Tuesday 3.rd june we will meet with the US-team for some extremely priced adult beverage at Aker Brygge. I think we'll meet at Christian's office down town.
The weatherforecast says it's going to be sun, sun, sun and about 94*F
It will be fun to meet them all again, and I'm very curius about what they think about Norway.
Kristoffer
Monday, June 2, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Goodbye South Carolina
Saturday we said goodbye to all hour lovely host families and Sharon drove us to the airport in Greenville - Spartanburg. At the airport many people showed up to say goodbye. That was so nice! Thank you all!
The first plane went too Texas and Dallas, the next one went to London and finally, and after 26 hours, we ended up in Oslo. At the airport our names was announced on the speaker and if you have been reading this blog from the beginning... well its true. Our luggage didnt make it this time either. So no, 24 hours after we landed at the airport, i finally got my luggage. I hope that the rest of the group has got their luggage too.
The last four weeks has been a trip i never forget. We have learned a lot about USA and South Carolina and i hope you have learned something about Norway too. W have seen a lot of different places and we all had a lot of fun. We have met many people and everbody has been so nice and friendly. The lovely host families has open their arms and hosted us norwegians. Amazing. I can only say thank you so much!!!! Fantastic trip and a memory for life! We love you!
The GSE Team in Norway write a blog too.
http://rotarynorway2008.blogspot.com
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The earliest start on the trip, 06:45.... puh. Aiken Sunrise Roatry meeting and the last presentation. I think we hold our presentation 18 times in South Carolina. So if someone didn`t see it... well you had a lot of chances so bad for you...:)
Aiken County Museum conducted by Elliott Levy was the next thing on the program. And finally we went for a hike in Hitchcock Woods with Dr. Harry Shealy. If it is something in that forest he don`t know, i am sure you don`t need that information. Very nice walk with a man that can everything!
Friday was the last day before departure. Martin, Christian and me got a very nice experience. We played at Palmetto Golf Course. Wow, that was amazing. Difficult course and very fast greens, but what a place! Thank you so much!
After lunch at the Green Boundary Club we got a croquet demonstration. Next time i hope it would be a tournament. norway against America!
The goodbye party that night was at Windham Performance Stage. Richard Pearce was the chef of the grilled meat and it was delicious! So after that party we all went home to try to pack our stuff.
Charleston
The day started at 7 am and and by 10:30 we saw the beautiful city on the coast. This was the place most of the slaves came in with boats and was sold to people.
After a short visit we drove to Middelton Place, not very far from the city. This place had 800 slaves working at the same time and it was a very big farm that produced rice and cotton. After this visit we returned to Charleston. Three hours of shopping and relaxing in a beautiful city. Then we returned to Aiken around 22:00. Here you can see the names of the slaves and the price that Middelton payed for them. At the last photo you can see a part of the beautiful place.
Aiken
Monday 19. may we went to Aiken. The first thing on the program was to hold our presentation at Rotary Club of Aiken. After that we went with the host familyes. The other team-members went home, but i drove to Augusta in Georgia to visit TV Channel 12.
At 5 pm all of us went to Bob and Kathleen McClure for a welcome party. Thank you for that! I was a nice evening.
The next day it was a vocational morning. I drove back to Georgia and this time i spend some hours with the people in Augusta Chronicle.
After that we all went to Batesburg and a tour on Joe Watsons peach operation. I think that this was the firt time for all of us we saw peach on a three. And Joe led us threw his beautiful farm. The tour ended with peach ice and coke.
Then we went to another party and once again we hold our presentation. The plan was not to do that but heavy rain did disturb the party so everybody had to go inside. So the GSE-Team was the entertainment that evening.
Charlotte
First of all, sorry folks but the last week was very very busy. Thats why the blog has not been updated. But anyway, here is what we have been doing the last week.
Sunday 18. may we went to Charlotte in North Carolina. It was the biggest city on the trip and a nice place.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
17th of May-party
We had a great party at the 17th of May at a lodge by the lake in Rock Hill. Our host-families and new friends did a great job to make sure that we had a super celebration of our national day! Thank you everyone :-) We even had a guest who could speak Norwegian, he remebered it from 1972, when he spent a year in Ski as an exchange student. Amazing!
Linda took Christian and Martin on a shopping-tour to get hold of all the food we needed for our party. Gale helped me to shop for my baking-experiment (blotkake) while I was strolling around in the botanical garden. After a quick call to my sister to make sure that we had the equivalent American measures compared to my Norwegian recipe. It worked out very well, our guests thought it was a very good cake! I forgot to take a picture, so you have to imagine this: a white fluffy cream cake filled with strawberries both inside and on top. Mmmmmm.
As you can see from the picture, me and Kristoffer put on our best clothes, our national costumes. All five even sang our national anthem, like we always do on the 17th of May.
MY VOCATIONAL DAY AT THE IMAGINON
Friday I had a fantastic day in Charlotte, visiting the main library, and then having a tour of Imaginon, the children and youth library (ages 0 to 18). This quote I found outside the main library:
Imaginon is a great library. I wish I could pack it in my suitcase and bring it back to Oslo. Imaginon is both a library and a children's theater, the house is full of activities, a great place to hang out.
I had to have a picture of myself in this comfortable chair made of telephone catalogues. The 6R Movement is a group of young people who work with different environmental projects at the library, for excample recycling old telephone catalogues into chairs.
This is an overlooking view over the library, but to get a full picture of this fantastic library, you'll have to visit it. I enjoyed every minute of it.
Linda took Christian and Martin on a shopping-tour to get hold of all the food we needed for our party. Gale helped me to shop for my baking-experiment (blotkake) while I was strolling around in the botanical garden. After a quick call to my sister to make sure that we had the equivalent American measures compared to my Norwegian recipe. It worked out very well, our guests thought it was a very good cake! I forgot to take a picture, so you have to imagine this: a white fluffy cream cake filled with strawberries both inside and on top. Mmmmmm.
As you can see from the picture, me and Kristoffer put on our best clothes, our national costumes. All five even sang our national anthem, like we always do on the 17th of May.
MY VOCATIONAL DAY AT THE IMAGINON
Friday I had a fantastic day in Charlotte, visiting the main library, and then having a tour of Imaginon, the children and youth library (ages 0 to 18). This quote I found outside the main library:
Imaginon is a great library. I wish I could pack it in my suitcase and bring it back to Oslo. Imaginon is both a library and a children's theater, the house is full of activities, a great place to hang out.
I had to have a picture of myself in this comfortable chair made of telephone catalogues. The 6R Movement is a group of young people who work with different environmental projects at the library, for excample recycling old telephone catalogues into chairs.
This is an overlooking view over the library, but to get a full picture of this fantastic library, you'll have to visit it. I enjoyed every minute of it.
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