AFS Mid-Stay-Camp

The mid-stay-camp is in the past now. It's kind of strange, because after the arrival camp you thought: The next camp is the mid-stay-camp and it's such a long time til then. But now it's over. It was as nice as I expected. I am the exchange student who lives at the southest point of our region and for this reason I had to travel very long. On Friday I took the train in Oslo and there took we the train til Hamar (direction Lillehammer). From there we drove til Lillehammer with a bus and picked up some more exchange students. Then we had to drive 1.5 hours more and finally we reached Fagerhøi. The whole journey lasts ca. 7 hours for me. Fagerhøi is a leirskole (camp school) in the mountains. It was ca. 80 cm snow there. I really like it to be with all this people. During the camp did we lots of activities. For example on Saturday drove we cross country skis. Most of the exchange students tried it the first time there, so it was not awkward when you felt. On a hill we built a jump and we jumped with the cross country skis. That was fun! Every exchange student had also a conversation with a leader. I had my conversation with a girl who was in Switzerland last year. We spoke together a mix of Swiss German, German and Norwegian.
After arriving at home on Sunday evening I was reeeeallyyy tired.

Today I began to read the blog of Eli (the girl who was in Switzerland). It's very funny to read what she experienced in the exchange year in my home country. One thing she wrote was that Swiss students speak really bad English :-) Compared with the students in Norway I can affirm this.

Nacho and Anne-Célestine from Mexico and France.

The view out of the window.

AFS creative technology

Some people wrote on those letters what they think is special about Norway.

On Saturday was cross country day.

monster attack

flotte gjengen

The exercise was to explain this the Norwegian words..

Snow bathing on Saturday night. That was fresh!

See you soon
Silvan