The Final Countdown

Hi Everyone!

Staff here. We know that the blog has been a little bit quiet during the last few days.

What can we say? We’ve been busy!

On the 26th, our OPEN DAY many members of the local community and the chapter came to visit us and got a little taste of what our village is all about. As a camp we felt like we did a fantastic job and all of our guests were very happy! One of our guests was a Norwegian participant from the very first CISV village ever. Not bed, eh?
The 27th was UPSIDEDOWN DAY (thanks to the marvelous JC’s). We started the day with lullabies, had dinner for breakfast…some even walked backwards (carefully!). We put on a great surprise for the JCs and did an activity during which we met a very fascinating new culture and did our best to understand them. In the evening we had an amazing talent show. The kids blew our socks off!

Yesterday, the 28th was our excursion to Oslo (weeehooo!) We visited the beautiful and interesting Nobel Peace Prize centre and learned about this important award and how it has contributed to global peace. Then we all explored Oslo in small groups. Some shopped, some sat in the park, others just baked in the unusually hot Norwegian sunshine. You can imagine that most of us slept on the bus back to camp.

Last night we had a surprise activity in the middle of the night… It was called The House of Feelings…
Want to know more? We’d love to tell you but it’s lunchtime at the moment!! You’ll have to ask your special village person when you see them. Don’t worry, you won’t have to wait too long. We only have two days left!

Everybody is doing sparklingly well, even if we’re getting a little bit sad about leaving each other.
Love from all of us here at Slemmestad Barneskole.

Pictures from last week

Hey all.  The kids are all back safe from the 2nd homestay, as youve heard.  Here are some pictures from last week that we are finally getting posted.  See below!  The next 10 days are gonna rule…

Getting ready to start lifting eachother ove the rope in a cooperation-trust game!

Charlies angles? (Helga, Melina, Lizzy)

Eva (Iceland) and Fabian (Costa Rica)

Lifting our camp director, Ernesto, over the rope

Mason and Aggi (USA,Iceland)

The Human Knot

Scott (USA) and Ran (Norway) screaming for something with the kids

Mike (JC Indonesia) Jumping for his love of CISV

Scott and Ernesto Jumping and high fiving to awesomeness

A late night guitar jam sesh

Helga and Aggi of Iceland

Malu from Brazil getting some serious airtime.

Scott, Eva, and crew.

We feel pretty

checka-checka-check us out!

Here we are, right before we left for our lovely weekend away. Don’t we look pretty?

In the News…

Welcome back blogreaders!

We know we’ve been away for a few days (this weekend was our mid-camp homestay weekend) but we’re back, rested and ready to rock for the last ten days of our village! Look forward to some very special photos real soon, but in the meantime, here’s a very special link to keep you busy.

Hope you’ve been practising your Norwegian!

Love,
The Staff!

The day we become Kitchen Staffs…..

We have a new recipe, if you have never cook for 76 people please take attention.

How to cook indonesian omeletes for 76 people. You need:

-Patiencie.

-Love.

-60 eggs.

-2 hours minimun.

-A lot of pepper, paprika, cheese, milk, salt, onion, oil, ham and salami.

The steps that you have to follow.

Open the 60 eggs and mix them with 6 or 7 glasses of milk. While  you  have to cut the  onion in slides and frie it, the you cut the cheese in slides also. The paprika in cubes .

When the onion is ready you have to mix it with the paprika, with the eggs, the salami, the ham.

The you put in the mix some pepper and salt.

At the moment of make the omeletes you have to put in the frying pan with a slide of cheese and some oregano.

So this is the history of the day that the JC’s become kitchen Staffs.

All the people is allrigth, so don’t worry.

Hugs from Norway with spanish accent. Guille the spanish JC.

The First Leaders Post

Hello from a couple of the leaders (scott, elena, marcio, jess).  Guille is taking a break for the night, so sorry to dissapoint. ha.

Today was filled with cooperation games.  Besides 3 broken legs, everything is wonderful.

just kidding. worried parents, we are here. everyones fine.

it ended with a night of music by the kids (rap).  don’t worry, we will be posting some videos of this tomorrow.

we are having a great idea about how to boost moral.  chocolate, and lots of it.  please send care packages addressed to scott solomon and marcio verde selva. thank you.  we’ll be sure to distribute the chocolate to everyone.

we thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.  peace and love from norway with an american, brazillian, belganese, and italian accent.

Photos of ths Day!

Team Awesome!

Team Unicorn Survivors

New photos.

Here I am again, so many time since the last update….

Today I have attached some new photos, I hope that I can update photos all the days, also I hope that you enjoy them.

We don’t have anything new to talk about, the kids are very good, they hev make a lots of friends.This two last days have been crazy, we have started to have very good activities.

Everyday we have less time here and we are waiting for the next excursion, that is to the…..  BEACH!!!!

Where we are going to have a lot of fun.

Hugs from Norway with a spanish accent.

Guille, the only updater, also the JC from Spain.

Plus midnight update!

Hello!:

So here I am again. We don’t have much to talk about. Just want to say that the national nights have been amazing, great and fun.

Costa Rica national night:  The dances have been very nice, the food, I must admit that I missed that kind of food. It has been very good.

Canada national night:  It’s been awesome. The trivia were very good and also that great homemade pancakes.

We are all OK, the adult group and the kids, for worried parents, friends and other relationships.

Hugs from Norway with a Spanish accent.

Bye Guille(Spanish JC)

Midnigth update!!!!

Hello!

Today we went to our first excursion, the first contact with the norwegian nature.

It was a nice experience, we have made some games. Also we took a bath in the lake, that was very cold, I haven’t swamin a colder water in my whole live. But It has been AWESOME!!!

All the kids are OK! (this is for worried parents). They are having a very fun and great time.

Tomorrow we have the first national “nights”, one is in the morning so….. they are the national nigths of Costa Rica and Canada.

So that is all from the JC’s part.

Hughs from Norway.

Guille (Spanish JC’s)