4 days trip in Rjukan Fjellstue (Third and fourth day !)

The plan for this day was to go for a little ski trip, we could choose between one on the tracks, and another one out of the tracks, I of course choose the last one. We started from Rjukan Fjellstue and we went up on the Hardangervidda (It's a national park, and the biggest highest plateau of Europe. about 6500km2.)

This year there is between 1meter and 4meters snow on the hadangervidda, it's on the west part that there is the most!
The plateau is Treeless, this was the last part where we could find some trees.

On the plateau there are about 10 000 reindeer, but unfortunately we didn't saw them.

That was how it looked like: 19 students with on teacher in the middle of nowhere! we skied for about 3 hours on the plateau without seeing anything expect snow, mountains, and a white rabbit.
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On this last picture we where crossing a big lake....according to the map!
It's difficult to explain the feeling, but I think if you go for a few days trip on the hardangervidda, you will really feel alone, into the wild.
(take you map, compass and altimeter, and be sure to know of to use them correctly...if not take a GPS :)






It was really a wonderful day! see by yourself!

The way back from the plateau to Rjukan fjellstue was very funny, in the deep snow all of us felt a least once.

When we came back we had of course again a good meal! and in the morning a good breakfast, the fourth day was a day without skis, I have no picture of that day, but is was also very funny, we had a lot of games in the snow!
Thanks a lot to everyone for this very nice trip. Now it's time to work again with one week of practice in school before the holidays.

4 days trip in Rjukan Fjellstue (Second day !)

Every morning the day started well, with this very nice breakfast of sweet and salt things.

After have taken some forces, we went outside to start our day. We went by cross country skiing to a area where we where going to have some different games.

We where divided in different groups, one was in charge of building a ski jump, (a big one and a small one), another to build an orgal step, another bumps and hollows  , and the last one a sledge track.

The word is divided in two categories: those who gives the orders and those who dig...you, you dig!

It's getting better, you can see the ski jump, the bumps and hallows on the right, and in the back the sledge track.













After lunch, every thing was ready, now it was time to enjoy! seeing someone ski jumping on a picture is not so talkative, I think it's better to see them on videos: the first place was delivered to our competitor out of category: Paolo !

On this one, you can enjoy in the first minutes a nice fall of our teacher Hakon!

 

On the last video you can see Pau in the orgal step, and after on the sledge track !

4 days trip in Rjukan Fjellstue (First day !)

From Monday to Thursday we where with all the Erasmus students, and some of the Norwegian students who are studding to become kinder garden 'teachers' for four days of skiing and other games in the snow in Rjukan Fjellstue.
This wide building are the personal rooms with 2 beds.
Another bigger building was the 'Hostel' where we had breakfast and dinner.

During the first day we went to do some activities with our cross country skis. We fell/ jumped into the deep snow,(some of us eat a lot of snow during this 4days). We went down on one ski, with the legs crossed, by 2, in a line, we fell on each other....it was funny!

After lunch we had a lot of other games with our skis, some kind of relay race, the moose game....we had a lot of fun, the snow was really good, and was still falling.

After the games, we went to find some nice hill to do some sledging, with the snow falling, and we falling in the snow we became sorts of human snowman. 

After this day of activation, we had a very good dinner ! With soup, followed by meet with rise and some salad, and a desert.
It was more than we expected like we say in French: "we broke our stomach" which mean that we ate a lot.
(On their faces you can see how happy they are, they have been waiting for this moment all the day ).






We finished this nice day with some magic tricks, playing cards, and watching the videos of the day!

Ice Climbing Rjukan (Krokan sector)

Yesterday, we went to do some ice climbing in Rjukan (70km from Notodden). We went there with Mathilde's brother and a friend of him, they came to Norway especially to do ice climbing. So they invited us to a ice climbing initiations.
On this picture: Francois

If you like climbing, you have to try ice climbing ! I am fond of rock climbing, and I wanted to try ice climbing, and it's really very nice! And it's more technical than you can think, it's not only about strength !

The ice is really good now, even if it's not so cold!




















Enjoy the nice pictures:
Red jacket: François, Green Jacket: Sylvain, Black jacket: Mathilde, Yellow jacket: Me.

off tracks cross country skiing

At the last lesson of cross country skiing we had a nice experience to go out of the tracks to feel the deep snow.

Before during this lesson we had also learned how to skate, their are three methods: the simple, double and paddling. The thing was that usually we put some wax under the skis when we go for classic style, but not in skating.
So we where now in the deep snow without wax...and that was very funny!

Like you can see most of us had some close experience with the snow like Mads on the upper picture ;-), and Camille also soon.

On this picture Carole-Anne and Taisa have are trying to stand up in the deep snow witch is sometimes very difficult. The technique is to compact first the snow before pushing on your poles!

But anyway it was again a nice moment in our magical Erasmus life.

Art in University

In the morning when we arrive at university, we can meet some new friends, last week they where hanging in the sky, now they are sitting near of us.
These aliens are very nice, you can eat, and talk with them, they are not hostile at all !

Thanks to the art student to take care of the decoration of our university !

tomorrow there is an exposition in the exposition room (near the cafeteria).