Plamen's experience from the amazing trip to Norway

We left from the Cultural hall “Arsenal” at half past one in the morning on November the 4th. The trip to Sofia is about 4 hours, and so we arrived at Terminal 2, at 5:30 AM. We took off at 7 AM with “Lufthansa Airlines” to Munich. After a two-hour flight we landed in Germany. We had just a few minutes to go to the next plane, and headed to Oslo, with Lufthansa again. After another two hours of flying, we arrived at Oslo Airport. The group took the luggage, and after that we had 4 hours of spare time.

            In the early evening we finally took off towards Tromso with the Scandinavian Airlines. After we arrived there, we met the Norwegian group. They welcomed us very warmly, with a smile, and after that we had one hour to sight-see the city, until the rest of the participants in the project arrive. Tromso is a gorgeous citiy, with an amazing architecture and location. Like a town, taken from a fairytale.

            At 9 o’clock PM we met the other two teams, the spaniards and irish, and we left  Tromso for a 4 hour drive to Storslett. At 1 AM we arrived at the Nordreisa School in Storslett, where we met the hosts and we were taken to the houses, which for the next 5 days were our homes.

On the next day went to the Nordreisa school. Our hosts told us we’re going to have classes with them, and after that we will present our schools and towns. The school is great, very modern and cozy. Nothing like the schools I’ve seen before.

            After the classes, we had lunch, and headed towards the presentation room, where every team presented their country and culture. Everybody did a great job. After school we headed back “home”, had dinner and went to bed early, exhausted  of the great day.

            We woke up and realized it was Saturday. This day we weren’t going to the school. The hosting family suggested we go to the mountain to take some pictures. It was very beautiful, but also very cold. After the little trip, we were going to a local sami-shop. Everything was great, but also very expensive. In the evening there was a party in honor of the participants in the project, with a traditional sami-meal, and there were a lot of pictures taken. There was a journalist from a local newspaper, who was taking interviews from us.

            On the next day we were  going on a trip to a town called Mandalen, which is a center of the sami-culture. We were going to the sami-language center, watching a documentary movie about the annual sami festival Riddu-Riddu.

            On Monday, we went back to the school. We attempted in the first class, which was sami-language. After that, all of the groups got together to work on the pictorial  dictionary. We had the task to think out 10 situations, and write a conversation about each one of them in English, and in our own language. Everybody did a really great work, and when we finished, everyone were satisfied. At 12 o’clock in the noon, we had to say goodbye to the spanish and irish teams, who were going to spend their last night in Tromso. After they left, we had a few spare hours for sightseeing and walking around Storslett.

            On our the last day in Norway, we left at 4:30 AM from the school in Storslett, another 3 flights, another 4 hours at the Oslo Airport, and at 11 o’clock PM we landed in Sofia. It was very windy in Bulgaria, so we had a really hard time landing, but the pilots did an excellent landing. After 4 more hours of travelling with a bus, we finally reached Kazanlak, and so our incredible trip to Norway has come to and end. An unforgettable experience.