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Visit in Umeå 2003
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Walking around in Umeå
Our guests from Latvia walking over a bridge
Our guide for the day is telling us about Umeå
and its history
Everybody is listening intensively
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Time for lunch
The teachers are discussing something
The girls seem to be very hungry
Hard decision, what should I do?
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Burnball Every year the world championship in
burnball is arrenged in Umeå and it is about
300 teams from all over the world (most of the
teams are from Umeå)who compete with each other.
The name of the game in Swedish is Brännboll.
Its very important to divide everyone in teams
Our physique-teacher Håkan loves to throw balls
Is everyone in position?
The Dannish boy Mårten knows how to hit the ball
Ingrid and Barbro are counting points and
checking time
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More Brännboll pictures
Should we run or something??
Some tachers made funny faces when they try to
hit the ball
Some people are lazy (no name mentioned), they
only think of sitting down and eat cookies
Fly ball, fly high in to the sky
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The presentationIt was Monday morning and
everyone presented the project they had worked
with, some was alone and some were in groups.
The Latvian group had done it nice with their
powerpoint presentation
Jens, Mattias and Erik is really enjoying their
presentation
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More Presentation pictures
Some people made it very easy for the audience to
understand
Ulla thanked the students for interesting
presentations and gave information about how the
following discussion would be handled
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The students were divided into groups of 5 to 6,
discussed the questions from the teachers and
wrote down the solutions on a large presentation
paper. The questions wereWhats your opinion
about coal energy and the environment?Whats
your opinion about a sufficient and assured
supply of energy?Discussion about energy
problems around the Baltic Sea that we share
together?
Preparing for discussion
Anders, ?, Victor and Sara all smiled to the
camera
Work, work! The questions were very hard to
answer
While the students sat in groups and discussed
Håkan demonstrated our calculator
This group took the tasks seriously. They didnt
even notice the photograph
Did this group laugh all the time?
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The DiscussionThe groups put their papers on the
blackboard and told everyone their solutions
Here are Mårten, Oscar, Freddy, Elham and Malin
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The trip to StornorrforsThe Stornorrfors is
the biggest hydro power station in Västerbotten
and the second largest in Sweden
Happy faces. Sara and Maria
Did the Latvian students make jokes about Suedes?
Everyone else does
We have reached Stornorrfors and Erik is
pointing out the power plant.
A very tired Erik, poor boy he never have the
energy to stay awake a hole day
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Looking for turbines
Never use a digital camera in dark places, this
is suppose to be a group picture
The flash from the camera makes the helmets glow
The hole group is walking down towards the center
of the earth.
Walking 70 metres underground, its rocky and dark
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At the Historical Energycentre in UmeåHere we
could try different types of experiments and see
the first hydro power station in Västerbotten
Everyone is going from one experiment to another,
all in different buildings
A nice view over the first hydrogenplant in
Västerbotten
Lars with his feminine legs, or??
Why do some people need more time to reach the
goal?
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On the way to foodOn the way to the food we
stopped to look at historical rock carvings
hällristningar and after that it was time for
a restaurant
Its very hard do walk up the hill
Look! Is it an elk?
Two hungry boys
I am hungry!
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Chemistry classOn Tuesday morning we had a
chemistry lesson. We calculated much this lesson
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A day at the universityWe ended this day with a
visit at the university
A lecture about energy
Professor Robert Eklund continued with
information about his research concerning energy
and energy efficiency. What advice could we give
to the photographer?