On Friday I left school early to ride with a few rotarians over to the oldest city in Norway - Tønsberg - for the district 2290 conference! All of us met up at a hotel in town and we, from there, split up into different host houses for the weekend. Kelly (from California) and I are staying at Tone and Bjorn's house. In our district, there are four Australians and three Americans. We are: Noellen, Kelly, Michael, Zoe, Nik, Zak, and Boaz. There are also a few re-bounds with us this weekend. They went to USA, France, Spain...
Yesterday, we went back to the hotel and met up again around 9:30. We pretty much stayed in one room alone and got ready for our entrance (which wasnæt for about 5 or 6 hours) and performance. We had a lot of fun. We all got to know each other and had a lot of fun planning for our performance.
About two hours before it was our turn at the conference, we went on a "tour" of Tønsberg. It was a lot of fun and I will post pictures soon. There are a lot of artifacts here!
After that, we got all of our blazers on and each took a flag (we had a ton of different flags, even though it was only Norsk, Amerikansk and Australian kids...), I had the American one, and we walked in to POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE. (I am so sick of this song). We got on stage and we introduced ourselves in Norwegian (it was a lot easier for the Australian kids because they have been here for seven months already, whereas Kelly, Michael and I have only been here for three weeks). Then Zak played a song on the guitar (which was AWESOME) and I played - of course, piano man - on the piano. They gave me this fancy "invisible" headset to use while I was playing and singing and I got to use a STEINWAY GRAND PIANO(!!!). Then we said thank you and sang a song in Norwegian. We had a standing ovation!! I guess they really, really liked it :D Everyone kept saying to us after that we were the best ones they've had at the district conference so far!
We walked around Tønsberg together in a group and then ate pizza with a rotarian at a pizza place right next to the water.
Then we all got on a bus to Oskaræs house (he went to France as an exchange student two years ago) and watched some movie in Norsk about an elephant on crack - I kid you not. I had no idea what was going on and it was very graphic, but funny. Perhaps it was more funny because of the language barrier. A few of Oskars friends came over too.
Then when we went to leave, I noticed my wallet had either fallen out of my camera bag on the bus on the way to Oskars house or I accidentally just left it there - who knows! We looked everywhere and called the bus station and police station but they said they didn't have it, so I have cancelled all of my cards, but am without an ID and money currently. I'm pretty upset because I never do anything like this, especially when travelling. Hopefully it is at the bus station today or Monday. Cross your fingers!
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