The DRH Education  - Highlights!

The DRH Schools meet several times every year to cultural, educational and sports events.

This is the official invitation to the sport event: Winter Olympics Games 20-22/3 2001 at DRH at Hornsjø in Norway.

And here are some of the pictures from the event!

Dear Olympers!

We hereby welcome you to reach to the tops of the mountains outside Lillehammer to participate in the probably most challenging sports event that so far has taken place in this millennium. Of crucial ingredients we can mention: snow, snow, snow, ice and snow, sore muscles, skies, sledges, land hockey sticks, footballs, a swimming pool, ski tracks, table tennis, wrestling mats, ski jumps, sauna, Tivoli, snow sculptures and even much more.

This is all put together and composed into an unforgettable experience where your personal limits can be challenged at a rate of at least two times per hour for app. 48 hours. Also it is a cultural and "folkelig" event. We will be people with a global background and with a global perspective, and it is into this context that you will have the opportunity of meeting new friends, just to experience that they turn into your worst enemies during the football match for later on in the evening becoming friends again while you both struggle to survive in the winter night skiing event.

A full busy, challenging, tiring, make bodies soar, competitive weekend that you probably never forget and that will make you discover all the many, many different muscles that together can give you a constant feeling of pain… Fantastic!!!!

All in all, app. 45 disciplines for each taste. It is something for the strong as well for the not so strong. It is something for the fast, but also for the slow. You can be extremely fit and loose. You can be extremely unfit and also loose. You can be a sportsfanatic and be beaten by the most "antisportyhomosapian" in the Pulk slalom. You can get points for playing a videogame as well as trying to survive the last km in the ski track.

It is about….
The Olympic Games is about having a nice time, in some extraordinary surroundings, do something together with some other people as special as yourself. About creating a sports competition that will make the coming Salt Lake City games 2002 come out as a bleak event.

And last but not least, it is about WINNING!!
A competition is about winning. Okay, okay….. it is ALSO nice to just participate, but it is much better to win.

The ultimate victory is to bring your school to the honourable position to win the gold of this year Olympic Game. That requires a lot of input, a lot of physical effort, a lot of co-operation and organising. A lot of individual victories as well as common ones.

The preparations…
From the school here in the mountains we will recommend you to prepare well, both physically and mentally. There are of course all kinds of well tested training methods including marathon running and weight training. Though it might be good to realize that what ever qualifications and strength that you might posses it is of little worth if you are not able to concentrate and focus.

As the defending Champions we have of course been preparing ourselves both physically and psychologically for a long time. Especially we could mention the wolf hunt, which has gone on for night and days during the last several weeks. This has been an exhausting experience, which we expect to gain a lot from.

We have of course also had more down to earth (snow) preparations such as snow shovelling, skiing, sleeping in snow caves and weekly bastultons. Right now most of the participating people from our school are preparing for a 14 days "training camp" fundraising at the streets of Sweden.

New disciplines…
At every school you have at least 1 person that have participated in the winter Olympics earlier years. Let them speak.

Here the "new coming disciplines" for the year of 2001.

*Tour de Hornsjø
Inspired from more southern Alps, this event has now hit the Norwegian mountains with certain elements quite comparable to the environment you see in the Paris – Dakar rally. Only with a slight difference in temperatures. This event you can of course train while at home on a spinning bike, but how do you train for the sand dunes of Sahara while still in Paris?

*Beach volleyball.
It is hard to understand why this event has not been introduced to the Hornsjø Olympic Games in earlier years, as it is quite obviously a brilliant event to have here. The beach, the sun, the atmosphere. Of course (not really necessary to be mentioned here) the event will take place on the roof of the swimming pool and proper swim suit dressing will be required. The warming up for this event will of course take place in the sauna. Re warming up might also be worthwhile considering during the break, but this is in no way an compulsary part of the event.

* Tivoli
For the evening events we will introduce the Tivoli, which will be a lively marketplace of many different indoor events with all the life and spectacle you expect to find in a Tivoli. Also included here will be new events based on artful expressions.

We are working hard on the final outline of the program which you will receive soon.

The organising….
As you know each participating person makes the games possible. Every school will be Functioneering as well as helping with some kitchen work. This needs to be included when you make your planning.
You are indeed welcome to arrive on Monday, trying out your skies and a few of the disciplines as well as helping out with the preparations for the whole event.

The point system…
It follows the same principles as the last years. 10 points for winning a discipline and 10 points for participation. That is the general outline. A just/fair system. Then you’ll also find many exceptions depending on the effort each single discipline requires.

Practicalities….
*Economy – we expect the price to be the same as last year which was app. 120.- NOK for the arrangement and app. 160,-NOK for the food. The food is then calculated as Tuesday dinner until breakfast on Friday and including a food package for the home travel. You will get information on the final price together with the program. We expect you to make all payments in advance as DRH Norway does not have the means to finance the event.

*Food. – For the schools that are arriving earlier. Please contact us about food arrangements. You can either bring the food for the extra day yourself or agree with us on a price for the food according to how many meals you will need.

*Housing – Everything regarding to housing, coming before and leaving later are to be arranged with Hornsjø Høgfjells hotel v Benna. Please book yourself in already now. Fax nr 61264062 and phone 61264064

*Please send a fax before 01.03 where you include:
-How many you are coming?
-Arrival day and time
-Departure day and time
-What cars you are coming in
-A list with names, shoe sizes and each persons hight in cm.
-Number of vegetarians
-If you have someone that particularly is very good as functioner in a special discipline.
-What kind of equipment do you have that you could bring with you such as stop watches, dartboards and darts, chess, Trivial Pursuit, scrabble, waight lifting equipment.
-Name on contact person and ev. Mobile phone number

-Snowchains!!!!
-You don’t drive up the mountain before you have called
-You might be asked to make some shopping in Denmark for us.
-You will be asked to bring different kind of cutlery
(some points are not relevant for the USA and UK schools, no shopping and bringing)

Okay. That’s that about that then
We are all looking forward to have another fight with you.

Many greetings

H.O.O.C

Hornsjø Organising Olympic Commitee