The first day off in a long while (Elin)

Dragonbane Diary
Tuesday, July 4th
Älvdalen, Sweden

This is a D Diary of the sad day when team Nordic lost a football match to Team Spain (eg. it's the first real day off we have had in the building camp since God knows when).

First impressions of building camp by a local larper, Elin, who decided to join the building camp just today.

"ok... so it´s my turn to write. Well, today I met the rest of the building campers, like Timo meant before I´m a local here in åsen. It was weird to be in my old school for the first time for many years. I´ve met some of the people here before, so i didn't feel shy or unconfortable with the new ones I met.

Today has been very funny, specially when we jumped into the water and played Ankkapallo (Duckball) and many other water sports.

We played barefoot football match between Spaniards and Team Nordic, a co-operative team of Finnish Swedes, Real Swedes and some Finns.

The soccer game was played with good spirit, despite the obvious differencies in the players skills. There were solitary heroes trying their very best (often too much) and people trying football first tíme in their life.

The evening went longish, but eventually everyone went to bed, as tomorrow will be another day of hard work."