Friday February 8th

On Friday morning we had lessons, for example music and arts. After lunch every country had done a short presentation about their national endangerd arts and crafts. We all listened to them all.

 

 

 

 

A painting on the school wall by the Finnish students

The arts and crafts brought to the LTT meeting in Joensuu

The students on the steps at Pielisjoki School

Then we headed for the the Art Museum Onni in the centre. We had a guided tour in English there through the main collections of the museum.
 

The students in front of the Art Museum Onni

Many of us went to the city centre to hang out after the visit to the museum.






















In the evening we had a farewell party at Nepenmäen koulu. The food was prepared by the host families. We had some performances and games there, too. Then it was time to say goodbyes. It was a great week.

 

Folkdance group Vinhakat

 

 

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Thursday February 7th

I woke up at around 7am and ate some breakfast. We ( me and my host student) arrived at school at about 8 am and went different ways because we were going to do different activities. We had a second breakfast at school and soon after that got on the buses that took us to Mustavaara. What can I say about the day? First of all, it was really good fun and I was having a great time. Just found a couple of chaps that were going skiing, put on some AC-DC and Sabbath on the boombox, and that’s about it. A recipe to a nice down-hill-skiing day.

 

We had a possibility to go downhill skiing, snowshoeing, playing games on the snow, go down the slope on a tobbogan and do ice sculpting. 

Well, after about four or five hours we once again hopped on the buses and headed back to the school.  that, As far as I can remember, my host student stayed at school with the other Turkish students. I think my mom picked him up from there later. We had an ice swimming place and a sauna reserved at 6 pm. We stopped briefly by our home to get my swimming trunks and went ice swimming. We had a good time, made snow angels, swam in the lake etc. We were there for about an hour and a half and after that picked up my host student from downtown and went home. 

We had had a good and a long day and it was starting to take its toll on us. We were quite sleepy, at least I was and went sleeping after a little evening snack.

Wednesday February 6th

Workshops

On Wednesday morning the students were split up in two groups. The two groups made

different traditional handicrafts: wooden butter knives and friendship bracelets The groups had two hours to make their handicrafts and then the groups switched lessons.

 

 

 

When the bracelets were ready, the students gave their own bracelets to their exchange

partners. After everyone had vowed eternal friendship with their bracelets and had their own knives,

they headed to the city center to make Karelian rice pasties.

Wednesday was full of tradition. Like every other day of the week Wednesday taught

everyone art and creativity.

A link to Erasmus Artistic Creations (compiled by a Finnish student Matti Leinonen):  Erasmus Artistic Creations