Blogs from Naantali, Southwest Finland, Finland, Europe - page 7

Today was a special day. I didn’t have a class until 10:15am! It was great! I loved sleeping in late! When I did finally get to school, I had biology! I usually take notes in bio, even though they are in Finnish because there are many scientific words that are similar to the English translation. Today there was a lecture so I wrote Emily a letter in Finnish. It was pretty pathetic actually. I think I ended up saying something like: "I am swim" but Maiju and Henri both read it and helped me fix it! After Bio I had a lunch of potatoes, potatoes and more potatoes, oh yes, and some bread! I had two free periods next so I went for a bike ride though town, absorbing everything! I rode around for an hour ... read more

Today Ema, Tapio, and I woke up really late after our night out! Tapio made us breakfast and then we all just hung around for a while, trying to wake up. Leena and Erkki started painting the porch and they told me to go for a swim since it was so sunny. I decided it would be a good idea so I went down to the dock and layed in the sun. It was breezy down near the water and though the sun was out it was not warm enough to swim, so I just layed in the sun. It was very comfortable, I listened to music and I think I may have fallen asleep for a while! I came home around 6 for dinner and then Tapio took Emma and I to a Golf Bar ... read more

Yesterday was my first real day of school. I am taking Biology, English (to help out) Music, Math, and Art. Art is definitly my favorite class so far. the teacher barely speaks english but she gesticulates a bunch pointing and nodding and waving her arms until i know whats going on. today we used bailing wire to create a person. the assignment was to add an element of ourselves into our creation. it was a windy day today and i was longing to fly a kite so i made my figure flying a kite! (pics!!!) we also made a list of a few things we would like to learn in this class. i mentioned the potters wheel on my list and now she is having me teach the class! speaking of teaching classes...English is an INTERESTING ... read more

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hey im writing again woo hoo! so its silent time. aka time to sleep but im still up. the usual. eating gummies and talking with my roommate sarah. shes from canada! wicked. so today we started language camp. last night was basically just getting over jetlag. aka sleeping. but Lane (sweet texan I met on the plane) and I stayed up the latest out of all the Americans here because we wanted to meet the rest of the kids on the busses from the airport (brazillians, swiss, germans, and so many more!) and to experience the usual late night snack of finland. it was pretty good; bread and butter (with EVERY meal) cucumbers, juice, coffee (always), ham slices and swiss cheese in an open faced sandwhich. oh and we don’t fall asleep here until around 11 ... read more