AN INTERVIEW with the Mengo students who went to NORWAY

We asked Patrick, Immy and Lawrence about the experiences.
How you felt when you saw your name on the list of these who were  selected?
Patrick: It was not a big surprise, i was tipped off by my friends who had seen the list before me.

Lawrence: Haaa, i couldn’t control it, i started imaging about the flight and everything!

What was your flight experience?
Immy; It felt so real, i was awake through the whole flight. I watched movies, and kept looking at places through my window.

Patrick; It was a bit scary, especially sometime you would feel as though your seat is falling faster than you (…they laugh)

Lawrence: Of course we pretended. We could grab a magazine or news paper .

Did you get Jet-lagged ?

Patrick;Yeah, at first, and we got confused by the time frame. It would be 8:30 pm in Norway but it would be bright like 5:30 in Uganda.

What did you do in Norway?

We had a lot of activities. We attended classes, mountain climbin , and some more interaction with the way of life in Norway (social life). All agreed.

Any general observations about Rjukan?

Patrick: we study closely related things but they use better technology, students are not forced to go to school.

Immy: Seeing 7 year olds with htcs, Samsungs (cool ones) and some smart phones, fathers would cook which was a little bit wonderful to me.

Lawrence: Computers are a normal thing to them, their is no theft at least not in Rjukan.

What do teenagers do for leisure?

Patrick: Some go to gym, some swim and some to a social club for youths.

Were you in a village?

Lawrence: Yaaah, that’s what its like but modernised

What were your Best moments?

Lawrence; Snow!!!Immy: mountain climbing.

Patrick: Mountain climbing and my first time in class.

What about the diet?

Immy: “Taco” pizza and ice cream (all agree)     
From Mengo Newsletter 10-2012