Jönköping University

Friday, August 20, 2010

Recap of Trip

The Midnightsloppet 10K run was soo cool. There were 21,000 runners, which is close to that of the Boston Marathon, and we all wore bright yellow neon shirts. Right before the start, the long street was crammed with runners as far as the eye could see.....They also played some dance music to warm us up, and even taught us a dance, which was tough because there was no room to move....The race itself was very hilly, and allowed us to see stockholm in a unique way, with thousands of fans cheering us on along the way. :)

The next big highlight was Glacier hiking in the Fjords of Norway. When we first pulled up, we couldn't believe our eyes....hiking on it was a little difficult at first, but once we learned how to use our ice spikes and our ice pick, it wasn't that bad. A couple times we were pretty close to a steep crevace, with one wrong step leading to something really really bad. It made me wonder, how is this even legal? We almost missed the bus coming back...luckily a very nice family from Holland drove us back in time to catch it.

Other cool stuff:
-The Flam railway was cool, it dropped 3000 meters in just 45 minutes, which led us to our hostel that we stayed at for 2 nights. When we first arrived at the hostel, there were two beds already taken, and judging by the feminin looking clothes and small bags, we figured we had two girls in our room.....however, when we got back from dinner we saw that it was a tiny kid from South Korea and a guy from Italy...haha whoops
-I got zapped by a barbed wire fence on our hike to a waterfall in Flam. My dad touched it, and nothing happened. but when I touch it....ZZZZZAAP. It hurt like hell, and it made my dad laugh histerically.
-We went through the worlds longest car tunnel, 24.5 km
-On a train ride, I saw some young swedish girls trying to sing the lyrics to Lady GaGa, and failing miserably.....made me laugh, lol
-We met people from all around the world on our trip, from Switzerland, Chile, China, Italy, UK, Danish, and Germany.

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