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On the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the grammar school, our Norwegian project and I "occupied" one of the classrooms with photographs collected during student exchange visits. The students presented the project to visitors from among former...

After returning from Norway, the project participants had the difficult task of presenting their travel experiences to their classmates and the lessons learned during their week-long stay in Leskvik. At the end of May, discussions about Norway were held in all...

On Saturday, after a week in Norway, we had to wake up early to catch our 8am flight to Trondheim. We enjoyed a delicious, home-cooked breakfast one last time and hit the road. After a couple of hours, we were checking in at Trondheim and waiting for the plane to take...

In the morning we woke up slowly and took a few steps to a great breakfast from our owners. After the while, we drove away from the accommodation with rented cars and drove to the school of our Norwegian friends. At the school in their auditorium, the time of our last...

Alright, so we woke up as usual but you could tell that the students who had the fist four presentations were nervous. We drove to the school - which is really cool in my opinion btw, and got ready in a room that you would expect they have at a university. Rows of...

On Wednesday we went to a prison camp Faldstad. When we got there, we had a quick presentation about the history of the camp, and afterwards we went through the exhibition. Then they gave us iPads with a special program that showed us how the camp looked in the 1940s....

The next day started like any other with a very good breakfast in our accommodation. Then we walked to the school, where we set off together with the Norwegians on an hour and a half long drive to the artillery battery-austratt fort. During the journey we changed not...

Our first day with Norwegians started with a trip to Trondheim. After an amazing breakfast, we took the ferry from Vanvikan (which was the town where the ferry across the fjord came from) to Trondheim. The morning weather was kind of gloomy, but we spent the morning...

The last Sunday in April started gloomy indeed. I'll give it to you from my perspective and my experiences. You wake up in a hotel room on the outskirts of Trondheim completely overwrought, broken and with a stiff neck. You look around the room looking for something...

Saturday was a long and challenging day. We woke up very early in the morning because we wanted to make sure that we would have enough time at the airport. Check in got unexpectedly long and we had better really run to the gate (even those of us who normally stay calm...

We were looking forward to our trip to Norway all April. Due to a flight change, we had to leave one day earlier than originally planned and our expedition started on Friday 22nd April. We met most of the group at the main train station (the rest joined us in Prague)...

After the Mondays trip to Southern Moravia we already knew each other a bit. On Tuesday we followed with formal program at our school. Target of the program is to learn about modern norwegian history and also teach norwegian students about the important milestones in...

Friday meant one thing for our project, and that was the final day of a great week. We started it with an early wake-up call, as the bus left the school half an hour after 7am and picked up our Norwegian friends half an hour later. The final destination was Terezin...

On Wednesday morning we met again at school, where we, together with the other Czech participants, prepared some snacks for our new Norwegian friends. Later, the Norwegians came and presented their last presentation. Then we just showed them around school, took them...

The third day of the Norwegian expedition to Moravia started at the school, where the Norwegians did a bravura job with presentations of their topics. After lunch, a deliciously cooked rice from ActiveBox, we drove to the centre of our capital and its historical...

After the sudays arrival of our norwegian quests we set out on Monday morning from hotel Avanti towards Iron curtain remains, where profesor Haváč explained the basic facts about its history. Afterwards we went to nearby guard tower and after a short break we went by...

Group of Czech students went with minibus to Prague on Sunday morning. Around 11:30 we arrived to Prague centre and made short trip. We passed through Old town square, walked over Charles’ bridge to Lennons’ wall. There we met with professor Haváč. After the lunch at...