OD info-day passed!

The OD-info day is over, and it went relatively as planned. The day started with two less fun messages;

First, the water to the school was cut, so the free brunch would be significantly amputated. That’s actually their fault entirely, because they changed plans from just the fried chicken and curry-rice that we had agreed upon, wich don’t require that much water, to a chicken soup that requires a steamboiler. They had to go with my plan, though, but that meant they had far, far too little chicken. Lesson learned: Never trust the chef.

Secound message was that one of the 3 teachers that was going to do the first half of the day, had decided it’d be a good idea to just go to a meeting instead without tellings us, and give the ball to two random students, and then not come back again untill after the day claiming he tried to reach us yesterday but didn’t manage. If he’d asked for us at the office, they’d known… But we compensated with people from the committè, and it went relatively okay. Lesson learned: Never trust teachers. Or, at least; never trust Roy.

The other two teachers however did a great job, and I think the students actually enjoyed and learned things from both their classes. I guested both for a while, and it was largely informative. A interesting thing to notice though, was that only about half the students was present. But, their absence has been noted.

The brunch was very tasty even if chicken was scarce, and I think people were happy about it. My presentation was largely crappy, much because I wasn’t all that prepared, and much because I’m not all that good a leacturer. But, the other two raised that level a bit, and considering the people they are used to standing on that stage, I suppose it was quite okay. The came the play!

It’s on youtube allready. Mind, it’s in norwegian, recorded with my camera, sometimes hardly audiable, slightly amputated because I forgot to turn the camera on before the play started… But it should still be worth the watch! I think it went very well, people laughed a lot. Unexpected awsome things happened. But I’m afraid you’ll miss the blood, because I turned the camera on too late.



Last we watched the project movie, wich wasn’t all that good, and the summary from the project we executed 2 years ago, wich was rather not good. Then people were happy to go home, and I think we managed a rather good day!

Operation Days Work rolls off tomorrow!

As i mentioned earlyer, i'm the leader for the events around Operation Days Work at my school. Lat time i blogged about it, it was with a lukewarm tone. Since then my thoughts about the project and about my task around it, has lighetned considerably! Talk about a great group of people to have in a comittè! We get stuff done, and have a lot of fun inbetween. Pretty much everything i've wanted to do has gone trough the system without big problems, and tomorrow it's going down with the schedual i first suggested.

First half of the day i've delegated to 3 teachers. They are going to have different related activities that i have little control about, but i have delegated it to the best teachers we have so i know it'll be good. And then we have a free 'brunch' with my own twist of bangladeshi food. The national dish of bangladesh is fish and rice. I changed it to chicken and curry-rice just for tomorrow. Much more tasty! As if anyone is going to check. Then comes my leacture about what OD, and this years project, is. Then comes the play, then we watch the project movie.

The play is crazy! I've got to be director and self-proclaimed artistic mastermind og my own play, i laid the basis scetch for the scenes, and with a lot of help from my fellow actors it's now evovled into something that i think will be a great and perhaps overly hilareous play. The theme for the play is involountary marige and education, whilst the read thread without my intention seems to have turned into menstruation. I'll tell you more about this later, hopefully it will end up on Youtube.

Greatness! I'll be sure to give you a proper report of how things worked out tomorrow.

Operation days work

I'm leader of Operation Days Work at my school again this year. Dosen't feel particularily great, but i might as well just do it as i do anything else. Operation days work is a charity project where students all across norway, in all signed-up schools, work somwhere one schoolday to earn 200 NOK for the central pot that goes to a charity project, wich is a different one each year.

In this years project, they're providing a 1-year education to girls in Bangladesh, who are otherways married away, as the families don't want girls who cannot make money like boys can in the male-dominated society. The edications is rather basic and increases littaracy and hygene awareness, as well as giving some basic foundation to do some jobs. The project is run by the Strømme-foundation, wich means it is christian-based. It's luckily based on the thought of solidarity rather then charity - help to be self-helped.

It's a good project and a great way to found it, but i can't honestly say i care too much about it. I'll do my best as leader, though!