Wednesday, May 25, 2005
White Water Rafting
So here's the experience:
1000nok (200$) for a mornign and afternoon of fun!
http://www.vossrafting.no/main_en.html
A wonderful bus ride to Bergen Bus station
A wonderful train ride to the Voss train station.
A wonderful Van ride to the rafting center in Voss.
Prepartion, Rafting for 2-3hours, changing, picking pictures.
A winderful van ride back to the train station.
A wonderful train ride (absolutely wonderful) back to Bergen.
A wonderful bus ride back to my room.
Passed out on my bed for a few hours.
The rafting experience was wonderful:
We did a Swim test: I'm a better swimmer than like 90% of ppl im sure.
Man the water was cold, especially when you stood up, and the water trickled down yer wet suit and onto yer stomach and balls, oh man it just gets COLD.
But then your suit heats up from your own body heat and its not so bad , plus the adrenaline keeps pumping.
We had a lot of POWER in our boat (5 big strong guys) and our female coach.
Anyways, it was funny cuz it didnt take more than 1 or 2 strokes from all of us to get where we wanted. Just following the directions was difficult.
So then we get to this small waterfall that we ge to go down, and we are told that this time we go down sideways, sideways??? im so confused because that totally wasnt what we were doign before. She even told the ppl on the left side (3 ppl) were goign to get very wet. So i was totally like, what the hell are we setting ourselves up for. Well apparently we really did make a stupid move(i wonder if it was on purpose).
The Crash
So I'm in the front right seat. We go top left nose of the raft into the waterfall. So the boat sinks down in the front left and our raft gets sucked to the right towards a small "hole" as they call it. Our raft is hovering in this "hole" while the entire left side of the raft fills up completely, me on the right, i eventually just grab hold of the ropes on the side of the raft and remain just loving it in the middle of the raft, bouncing around in the "hole" liek im on a trampoline with water splashing all around me. The raft moves out of the "hole" through some more white water and when i open my eyes, there's NOBODY on the raft except me and the guide.
The guide is already trying to pull one person onto the raft who managed to fall off the raft from the very beggining but still held onto the ropes so he was ok.
So now it's 2 ppl and our guide. With 3 people floating in the river approaching more rapids in the distance and we are paddlign like crazy trying to pick them up.
It was hillarious, the other rafts picked up the 3 ppl cuz we couldn't get to them in time and we got to navigate the rapids with just the 2-3 of us. That was a lot of fun. Then we picked up our cold companions a little bit down the river.
Funny thing was. 2 of the guys who fell out just floated on down the river.
Daniel (my good friend here). He fell out and got caught UNDER the raft, so he had a slight panic attack while he was under the raft bobbling around in the "hole". Meanwhile remember i was just laughing it up ontop/insdie the raft, wondering when we would break free of the "hole" totally oblivous that i was practically all alone just having a grand old time in the raft. So i had a lot of fun, basically no danger.
I want to go Kyaking
Anyways, what i want to do is go kayaking. I like the idea of doign the rapids on my own, with other ppl doign it on thier own too. That would be fun!
So thats what i want to do.
I want to play in a poker tournament
Talking to daniel, we both agree we are addicted to the game of poker.
I really enjoy the action, the deception, the reading of others, the playing with the odds. I got this really sophisticated poker program thats helping me improve my game. I also believe that im not easily read in terms of my body language, but easy to be read in terms of how i bet. So, its just about learning how to bet better for me right now.
I want to lounge on Beaches & Surf
I bought a Eurorail pass for 1 month this June. I plan to ride the train more than sleep in hostels as i travel around europe. The pass was pretty expensive ($800 Can)
but i hope i can abuse it like no other. The only thing im goign to stop for is lounging on beaches and surfing opportunities, other than that. I'm just going to try to visit a whole bunch of places.
marky
Still got to write 2 more exams.
Just want to pass, just want to pass,
don't care if i do poorly, just want to pass.
Arrrghhhhhhh.
marky
1000nok (200$) for a mornign and afternoon of fun!
http://www.vossrafting.no/main_en.html
A wonderful bus ride to Bergen Bus station
A wonderful train ride to the Voss train station.
A wonderful Van ride to the rafting center in Voss.
Prepartion, Rafting for 2-3hours, changing, picking pictures.
A winderful van ride back to the train station.
A wonderful train ride (absolutely wonderful) back to Bergen.
A wonderful bus ride back to my room.
Passed out on my bed for a few hours.
The rafting experience was wonderful:
We did a Swim test: I'm a better swimmer than like 90% of ppl im sure.
Man the water was cold, especially when you stood up, and the water trickled down yer wet suit and onto yer stomach and balls, oh man it just gets COLD.
But then your suit heats up from your own body heat and its not so bad , plus the adrenaline keeps pumping.
We had a lot of POWER in our boat (5 big strong guys) and our female coach.
Anyways, it was funny cuz it didnt take more than 1 or 2 strokes from all of us to get where we wanted. Just following the directions was difficult.
So then we get to this small waterfall that we ge to go down, and we are told that this time we go down sideways, sideways??? im so confused because that totally wasnt what we were doign before. She even told the ppl on the left side (3 ppl) were goign to get very wet. So i was totally like, what the hell are we setting ourselves up for. Well apparently we really did make a stupid move(i wonder if it was on purpose).
The Crash
So I'm in the front right seat. We go top left nose of the raft into the waterfall. So the boat sinks down in the front left and our raft gets sucked to the right towards a small "hole" as they call it. Our raft is hovering in this "hole" while the entire left side of the raft fills up completely, me on the right, i eventually just grab hold of the ropes on the side of the raft and remain just loving it in the middle of the raft, bouncing around in the "hole" liek im on a trampoline with water splashing all around me. The raft moves out of the "hole" through some more white water and when i open my eyes, there's NOBODY on the raft except me and the guide.
The guide is already trying to pull one person onto the raft who managed to fall off the raft from the very beggining but still held onto the ropes so he was ok.
So now it's 2 ppl and our guide. With 3 people floating in the river approaching more rapids in the distance and we are paddlign like crazy trying to pick them up.
It was hillarious, the other rafts picked up the 3 ppl cuz we couldn't get to them in time and we got to navigate the rapids with just the 2-3 of us. That was a lot of fun. Then we picked up our cold companions a little bit down the river.
Funny thing was. 2 of the guys who fell out just floated on down the river.
Daniel (my good friend here). He fell out and got caught UNDER the raft, so he had a slight panic attack while he was under the raft bobbling around in the "hole". Meanwhile remember i was just laughing it up ontop/insdie the raft, wondering when we would break free of the "hole" totally oblivous that i was practically all alone just having a grand old time in the raft. So i had a lot of fun, basically no danger.
I want to go Kyaking
Anyways, what i want to do is go kayaking. I like the idea of doign the rapids on my own, with other ppl doign it on thier own too. That would be fun!
So thats what i want to do.
I want to play in a poker tournament
Talking to daniel, we both agree we are addicted to the game of poker.
I really enjoy the action, the deception, the reading of others, the playing with the odds. I got this really sophisticated poker program thats helping me improve my game. I also believe that im not easily read in terms of my body language, but easy to be read in terms of how i bet. So, its just about learning how to bet better for me right now.
I want to lounge on Beaches & Surf
I bought a Eurorail pass for 1 month this June. I plan to ride the train more than sleep in hostels as i travel around europe. The pass was pretty expensive ($800 Can)
but i hope i can abuse it like no other. The only thing im goign to stop for is lounging on beaches and surfing opportunities, other than that. I'm just going to try to visit a whole bunch of places.
marky
Still got to write 2 more exams.
Just want to pass, just want to pass,
don't care if i do poorly, just want to pass.
Arrrghhhhhhh.
marky
// posted by Unknown @ 7:21 a.m. 
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HAHAHAHA, that story of white wwter rafting is SOOOOOOOOOOO JOAX...i was laffing my head off. My goodness, if and when i go white water rafting i don't think i will EVER STOP LAFFING my HEAD OFF...i can just PICTURE it...i won't even be able to paddle EVEN if i manage to stay on...SO JOAX. I will go on one of my like 10 minute laffing spasm AT LEAST...GUARANTEED.
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