Monday, April 20, 2009

Message from Harrison in Norway 2

Everything is going great, my visa has gone through, i have my personal number and have opened a bank acount. My host family has been so amazing, we haven't had any problems and they have been extremely helpful in teaching me Norwegian.

My first major travel was in the winter holidays when my host family took me to Finland with them.

It was a five day trip to a mountain called Yillas. we spent four of the days on Yillas me snowboarding while the rest of the family skied and one day in Levi, another mountain about 45 minutes drive from where we were staying.

We stayed in a ski in ski out cabin at the base of the mountain which was a five minute trip to the closest piste. Tromso is a great city with beautiful suroundings and a nice downtown area I regularly go snowboarding at Kroken, the local alpine center or I go on Top Turs, this is where you climb a mountain have a brake on top with a mug of cocoa and mat pak, packed lunch.

I went to Oslo with one of my host sisters a couple of weeks back to see a dj which was great and I plan to go back to Oslo on the 29th of May. The Euro tour is coming up which I am looking forward too.

For the easter break we went to my host family's cabin in the mountains for a five day trip of cross country skiing, snowboarding, is fishing(I caught 3 fish). It was exhausting to say the least.

I hope everything is well at the club and that the rehabilitaion from the devastating fires is well underway.

From Harrison