I am back home from Oslo! What a trip! Spent Sunday and Monday, June 5 & 6 in workshops and lectures with the 119 other teachers from around the world. Did experiments about albedo, salinity, and light reflection, watched a demonstration about making blood sausage from reindeer. (I was not brave enough to taste the sausage).
Then on Tuesday the Global Science Conference began i n Lillestrom, about a 30 minute train ride from Oslo. The keynote speaker was His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway. Later that morning His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco spoke. I was seated within 10 feet of both!
Monday evening we were toasted by the Mayor of Oslo at a reception in the Oslo City Hall.
This is where the Nobel Peace Prize is presented! Tuesday evening everyone attended a barbeque at the Fram Museum on the shores of the North Sea. My roommate and I could not resist the temptation of wading--the water was rather warm---we did not venture out of the shallows though! Wednesday Turtle, my roommate, and I toured Oslo. We got drenched in a rain but ended up at the oldest restaurant in Oslo and had a great desert! Thursday evening I had dinner with two people who have done research in Antarctica, one of whom is returning in August. We tried reindeer burgers which were better than I thought they would be. Friday all of the teachers had dinner together for the last time at a local establishment. I caught the 7:45 train to Sandefjord to fly home. I flew from Oslo to Copenhagen, then over Iceland, Greenland, and Canada to Chicago. The 19:00 airport bus arrived in Rockford at 21:00 (That's the 7:oopm airport bus arrived in Rockford at 9:00pm.)
Now that I am over the jet lag, I can pack and prepare to fly to Churchill on Sunday. There is no time change involved so hopefully no jet lag!
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