This month was busy, but also relaxing. We had a lot of free time, but also a lot of trips. A bit of both worlds. This month we went on two trips: a cycle trip and a mountain to sea trip. I will tell you about these trips in another post.

Like always we had some theoretical lessons, but this month not that much. We learned about leadership behaviour, motivation and coastal friluftsliv, as preparation for the mountain to sea trip.

In the practical lessons we did preparations for our trips. First we had some theory about tour cycling and told Thomas (a teacher of us) how he did his big cycle trip from the North to the South of Norway! His story was really impressive to hear! After that we also went to check out the bikes and tried them for a daytrip! The daytrip was really fun. It’s nice to see Norway again in a different way. By bike you see a lot more details and the tour we did, along the coast was also beautiful. I have to say Norway is a bit more hilly then Belgium and that you could feel.

For our mountain to sea trip and for our other water activities we had to do a life saving test. First the plan was to do this in the swimming pool, like I already told you guys earlier. But in this month the swimming pool was closed, because of corona. Our teacher then decided that we had to do the life saving test in the sea (with a lot of safety rules of course). The idea to do the test in the sea was a bit thrilling. The water was really cold, around 6 degrees! Okay, the test was a bit different then originally, we ‘only’ had to swim 50 meters and 25 meters with a ‘drowning’ person, but still. My two flatmates and me tried to swim in the sea at the citybeach one time as practice. Brr, cold! A week later our teacher Len decided that the water was too cold and luckily for us the swimming pool was open again. We did a different test in the swimming pool were we only had to show that we could save ourselves. We had to swim 50 meters fully clothes, tread water for some time, make some weird turns and somersaults and we had to take off our pants and tried to make a floating device from it, by getting air in there.

The weekends were filled with bonfires and fun games!                                                We did a German easter game ‘Oascheim’. It remended me of petanque, but then with hard boiled eggs and a reward, like coins or sweets on top of it. If you could hit the other boiled eggs and knock the rewards off, they were for you. We had A LOT of bonfires! We told stories about our trips to each other, we celebrates birthdays and we just chilled together with the nice weather.                                            My package from my parents and my aunt also arrived!! It was nice to get a package from home with some typical Belgian snacks. Oh, what did I miss pudding, Belgian chocolate and cookies! The summer clothes were also nice to get, for the warmer days that will come and of course the hammock! That one is already used a couple times to relax in the sun on a relaxing Sunday, lovely!

Weather update: Most of the time good spring weather. Really nice for all the trips, activities and weekends!

COVID-19 update: The numbers went down again, so less restrictions!