Leirskole

On Friday I got back from Leirskole. If your not Norwegian you probably have no idea what that is. Leirskole literally means "Camp School". Every 7th grade class in Norway goes to the mountains or the sea for a week. We went to a place down south called Skottevig which is near Kristiansand. (Their website isn't in English but their are a couple of pictures you might want to look at.) Unfortunately I didn't take a camera or I could have taken lots of pictures. We did lots of cool stuff their. We rowed and canoed some. There were also some longer boat trips. On the way back from one of them it was a bit windy and we were going against the waves so it splashed a lot and every body got really wet. We also got to pull up a fishing net and see all the fish and crabs (and a couple seastars) plus we did some crab fishing. Unfortunately the food there wasn't that great. I didn't think the supper was terrible (though lots of kids did) but on the other hand it wasn't very good and there wasn't that much variety. For breakfast and lunch we just got "Brødskiver" ("Breadslices": Bread with butter, cheese, meat, jam or chocolate spread) and milk, which we ate in our cabins. When we ran out of something we had to get more and half the time we didn't have enough bread. The other half of the time we didn't have any "Pålegg" or "Put On": you know, cheese and stuff to put on the bread so we had to eat it plain… So all in all the food was not that great, or in other words… sorry, one other word, it was terrible. It also felt like we always had to do something in about five minutes and there were tons of times we had to remember to do this or do that. There was also a daily inspection to see if our cabin was clean. We were all supposed to help but me and Simon did almost all the work. It felt like we were washing the floor and other stuff all the time. ****** was always outside playing around and never helped and ******** left all his stuff lying around and didn't help much either. Plus ******* didn't help sometimes. So me and Simon must have done about 80 percent or so of all the work. So it ended up being a pretty terrible week with the food, cleaning and constantly having to do this and that.