Monday, October 3, 2011

Kinsarvik Språkkurs


It was one packed week. We left Sunday for the west coast of Norway. All the rotary exchange students of Norway met together for the language course. There were exchange students from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, Taiwan, and the US. We spent the week at a nice resort right on Norway’s most beautiful fjord, the Hardanger.

Week Schedule

7:00 Breakfast
8:00 Class
10:30 Break
11:00 Class
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Sight seeing
5:00 Class
6:00 dinner
And more activities

We all got very little sleep this week but it was a lot of fun, and we are one big family now.  Most days we would take hikes up in the mountains. Every hike was utterly breath taking. We went rock climbing our second to last day, which was the scariest and best thing I have ever done.  Once we made it to the top, we had this incredible view of the fjord and the surrounding area. Some nights we even went swimming in the fjord, which was super cold. On the last day we had our district rotary conference where we performed for all the Rotarians. We sang songs, acted out some Norwegian fairytales in addition to doing dance routines.









Now I have a week off for vacation from school, what the Norwegians call høstferie. Winter is supposedly arriving really soon this year, possibly in the next two weeks. Currently here all the trees are changing colors and it is a beautiful time of year.

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