Every year the 9th grade at our school takes a trip to Fjällen. This year it was my turn.We went to a place called Ramundberget which lies in the Fjällen mountain range next to Norway. At 7 A.M. we left by bus from our school for the 8 hour journey. My friends and I passed the time by sleeping a little but mostly we enjoyed watching dvd's on the movie player inside the bus. At Härjedalen the travel became so beautiful and we started seeing signs marking the snowfall with fog warnings. True mountain or Fjällen weather. We arrived at about 3 in the afternoon. Then the real work of getting all of our stuff up to the stuga (cottage) that we would be staying in. In true mountain fashion we loaded all of our things up on a motor scooter and it was driven up the hill for us to collect later. When we arrived it really wasn't that cold,33 degrees Fahrenheit. It was rather funny because we had dressed ourselves for really frigid weather which didn't happen to be here at the moment.
There were about 40 of us. We all stayed in the same house but in different rooms. Each bedroom could sleep 6 people and included 2 bathrooms. There was even a sauna with a shower . There was also a kitchen and a big living-room which had a T.V.
Our school obliged us to ski two of the days that we were there but honestly I was there to ski so they counted me in for the full five days. :) Our daily schedule went something like this: At 8 we got up in the morning and had breakfast. Afterwards we hit the slopes until 1 pm when we came back to the stuga for lunch. By 2 pm we were skiing again until 3 pm or so. The rest of the afternoon was our own free choice with what to do with ourselves. Many watched T.V. , some slept after their active morning, and others went for a walk.
Our days passed quickly and then it was time to pack everything up, clean the stuga, and board the bus at 2 pm precisely so that we could be dropped off at home around 11 pm. It was such a wonderful trip and I didn't want it to end.
