Saturday, 9/02/2019
Welcome at Oulu airport by families, after that we arrive home and we
started knowing each other and we had dinner some typical Finish meals.
Sunday, 10/02/2019
We went to the village
by the Bay of Bothnia for a BBQ.
In that moment, we met
the rest of the hosts and guests for first time. Also we tried to make a
snowman. Another very interesting experience for us was seeing a reindeer.
Finally, we visited the
city centre for first time. On Sunday, we went to the Nallikari winter village,
where we met for the first time all the other students and we spend a great
morning doing snow battles and makings snowmans, and also some people tried ice
fishing. Also, we did a little barbecue where we ate sausages and marshmallows
and we saw reindeer sleds on which some people rode. After that, we went home
and spent time with our families.
Monday 11th of February
On Monday, we went to the swedish finnish
speaking school, where they received us with a little opening in where they
sang Santa Lucia, a sweddish speaking finnish tradition. Later, they gave us a
school tour and we had lunch at the cantine. When the school day finished, some
erasmus students went to the Valkia Shopping Centre and we spent our evening
there. 
Tuesday 12 th of February
This has been a wonderful day! We have visited Rovaniemi where Santa´s
village lives. We have seen huskies, sledges, reindeer, we have been taken a
nice group photo with Santa and we have told him our peace wishes. We have also
read the 3 wishes letter we wrote in Spain on our way to the Polar Artic
Circle.
We also visited the Artic Science Centre Artikum , the Kemi Snow Castle
, where we could see an ice bar and an ice hotel. It has been incredible! An
unforgettable experience.
Wednesday 13th of
February
This day, we attended a debate about minorities in Finland: there were
speakers from the Swedish-speaking community, a LGTB representative, a Romani
woman and a migrant woman from Malawi. There was a very interesting opinions exchange
and we all learned a lot from these discussions and experiences. Then, we had
the opportunity to show our videos on equality and see what our European
friends have created.
After lunch, some of them went bowling and some others went to play in
the Megazone, Escape Room. We had quality time with our Finnish families in the
evening.
Thursday 14th of February
We saw during all this day how people in Finland celebrate the end of
the last year in highschool (The third year). First, in the morning, the people
who had finished highschool, they wore very funny costumes and gave to us some
sweets. After , teenagers who were in they second year celebrated that they
were in that moment the oldest students dancing a very beautiful coreography in
which women wore elegant dresses. At the end of the day people of the third
year get on several trucks with the customes that they had wore some hours ago
and thay went to the city to give sweets to everyone on the street.
Friday 15th of February
On Friday 15th we woke
up quite early to get to the ice skating, and although Emily Olivia Francesca
Eve and I got lost and we arrived later, we sure had a great time. We also went
to watch the sencond years's dance with those pretty dresses. It was a bit
boring and enjoyed the last dance the most. At night we attended to the final
party, where we cried for a long time since it was so sad to say goodbye.
Saturday 16th February
On Saturday 16th we didnt
do much because the Spanish team's fly took off at noon. We also cried this
time while saying goodbye to our hosts, who became our friends.
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