Thursday, September 15, 2011

Norwegians in Estonia



Our trip to Viljandi, Estonia March 11-March 15

Our trip started March 10, were we took the night bus from Stryn. The airplane left to Riga when we came to Gardermoen. When we arrived Riga the luggage waited for us all by it self, and we took a luxury bus past the border to Estonia, then an old buss to Viljandi. Our host families waited for us at the bus stop.

The next day we had some spare time. Some of us spent their money on shopping, and some of us went to a water world. Later that day we met and ate pizza.

Sunday all of the German guests and the Norwegian guests went skating with our host families. Some of us had awesome skills in skating, and others were pretty bad. After a tasty lunch we got a guided trip into old Viljandi, and after that we went to a concert at St. Pauls church. Later that day we went to an observatory near by, and learned about the universe and did some experiments that impressed us all. We got nails in our hands, and the teachers got new hairstyles.

On Monday we went to see Keila-Joa, a waterfall, where we learned about alternative energy sources in Estonia. But since we got ten times bigger waterfalls in Norway, we didn’t get so impressed by this waterfall, although it was pretty there. Later that day we took the bus to Tallinn, where we went to see the Tallinn Science Centre of Energy. After a long presentation, we were allowed to walk around and take a close look at all the exciting experiments. On our way back home to Viljandi, we stopped at a big shopping centre where we could spend some of our money. After a couple of hours with shopping, we decided that it was time get home because we were about to get poor. On the bus ride we had a lot of fun, and we all got to know each other pretty well.
On Tuesday we met on school. We joined the lessons before we had presentations. We were all nervous, but the presentations went well. The teachers had a meeting about comenius, while the students learned to test how clean different water samples was. Tuesday was the last day in Estonia, and we went bowling together.

On Wednesday we left Estonia. This was very sad, but we knew it wasn’t the last meeting with them. They were coming to us in May.

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