Day 10 in Harstad

Day trip Harstad - Sortland - Harstad

Today we were going with the Hurtigruten, the coastal steamer, from Harstad to Risøyhamn (short stop) and then to our destination at Sortland. The name of the ship was "Richard With". We were leaving Harstad harbour at 08:30, and we arrived at Sortland at 12:30.

From Sortland we went by bus for approx. 2 hours to Harstad, passing the southern part of the Gullesfiord, then nearby Lødingen and all the way along the Tjeldsundet up to Harstad and finally to Borkenes.

The evening was at the host families, going early to bed. Early Monday morning the students from Escola Massana went to Evenes Airport flying down to Oslo and then home to Barcelona.

Day 9 in Harstad

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We woke up this morning and it was snowing. It's Saturday and we have had free time, no planned activities from the school. Majen, Frida and Maria with their guests and I have decided it could be a good idea to go to the Harstad ice ring, but we couldn't go there. 

We decided to think about other activities. Majen thought it could be a good idea to go to his oncle's  farm , it didn't sounds right at first, but we have had a quite good time there.  We have had a lot of fun  making a ''snow man'' as we used to do when we were younger. 

I have to confess it has been a fantastic day for all of us!!! 

 

 

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At eight o'clock it was sunny, but after ten it started to snow and in a few minutes everything in Central Harstad was painted in white. It has been absolutely impossible to be indoors and we went for a walk around Folkeparken. We had a nice two hours walk with Torun and the three of us had a cup of coffee in a "gapahuk?" (lean-tos) where a couple with three little girls were having lunch after playing for a while with the snow.
 



Day 8 in Harstad

Today we finished the rest of the snow sculptures and we made a big drawing of the final sculpture for the exhibition. We had a final meeting (vernissage) outside with everyone who participated in the project, were we looked back at all the work we did.

We also had a visit of the local television news channel and the local newspaper. You may see us on NRK1 for Friday 21 February here (at the end of the 15 mins report "Nordnytt"). The web reports in the local newspaper, Harstad Tidende, are here and here. After the vernissage we made a lot of photos. Some of them you may see on Stangnes' own website, here and here.

After school we met at the active events fun parks with the whole class; and we played pool, paintball and did other fun activities.

Day 7 in Harstad

This morning we have already started the snow sculptures, we were very excited about doing them and how this new material, the snow, will work. Eventually, it was not as hard as we thought and we really enjoyed to do them. They are not going to be as we have planned in the sketches and in the clay models, but they are in fact quiet similar. We hope to have enough time tomorrow to finish them.

But that was not all, after watching a classical animation Norwegian film, we could see the Northen Lights! They were like a dream for most of us, they were really incredible and we are going to remember them for ever.

Day 6 in Harstad

Today we have had our last Norwegian language class, we've learned some words and some useful sentences like: "Hva vil de ha å spise?" and we have also learned how to say the time and about some norwegian typical food.

Afterwards each group has finished their sculpture models made by clay; most of the groups have done two different models, but a few just have had time to do one. Once all the clay models have been finished, we have had to present them to the other groups and tell them why we had done it that way and if it was inspired by something in special and we have also decided which one we thought would be the best one to make in snow.  Everyone have had great ideas and we really  think all of them are going to be great snow sculptures.