I just wanted to post a quick note that I got to Ransberg safely (I had my doubts about it on the way haha). Ransberg is the scoutbase I will be working at for a month. Really nice place (www.ransberg.se) and eventhough it was raining nearly all day long I love it. The bus ride took (as i wrote in my previous post) about 4 hours and started at 7.45 this morning. Lazy as I am I told myself yesterday that I can get up earlier in the morning to finish my packing and all the other little things that need to be done (putting up the couch, buying breakfast on the way to the bus) well that worked out pretty fine actually, getting up at 6.45 is not one of my favourite things to do, but I managed to get the bus in time and some breakfast, too. And I only forgot... well a few things, like the fruit I wanted to eat on the bus - well I always wanted to know what they'd look like after beeing in the fridge for a month :) (anyone that wants to break in to my apartment: there's no money but yummy green apples ;) ). And I also learned that it can be helpful to have a look outside the window before you leave. Just because some people say it is summer this doesn't have to mean that it's actually warm outside. And the fact that it didn't rain the day before also doesn't mean that it won't rain today either. Well however, I got to the bus, in time (and slightly.. wet... soaked would also be appropriate I guess). Oh, and yes, I did consider taking out my jacket out of my backpack, but that would have meant that I had to take everything out of my bag, then put everything in again, and still be able to close the bloody thing as my jacket was somewhere down at the bottom - of course where else should it be!? Well the bus was heated so, no worries. I only had some concerns about the approximate hour I'd have to spend at the busstation in Karlstad. But this turned out to be no problem at all as our bus broke down on the way going there so we were first standing in the middle of nowwhere for what seemed like for ever and then had to get out and change into another bus (which I only noticed by accident when I opened my eyes having fallen asleep)The other bus got us to Karlstad exactly 5 minutes before my next bus was leaving. Good stuff, so I got here on time and in a T-shirt with a guitar in a cardboard box (yes it was still a cardboard box then, eventhoug a rather soggy one). I could have thought about buying a Gig bag a bit earlier than Saturday night when all stores were closed, that's true.
After getting here I met the other volunteer that was already working here for 5 weeks. We had lunch and then we already said goodbye again as he was heading back home a week earlier than planned. Now me and another girl are the only volunteers working here. I haven't met this girl yet though as she was at a Spa all day. Don't worry, my day wasn't at the top of all craziness at the point when I was told where she was, it got even better!
The person in charge of me didn't really have anything to do or didn't know what was going on today as he also had a bit of a tough day today. So I wandered about a bit and explored the "activity boxes" they have here for everyone. There is a room full of these boxes and in each one of them is an activity and everything you need for it that will keep you busy for a few hours or a whole day. Some of them had descriptions in English too, but only some so I seized my chance and will now be translating the other ones. I then helped a bit in the kitchen, preparing dinner and afterwards doing the dishes (using these industrial dish washers - weely cool! ) . At dinner I was also asked if I could maybe run one of these activities with a Danish group that arrived today. They wanted to do the one on "fire protection" tomorrow MORNING but didn't really know how to run it themselves and asked for help. not that I knew what you had to do there either but instead of saying that I just heard the words "sure I'll run the activity for them" coming out of my mouth. A bit later I thought about asking how long they planned to do that activity which is basically just a workshop on how to act if there is a fire and how to prevent your home of turning into a giant fire place. "Oh we were thinking of doing that the whole day" the nice Danish leader of the group said. It then occured to me that I should maybe prepare the whole thing a bit more than "aah I'll look through the material and see what happens".So the rest of my evening I spent over the book "elden och du" - "The fire and you" and tried to become what is described in the book as "a children and youth leader with sufficient knowledge of fire protection requirements ". And tomorrow I will run a full day course on that and will hopefully not set anyone on fire :)
So much for now, sorry that this is only in English now but I couldn't really be bothered to write everything twice now.

hope you're all well out there!
stor kram or a big hug

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