Yoga Trip

    Along with my major, Frisport, I also get to choose two electives (mini-courses).  My first one is drawing which I have on Mondays and my second is yoga, which I have on Fridays.  These mini-courses fill the whole day, from 8:30 until 3:00 in the afternoon (13:00).  Last Friday we took a trip into the mountains for yoga class.  I don't know what this had to do with yoga though.  My closest guess is that we were going to connect with the outdoors and get some fresh air.
    The train ride was only about 45 minutes and after we arrived we walked another 20 minutes to get to a hut that the school owns.  From the hut you had the choice to either stick around the area and pick berries or hike up the mountains to go pick berries and see some snow.  Now, I wasn't feeling so good that day and almost stayed behind to just relax but who can pass up the opportunity to go see some snow on the top of a mountain in September?  I pulled myself together and started hiking up the mountain.  And I wasn't one of the kids picking up the rear while hiking up, because if I was going to go I had to be in front.  I pushed myself that day not so much physically but mentally because it could have been so easy to just stay behind.

    Being in front was so tiring, but I stuck with two other guys, Robbin and Martin.  All three of us are pretty competitive and we all had to make it to the top first so we pushed each other pretty hard.  And soon we broke away from the main group and were on our own.  Every once and a while we would lose sight of them because we were so far ahead.

    You cant see the snow from the hut at the bottom of the mountain but as soon as you get about 2/3 up you start to see the it.  It looks so close but just when we thought we were close it was another 20 minutes of climbing.  After what seemed like forever and sore legs the snow was only about 100 meters from us.  All three of us looked at each other and started to run.  In the end we were all so focused on being the first ones to touch the snow that we didn't see who was first.  We didn't even argue about it though because we were the only three to do it.  The rest of the group had stopped a little more than half way up the mountain.  We had made it to the top and weren't about to start heading down rite away so we sat down, had a little to eat, and made a snowman.  And I understand that this is just three snowballs but (1.) it is pretty cold at the top of the mountain and (2.) the snow was hard to get because only the top layer was soft.  I dont care what anyone says though because its a snowman to me and I got to see snow in September!

    The walk down was so much easier and it took us less than half the time to get down than up.  And at the bottom of the mountain waiting for us was hot chocolate!  That was so good after the long hike up the mountain.  The sun started to come out more and more as the day went on and the lake was just calling out to us to go swimming.  Me, Robbin, and Martin raced down to the lake and went swimming.  Actually, I don't know if you can call what we did swimming because as soon as we were in, we were on our way out.  We cant take all the credit though, 2 girls went swimming as well.  That was a refreshing little dip in a lake in the mountains.  This proves how much fun we have at Voss Folkehøgskule and these are only some of the things we do here..

Heres the link for the pictures =D
http://picasaweb.google.com/norsyn/YogaTrip