7 - 9 December
Last weekend I spent the weekend at Kyra's families cabin. It was so beautiful there, it was a three hour drive with Christmas and Norwegian music. As we left at 3 or so, by the time we were there it was pitch black so I couldn't really see much. Though we arrived and unpacked the car, ate dinner and settled down. The cabin also happened to have a sauna, so Kyra and I made the decision to sit in the sauna and then proceed to roll in the snow outside. At this point I should mention that it was probably -20 out. It was extremely painful, but so much fun! We were in hysterics, it was definitely something I will never forget. After that endeavour, we were quite worn out so we relaxed with some tea and soon went off to bed.
Saturday we woke up to plan our of skiing. We eventually got dressed, it took a long time as it seems that Norwegians have particular clothes and such that they like you to wear when skiing. Dressed and ready we were off... but not long before we were both on our bums. Kyra didn't fall after that, though because of my unique gracefulness I preceded to fall over multiple times, with the memory impressed on my sore bum. It was quite fun though being out skiing when it was so cold, we had ice on our eyelashes and my hair even turned white! Once we returned to the cabin we warmed up with tea and chocolate. That night was spent playing games and learning how to make a traditional Norwegian Christmas dessert, which turned out to be a lot harder then expected.
Sunday we woke up to a fresh layer of snow, it was so beautiful. With all the snow we decided to head out and go bum boarding as I like to call it. This was so much fun. It is my personal favourite snow activity! After playing in the snow we said a sad goodbye to the cabin and began our journey home. The journey ended up last four hours instead of three as the conditions were so bad. At one stage we ended up stuck behind a snow clearer and I can tell you now, that is not a fun experience! It was impossible to take over it as every time you drove to close to snow would become to thick and you couldn't a foot in front of you! Though I did make it safely home where I settled down in my pyjamas and snuggled into bed.
30th November - 2nd December
This weekend I spent a the red cross youth camp. It all began on Friday afternoon when Beatrice picked me up, we had our pepperkake (pepper biscuits) and jar of home brand nutella and we were off... or so we thought. We soon realised that we had no idea where we were going. So we checked facebook and we were back on tracked... for a little while. So we did the intelligent thing and asked a random man on the side of the street he preceded to tell us we were heading in the complete wrong directions, he told us were to go (in Norwegian and we headed . Though after a while of driving in the middle of the forest we thought that maybe we understood him wrong, or maybe he was crazy. So we stopped at the next house we saw, now I must say that this house was in the middle of the forest with no other houses in sight, creepy right? But we put our brave faces on a jumped out of the car and cautiously walked up to front door. Suddenly we were surrounded by 5 or so cats, we had discovered the crazy cat ladies house! Though we never actually found out if a crazy cat lady lived there as nobody answered the door, so we proceeded to run quite fast back to car and drive back in the direction we came. Our next decision was to find another house, but one that actually is near civilisation, so we found another house with no answer and walked next door, where we saw a baby carrier through the window so figured they should be nice. They were and they told to turn back round and head up the road we came from and we will see signs. So we hopped back into the car and cheered when we came across the sign. We were finally there!
We arrived just in time for dinner, which was quite tasty thankfully as food a most camp centres is horrible but I was pleasantly surprised here. After dinner we were split into groups and told to re create the little red riding hood play in a different theme, my group received over dramatisation. It was quite hilarious and I think we did a pretty good job, if I can say so myself. Not much else happened that night we just spent it drinking tea, playing games and talking it was quite cozy.
Saturday morning started at 8 with the leaders walking around with speakers playing loud music. It was an interesting way to wake up. We went down ate some breakfast and began with our first aid course. I was expecting this to be quite boring, but I leaders were hilarious and made it a very interesting and memorable experience! We ended the day with a fire, waffles and marshmallows!
Sunday we were woken up in the same fashion and as it was the first Sunday of December we lit a candle and mouthed the words to the traditional Norwegian song you are meant to sing. Then we went to the introduction to Red Cross youth course. I must this was also quite funny as it was originally meant to presented in Norwegian though they were translating it as there was quite a few people there who were unable to speak Norwegian so just listening to their translations was hilarious. Soon after it was time to head home and say our goodbyes. I met so many interesting people there, learnt about many different cultures and countries. I really enjoyed learning about countries like Afghanistan, Iran and Nepal, finding about their way of life. All in all it was a great weekend.
23 - 25 November
This weekend my host family, uncle, aunt and me went off for another cabin weekend. This one much less eventful than the last two. We arrived to a gorgeous cabin, with an indoor pool, spa and sauna, the perfect place to wind down.
We spent the weekend baking muffins and eating them rather quickly, swimming and just spending time together. I must say my favourite part about the weekend was the swimming pool, though I did realise I would never become a swimming teacher as it is quite stressful trying to watch over two toddlers. Though it was the first time that Christoffer had swam by himself so I was quite proud of him.
The weekend resulted in some weight and complete relaxation, perfect way to spend one of my last weekends in Norway.
