CI ComANen SiuEsE, I CAN HEAR, I CAANp SriPl 2E0A1K3 CONTENT 3 Editorial 4-5 Windsurfing 6 What you thought you knew 7 Our language 8-9 Tourism in the Ardennes and music festivals 10-11 Welcome to Trondheim 12-13 The luxury industry in France 14-15 Unsolved mysteries 16-17 The carnival 18 Importance of economy 19 World politics 20-21 Trolls of Norway 22-25 Science and technology 26 Kids with guns 27 Fast changes 28 Festivals in Trondheim 29 Worlds most interesting festivals 30-31 The canary islands music festival 32 Champagne 32 Fast changes 33 Economy in the Ardennes 34 Relocation of electrolux factory 2 I can see, hear, speak EDITORIAL EDITORIAL Editor The Desk EDITOR’S Inger Lise Stensheim Sara Rye Martinsen NOTE As a part of the Comenius pro- Kristian Arne Iversen ject, the media class of the Ca- Emilie Davidsen Malene Andersen thedral School of Trondheim has made a magazine featuring many things about our town, and Norway’s culture. We have Julie Røkke Osen been working on this magazine together with students from Slovakia, Turkey, France and Spain, and together with their Photography content we have produced a magazine full of information about all of our countries and their culture, that you will sure- Christina Rygvik Malin Albertsen Gjørv ly enjoy reading through. Some of our students will meet them in the Comenius exchange pro- gram in a couple of weeks, and they will present the magazine and its content there. We hope Lise Nielsen Torun Edvardsen that you enjoy what we have to present, and we’ll see you! Kristian Arne Iversen Lena Pedersen I can see, hear, speak 3 WINDSURFING Water sports in the Canary Islands windsurfing and kitesurfing Like every year in the Canary Is- music, shows, food stands (typi- boarding. The kitesurfer harnesses lands hundreds of windsurfers cal food from all over the world, the power of the wind with a huge and kitesurfers meet on the coasts and of course, from the Canary kite which is propelled across the of Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria Islands), activities for kids, and water, sometimes with foot-straps, and Tenerife to compete in the much more. At night, you can also sometimes without. There are dif- different disciplines of the World attend concerts with gigs, DJ’s, ferent styles of kitesurfing includ- Windsurfing and Kitesurfing and of course, a big party on the ing freestyle, freeride, jumping or Championships. Pozo Izquierdo beach. All in the best summer wave-riding among them. in Gran Canaria, El Médano in style! Tenerife and Playa de Sotavento in Fuerteventura share several But, what is windsurfing really? reasons for their success in these It is a surface water sport which events. combines elements of surfing and sailing. It has a board which is The most important fact is that usually two or three metres long. these areas have got the wind, the The board has a rig connected to sun and all the right wind and it where we also find a mast and a wave conditions their participants sail which varies depending on the need to do the spectacular and fast conditions, the skill of the wind- manoeuvres together with the surfers and the discipline they take extreme jumps we can admire in part in. their performances. During the couple of weeks the championship What about kitesurfing? It is also lasts, the show is guaranteed. a surface water sport but it com- bines aspects of windsurfing, surf- Besides the sports we can enjoy ing, paragliding and gymnastics Source unkown there quite a lot of activities dur- into one extreme sport. We can ing the day and the night: live call this sport kitesurfing or kite- 4 I can see, hear, speak SOURCE UNKNOWN In 1985, René Egli (owner of a Show started for the first time in surfer, draws our attention for be- surf, kitesurf and windsurf school Fuerteventura. ing the youngest world champion in the south of Fuerteventura) in kitesurfing. She won her first ti- spoke about the excellent wind- Pozo Izquierdo, in Gran Canaria, tle at the age of ten and nowadays, surf conditions Sotavento beaches welcomes every year the PWA being 19, she is one of the best offered. In 1986 the first event was World Tour (Professional Wind- kitesurfers in the world holding, held there and since then, for 27 surfers Association). For the last among other, seven freestyle world years, the Fuerteventura Tourist 24 years this is one of the major titles. Board, The City Council of Pájara events on the professional circuit and René Egli as the local organ- calendar. The same situation is re- Would you like to enjoy the expe- izer celebrate in July and August peated in El Médano in the south rience of extreme water sports? three different disciplines as part of Tenerife in summer. Would you like to learn and feel the of the World Championship. In thrill of these risk activities? Come Playa de Sotavento we have three Among the different participants to the Canary Islands and let’s see categories: Slalom Grand Slam, in these competitions we find wind what kind of adventurer you are! FreeStyle Grand Slam and Speed and kitesurfers from different na- Slam for male and female com- tionalities all over the world but, By Ana Santana and petitors. In 2012 the Air Style Gisela Pulido, the Spanish kite- Daniel Rodríguez I can see, hear, speak 5 PHOTO: Morten Volden Almost arctic: Not exactly arctic, but this is a typical Norwegian forest-landscape during the winter. WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW Even though you have never way is an arctic country where we great way to experience Norway been to Norway, you probably pet polar bears and live in igloos, I the Norwegian way! have made yourself a picture hate to break it to you, but you are More mooses than polar bears of what Norway is like based wrong. However, a small part of Now, I hope Norway doesn’t seem on movies and pictures and Norway, a group of islands called boring to you since I have invali- Svalbard located almost next to dated some of the myths you may other things you have seen the North Pole, and therefore, the have had which made you want to or heard. This article tells you climate there is relatively similar. go here in the first place. But don’t why you are probably wrong. And there are also polar bears worry, we are still a friendly peo- there, so you are not completely ple and we have a rich wildlife and If you have never been to Norway wrong if you assumed so either. a majestic landscape, so Norway and seen what it actually is like, I is still worth a visit! Yes, there are assume you already have made a Norway the Norwegian way people who believe in all myths picture in your mind where there A common myth that is not too far mentioned in this article. I have are either nothing but fjords and from reality is that we are good checked. mountains or arctic like the North skiers. As a matter of fact, skiing Pole with polar bears and igloos. is a proud part of Norwegian his- If you believe we have fjords and tory and culture. People in Nor- mountains, you are the most cor- way have been skiing at least since rect assumption of the two. On the Vikings, and even today, hun- the Norwegian mainland there are dred-thousands of Norwegians mountains, forests and fjords all still go skiing in the forest or on By Morten over the place. If you believe Nor- a mountain every weekend. It is a Volden 6 I can see, hear, speak OUR LANGUAGE Do you think that nor- wegian is a hard lan- guage to understand? I’m not surprised. In some cases even we norwe- gians can’t understand PHOTO: Anne Karin Berg each other. By Anne Karin Berg This is Christina Rygvik holding a poster with three norwegian words In Norway we have a lot of dif- Our main language is called bok- ferent dialects, and dialects inside mål. But in spite of that we have DO YOU WANT TO the dialects. It have become like a main language, very few of us SPEAK LIKE US? this through all the years we have do speak bokmål, because it is dia- had our own language. Where did lects inside bokmål also. In Trond- Now you have the chance to it all start? Well, I’m going back heim we speak a dialect called learn norwegian words and say- to around year 200. Then we had Trøndersk. We overdo the use of ings that is good to know something called runes. Runes are the letters J and I in many words, ENGLISH: NORWEGIAN: symbols that you could find on and if I think about it, our dialect stones, weapons and all sort of is kind of ugly. Hello = Hei or hallo things. It had 24 letters, and every Goodbye = Hade symbol had its own name. For example: My name is = Mitt navn er Hainnhoinn I hoinnbainn i eine Where is = Hvor er Back then it was easy, everyone in hainna, og hohoinn i hoinnbainn i I am hungry Jeg er sulten Norway had the same language ainner hainna. = and they understood each other. Thank you = Tusen takk Now it’s not so easy any more. It actually say: male dog in leash in Fish = Fisk They think that the reason that one hand, and female dog in leash Ice cream = Is we have so big difference between in the other hand.