Now the clubs are still closed, but we have holidays - so we thought we could write a bit about what we have done for the last months. Most of it was nothing exciting since we worked in the same clubs as before - just with different tasks. Now when the schools and kindergartens are closed, a lot of parents send their children to FFF (Fiks Ferigge Ferie), which are summer clubs, where groups of children do activities from 9 o´clock in the morning until 4 in the afternoon. Then their parents come from work and pick them up. Every club receives a group of 40 children every week, they go to museums, parks, farms and the cinema and say goodbye again to each other on Friday. Many of the leaders are students, who earn some money there as a summer job. We just work their to learn Norwegian and to fill our daily life with something. Mainly because it is just part of our project. But I have to say: It is so much fun! Of course you kind of know ever single museum of the city after being there for the third time and yes, you come home with the urgent need to take a nap after work, but it time flies fast with all the kids around. The clubs turn into lively, colorful places.
That is why we did not really have time to enjoy holidays or the Norwegian summer expect for during the weekends. But that is fine, because Norwegian summer basically means 14 degrees and rain. They said this summer has been worse than the last one and that had already been really bad. In July 27 out of 31 days were rainy. So: Better be busy and work.
But what did we do on those four sunny days? Well, one of our greatest trips was the one to Kjerag. This rock in a crack at Lysefjorden is one of the three big tourist attractions around that fjord. The hike is much more challenging than the one to Preikstolen, but the view is spectacular!
Actually everything in this country is somehow spectacular. Even the weather is. If it is not nice, it is at least spectacular. Just sad that we could not explore much more.
On another day we went to Utstein Kloster, an old monastery that was founded during the iron age.
It was quite cute and a very cozy place to stay.
Now we are looking forward to our last weeks here in Stavanger and do not even know how to handle life after the EVS anymore ;)
