Adventure on the ice• Princess and the wolf

• Tobogganing

• Ice fishing

• Soccer

• Sausages and hot cocoa

Social evening

• School choir and school band

• Traditional and well known songs (Cat scratch fever, excited, Africa,...)

• Traditional song and dance from the Spanish girls with long dresses

• We all enjoyed the night!

First impressions of Vaasa

• Snowy, clean, safe• ’Concrete’ (blocks)

but pretty• Cold but flat and

beautiful• Nice nature and

forests • Friendly people• Big city, cozy

Vasa övningsskola• SPORTS:

- Team sports: volleyball, basketball, soccer, relay race, floor hockey

- Gymnastic lessons: summer sports (football on the grass, swimming…), winter sports (ice skating, country cross skiing,…) and aerobics.

– Hungary: weightlifting, football, table tennis, volleyball, handball, basketball, roller skating, swimming, fitness and aerobics

– No school teams– Can play with each

other on several locations (Santa-cup for football)

– Belgium: school teams for rugby, football, basketball, chess,…

– Gymnastic classes. Badminton, handball, running (long distance and sprint)

– Students from boarding school: horseback riding, squash, swimming, table tennis, athletics,…

• MUSIC:

- Finnish students are really good at it

- They can play different instruments

- Hungary: not really a music class, but learning about music history and listen to different types of music

- Belgium: just the basics

(read notes, recognize

instruments,sing, listen and history)

The different languages

NICE TO MEET YOU:

- (Dutch) Leuk je te ontmoeten- (Swedish) Trevligt att träffas - (Hungarian) Örülök, hogy làthatlak - (Basque) Pozten naiz zu ezagutzeaz- (Welsh) Neis i gwrdol ’a chi

?!Tobogganing!?

• You slide down in snow from a hill sitting on a plastic “sledge” (= ’pulka’) or plastic bag

• It was very cold so we had some hot chocolate• It was a lot of fun

Describe the week with one word!

• FUN

• RELAXING• COLD

• WHITE

• FANTASTIC • ENJOYABLE• EXTREME

• BUSY

• THE-BEST-WEEK-EVER

• SNOWY

• COMMUNICATION

• INTERESTING

Interview 1

• What is your name? Satu Väre

• How old are you? 17

• Where do you live? I live in Vasa

• How many people live with you in your home?

3. Me, Mum & Dad

• How far away do you live from school? Around 7km

• How do you get to school? In a car

• How long does it take you to get to school? It takes 8 mins

• What are you favourite lessons? Music, singing. Psychology

• What would you like to do when you grow up? Dancer is my dream job

• What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? I do a lot of dancing

Interview 2• What is your name? Ulla Granfors• Where do you come from? Vasa• Do you enjoy living in Finland? Yes

• Do you enjoy being the head teacher of a school?• Most of the time, but it sometimes it gets a bit stressful

• You school is beautiful, how do you keep it so tidy?• We have nice and effective cleaning staff and pupils

that take care of their environment

• If you could change anything about your school what would it be?• Breakfast and healthy snacks during the day and ways to avoid stress

• Do you find it hard to drive in the snow? No

• Do you teach any subjects? Yes, Swedish