ERASMUS +, CAP AL FRED DE FINLÀNDIA

EXPERIENCE IN FINLAND. THE PROTAGONISTS

THE PROTAGONISTS

• My experience of Finland was so good. It was the first time that I made an Erasmus and sincerely I like a lot this experience and I hope that I can repeat again. I think is a good way to learn english and in the same time meet new people, because in my time in Finland I met a lot of people of different countries that I never think that I meet and I became good friends with all of them. I think if you have this opportunity you have to try to make it because is a new experience and I think that you never regret of try to do this. When you are there you spent a lot of very good moments because you visit a new country and meet a lot of different people. When I was there I feel very comfortable with the family that I was there because they treated to me like if I was one of them and with the girl that I was hosted we became very good friends. If I have another time the opportunity to have this experience again I will repeat again because it was the best experience that I never have. I think if you have this kind of opportunity you have to take advantage because maybe you will not have it again. 

(Laura Gili Ginard)

• I think going to Finland was a very good and nice experience because I learned a new and very diffrent culture, I met friendly people and I learned some finnish words too. I felt very comfortable with my finnish family because they were very nice with me and they showed me many beautiful places in Finland and many finnish traditions too. And finally I have to say that I got on very well with my host, Emilia. I had a lot of fun during that trip. I think we can not let go these opportunities because not everybody can do that. 

(Antonia Massanet)

• The stay in Finland it was amazing. The first three days we stayed in the capital, Helsinki, we saw the most important and beautiful things of this place. We saw the Senators square, the Orthodox cathedral, the Lutheran cathedral, the port, the streets...and the snow.The Sunday we went to the airport of Kuopio and then with a bus to Nurmes, there all the families waited for us. All the week we made a lot of activities: we cook, we made wooden utensils , we fish in the frozen lake... In the afternoon we went every day to a house to do a a party with all the friends.Finland is very different than Spain, for example they eat at 10:30 of the morning and they have dinner at 17:00h of the morning, for us is very early. The country in winter is very cold (-20°,-40°..) and in Mallorca in winter isn't "could" (15°,5°...) and there they have snow all the winter and here one time every three or four years. Then, the summer in Finland is like the spring in Mallorca. Finland and Spain are very different. Well, the last day we made a party in the school, and we danced all the afternoon we danced in groups, in pairs, rock songs , finish pop, slow songs, we ate a lot...There, in Nurmes, we meet a lot of people and friends, it was a very friendly, cold and beautiful experience and I want to do again in the future.Thanks for all Nurmes!

(Sebastià Gomila)

• This trip I found with differents customs in Finland, for example: Remove the shoes in the houses, schools... lunch at 10.00 and dinner at 16.00, after the sauna go to the snow, and others. We did differents activities : ice fishing, spend a day of survival in the woods, play sleigh, etc. I liked to met people from different countries, enjoy all the snow landscapes and learn more english. In conclusion, I think it was a very good experience that is not easy to repeat!

(Kelly Morey Bolaños)

• Traveled to Finland was an amazing experience. I liked so much stay in Finland specially in Nurmes because its a very beautiful place and the people that we met were amazing. One of the thinks that I liked more was the weather because is so different to the weather that we have in Mallorca and this allowed us to make things that we can't do in Mallorca. I liked it so much and I hope we can repeat that experience in the future.

(Pere Joan Infante Carrió)

MOBILITY IN FINLAND

The second mobility of the Erasmus + project “No problems, just solutions” took place in Nurmes (Finland). Seven students from our school (Pere Joan Infante, Antònia Massanet, Sebastià Gomila, Laura Gili, Laura Pozo, Manolo Pozo and Kelly Morey) took part in, probably, the most adventurous trip of the project. Since the combination of flights from our island was difficult, we had to stop for a couple of days in Helsinki. There, the cold (-20º) welcomed us and in spite of this we had the chance of exploring a city covered in snow. We visited the most symbolic places like the cathedral or the port and, above all, we got to know a city very different from ours. 

After two days in Helsinki, we took a flight to Kuopio, in the North - East of Finland. In Kuopio, a bus was waiting for us and it drove us to our destination: Nurmes. There, a small community of around 7.000 inhabitants, we spent a whole week. The host families were waiting for the guests near the school and, once there, everyone started their particular experience. 

The days in Nurmes 

The week in Nurmes was very nice since everyone had a wonderful time. As stated above, the conditions of the place and the extreme temperatures made everything more special because it is something that, for us, is difficult to come across. The workshops prepared and planned by the Finnish school were obviously related to the topic of the project “No problems, just solutions”. Thus, our students built tools and took part in different activities focused on the matter. Specially remarkable was the day we all went on a “Survival day” in the woods of Finland. There, we could walk on snowshoes, we had a barbecue in the middle of the forest, we could slide using snowskates and both students and teachers could feel what it was like to go to a Finnish sauna and then roll in the snow. 

As it usually happens when things are fun, time flew and time to say goodbye came very fast. The adventure had been successful and everyone came back home with a happy heart and a smile in their face. Obviously, there are always little problems along the way but, as the title of the project suggests, solutions take over problems.