Oh boy what an Epic week this was! ^^

It was hard to believe that we were all together only one month by then. And after this week staying in Troll Aktiv we had even more in common. Together we learned to ski, together we fell, together we got up, together we got lost and together we found a way again.

Tim – the owner of Troll Aktiv, was our second veileader. Each day we were divided into two different groups, practiced basic skiing techniques and tried more and more difficult challenges – from skiing on a well prepared ski tracks to the mysterious mountains above the valley, each day was longer and more difficult than the other (except the last one 🙂 ) but in the evenings we had very delicious meals. Cooking groups (each day someone cooks for the rest of the small group) turned out to be a very nice option for trips like this. We adopted this for our next self organised trips to Hovden and Hardanggervida.

By the end of this basic ski course skis were no longer that strange to stand on and mountains were not that misleading anymore. Evening lectures about first aid and packing made us ready for the trips to come. We are ready, bring it on Norway!

Real friluftsliv is about to take place… And here we are me and Osvaldas carrying big backpacks towards the Jegersberg. There is no more snow these days, so overnight didn’t seemed as a “crazy” idea.

We arrived into the area which is called something like “green field” – it’s not far from the Uni and it’s a well prepared site for the activities that we are about to carry out. Our goal today is to build a camp, play some group dynamic games and prepare a meal out of the products we get from Len.

It didn’t took us long to set a camp out, my group took longest to build a tent, but in the end all of us had a lace to stay. It just happened that non of us in my little group had much experience of building such tent.

Group dynamic games followed. It was a great fun, although not all of the games were that “group dynamic” as it was supposed to be, sometimes it was more individualistic. I can’t remember the names of these games but most of them were dynamic and fun. In the end we had to talk about these games and evaluate. Those who had presented best games according to everyone – were allowed to choose products for the meal that we were supposed to prepare next.

The game which I suggested turned out to be one of groups favorites, so I could choose a product. Sadly, I was a vegetarian and all of the products were some kind of meat. The only reasonable option for me – fish, so I chose fish. Kids… this is the story how I started eating fish again…

This is the place where you will find everything related to my stay in this beautiful country Norway and most awesome study program in the world – friluftsliv!

I apologize for my English in advance 🙂