On the 28th of Feb all of the Rotary youth exchange students from district 1420 met in Helsinki. This is all the exchange students in southern Finland and Estonia. It was to be a fun filled day at Sea Life, an aquarium but we instead went to the Finnish museum of natural history which had an entire room devoted to different animals crap. It is a good thing that museums are so much fun otherwise it might have been boring.
The day as a whole was awesome though. It was the first time i had seen most of the exchange students and there were people from Mexico, USA, France, Germany and more.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Winter Holidays
After less than two weeks of school it was about time for a well deserved break :P My parents were still working so i spent a lot of the week with my host auntie and uncles family.
On Tuesday i went cross country skiing with them again. I must be improving because this time was a whole lot less painful. That evening i went to the Rotary meeting where an Australian exchange student from 3 years ago had come to talk to the club. It was good just to here another person with an Australian accent.
They were going to a local ski slope the next day and so i went with them to give my brothers old snowboard a try. It was a bit difficult at first because none of them had snowboarded before and so didn't have any idea how to do it either. In a couple of hours i looked like a pro...by that i mean that i wasn't falling on my ass every 10 meters any more. It was so awesome that i'll definitely be back there for more soon.
On Thursday i drove with them an hour west to Turku, the fifth largest city in Finland. There we went to a swimming pool where you could swim in a warm outside pool where the air temperature was well below zero. I could barely see a meter away because there was so much steam.
I went bowling with my host parents on Sunday which ended with all of us having terrible scores (they're as bad as me at bowling). There was however some good pictures of my host mum who would make funny faces every time she turned around after a bad bowl.
On Tuesday i went cross country skiing with them again. I must be improving because this time was a whole lot less painful. That evening i went to the Rotary meeting where an Australian exchange student from 3 years ago had come to talk to the club. It was good just to here another person with an Australian accent.
They were going to a local ski slope the next day and so i went with them to give my brothers old snowboard a try. It was a bit difficult at first because none of them had snowboarded before and so didn't have any idea how to do it either. In a couple of hours i looked like a pro...by that i mean that i wasn't falling on my ass every 10 meters any more. It was so awesome that i'll definitely be back there for more soon.
On Thursday i drove with them an hour west to Turku, the fifth largest city in Finland. There we went to a swimming pool where you could swim in a warm outside pool where the air temperature was well below zero. I could barely see a meter away because there was so much steam.
I went bowling with my host parents on Sunday which ended with all of us having terrible scores (they're as bad as me at bowling). There was however some good pictures of my host mum who would make funny faces every time she turned around after a bad bowl.
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