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Published: August 17th 2007
The Kitchen
basically the kitchen in my dorm!A usual day at language camp!
7:30 Wake Up
8:15 Breakfast
8:45 Morning Lecture (going over the schedule of that day, and wake up dances!!!)
9:15 Classroom Learning- there were around 25 students in each classroom. we were split up first into groups of 25 based on what language we speak, my group was 24 americans and 1 canadian! then in each classroom there were four big tables. each table had a Finnish tutor (Finn our age) sitting there to help us. we were then each assigned a tutor, so we were with that tutor and our group of around 4 or 5 students for 5 hours a day in the classroom!
10:10 Break
10:30 Classroom again back with Riina my tutor, Max, Brennen, and Nick...my group!
11:30 Lunch and free time (to go row boating, swimming, napping, finnish baseball playing, chilling with each other and such)
13:00 Classroom again! where we were given MANY colorful worksheets to help us learn the basics! Mimmu the teacher was great! she was an exchange student when she was in school to america 20 years ago!
15:00 Coffee
15:45 Lecture (Finns at Home, School in Finland, Rotary Rules, Finland Overview to list a
CAMP
so this is camp. well a map of it. sorry its in finnish. what did you expect? few)
17:00 Dinner and Freetime
19:00 sauna sessions start (early in the morning during the morning lecture the boys and girls all signed up for different sauna times throughout the night, usually from 19-22! if you didn't want to sauna or had free time before or after your sauna time we could basically do whatever, swim in the lake, boat, (all the things I listed above) sauna was great. I usually signed up with my friends for around 20.00 every night! first you go to the dock and jump in the lake...then you run up the 55 steps to the sauna building and sauna for a while with usually around 12 other girls, (boys and girls have separate saunas but we all sauna at the same time) then after 10 min or so in the sauna you go back to the lake and swim. the water was so cold in the lake it made us breath really really hard and we couldn't feel our arms! then do it all over again until your 45 min timeslot was up!
21:00 Evening snack-sometimes in the dining hall but once it was cooking Matkara (finnish sausage) around the campfire near the lake and
another time it was Crepes down by the lake!
23:00 lights out!!!
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Mike
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sweet schedule
wake up dances, coffee time on the schedule, and sauna time... this place sounds not so very bad.. :) Just kidding it sounds great! from the pictures, I want to come visit!