheel of Fortune and won this big m&m price. That made our day :-D
Göteborg, you were great!

Silvan

AFS canoe trip

24 days left..! It's soooo crazy. I can't believe that my exchange year is over so soon, but I'm really looking forward to the time which comes now. We have just very little school every week and the weather isn't that bad actually. Sometimes I think about how the last couple of days gonna be. It will be great to see all the exchange students again and then coming back home to Switzerland even though I have to leave my second home.

Last weekend I was on a canoe trip with AFS Østfold. We were all the exchange students (6) plus two girls who gonna travel to an exchange year this summer. We met at Børtevannkafe somewhere in Østfold and then we paddled ca. 3 hours to Speiderhytta. It was a little, dirty cabin which we had to clean first, but after that it was a nice place ;-)

I write some more stuff under the pictures..

Grilling on Saturday evening. A really big steak :-D

  

Swimming in the lake there was freaking cold!

 

 

 

Give me my towel, I'm freezing!

 

 

Breakfast around a fireplace

 

 

And the paddling back to the cafe..

 

 

On the way back we just had to take out the canoes and kajaks once but when we paddled to Speiderhytta we had to carry them 3 times.

 

 

Nacho and his yellow kajak :-)

 

 

 Me on the yellow kajak

 

Two kajak pros chilling :-P

 

 

 

And the whole group.. I want to say thank you for a really nice trip!

I don't know if I gonna write often on my blog the last days I'm here. So you just have to wait and see if there's a new post.

Silvan