On wednesday morning we played finnish sports and games. With us there were our primary schools 9th graders.

First we played floorball. We share our gym for two playing areas and share the people for four teams. In each team we had 4-6 players. Some italian students played floorball for the first time.

After floorball we played one finnish game called urban war. We didn't fight or do the real war so nobody died. For the game we built "battlefield" from benches, mattresses, and ballcages. Then we share people to team Finland and team Italy. Purpose of the game was threw balls to "kill" opponent players. The winner team is that who have "killed" all from the opponent teams players.

Team Finland getting ready for the urban war.

Team Italy deffending their side.

After urban war we played second game called hunter. In hunter there was few hunters who tried to catch other players. Other players were hiding in school area and escape the hunters. One period took 15 minutes and hunters will won when they caught all the others in that time.

We were working at our schools students lounge.

 After excersicing and school lunch everyone was pretty tired. Our art teacher Heini gave us some art works to do. We spent two hours on working and we had great time.

When we get our pictures ready we put them to our erasmus wall.

In the evening we were at local bowling alley and museum Wanhat Wehkeet. We started bowling after 5 and we did that 1 hour.  For some italians bowling was a new experience but some has done that before. After bowling we visited in museum. There were finnish items since 1900 century. Then there was a car museum, where italians found their favourite sctooter, the Vespa. In the collection there was also Fiat car.

On thursday we were classa in our school. Students got known for example our history and physics lessons. After classes all of us ate school lunch. After lunch some people went markets and others chill out in school. At 12 we went skating in Karsula ice stadium. We were there already on mnday. Everyone had great fun and most of italian students were used on skates.

In the evening we were to local youth center. There we played snooker and playstation, danced and eat treats. Finnish students made a little surprize for italian students and brought finnish dessert called Mämmi. 

 

Sunday 5.2

This was the first morning in Karstula with the host families. We spent the morning with our pairs. Some of us went to the frozen lake and we just basically did what we wanted. Then almost everyone went to the ice rink to watch ice hockey game, but italians weren’t very interested about that. They said that they prefer football more. After that we went to sightseeing tower Näkötorni and we grilled sausages and watched beautiful view over Karstula. Weather was nice and there was snow everywhere. Climbing to the tower was a little bit hard because the hill was so slippery and icy.

In the evening most of us went to the Nelli’s house and we had a movie night. We watched a movie called “I’m a legend” and we ate some snacks. When the movie ended we listened some very good Italian and Finnish music and watched music videos. Others were at Kaisla’s house and they played games like Alias and Uno.

Monday 6.2

First day at our school in Erasmus week. First we had language lessons, some of the students had French and some had Russian. After lessons we went to the auditorium and watched some videos about Erasmus project and our principal Anitta Rasi talked about Finnish school system. And Italians introduced themselves and told us about their school.

After introductions we played some name games to get to know eachother better. It showed us that some Italian names are really hard to spell to Finnish people. Then we showed Italians our school area and c

lassrooms. After that we went to eat school dinner and then to the ice rink to skate. Some of the Italian students skated for the first time. While we skated we also listened some music. Finnish students teached a famous Finnish dance to the Italians. It was from Antti Tuisku’s hit Keinutaan.

At the evening we all went to one cottage to spend some time together. Most of us went to the sauna and they went also from sauna outside to run in snow. Others played some board games. We also ate some snacks and then Italians tasted some Finnish sweets like Fazerin Sininen which is the best chocolate in the world and salmiakki which is typical Finnish salty licorice.

Kaisa, Nelli, Angeliina ja Annika