Floorball

On 23.-25. August there was a floorball tournament called "Floorball Slo Open International Tournament 2013" in Ljubljana. There were floorball teams from different countries and they were playing 2x15min matches. When checking the web page, I noticed that there will be 3 teams from Finland as well, so of course as a floorball fan I went to cheer for them. :-)

I've been playing floorball for 10 years already - last 5 years as a goalkeeper. We are playing in women's 2nd division. Even our town is quite small, every year there are more people (especially juniors) who want to start playing floorball. It's really popular sport in Finland!

Lately I've noticed that there are several different versions of hockey games played either on ice or indoor sport hall. The main differences between these sports are on equipment and rules, but they also have a lot in common. Here are some pictures;

Ice hockey

Bandy

Ringette

Rink hockey (Roller Hockey (Quad) or just roller hockey (in British English))

Inline hockey (roller hockey or inline roller hockey)

Indoor hockey

Floorball

Also that floorball can be played also on sand, lake, swamp, snow, street..

Then there are usually less players on the field (3-4), and no goalkeeper because the goals are smaller. You'll see on these pictures :-)

Triglav

I heard that it's possible to become a real Slovene only after getting on top of Triglav, the highest mountain on Slovenia. Now I did it! ;-)

On Sunday morning me, Balazs (Hungarian long-term EVS volunteer in Ljubljana) and Sanja (from Novo Mesto) started the way towards Uskovnica, where the hiking trip began. 

There it is, Triglav... We are on the way there!

On the first day we walked till Krederica hut via Vodnikov dom, where we had a break for lunch (delicious risotto cooked before).

On the evening all of us were pretty tired, so after our sandwich+hot cacao -"dinner" it was time to go to sleep...

On Krederica hut - tired but happy!

An awesome sunset, and the temperature was around 10-15c - chilly.

...And on the next morning we were probably the last ones waking up. :-D

For the second day's hike the route was more steeper than the way till Krederica. By holding on chains, wires and rocks, we were more likely climbing than walking first up till Mali Triglav (small Triglav) and then to the top of Triglav. 

I guess we can confess that we were a bit scared on the way, but getting on top cleared our minds of all thoughts. The view was AWESOME! I have never seen that amount of high mountains. We were also really lucky with weather - it was sunny, so not even so cold and the sky was quite clear. What can I say... breathtaking! :-)

Heli (FIN), Sanja (SLO), Balazs (HU)
---->>>> ALL SLOVENES NOW ;-)

A bit of joking... :P

For the way down we chose the other way and had a break on Dom Planika mountain hut.

 From there we continued the way till Vodnikov Dom, where we stayed the second night. The people working there were really friendly and helpful and the cottage was really cozy. I really loved that place and could spend a whole week there <3 :-) Unfortunately on the next morning we had to keep on going.

Vodnikov dom

Haha, this was funny situation. Our new friend, Kerry the Cow was really friendly and sympathetic, sleeping on the grass... Untill she got up and we saw how big she is!

Vodnikov dom with the great view on Triglav

The last day's hike (Tuesday) was short and easy (even though muscles were getting quite painful) - around 3-4 hours back to Uskovnica. 

Planning which way to choose for going down

YAHOOOO! We survived ;-)

Our deserved drinks - Radlers and my half a liter milk... even becoming Slovene, I still didn't forget my Finnish habits :-)

When we got down, we still had a lot of time so we decided to go swimming in Lake Bohinj. Water was chilly and refreshing, just what we needed after exhausting 3-days hike.

On the trip we were really lucky - perfect weather, no accidents and all together everything was fine! It was also the best place to escape busy life in the middle of nature. This will be one of the experiences which I will never forget. :-)

Pictures: Balázs Kajor

Long time no see!

It's been a bit quiet here on the blog, right? Here comes the reason... :-)

All together 28 days on the summer camps (more or less without Internet), one week vacation with a group of friends in Croatia, Krk, and 3 days trip to the highest mountain of Slovenia, Triglav 2 864m.

So, where to start...

The first summer camp was held on Nerezine in Croatian coast. On the paradise island, so beautiful it was! For the group of children there were 5 teachers of us: Mitja as a leader, Mateja, Mira, Tadeja and me. During the camp we had different activities for kids - going to the beach (twice a day when the weather was good), sports (volleyball, speedminton, badminton, twister, balinčki, football..), creative workshops (to make crafts, postcards, decorating bags, playing social games..) and on few rainy days we were watching a film. The place for camp was really great, sooooo beautiful beach and view! And it was possible to see that kids were really enjoying. :-)

The paradise island :)

All the group on last day :-)

The second camp was in Nerezine as well, after one week days off between. This camp was lead by Mateja, and as teachers there were also Mira, Špela, Patricija, Niko and me. The schedule was quit the same as on previous camp, but because there were also a group youth (15-17 years), we had some different activities for them and more free time. One of the last days was a "wrong day", when they became teachers, leading all the activities on that day and we were pretending to be kids. :-D

Pictures from jumping to the water -competition:

And Talent-show:

The third camp was held in Slovenian coast, Piran. Mitja as a leader, Damjan, Andreja, Monika and me as teachers. Again new nice group of kids, fun time we had! :-) I also like Piran as a place really much - it's small but has a lot to see. 

For the last days Hungarian EVS-volunteer Balazs joined us to the camp. He's good at juggling, so we had a workshop of preparing juggling balls (balloons filled with rice), and then started to practice. :-)

On one day we had a huge storm started really suddenly, out of nowhere. After the storm the waves were still high, so we went to beach to see them - pictures below :-) Otherwise the weather was really perfect, if not even too hot...! 8)

It was an awesome chance to see all these three camps - each of them were different; new kids and teachers, various programs and activities. A great learning experience how to organize different programs and work with kids.