Norway: Promoting Falun Gong at the Riverfestival in Drammen

On Sunday 25th August, practitioners from Oslo went to Drammen, a big Norwegian city which is located around 40 km from Oslo. They joined the River festival to promote Falun Gong in the very sunny and warm summer weather.

After finding a nice place in the park, right next to a large amusement park, we showed the exercises, distributed flyers and spoke with the people. It seemed that most of them had never seen the Falun Gong exercises before so they stopped and watched while we performed. It was striking how attentively and carefully they read every word of our information poster and many took the flyers by themselves.

In the late afternoon, when we were about to leave, we suddenly got the feeling that we are not finished and that we also should show the exercises and distribute the flyers more "inside" of the amusement park. Afterwards, we found two Chinese restaurants where we distributed our Chinese information material (VCD etc). In one restaurant, we talked for a while with a Chinese waitress and were able to clear up some misunderstandings she had about Falun Gong.