OUR TRIP TO FINLAND

SAUNA• The Finns have got sauna in almost

every house. Maybe it is so because they want to enter this hot room when they come back from the outside.

WITHOUT SHOES • In school they don’t wear shoes, they wear just

socks, like we do in the photo. For us it was a little too cold without shoes, so we took to school cleaner shoes.

ICE-SKATING

• In our school we ride to the swimming pool. In Finland they go ice-skating. They are really good at it.

SCHOOL CANTEEN

• In this school they have got a canteen. At 12 o’clock everyone goes there to eat lunch. There are always some students who clean the canteen after lunch.

THE FINNISH CHARACTER• When our teacher told us we were going to

Finland, we were so happy. We started watching some videos and reading blogs about Finnish culture. A lot of people were telling us that the Finns are sad, mean and pesimistic. But that's not true! Everybody was really kind to us! Teachers were open and friendly, host families were lovely and even an old woman from the bus started talking to Ola in English.

WEATHER• In Finland it was rainy and not so cold, just 0

or +2 degrees. The Finnish people were very disappointed and everybody was sorry that we couldn’t see a real Finnish winter. They were expecting -20 degrees and a lot of snow.

FAZER FACTORY• One of the best trips in Finland was a visit to the

Fazer Factory. This is the most popular brand of sweets in Finland. They make delicious chocolate bars, snacks, cakes and more. In this factory they showed us the history of Fazer company, how it looks from the backstage. Then we went to a big room with a lot of Fazer sweets. We were allowed to eat as much as we could. In the end they gave us a surprise bag: a few sweets and some vegetable bread. That was an awesome place!

RECYCLING CENTER• The recycling center was also a really good place.

There were a lot of cheap products. We could find there furniture for home, clothes, plates, jewellery, cups, books, toys and many vintage things. The best thing about this place is that people don’t have to trash useless things. They can bring them all here and do something good for the others and for the environment.

EDUCATION IN FINLAND• Kids in Finland start education when they are 7 years old and they

finish it when they are 16. Children in classes 1-6 have all lessons (without PE, wood arts and foreign languages) with the same teacher and in the same classroom. They start learning English in 3rd year and they also learn Swedish. Every Monday, students and the teacher sit in a circle and talk what was good and bad during their weekend and what book they read last week. When they read something in their school books, they sit in a circle again and every student reads aloud one sentence after the other. Students in primary school learn also cutting out of wood or burn metal plates. They use saws, grinders and many other dangerous tools. Students also sew at school. Children learn playing the guitar, keyboard, drums, transverse flutes and percussion. Education in Finland is very different from the Polish education.

WOOD ARTS

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Ola LewandowskaJulka Marek

Zuzia Gamańska