Torsdag, den 31:a augusti
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GOD MORGON, SJÖLUNDEN!
Idag tog pojkstugorna 'Ishotellet' och 'Nimis' hand om morgonsamlingen. Vad kul!
Today the boys cabins of Ishotellet and Nimis took care of flag raising. |
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Jens och Stefan log på väg till frukosten. De kanske vara glada över att vi skulle äta gröt...
Jens and Stefan smiled as they walked to breakfast. Maybe they were excited about the oatmeal? |
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Today, the 31st of July, brought so many special activities. Vatten Moomba was a water celebration with several of the other villages on our lake. It was also Elins namnsdag and Birgitta's birthday. Today's phrase was "Jag orker inte!" This means that I am out of energy. |
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Får vi presentera NILS ARMSTARK? Han ska resa ut i rymden.
Allow us to introduce Mr. Nils Armstark (literal translation of Neil Armstrong). He's on his way into space. |
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In order to succeed, he is told by NÄSA (NASA, but a joke for näsa means "nose" in English), that he needs to dring a lot of mjölk! |
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Söta Malin...
Our cutie, Malin... |
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Vad står det på pappret? Vi gjorde en tipspromenad under Gott och Blandat!
What does it say? We did a tipspromenad with questions posted around the village during Gott och Blandat activity. |
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Look very closely . . . Daniel has en gräshoppe on the edge of his namnbricka! |
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På vägen till Samihuset kollar vi efter flera Tips promenad papper.
On the way to the Sami hut, we are looking for more Tips Promenad papers.. |
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Vet du vad Sveriges prins heter?
Do you know the name of Sweden's prince? |
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Linnea och Liv jobbar med Hanna medans hon fyller i sin CLVisa.
Linnea and Liv work with Hanna as she fills in her CLVisa. |
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Angela skriver i sin CLVisa!
Angela writes in her CLVisa!
Angela is a second generation villager! Angela's mom, Joanna, worked at Sjölunden as a credit teacher in the mid-1980s! She is the person singing in the back row!
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Vi spelade Yatzy på svenska!
We played Yatzy in Swedish! |
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Johanna is helping Max . . . |
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. . . while Rasmus explains the special Swedish rules of Yatzy. |
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Det här är kanske världens sötaste språkgrupp!
This might be the cutest language group ever!
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Well, until they dressed up! |
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Den här gruppen hade kul med proppkläderna!
Here's a group that knows how to use propp clothing effectively! |
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It was Elin's namnsdag idag! She is our credit facilitator. We gave her a tulip and sang the special namnsdag song in her honor. |
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Ha den äran, Birgitta! Hon fyllde 16 år idag!
Happy birthday, Birgitta. She's 16 today!
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She even got to have a little birthday pary on the deck with the girls in her stuga.
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Syster Elisabet has a new wheel to let everyone know where she is. |
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Here's one of our popular free time activities. |
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Notice that Kaspar is wearing the new hat he just knitted in the INTRESSE stickning activity. |
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During språkgrupp today, Liv and Vilgot's group got to play Gissa Vem? . . . in Swedish, of course! |
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It is a great game to practice descriptive words such as clothing, colors, etc. |
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At flag lowering, the mini-Olympic events competition is still continuing. Magda showed how many times she could keep the soccer ball up in the air.
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Kerstin squared off against her. |
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I wonder who the credit girls might be cheering for??? |
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In order to go to Stockholm, our dining hall, to eat, sometimes Martin asked if there is anyone who is hungry and if so, to show it. The credit boys were pretending they were entering the walking competition in the Olympics. |
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The story of Nils Armstark continued at lunch. This time he had met aliens on the moon who were very hungry but confused. Every time they invited Nils to eat something, they had written the letters of each of the food items backwards, so Nils, with the help of his friends at the table, had to taste a little of everything to figure out the real name for each type of food was. |
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Look what Nils figured out! If you unscrampble all the letters ROKAKNNAP, it is obviously PANNAKOR is on the menu tonight.
"Mums," säger Angela! "Jag älskar pannkakor!"
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A round of applause to all who helped with the entertaining food presentations today! |
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Because it is Thursday today, we ate pea soup and pannkakor. |
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Before the kvällsprogram, we did a spontaneous line dance called Irritationsmomenten.
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The evening program was a simulation of the medeltiden (Middle Ages) and what happened with the outbreak of the plague (pesten). Villagers went around in family groups from various countries in Europe. As they wandered, they met people with the plague who sometimes passed it on. Their job was to survive!
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Some villagers even had to carry chairs around the entire evening to symbolize that people in that time carried virtually their entire lives (all their belongings) with them as they wandered.
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Some of the families who came from countries where the plague hadn't struck yet lost fewer family members than others.
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The families had to be careful that there weren't banditer (bandits) hiding in the bushes ready to steal belongings.
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The dansbana represented a church where nuns and monks were available to try to "cleanse" plague victims. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't.
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When it didn't, those inflicted were "escorted" to Snickeboa, which represented the place of the dead.
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It wasn't supposed to be fun in this place where Emilia played the gatekeeper. What a costume! Robban tries to bargain with her. Somehow they had fun here too!
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Finally, the villagers made up their own fun by singing song such as "Vem kan segla." |
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The debriefing was awesome. It was clear that the villagers understood cultural, sociological, and spiritual ramifications of the times and shared some outstanding observations. Many villagers thought this was the best kvällsprogram yet.
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