Friday, February 24, 2012

Rotary Winter Camp



We recently had a ski camp out in the town of Nesbyen, Norway. All of us exchange students had not been together since our Language camp, which was in September. It was one crazy, athletic and fun week—it was great to be reunited with everyone after so long. We also got a few new additions to the group. There are five new exchange students from Australia, one new girl from Brazil, and one guy from Argentina. They arrived in Norway in January because their school year is different from ours.

The weeks schedule:

8am: Breakfast
9:30 Morning cross-country ski run (usually around 10km)
12pm: Lunch
1:30 Downhill skiing/More cross-country skiing
5:00 Dinner
Night Activities

We stayed out in Cabins, with about 8 people to each one. And I can say that there was not much sleeping. Some of the nights after dinner we would go moose watching, night skiing, or we would just hangout in our cabins. The last day we went on a 20 km ski trip to the top of the mountain, which had one spectacular view. We were really lucky with the weather. The whole week was between 0-5 Celsius and we had a few days of perfect sunshine.


Nystølen Cafe

Gustavo and Brock


Juliana(Brazil), me, Juliana(Brazil), and Anne(Colorado, US)

Brock(Canada), me, and Jonathon(Pennsylvania,US)

The American Girls: Karlie(Fresno, California), me, and Savannah(Wisconsin)


View from the Nesbyen Ski Resort

The Brazilians: Juliana and Gustavo

The South Americans their first day of cross country skiing :)

Josh(Australia), me, Gustavo, and Karlie

Some of the Norway Rotary Exchange Students



Josh, me and Duncan(Australia) sporting the American Flag

Me, Marina(Brazil) and Juliana




Our last day of camp we did a long cross-country ski trip and we were lucky with the beautiful, sunny weather





Proud to finish our long ski trip!

The whole group


Now the daylight hours are getting longer and longer and the weather lately has been really warm for a Norwegian winter. We have had a few days of rain, which has made the snow a little too icy for skiing. It feels like we will have an early spring.

Recently, a friend of mine that is an exchange student in Denmark, came to Norway with her host family and I got to show her a little bit of Norway.


Nina in downtown Oslo


The Stortinget in Winter


Down by Akershus


A night at the opera. We saw La Bohem, a French made performance

Out eating with a couple of Rotarian's before the show


Nina getting ready to eat some real Norwegian fish

A delicious fish and potatoes dinner


Topped with a raspberry sorbet in vanilla yogurt for dessert


Posing along the Opera wall


A recent picture of my town: Lena, Norway

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