We had an amazing first week of work. We cleared an area of trees for a volleyball court, painted the outside cabin walls, cleared old fire pits, and so much more. But there is still a lot more to do – and we are very excited to continue!

On Friday, after a long week of extreme productivity, we were able to drive down to Stavanger to meet with our PO for a presentation. It was very interesting to see the PO headquarters and learn more about the organization. Then we had FIVE AWESOME HOURS to relax, shop, watch the international beach volleyball tournament, drink coffee and check our emails. Stavanger is a beautiful little city with cute side streets and very friendly people. For dinner we met with some local CISVers for pizza – mmmm….

The Stavanger night life was quite fun. Interesting music and lots of random planking! We even got some locals, including a security guard, to plank with us and assist in a level 3 plank!

Saturday morning was a lovely sleep-in, a beautiful morning, a drive back up to the mountains with a pit stop for strawberries and sweet cherries – again, mmmm…. Saturday night Riad proposed a random system for assigning cooking duties. It was so unfair, we revolted and staged a protest at 8am, chanting “bad system” and holding signs. We overthrew the system master and reorganized our schedule. Let’s hope this time it’s better.

Sunday, we had a Sunday-walk to another, more remote cabin higher in the mountains for evaluations, feedback, and theoretical work. It was so nice to get time with each other in a quiet place, where we could swim in a freezing cold lake. :O

Sunday started up well with all the Norwegian pan cakes. Then we ran into the IPP aims and goals.

After lunch, the Egyptian Delegation shared their first aid knowledge where they used Riad pretending to be the victim.

We had this amazing Norwegian Salmon with a twist of Colombian Egyptian taste with some inspiration from the American delegation forDinner and had the  BBQed marshmellows as a dessert, outside at the fire place  where we chilled out with Tarek’s Egyptian Shisha.

Finally the PO is here this morning, they talked to us about their DUGNAD work and most importantly they explained to us more about what we will be doing in the nest couple of weeks.

While the staff made dinner, all the participants walked around the area and searched for the rare and endangered neighbors! We wanted to introduce ourselves and make the locals aware of what we were doing in their small town, as well as invite them to Open Day! Our discussions with the locals about Norwegian dugnad were “electrifying!!”

Everyone is getting revved for our first day of work tomorrow! Wish us luck!

Finally is our project happening in the Norwegian mountains!

We’re a nice group of 8 people;

The staff; Johanne, André and Riad
USA: Shelby, Rachel and Tania
Egypt: Tarek and Mayan

This two last days have we used getting to know eachother, the local community and Norwegian culture.

Project goals and action plans are made aswell! So we’re all ready for the real Dugnad to start soon!

“Yes, we crashed a Norwegian wedding to see someone in Bunad!”

“Preparing our 3-meal course on Saturday night ”

Here is the pre-camp #3!

There is still room for more participants to attend!

Send us an e-mail at p-2011-07@no.cisv.org

P-2011-07 NOR Pre-Camp 3

This weekend the staff went to Ådneram for the first time! What a great place! Ådneram is the small mountains village where the project will take place. Anna from the International IPP-committee came with us to guide us through the final preparation for the project. Thanks Anna

We’ll post more pictures and pre camp #3 tomorrow!

We’re really excited for the project to start.

Greetings

Riad, André and Johanne