Hey again everyone

Finally my summervacation has started. Finished up school on thursday, so now i have about 8 weeks to do exactly what i want. isn't it great!

The coolest thing is that im traveling back to houston, TX., where i lived three years ago and i'm gonna meet my old friends. Just 8 days left!!!

I'm also spending some time working with the CAB this summer. We might have a stand on a huge football turnement for young people from different countries called Norway Cup. It is sponsing one of our NGOs projects in Sierra Leone. There is also gonna be a match between Manchester United and the Oslo team, which the money is going to the same project.

Also we a participating in a Aids confrence in Finland in september where we are gonig to have a 15 minute presentation for about fifty school children. WE are not sure what we are gonna do yet, but there have been some idees up like making a video about what youth in Norway know about aids.

So all in all, its gonna be a actionpacked, funfilled holiday, but of course there is gonna be time to be lazy. Actully right now is as good as any time...

Talk to you soon:)

First update.

Was just in Oslo, Norway's capital for a meeting with the childrens advisory board. Our members our spread around the country, and since Plan norway have their offices in Oslo we meet there.
This was our fourth meeting and it ended up being very hectic. One of the first things we did was to elect one of our members to represent us in the head board. We all had to present a speech to promote ourself, something i dont always feel comfortable doing:( but it all went, and i was elected. its is gonig to be very interesting, because this in one of the first times a youth is put into thehead board of and organisation here in Norway. It is also a bit intimidating because all the other members are well profiled people here in Norway(bishop, corruptionhunter, ex-minister, and so on) in the age between 50 and 60.

Well other then that our meeting was full of interveiwas. we met the minister of developement and the child- and family affairs ministry and asked the about he CRC being more implemeted in school, and youth participation in issues involving them. The first meeting went well, but on the last mentioned one, we felt like we weren't being proparly listened to. at the end ofour meeting they asked us if we had any suggestions, but we had been giving them loads throughout the whole hour,. it was very frustrating.

Well, thats it for now. My summervacation starts on thursday, adn im finally getting a well-deserved break.

Later:)