The Principal of Saltdal upper secondary school, Mrs. Ingunn Michaelsen.

On the schedule for today was a field trip through Saltdal valley. The municipality of Saltdal has a lot of interesting views related to geology.
Appr. 400 million years ago this part of Scandinavia crashed into North-America, and this collision created an enormous mountain range called the Caledonian range. Although the mountain range has been broken down by erosion and weathering since then, we still find remnants of it all the way from northern Norway, through Scotland and northern England, as well as in North-America.
During the last 2-3 million years (the quarternary period) we have had several glacial stages up here, which makes Saltdal quite a gem for quarternary geologists. A significant part of our field trip has therefore been consentrated on phenomena caused by glacial and fluvioglacial erosion.
As this trip took us pretty close to the Swedish border, we decided to pay our neighbours in east a visit. The students really loved to cross the border - and thereby adding another country to their list of visited countries. The fact that there is no border control, police, passports etc. on the border between Sweden and Norway surprised some of our visitors. The Scandinavian countries have a very relaxed attitude to such formalities, which is definitely a nice thing.
After the field trip we had a real nice party at school, with splendid performance and lots of delicious food from Tanzania, Trinidad&Tobago and Norway.

At Botn the Germans had a concentration camp during the war. At the place where the white cross is standing, the Germans executed the prisoners. No prisoner should leave this camp alive.

Two teachers in front of the local tourist center at Storjord. Notice the traditional Norwegian grass roof on the buildings .

Racy, Annalys and Abdallah overcame the fear for the fragile suspension bridge crossing the wild river.

We are in Sweden!!

We have crossed the border to Sweden without noticing any kind of border control. The only thing we noticed was that the snow sticks along the road changed from red to green and that the road signs changed to yellow.

The Trini crew working in the kitchen preparing the International evening making curry chicken, pilau, roti, macaroni pie etc. etc. Norma in charge of the group. All the host families are invited to the school this evening to taste both Trinidadian , Tanzanian and Norwegian food.

Beulah busy making pilau - Checking the shopping bags to see if all the ingredients are here.

The cooking crew from Tanzania making pilau.

And here we have a Norwegian lady in an Indian sari caught red-handed pinching curry-chicken from the Trini-kitchen :)

Charles and Abdallah perform a new African dance - Rachel, Abdallah, Mona, Torbjorn and Asta perform a traditional african dance. They learned this dance in Bagamoyo and performed at an Art Festival there.

Two host families - Aldina from Bosnia and Fatma from Iran - Beulah, Karen and Anita