Visiting Eco-school us!

On June 2nd we went to Virginia to visit the head quarters of the national Wild life Foundation of the US who will run the Eco-School program here. We met with Jennifer Hammonds. She was very nice. She first took os on a tour in the woods where they had made a trile where the kids kan find treasures with GPS - like we have done with our 4H club in Norway.
After words we went inside and learned about how Eco-School US will work. They have just started, but have many plans. We showed pictures from the schools we work with in Ghana. We hope there can be ways of working together so more schools learn about environmental problems in Ghana and USA. We have seenn that there is a lot to do here to. A lot of things that we do in Norway have not started her.

Jennifer gave us a lot of presents, and we gave her the Batik Eco-School shirts made in Ghana. The trip was very interesting, and we hope that we can stay in touch and meet Jennifer again soon.

Jennifer with her Eco-School shirt.

(Abena I and Abena II)

Terry at the White House

Our friend andy had made tickets for the White house for us on Thuseday. That was a great experience.

Going to America

28. mai tok Jeg, Theresa og mamma flyet til Washington D.C.

Når vi gikk ut av flyet kjente vi varmen slå mot oss. Kjempe delig med varme, tenkte vi de første dagene. Men etter noen dager her begynner vi å skjønne hvorfor de som bor her klager på varmen. Det er så varmt her at vi nesten ikke klarer å være ute. Men varme er bedre enn det kalde være hjemme!

På flyplassen i København

Utskt over Grønland

Theresa slår som vanlig ihjel tid med å spille
Isen i ferd med å smelte i nord Canada

Første glims av USA

Fairtrade exchibit with Ghana pictures

Trondheim has become a Fairtrade certified city. To celebrate that I helped setting up a pickture excebition from Fairtrade Norway on the city squere. One of the pictures are from VREL- the farm where Joshua who visited from Akosombo last year came, and were we visited with a delegation in 2008. Fairtrade Norway visited Ghana earler this year.


Major Rita Ottervi recives the diploma for meeting the criterias for beeing a Fairtrade city from Marianne Størseth at Fairtrade Norway

Fairtraid job

We are going to the US to, among other things visit Eco-School US. Before the trip we have to do work at a local Fair Trade store to "Earn" the jurney. They have a lot of products and information from Ghana there - so it is inspireing for us to be there.

The letter Exchange continues!

When our dad came home for Christmas he brought a full suite case with letters from the primary school at Akosombo. As the winter storms in Europe before Christmas made it impossible for him to come before the night the day before Christmas, we could not hand it out before we resumed in January. Many of my friends helped distributing the letters. It was great fun as all the students were excited that the letters had arrived. But some students did not get any, so hopefully next time there will be letters for everyone!

You can also visit Byåsen Schools home page here for more pictures.

As the time was short to reply was short only 6th and 3rd grade were able to reply to all students at their grade, but there is a letter for all classes - and a DVD with reports from all the great fun Akosombo and Byåsen students shared last year.

On the right picture you see my dad leaving for the airport taxi today - with the suite case that has become famous for bringing the letters etc. back and forth. As you can see we got plenty of snow over the last day. In fact it was a big snow storm last night - but that did not stop our principal Wenche from coming to our house - fully covered by the snow - with a personal letter to your new director Mr Seshie, to ensure that the collaboration will continue!

Me and the new director of the AIS-schools Mr Arnold Seshie, when he was the Principal of the primary school in Akosombo.

Abena II

Afenhyiapa!!

Fire work over Trondheim at midnight new years eve

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It was actually quite amazing seen from my bedroom window,

but it does not show as well on the video) Abena II