Participants meet adults from the national support group and eyewitnesses who were on Utøya during the 2011 terror attack. Regitze Schäfer Botnen, a witness, spoke to the youth and described them as attentive and asking good questions. According to NRK Buskerud, Oscar Ribe-Christensen, a participant, described the experience as brutal and emphasized the importance of unity.
Molly Aas-Andersen, another participant with no personal memories of July 22, told NRK Buskerud that meeting survivors made an extra impression. Botnen expressed hope that the youth take the stories and seriousness with them.
Completely brutal. We are just young adults, or older teenagers, who want to have fun and make friends. Many of them hardly got to experience life.
They had a unity that enabled them to survive. They worked together as a group in all the chaos. It shows how important it is that we humans stand together – that we are not just individuals, but that we cooperate and listen to each other.
I don't think I've fully understood it yet. They were the same age as me, and had lived as little as I have. It makes an extra impression to think that they never got the life I dream of.
We have met such nice people that we can just relax together. We sat in the living room and laughed, and our thoughts were on everything but the terror attack.