Day 1

Today we came to Oslo, where we waited for the bus that was to take us to Poland. When the bus arrived Galleriet in Oslo, we got on the bus and drove to Nesoddtangen school, where I think 22 students jumped on. They were to travel with us to Poland and Germany. We drove from Norway to Sweden that day. The night we spent on the big ferry from Sweden to Poland. In the morning we arrived Gdynia.

Day 2

We were driving bus all the day. I saw many funny things along the way. I noticed especially the big difference between the Norwegian houses and the houses in Poland. The things they had in their gardens such like small statues of frogs and Santa Claus. That is something that we never would see in Norway. The houses were made out of brick. The gardens were not so very nice, they were almost "over grown", with a bright turquoise fence. In my opinion they have no good taste, what so ever. We went
travelling, until we came to a hotel, outside Crakow.

Day 3

We woke up early that morning, all the tired students were to see Aushwitz . This day brought moments of sadness and seriousness. We were showed around and told stories about what had happened in this concentration- camp. And at the different places around the campsite. Inside Auschwitz, I had tears in my eyes more than once. Many peoples, innocent Jews have suffered here. Women and children have not been treated fair. They were punished , murdered, bossed around and executed in Auschwitz. They burned the dead bodies and made mass graves, because there were so many dead peoples at last, and all the prisoners had to work hard every day. Many peoples were sick and ill, they did not get so much food or water to drink. So many of them didn't have energy left to work when they were ill. The rooms and beds were in bad condition. And they had to be 12 persons in one of three levels in the beds. One bed was a bed with three levels.

Day 4

This day was totally different from the day we spent in Auschwitz. We drove into the city Cracow. We went up to the Royal Castle at Wawel, it was very nice, but they were repairing at the castle, so it would have impressed me more if the sight was not disturbed by scaffoldings . We went down from the Wawel Hill to the old city. The first we did was to split up in groups. We went first to the Market Square, one of the largest squares in Europe. Its centre is the Cloth Hall, with trading stalls, built about 1358 by King Casimir the Great. We went shopping around in the city. We hired some small golf cars, which drove us around in the city for a cheap fare. It was nice to see the city in a funny way like that. There were many small shops around in the streets with draftings , paintings and big flower shops with roses in many colours

Day 5

After breakfast we drove to the well known Royal Salt Mines in Wieliczka not far from Cracow, where salt was mined already in the second half of the 13th century. We were showed around, along galleries, across chambers and past underground lakes as deep as 125 m underground. There were sculptures carved bye miners in rock- salt to be found in chambers on the route. The natural beauty of the place attract several hundred thousands of visitors each year. It was amazing to stand there and look at those big chapels or rooms they have made under the ground, thinking about all that big stone they had taken all the 125 m up. And at the same time, see all the small details that have been made.

I was a little dizzy when we walked the first steps down and down, around and around. One thing that was a little cool was that real mine workers worked there.The guided trip ended of course next to a cafeteria where we could buy food. After a little break , we took an elevator all the 125m up again. That night we were all sleeping very well at the hotel in Zary.

Day 6

We drove to Berlin, the capital in Germany. First we had a bus sightseeing around the city.Then we stopped to eat at The Hard Rock Cafe. After dinner, we could go alone in groups, shopping and strolling in the city on our own. It was a big city with lots of fashion and exciting things to see. A very interesting city, stupid that we didn't get more time to be there.

Day 7

This day we visited Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück. I was not joining all of the guiding around in the concentration camp. But I am sure it was almost as many terrible stories from this concentration camp as in the other camps that we visitesd. We had dinner at Templiner Hof. After visiting the camps we drove along to Swinoujscie.

Day 8

We arrived Ystad around 08:00 o'clock.
We went by bus to Håby where we had lunch. Then we drove for some more hours until we arrived Nesoddtangen . Here we said good bye to our new friends. Then we went to Oslo city where we got on another bus and drove home at night. That was the end of this amazing trip.

The main gate to Birkenau.

The Wawel Castle.

Some of the boys went sightseeing in golfcars, too.

St. Mary's Church.

Ravensbrück was located by a beautiful lake.