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

Friday in Piispala

Friday was our last day together. We made a trip to Piispala youth centre. The weather was very good. First we got to know about the area, and then we seperated to two groups. One group went to see animals and the other group went to wall climb. There were very cute animals, for example two pigs, goats and a donkey. Wall climbing was hard but fun. Before we changed places we went to eat. 

When we arrived to school our principal gave the Italians certificates and Moomin mugs.  Then some of the Italians went to S-market to buy homecoming gifts and some went to sled hill. 

We spent the evening together in Kaisla's home. We ate pizza, blueberry pie and chips. We played games, watched videos and listened to music. We also played spin the bottle. The evening was very nice.

Veera, Kaisla, Elmiina

SATURDAY 8.10.-16

Saturday was our last day in Warsaw. We didn't have any plans, so we did whatever we wanted to. Some of us went to the shopping center and the rest of us stayed at home. This was our last chance to be with our host family.

Because Saturday was our last day, we had to pack our things and get ready for the airport. We had to be at the airport at 18:00. Our flight left about 20:25 (polish time) and landed at 23:05 (finnish time).

Our Helsinki-Karstula journey had begun. At midnight we ate at Mcdonald's in Vantaa and then we were ready to go home.

We were at Karstula about 4-5 at morning. And finally we could go to our own bed and own home.
All of us were so tired and being back to Finland was a great feeling. We'll miss some people in Poland but it's so nice to be in Finland again.

07.10.2016 Perjantai

Originally we were supposed to go to a small town called Kazimierz nad Wisłą. Plans changed so we met at school at 9.30. We had to wait for others to arrive so we signed each others Erasmus-shirts. We got them the day before. Bus arrived at 10am.

First we went to a museum which was about Second World War. It was a really touching place. It told the story of Second World War from Polish perspective. We saw pictures and videos from Nazi concentration camps and also from today's wars.
After the museum we had time to eat where we wanted. We took a bus to the Old Town and ate at McDonalds.

 

At 15.00 we took a bus on Copernicus Science Center. There we had couple of hours to explore the places and things. It was a really fun place.

After that everybody went where they wanted to go. On evening almost everybody met and we spent the last evening together. We said goodbyes to Turkish students because it was the last time we saw them.

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Alunperin meidän piti lähteä puoli seitsemän aikoihin ilmeisesti pieneen kaupunkiin, Kazimierz nad Wisłąan. Suunnitelmat kuitenkin muuttuivat jostain itselleni pimentoon jäävästä syystä, joten tapasimme koululla 9.30. Odotellessamme kaikkia saapuvaksi signeerasimme toistemme Erasmus-paitoja, jotka olimme saaneet edellisenä päivänä. Niistä jäi varmasti mukava muisto. Kaikki olivat viimein saapuneet kymmenen maissa, milloin nousimme bussiin. 

Saavuimme parikymmentä minuuttia kestävän bussimatkan jälkeen toisen maailmansodan ajasta kertovaan museoon. Saimme kierrellä vapaasti ilman opasta pari tuntia. Museo oli pysäyttävä paikka, koska se kuvasi toista maailmansotaa puolalaisten näkökulmasta. Katsellessa kuvia ja videoita keskitysleireiltä sekä nykypäivien sodista oli hankala olla herkistymättä. Museo oli todella mielenkiintoinen ja koskettava paikka.

Noin puoli kahdelta lähdimme museosta. Saimme ruokailla vapaasti missä tahdoimme, joten lähdimme suurella porukalla paikallisbussilla lähellä sijaitsevaan Vanhaan kaupunkiin. Päädyimme lopulta syömään McDonaldsissa. Aikaa ruokailuun oli tunti, mutta opettajia jouduimme odottelemaan vielä tapaamisajan jälkeenkin. 

Suurinpiirtein kolmelta bussi lähti kohti Kopernikuksen tiedekeskusta (tms), joka oli samantapainen kuin Suomen Heureka. Siellä saimme leikkiä ja tutkia paikkoja parisen tuntia vapaasti. Copernicus Center oli tosi hauska paikka, missä sai itse puuhata kaikkea. 

Tiedekeskuksen jälkeen kaikki lähtivät vähän eri suuntiin - jotkut menivät kotiin, toiset kaupungille... Illalla suurin osa porukasta tapasi illanistujaisissa, missä hyvästelimme turkkilaiset ja vietimme viimeisiä hetkiä yhdessä.

Angeliina and Nelli

Näkötorni

Näkötorni is kind of observation tower. If you want to go to Näkötoni you have to climb up to slope first wich is about 350 meters long. After that you climb up stairs to get top of Näkötorni. When you are up in näkötorni you can see almost whole Karstula or you can use pinoculars to see places more closely. Näkötorni is located in about 3 km away from Karstula's centre. Next to näkötorni is wicket place where you can roast sausages in campfire.

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Lapland

Lapland is Finland's the most popular nature destination. There you can enjoy about beautiful nature and views. Rovaniemi is located in Lapland and Santa Claus' home is there. It is very popular tourist attraction. In Lapland you can see wild reindeers and tamed reindeer. Part of the winter sun doesn't rise at all. Many people come to Lapland to downhill skiing at winter. In addition you can see some beautiful northern lights. In summer you can go to hiking and swim in very clear watered lakes.

Pictures are from Google.

Nelli Koskela and Angeliina Riekko

                            Lapland

I´m going to tell you about Finland’s Lapland. So here we go…

Lapland is very beautiful place all year round. Mountains look really good when sun is shining and snow is glowing. I have visited there only in

               Ylläs and Levi. They are ski resorts. There are also many other ski resorts like Ruka and Pyhä.

               When I have been Lapland I have been snowboarding. There can also ski and do other stuff. I think that Lapland, especially in winter is the most beautiful place in Finland. I think is worth the experience to see and feel Lapland.

               

                                                                     

Here´s couple of photos that I have been taken at Ylläs. It´s so stunning when you see it at your own eyes.

Place you have to visit

I think the most beautiful place is Lapland. The internet is full-on pictures about Lapland and everyone should go check them. Ruska is also beautiful. It´s like fall colors.

Revontulet called northern lights are popular all around the world. I think everyone should go Lapland and see Finland’s beauty.

  I take these photos on google…