fredag den 30. november 2012

30. Nov. –THE LAST CHAPTER-


Fre. 30. Nov. –THE LAST CHAPTER-

 17 young strangers from 5 different countries met up in an unknown environment.
Each of them were fare away from their safe zone, home.
They used all their time together; they ate, slept, lived and use their spare time with each other. They even studied together. The only privacy they had was in the bathroom.
They were even spending their sad times together as well as the good ones.
The time went on and some of the strangers found together with the opposite sex.
They all experience a lot of new things, life wise as well as skills wise.

The 17 strangers are not any more strangers. They turned to friends, even more then that. Some will stay together for life! Some not!
Some will visit each other.
Some will go home and forget all about the 17 strangers stay in the unknown environment.
Some will be sad the last day, some glad.
Some will go home and change their safe zone. Some will fall back in their old way of living.
During the time of their stay one of them questions:
DISCRIBE YOUR STAY IN ONE SENTENCE

-         I really like the time that I’m having here but it’s too cold and dark!
-         A time with lots of new adventures with lots of new friends!
-         I’m surprised in how mutch the body and mind can handle.
-         It is more awesome that I thought to be on Adventure Education!
-         Really nice with all the people but to bizy for me.
-         I did not expect that I would enjoy Finland this much.
-         I confirm that this is the life that I want to keep doing it.
-         The things are not what seem.
-         I didn’t expect that I can be with people so close and still we have a lot of fun (almost) without argueing.
-         Lots of new experiences that changes my life after this + nice people!
-         This time has been amazing, I’ll newer forget, I was Happy.
-         The last 2 months was for me times of having fun and learning a lot about others, adventure and myself.
-         Fase fear, and be strong in an safe and nice environment!
-         I explored different ways of living and to look at things.
-         I never thought that I could find a nice people here!
-         International exchanges in an “learning by doing” environment 24/7 together with the same persons (wich is pretty hard)
-         New skills : ) climb, hike, kayak. I newer done this!

So, what is the meaning of life???
Could it be what they answered? Maybe, maybe not.
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF YOUR LIFE...


30. Nov. – The Adventure


 
Fre. 30. Nov. – The Adventure

The Adventure
Once upon a time, in the deepest forest of Lapland, a plane crashed into a big lake. In the plane were 17 strangers, who didn’t know each other. Everyone was speaking in some strange languages, and no one could understand each other. In once there came a small little citizen of the deepest cave of the deepest forest. This cave was the hottest cave in the whole forest and the 17 strangers were invited to this cave. They came in and there the small little citizen started to talk. No one was able to pick something up of the story she was telling, because everyone was so tired. The only thing they could remember was that they were not allowed to put their clothes in the hot cave.

The little citizen told them that there was a big old tree where you could learn everything you need to know to survive in this deepest forest of Lapland. The next day the 17 strangers decided to go to the big old tree and there they met a blond elf who knows everything they wanted to know. She told them they had to split themselves up into smaller groups to discover the forest and built their shelters. Some of them found some iron reindeers to transport themselves. They made a nice deal with the iron reindeer dealer for 3 months. During this trip they found a language they all could speak and they started to know each other better. They were eating dinner with each other, made some warm fires, played games and were getting to know each other better and better.

A few days later they met a strong bear at a little lake. He said to them that he was going to teach them to float over the water, but first all the strangers had to prove that they could swim. The strangers were very enthusiastic because they all passed the test, they were ready for the next step. The next day they met the strong bear again and he had one big floating leave for each of them. Now they could start with their training and they made some nice small trip over the lake. The strong bear explained everything about how to use the paddle and how to rescue themselves if the leave flips over. One day everyone had to rescue themselves and had to face the cold cold water of the lake. This was a very exciting moment for each of the strangers. The last day of this paddling they were ready to make a long trip down the river to get one step further out of the forest. They were floating under big bridges, faced waves and peddled as long as they could. There were almost at the end of the river when one of them fell into the water. It was the small king of the crepes. Luckily for him the girl from the north with the chocolate mouth was there to rescue him. Everyone made it to the end and they arrived at another big forest. Here they built up a shelter out of their big leaves and they could rest for their next adventure.

The next day the blond elf waked them up. She was telling the strangers that they couldn’t stayed there too long, because it was too dangerous in the forest. She was explaining them that she was taking them on a 4 day long walk to get them out of the forest. After a day of preparations and packing they were all ready to go and so they started to walk with the elf and the bear. All the strangers were overwhelmed by the beautiful mountains, the great lakes and the wild reindeers. They learned how to build up a camp, sleep warm, to cook outside and of course how to po in the woods. A few were very excited to try out all the positions to po and they were convinced to do it. After the second day of walking they found a really nice wooden shelter with a small hot cave next to it. They decided to spend there the night and a few enthusiastic strangers started to warm up the cave. After they brought all their stuff into the shelters they went into the hot cave to have some relaxing time. From time to time they jumped into the cold lake to cool themselves down. The next day the water was falling in streams out of the sky. All the strangers wanted to stay in the shelter but the bear said: ‘there is no bad weather, only bad clothing’, so they all packed their stuff and moved on the trail. They had to walk over big mountains and deep valleys through the rain and some of them were not able anymore to see the light at the end of the mountain. But then they arrived at a nice and warm house. They saw the smoke coming out of the chimney. On the door was a sign it says OPEN so they all went inside. There they met a very kind young lady who offered them warm drinks and sweet round munkkis. They stayed for a long time and didn’t notice how fast the time was running by. But after all of them were warm again and had new energy to walk further they said good bye to the young lady and left. They had to walk for one more day to get out of the forest so they were very motivated and started to walk fast than ever before. After these 4 long days of walking they finally get their way out of the forest. It was already dark when their arrived at their campsite. So they quickly builded up their shelters and went to sleep.

The next day they saw that there was a big big mountain in front of them and the only way to go was to climb over the mountain. Luckily they saw a monkey climbing. He was going up and down, from the left to the right. The elf knew this monkey and so she asked to help the strangers to cross the mountain. They started to get some lessons how to climb, belay and solve some problems. They practiced a few days, some of the strangers even practiced in their free time to get better. The monkey took them to a smaller mountain to test them if they were ready to cross the big big mountain. Some of the strangers were not yet totally convinced about their skills, but the monkey was and so they started their climbing trip on the mountain. After a long day of climbing they all made it to the other end of the big big mountain. Unfortunately all the strangers had to leave a lot of their equipment at the other side of the mountain, because it was too much to bring with climbing. So that evening they had to build their shelters with only the stuff they could find in the area. There the strangers found out that the monkey was not only good in climbing, but also in building shelters out of almost nothing, making fires and cooking on fire.

He started to give the strangers tasks and in an hour everyone was working. The small king of the crepes, the tall cheese head and the little monkey in training were very fanatic in catching some fish. The small king of the crepes had his lucky day and catched a big salmon. The girl with the chocolate mouth was transformed in a girl with a blueberry mouth, she picked so much berries with her yoga-buddhistic friend and the smart girl from the land of the sun. In the meanwhile a few strangers were preparing soup in charge of the siesta master, preparing bread in charge of the crazy baking girl, preparing salmon in charge of the travelling artist and preparing pancakes in charge of the sexy book worm. Some of the strangers found a nice cave to heat up. So the knife addicted musician decides to take charge of this and heated the cave up together with some of the others. The next day the monkey gave the whole group a big challenge. They had to spread out in the forest and be for a whole day by their own. Everyone was very excited to this and they all could test their own skills to survive. So after a nice breakfast with bacon and eggs they all packed their stuff and went into the big deep forest.

The next morning, after everyone was waken up by the monkey, they all came back in the camp. Everyone was very happy to see each other again and had a lot to tell. For almost all of them it was a very nice experience, even thought the attack of a werewolf to the crazy baking girl and that the monkey forgot the small king of the crepes. After this adventure they were ready to keep on the journey through the forest. The elf said that they were in a safe place now, and that they could rest for a week. The strangers made some plans. A lot of them travelled to the north to discover the area there, some went to visit the old man of Christmas and others just relaxed in the camp.

After this week there were a lot of new stories to tell each other. The knife addicted musician stuck a knife in his leg, some strangers were naked on the northest point of Europe and the boxing champion and the smart girl from the land of the sun had some cosy times with their lovers.

There was not much time to share all the adventures because the strangers met a group of small trolls. They were a little bit younger and spoke a very strange language. The trolls were not so experienced in surviving in the forest so they asked the strangers to help them. The strangers were excited to help them, so they made a whole week program full of activities to teach the small trolls. The first day the boxing champion, tall cheese head and the sexy book worm did some introduction games. The next day it was the job of the yoga-buddhistic priest, the crazy baking girl and the nail goddess to teach them some navigation skills. Then there was a cooking day where the girl with the chocolate mouth, the wodka princess, the nail goddess and the little monkey in training were responsible. The king of crepes, the knife addicted musician and the northern light hunter made some nice warm fires with the trolls. In the afternoon it was Halloween with a scary game leaded by the enthusiastic mermaid. The last day the trolls had to be a little sportive! The northern light hunter and the wodka princess learned them some monkey skills and the siesta master and the hot pasta boy were playing some games with them. After this week the group of strangers had a lot to deal with. There were small frustrations and tensions, but with the help of the blond elf everything went good.

The elf saw that they learned already a lot and she gave the strangers the responsibility to come out of the forest by themselves. The winter was already arrived and there was a lot of snow everywhere.
After a little walk the strangers arrived at a big house. The owner of the house welcomed the group and gave them a nice dinner. The house was not a normal house it was full of small adventures and the strangers tried to discover all of them but it was too much to do for one day. The night started early and the strangers had to build up their shelters. It was the first time that they had to do it in the cold snow. Some of them were worried that it is going to be too cold at night and about the frozen ground. So they covered themselves in big woollen sheep skin and slept near to each other the whole night.
The next day a big breakfast was waiting for them in the big house. Everyone was eating a lot because they knew that they had a long hike coming. They said good bye to the owner of the house and thanked him for the great time. The way was hard and full of snow and ice. They had to cross big bridges out of ice and they had to go through snow deep to their knees. But no one was afraid of this and they continued their journey. The strangers followed down a river. When they came to a waterfall they decided to sleep there. The yoga buddhistic priest, the sexy bookworm, the travelling artist and the little monkey in training arraigned the winter Olympic Games of Adventurisem this evening. They divided the group in 4 small groups. The disciplines were basic knowledge about Adventurisem, fire making and orientating. At the end of the games the groups had to find a big treasure. They got a few hints but it was harder than they thought. All the groups were running through the forest. What they didn´t know was that the little kobolds which are living in that area putted up wrong signs to lead the groups in the wrong directions. But the strangers found the right hints and after a while everyone arrived at the treasure. Before they went to sleep they talked about all the things they learned during their time in the deepest forest of Lapland and they shared all the different feelings as well.

They walked a little bit longer along the river when some of them found some wooden planks. They started to put them under their feet to move faster. It was easy to move at the straight parts of the land but when they had to go up or down a few strangers started to fall down. Suddenly there was a huge mountain in front of them. The strangers saw that other people had crossed that mountain before but the lines in the snow looked different. The lines wasn´t straight like the lines they had behind them, the lines made curves and there where lines that were parallel and lines that were all alone. The strong bear recognized these lines and told them that there is a different method to move over the mountain. He looked around and found some smaller wooden planks and some wooden boards. The strangers could decide which of these they want to use. When everyone had his board or planks the bear and the elf teached them how to use the boards. The smart girls from the sun recognized these planks and teached the rest of the strangers how to use them. For some of them it was easy to use the wood to go over the snow. Others had more problems in using it but at the end of the day everyone was able to cross the mountain and they had a lot of fun riding down on the snow.

At the end of the mountain they could see the end of the forest and everyone was happy but then their recognized that they would not only leave out of the forest they also had to leave each other. Everyone was sad to leave because the strangers weren´t strangers anymore they became friends.

torsdag den 29. november 2012

29. Nov- Eksamensbevis


Tors. 29. Nov- Eksamensbevis  
God morning to you all in this great apartment (de to andre)!
Det blev nok ikke til mere end 4 timers søvn i nat… Men sådan er det jo når man er på Umpitunelli hele natten. Jeg væltede ud i badet og var så klat til at spise morgenmad med de to norske og polske piger, den tyske gut og pige, de tre spanske fyre og ene pige, de hollandske to drenge og tre piger og den ene danske pige. Kaij, Eeva, Jussi og vores finsk-lærer var med! Vi sad i lærernes hjørne alle sammen og hyggede. En manglede, en af de spanske fyre… Han var ikke kommet hjem om natten! Vi fik fat i ham over mobilen. Så blev der snakket og grint på spansk. Hvad det handlede om, fik vi aldrig af vide, men han kom i all fald 45 senere og havde et sjovt smil på læben…
                                                                                                    
Eeva, fik ordet og førte os videre til eksamensbevis ceremonien. THE DIPLOMAS.
Vi blev råbt op en efter en i tilfældig alfabetisk rækkefølge, en efter en. Det var et stort øje blik!!




























onsdag den 28. november 2012

28. Nov- DEPOOO


Ons. 28. Nov-  DEPOOO
Forelæsningen i dag var nok en af de bedste… Processing in experience!
Noget alle vil kunne lære rigtig meget af. Fortæller gerne om det…
Vi fik ”fri” og gik til frokost, med de sidste lunch-tickets vi havde i lommen.
Med mad i maven og -16 grader, drog Super Siff og jeg til svømmehallen og cykeludlejeren for at kradse alt vores depositum ind igen… Så havde man pludselig mange kontanter på lommen. Hjemme igen, blev det danskernes, Siff og min tur til at modtage mundlig feedback og et lille smukig på vores karakterer. Sif og mig i enerum med Kaij og Eeva. Det var nu dejligt og rigtig brugbart.
Stille begyndte jeg at pakke. Ikke lige det jeg havde glædet mig aller mest til. Ramón, (værelseskammerat) og jeg pakkede til Coldplay for fulde gardiner, for ikke at blive mere nedtrykte.
Aftenen gik med farewell-party og mange gode minder. Anna og Trista, vores tutorer havde planlagt den bedste afslutnings”fest” vi kunne have forstillet os. Nattet endte på Umpitunelli, vores stamsted ude i byen. Her var der øl til 2 euro og live musik fra 70´erne og 80´erne. Vi gik helt amok. Dans og glæde!
Ja hjem kom vi også, men mange timers søvn blev det ikke til, da vi skulle spise morgenmad med vores lærer næste morgen og have eksamensbevis.