## Disclaimer: the following are a personal account of events and a moderated version of the original that was published on uberdentraum.blogspot.com. This does not necessarily depict the opinion of other members or the whole group. ##
Day 7, the relaxation day! Totally fabulous! We started with a long long breakfast, and as soon as most of us got up, we split into teams: some went hiking, some stayed at the cabin. Some also went fishing and swimming in one of the surrounding lakes.
Later, after everyone was back, we prepared a super-duper pasta dinner and prepared for the funniest International Evening ever! Since we were in a place we couldn’t party as normal, we decided to make it a bit different. We arranged chairs for everyone around the living room and placed all our drinks and food on the two tables we had in the center. We worked in a circle: each country had to do a language lesson and a brief presentation of the stuff it had brought. After presentation all stuff went clockwise (and counterclockwise) for everyone to taste.
The thing I enjoyed the most was the atmosphere. Since we were already a week into the event, people knew each other more or less, so everyone was relaxed enough to make jokes even without the influence of alcohol. ^^ Country, language and even BEST related comments and jokes were always there: what best way to enjoy an IE. ^^
Day 8 and we started with a van in a ditch. Unfortunately while trying to get the cars closer to the road, our 9-seat van fell into a ditch. After 2 or 3 hours of trying almost everything to get the car out, we managed to get a fellow Norwegian farmer to pull the van out with his traktor. This small misfortune made us fall behind on schedule, so we concluded that we should drive the rest of the day without stops, so that we would reach Trondheim in time.
We were also lucky, because there was no sun or good weather to lure us out of the cars. It was greyish and raining most of the time. The weather continued to be the same even when we crossed the polar circle. This time there was a monument landmark for the polar circle so we couldn’t miss it! (like the first time!)
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Asimina
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