No way? Norway!

Breath-taking views, beautiful fjords, crazy people, tasty food, amazing adventures... This is Norway! With one of my best-friends, Marcel, we went to Balestrand, Norway for 10 days to take part in Erasmus+ program: Create your Project: From Theory to Practice. Also, there were participants from Turkey, Slovakia and Italy.

Bergen

Our journey was great! We took a train to Gdańsk, then a plane to Bergen. This city was really beautiful: many houses surrounded by fjords and sea, totally different than polish cities. We spent couple of hours there on see-sighting. There was one thing which surprised me a lot: Poles. They were everywhere! Anyway, from Bergen we went to Balestrand by a ferry! What a journey was it! 4 hours on sea, fascinating fjords were around us...

On way to Balestrand

In Balestrand, the life looks different, more calm, peaceful. It's a lovely town where approximately 1300 inhabitants live. We arrived at evening and the program started next evening, so we had all day to discover the beauty of this place. We took the bikes and made a little trip. That was amazing: every single view was splendid! Fjords covered by snow, sea, fresh air, little houses with gardens and trampolines everywhere ^^ Actually there were no people on streets. Balestrand is a good place to rest and relax, perfect for chilling :)

Each day was planned carefully: breakfast, first session, lunch, then second session, some coffee breaks during the day and at the end dinner and evening activities.

Fjords in Balestrand

Moreover, there were plenty of social events: we've been to Kvikne Hotel, the youth club, we were hiking the mountains (fjords), there were a barbecue and also many entertainments like international evening.

Generally, the program was really full of various stuff. We could have improved other ways of learning like energizers, drama, workshops or plays: trust building, coordination, leadership, name recognition. What's more, the project gave us opportunity to learn about many forms of activities integrating people from different backgrounds and to express ideas through theatre, music, dance.

The most important things for me was a possibility to discover new places, improve language skills, meet crazy people, have enormous fun and spend really amazing time with Marcel. To my mind, the time we spent with other participants were the most precious: there were a lot of laughs and funny situations all the time, we were jumping on trampoline everyday, we learn how to speak English in Italian way and of course we could have improved Italian a lot! Va bene! ;)

Our favourite one - trampoline!

Those 10 days gave us lot of experience but what's more, they gave us friends all over the world and many wonderful memories. I'm so happy that could have gone to Norway with Marcello :)