We had guests from Hässleholm, Sweden this week and they wrote this about our town:
Porvoo is a very beautiful city with a lot of of old pretty buildings. It’s the second oldest city in the whole country and one of six medieval cities in Finland. It was founded in the 12th century, it is located at an old trading location called “the Porvoo hill”. In Porvoo it’s very common […]
Now I’m in junior high school in the nine class. I have been now in junior high school about 2,5 years and this time has gone very fast, believe me! Last week in school we sent application to different schools. Many my friends thought that which schools they will send their applications. Before we sent the application we visited in different schools and that was really good idea so we knew about different schools. I sent my application to high school and this high school is called by Linnankosken lukio. I didn’t send application to the others schools because my adviser said that my school grades are good to high school so I don’t need another option. You don’t have to go high school or to others schools after junior high school but if you have a second education you will get easily a job. 95% of people will going…
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In Finland junior high school has grades seven, eight and nine, so the pupils are 13-16 years old. Junior high school is obligatory. After junior high school your compulsory education stops and you can go for example to high school, vocational school, commercial school or you can just quit your studies.
It’s my last year in compulsory school and after that I would like to go to high school which has more sports than other high schools in Finland. That way I can easily combine my hobby, swimming, and studying. After high school I’m going to go to university. Now I think that I’m going to be doctor, surgeon or something like that. But my opinion can change.
In Finland, school is mandatory for everyone for 9 years, starting at the age 7. When you finish Junior High School (grades 7-9, ages 13-15), you’re going to have to choose the next step in your education.
It can be High School, where you’ll get a general education. High School usually lasts for 3-4 years.
An other possibility is Vocational School, where you’ll choose a certain profession, and get your education according to that.
You can also go to Business College, which has an emphasis on business and economy.
There’s also the possibility of not going anywhere, but that’s highly discouraged.
Almost everyone in Finland will go somewhere, and only a few will drop out of school completely.
I’m currently going through my last year of Junior High School. I have decided to go to High School, because it seems suitable for me and gives me some extra time to decide…
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Yesterday we had this yearly theme day and this year it was especially about water and earth. We did all kinds of things for example thought and talked about water with our class. At one point we had some challenges like throwing ping-pong balls to plastic cups and transporting paper pieces by using only a straw and bowling with water bottles and a ball. We made the challenges with our class and it was really fun. We watched some videos and commercials about water. Some of the videos were new but some of them were made by us when we were 7th graders. I had totally forgotten those videos and they were pretty nice. We also watched a video which some of the students had made about food in different countries.Then we discussed about the amount of used water when jeans and other clothes are made. In the auditorium we…
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We had theme day about Earth and Water yesterday in our school, we played some games like basketball and bowling, it was really fun! :D Mostly I liked the quiz, it was really really great! The whole day was great, we had so much fun and we learned about water and how much is jeans water footprint :D It was day when we learned more about water and now I know that I need to save water because we can’t use it like we wan’t it just don’t work like that. Let me tell you few good advise how to save water, 1. Don’t buy bottled water 2. Don’t buy too many jeans or leather shoes, because they waste so much water 3. Buy your clothes from flea market, you save more nature and water in that way. We need to remember that we can’t use natural resource like we…
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Now I will do my book review about Animal Farm. In the beginning I want to say that the book is not on my list of favorites because the subject wasn’t that kind that I consider good. But the book contained many good things, although I did not read the book till the end. I liked it much that you can read the book using allegories. I read the book thinking that the animals were like slaves and they understood that they are absolutely similar than anyone else in this world and nobody can decide for them. Maybe animals are really thinking that they are living in a lower situation than humans. Or then not, but I hope they are not because if they start the rebellion we can’t survive. But I was sad about how the pigs fought for authority, although they were cleverer than other animals. Usually doing…
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Winter seems to be over and spring is making inroads. Sun is shining and nights aren’t so long anymore. Which is good ’cause I go to bus every morning so early and it’s nice that I don’t have to walk in the dark :)
Last week we had skiing holiday. Me and my friends went to Hämeenlinna and we spent time and slept in a lovely cottage in Hauho.
We went to an old castle in Hämeenlinna. This picture isn’t very beautiful and it’s from the back side :)
We laughed together, we danced together, we made food together, we did a lot of stuff together and we had so much fun ! ! :)
Now we can just wait for summer vacation ! :)
About three weeks ago we had an amazing week! It was so rewarding and fun and only in one week we got to know lovely people in such a short time. We had such a little group, about 14 people, so it was easy to get to know everyone. First I was very nervous about this, like everyone else also I think, and it felt a bit scary to just start to speak a different language but when you got used to the language it wasn’t even that bad. It was just fun! If you said something wrong, it was totally okay and then you just tried again. The main point is that people understand what you’re trying to say. Suddenly we all noticed that we were thinking in English and it felt even like our mother tongue! It started to feel so natural and we didn’t have to think…
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I was so excited when I heard that, I would be hosting a Swedish student called Linnéa . We had planned so much to do for the week that they’d be here. Everyone had talked with their own Swedish students before. Then came the day when they started the trip here. I don’t know what others thought, but I was excited and little bit scared at the same time, scared how’s it gonna be and what kind of people the others Swedish students would be.
Then the car arrived to our yard and my heart maybe had a little heart attack, that here we are and it’s really gonna happen. The first evening we talked about everything and went to sleep.
The second day we went to school and we saw all the others Swedish students. In school they were in our lessons. But for the last lesson we went to get…
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Two weeks ago we went take pictures of our school neighborhood. Our school is located in Gammelbacka, which is good because I live in Gammelbacka and I have a short distance to the school :D I have lived in Gammelbacka over 15 years, and I think this area is very child-friendly. Gammelbacka is also pretty unpredictable place, because here lives also such ones people with whom you do not want to have anything to do with. Well, i guess that kind of people lives everywhere but still :P
So, there are apartment buildings, playgrounds, kindergartens, primary school, local store, gas station, community centre, church and also our wonderful youth center where you can just relax and hang out with your friends! :) And also a small forest with a short nature trail.
Near of our school is many activities. There is sports fields, skatepark, an ice rink, multi-purpose hall, and a small swimming place. There…
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A about a month ago we went to take pictures of our town. I decided with my friend to go to old town and I don’t have a lot of pictures because there wasn’t enough time. So, our old town is worth of seeing. There are plenty of old houses, shops, coffee shops and restaurants.
The cathedral is a popular tourist destination at Porvoo. In 2006 the cathedral roof was burned by arson completely and the repair lasted about 2 years.
After a long day of school, me and my boyfriend we went to Sikosaari. Sikosaari is a big and old forest area close to the town. Sikosaari is a natural protected area and there are many trails and bird watching towers.
We were walking all around our school’s neighborhood and taking pictures of it. There is elementary school near to our junior high school. These schools have been named by birds names. Elementary school, Peipon koulu is named by finch bird and junior high school is named by swallow. There is good opportunities for sports; indoor ice rink, floorball hall, multi-purpose hall, running track and football field are very close to our school, about 100-200 metres away from our school. There is also a place for swimming and a horse stable.
We went to the old Porvoo by bus. We took pictures and enjoyed the sunshine. It was a beautiful autumn day. The old Porvoo looks gorgeous in autumn because there’s colorful leaves all over the place.
One of the well-known attractions is the church. It’s very old and it has been burned. Now it is re-built.
You can find many cute shops and restaurants nearby the church. When you go to the old Porvoo, it’s like a different world compared to the ‘new’ town. When I go to the old town, I always wonder what was it like to live in Porvoo 100 years ago.
I were work experiense at rosso. First week i were in kitchen ans second week I did some serving.
Food what I ate there were really good. At the first week I made my food by myself. At the second week chefs made my food. It was really fun and new experience. I get one free lunch ticket and free drinks. I had a lot of works to do.
We were photographing our school neighborhood. Our school is located in Gammelbacka wich is about 3 kilometers from the city center. Near of our school is skateboard place, an ice rink, swimming place, riding place and many sport fields. Also the sea is two kilometers away from our school.
There is also a community center, there you can play many different kind of games like as billiards, computer games, board games, ping pong and there is a climbing wall. Near of the community center is a grocery store, a library, a primary school and a great park.
Our school is located in Gammelbacka. Behind the school is field which next to located Kokonniemi’s Sports and riding stables. Opposite of the school is apartment buildings. Near the school is also a pizzeria and a short distance is located the Gammelbacka’s a small shopping center and a church. About the 1500’s before the church was even built, there was located in Gammelbacka’s manor house, which burned down in 1974. In the woods next to the school, you can still see the remnants of the mansion like a tree planted by tunnels and stone bases. The Church is surrounded by a large park which has been made when the manor house was still intact. The next couple of pictures of the church nearby park:
Previous image shows the church which is on a hill.
There are about 560 students in our school Pääskytie. Our school neighborhood is versatile. There’s a horse stable next to Pääskytie. If you look out of the school’s window, you can see horses.
Beyond horses, there’s also a “beach”, sports field, an ice rink, a skate park and many other sporting changes nearby our school.
You can easily walk to town. If you don’t want to walk, you can take a bus. But often the buses are full especially after school. That’s why I prefer walking.
We went to old Porvoo by a bus. Each one could decide where in Porvoo we will go. I decided to go to old Porvoo because everybody doesn’t know what’s in there. There is one famous place that is now museum but it used to be a town hall. Town hall was built in 1762-64 to Porvoo ( now old Porvoo). It’s an important building along with the church. Only two town halls in Finland that were built in 1700s are left and this is the one of the two. I think that is amazing that this one is still upright. Town hall was very important place in Porvoo until a new town hall was built. It became a museum already in 1896.
The autumn in Finland has started by falling leaves and cold weather. We were photographing Porvoo’s autumn fair which is full of colours, happy people and everything little things to by. It brings some joy and colours to Porvoo which is otherwise so dull.
After that we were photographing “the old side of Porvoo”. Porvoo’s church which has been built in 1400’s, is very old and famous church in Finland. And it is one of the places where Alexander 1st visited when he came to Porvoo in the beginnin of 1800’s. Old Porvoo is full of colorful old houses and little shops. In old Porvoo you can also go to taste some Brunberg’s chocolates which are made in our little town, Porvoo.
At last week we were taking pictures of our school areas nice places.
We went to Gammelbackas community centre, which is usually called Kertsi and asked for youth leader can we take photos there. We took pics mostly of graffities which is on the comminity centres walls. Maybe you want to know what you can do there? In Kertsi you can for examble play billiard, be with your friends, play on computer, listen music, climb on climbing wall and make handicrafts. There is also different organized happenings.
When we walked to Kertsi we noticed that there is really fall and leaves shines different colors on the trees and winter is coming again.
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Good school day to everybody and now I will tell something about what we did with english club in Porvoo city about two weeks ago.
We were in Porvoo city with english club about two weeks ago in school time and in the same day our shool were some singing consert and they were good I think. Our idea was that everybody would take some pictures with friends to blog. We went to city by bus and in the bus it was very hot. I was in the city with @veeti98 and we took some pictures and you will see them below and in our city there was some fair but it wasn’t very big. In the fair we bought some candy but i didn’t take pictures there because there were too many people. In the fair there was almost everything candy, clothes, food, all normal things that are…
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On our English Club lessons we were two times taking pictures of our neighborhood. First time was in the beginning of the autumn. We went to the Porvoo center. We took a lot of photos of the old town. There was nice weather, sun was shining bright.
The Porvoo is very old city, but there isn’t any houses, that are older than 300 years old. On the 1760 was big fire and most of the town was burnt. On the 2006 there was also a fire, cathedral roof was burnt, but now it is restored.
Last week we went to the community center and took some photos there. On the walls there is a lot of graffiti and other kind of illustrations. In the community center that is also called Kertsi you can do a lot of things. There is computers with internet, TV, karaoke, billiard tables, tennis tables and…
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One day we went to Porvoo town to take photos. I had planned my route so that it went to the old railway station and then by the lovely red shorehouses back to the center. It was surprisingly beautiful weather and it was really nice to walk and play a little tourist there. And the photos !
The first photo is about the Old Town Hall it’s really old and important building. It was built in 1762-1764 by Gotthard Flensborg. It’s Finland’s oldest Town Hall but now it is Porvoo museum where are shown some arts and things from Porvoo’s history.
The second photo is from the riverbank and there is always flowers planted so that the different colours form numbers 1346 and Porvoo’s symbol and 2013 the last number is 2014 next year so it always changes. I think it’s beautiful and clever and everyone can easily remember when…
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In our school all 9th grade students have to get a work experience, but they wont get paid. The idea of this work experience is to show students what is like to work and it will also help us to know what work we would like to do when we finish school. I started my work experience 21.10-1.11.2013 and i was Helsink at all our children ry( Yhteislapsemme ry). All our children Ry is kind of their own company the man that built the company died last year. People that work at all our children they all have a different works. They organize events and all what teenagers like to do. MY work started at 9am- 3pm because we had to work at least 6 hours per day . On the first week i had to do alot office work and went to different places to help organizeng the up coming events…
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In our school we have tend to have a work experiences. At 7th grade, we had a work experience which took only one day. Next year we had a work experience which took two days, and now when i’m at 9th grade, we had a work experience which took two weeks. I spent my two weeks at vocational school. There are taught a many trades, how to be a chef, a hairdresser, a waitress, or guide. I was there with my few friends.
The first week:
At first week we were taught how to be a chef. We were making foods, packing foods which were taking to sale, cleaning and learning new things. It was so busy all the time, because the chefs were making the foods for whole school. It didn’t mind because it was great to learn what was it like to be at work. There were two…
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The City of Dreaming Books is one of my absolute favorite books and it’s story happens in a fictional universe. It’s genres are fantasy and… Well there aren’t any other genres so moving on. The protagonist’s (original) name is Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, and here’s the part I don’t like. In the the english translation of this book, they renamed the characters in my opinion badly. The protagonist’s name is Optimus Yarnspinner… Enough said. The story itself is great. The start may be boring and ridiculous, but it builts up very quickly and you’ll get used to the weirdness eventually (besides, what kind of fantasy book would it be if it wasn’t weird?). I’m a little hesitant to tell about the story itself, because it can’t be put to words without making it sound unreadable. All I say is that the characters were made nicely, the more you read it the more interesting and great it gets and the end couldn’t have been more satisfying in…
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Hello :) I’m going to write you about my two weeks work experience. I was at kindergarten and the kids were so adorable <3. I was at Pikkumyyt-group. The kids were 3-5 years old. The days were same everyday. I went at eight or nine o’clock and my day was six hours long. At morning I helped the kids to eat and then they have a playtime. Usually at nine o’clock we started to dress the children’s, ready for going out. We were couple of hours outside. Then we arrived inside and was lunchtime. After lunch kids went to sleeping/relaxing. Kids were petted by me and others nanny’s. When kids started to wake up, they have some playtime. These kids usually wanted just run, play with balls and cars, build railway, sculpt play-dough, draw or paint something and watch pictures from the books. When everyone was woken up was snack…
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I decided to write about my last summer, summer 2013. It was absolutely the best summer ever. It wasn’t very warm but it didn’t matter.
At the first holiday weeks, I was in Porvoo and I spent a lot of time with my family and friends. In the end of June, I went to Kouvola to my friend’s confirmation party ! I stayed there for a week. I had fun all the time cause all the people that was there spoke the same language (Kinyaruanda, my mother’s language) as me. There were so many people who i haven’t seen in 3-5 years. After that, I went to Lahti to visite my old friends. We made african food,we sang some old Kinyaruanda’s songs, played some games and just enjoyed.
And then came all summer’s climax! My friend’s wedding in Kotka city. There were like over 1000 people,I guess. It was a…
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At this post i’ll tell you what kind of place is Old Porvoo.
Porvoo is the second oldest town in Finland. It’s quite small town, but i like it. Here is a lot of old houses, and almost every house has a interesting history. I think the church is the most interesting building in Porvoo. The church is over 200 years old! It has been burned several times but it has been fixed and not it looks great! The Cathedral church organizes a lot of weddings, funerals and christenings in addition to worships. It’s also very popular destination. There’s also a little church where there are worships sometimes too.
One very interesting building in Porvoo is The old town hall (Vanha raatihuone) . It’s the most important building at Porvoo and it’s have a long history. It has been built years 1762-1764, by Gotthard Flensborg. There was a long time…
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Hello :) I’m showing now pictures of our school neighborhood.
Here is a view from little path next to our school at morning. You can see lot of field and that’s because our school is build in top of field. You can also see a building over there it’s part of Hopea’s stable
Here is the Kokonniemi outdoor swimming pool. It’s good place to spend time in summer.
And this is picture from Kokonniemi track. There are good tracks and I like go there for a run. In winter there are ski tracks.
And here is Kokonniemi skate ramps
That building there is Kokonhalli. There are gym and halls were you can play floorball, basketball, volleyball and other indoor sports. Around Kokonhalli there are football fields, indoor ice rinks and floorball hall.
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Last time in English club we were at the center of Porvoo taking photos. The weather wasn’t very good but luckily it didn’t rain. We were about one and half hour at Porvoo’ s center then we gone back to school. I think that we had a pretty good time even when the weather wasn’t very sunny.
Porvoo is a little city on the south coast of Finland. It has a population of 49 380, it is bilingual city and the old side of Porvoo is pretty popular among tourists. It has also an old tram station, which isn’t are any more in use. Only museum trains make tours. 1762-64 built Porvoo’ s town hall (picture below) has been working as a museum since 1896. It is also the second remaining town hall in Finland.
Here are some pictures what we took:)
Porvoo tuomiokirkko is Porvoo Cathedral that was built in 15th century. Tuomiokirkko is the favorite place in Porvoo that tourist likes to visit. Porvoo tuomiokirkko is one of oldest church in Finland. The church has been destroyed by fire numerous times: the first time was in 1508 and the second time was in 2006. The second time the destroyer was a teenage school boys they were drunk when the fire happened. The destroyer had to pay for his cost. They had to re-built the church because it was damaged pretty badly on the roof. Porvoo tuomiokirkko is also a place where to held huge ceremony and weddings and other things that had to been held in church.
At Last month, I was at work experience for two weeks. I was at the restaurant that calls SURF KÖK&BAR. It was a really nice American restaurant, which had a Cuban Bar at the same place. When i was there, people who work there told that it opened there doors last summer, so it’s bland new. At the first day when i went there, i get on with the workers over there very well. There were so nice and funny just like me heh :) I was there at work day by day like 5-6 hours. All workdays began at 2 or 3pm and ended at 9pm, so I got a chance to sleep long. It didn’t felt difficult at all, because all i had to do was to wash dirty dishes, clean tables and cook up coffee for workers. Sometimes i had to go to town to share some…
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I’m going to write something about my hometown, Porvoo. I was with my friend Mila taking photos about the Old Porvoo and Porvoo’s centre. Porvoo is the second oldest town in Finland. There are so many places to see, but I’m going to tell you about a few places.
There are Porvoo’s old railway, which isn’t online anymore. But in summertime there goes Lättähattu -train couple times at month.
This is a very old train, and it’s not online anymore. It’s more like sightseeing.
Next to railway, there is very old shop, Porvoo’s old hardware store. In the old town have other shops too.
This is artillery weapon, and it’s not used anymore! You can only watch it.
There is Porvoo’s church. And some people live in the old town, as you may see there is other people homes. Porvoo’s water isn’t the cleanest..
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Porvoo is the second oldest town in Finland. I think it’s beautiful, especially the old Porvoo. We have many tourists here in Summer. Now I show you some pictures I have taken from our town.
This place is called Jokiranta. There is many restaurants and bars and I think that place is very pretty by night :)
This is a way to old Porvoo. You can see those many shops there :)
These pictures are from old Porvoo. Those red houses are the view from first picture’s bridge.
I was walking in cemetery when I took this picture. Unfortunately, I don’t have a picture from cemetery :/ It’s also a very beautiful place by night.
This is Porvoo’s old railway station. It’s not used anymore, I think it’s sad :(
This is the shopping mall Lundi. The centre of Porvoo. Place where youth spends time. :D
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As we all know, it’s always fun to run around your in country and defend it from invaders and that’s why i’ll tell about Harold of England ( or something like that ) Now Harold was a nice fellow he went around collecting taxes from the poor and he killed people. Like everyone in those days. Well, he got word that William of Normandy was planning an invasion into England. So Harold collected a lot of men from villages and trained them. They weren’t very good fighters since they were villagers but he taught them how to use your shield and sword in battle. Now, after he had trained and recruited a bunch of militias he traveled South of England to meet William’s invasion force. He waited about a month or so, but William never attacked. Then Harold got word that a giant Viking fleet had landed near York (…
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I was working at Restapark Ltd. Cafe parkpicnic for 2 weeks. I don’t actually know is it a grill kiosk or a restaurant :D but i guess it’s a grill kiosk where is also lunch. My days were pretty similar:
The first thing in the morning was to make salad ready for a lunch. Then I got to bake whatever I wanted to, which was the best part in my days hehe :D And after a couple hours when my pastry were ready, I helped my “boss” to serve and do the dishes. Then i made food to myself. Last couple of hours, I chancel for example potatoes, onions, carrots and I also chopped iceberg salad ready for the next day.
The work was hard and difficult at first, especially when you are used to sitting at a school desk. But day by day, the work seemed so much easier and nicer. I really liked that…
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Hello! :) I decided to write today about my hobby, Spinning = indoor cycling. Spinning is hard, energetic and powerful training. Spinning also hold up your shape and you also use a lot of energy (calories, fat) out of your body. Spinning is team exercise and there is also a trainer who guide your lesson. Spinning be based on music and tempo.
Spinning training depend on what kind of trainer you have. You may have interval training, which drive away your sadness. Interval training is so powerful and what is it like? You have to pedal on bike so fast what you can and then you rest pedal to easy pace and same again few more times.
If your goal is weight loss, spinning is the right means to that. It burns so much calories and improve your aerobic fitness.
And where spinning work actually? I’ll tell you now, it’s…
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In our school we have these exit students who come and try to direct other students out for a break between lessons. When I was in 7th and 8ht grade I thought that exit students were a bit annoying. Maybe because they had the authority to say that you have to go out and they by themself can be inside. Usually exits threaten and say like: ” go out or I will write your name to this paper” which means that I get a warning and from the second name in the paper I propaply get detention. But now when I’m 9th grade I think that exit students are cool because I’m going to be one. It feels like the waiting has become worth it and now I’m one of the annoying exits who can told everyone else that they have to go out. There is quite many exit students so our associate…
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Friends are very important. It’s hard to find good friends. So you shouldn’t let your friends down. It’s good to make new friends but you shouldn’t leave the old friends. Without friends you are lonely. When you’re alone there will be always friends to make you happy and accompany you. You can share secrets to your friend (of course to the friend that you trust). You will have good memories with your friends that you can’t forget. Your friends are one of a kind. As a friend you should be honest and keep the secrets that they tell you.
My opinion:
I think friends should be honest and support me. There might be evil friends that stab you behind your back. So you shouldn’t trust everyone so easily. Like if you meet a friend for one day… and you tell him all the secrets. The next day he might gossip about…
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Last friday we had a sports day at school, like my headline says.
First in the morning Jari-Pekka Toivonen (Finnish actor) came to our school and told us something about his life, work, and taught us one fun game.
After that, we went walking to nearby forest, because we had a nature trail where we had to answer a couple of random questions.
Then we continued walking to Kokonniemi, where we played old-times games and ate some food. It was a fun day! The games were fun, weather was warm and sunny.
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So two weeks ago i was in Sweden Uppsala for a comenius project and it is so fun! I got to see my good friends that i had miss so much, and the trip went amazing!
The town that we went was called Uppsala (population 140 454) and it was Sweden’s fourth largest city it had so many old buildings, bridges and there was this BIG church. There was a little tour of the city and it was bigger than Porvoo. It had so many store and shops the weather there was good but in some days it rain.
And there school was big and old it was the the oldest school in Sweden so that an honor to see it! And each country had to do a presentation from there own country and city.The day in Stockholm was so fun and the places we went to see and the city…
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Tolerance is something that everyone should know about. It is respecting, accepting, but first of all it is diversity. And our school is very much teaching us precious life-skills like tolerance. For instance we spent Day of Tolerance on last Thursday (21.3.). It was a five hours long day with plenty of organized programs. The main theme of the day was (of course) tolerance and racism.
Our school is pretty big – approx. 500 students, so it was lots of sweating for the students and teachers who were organizing the day. There was a Racism Path where the student were put into groups to think about everyday-racism that is there but nobody ever notices. As a little helper student on Racism Path, I can tell that the students really were thinking about the little bad things that we can make better. This Racism Path was a great reminder for all of us I think. :)
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Last Thursday we had this special day, day of tolerance. I saw amazing fashion and dance shows! The idea of fashion show was really good. There were clothes from different countries like Russia, Estonia, Thailand and Vietnam. After that one man came here to tell us about how badly things are in poor countries in Africa. It really made me think about how well things are here in Finland. Anyway before the end of the day me and my musical theatre group we showed our play it’s called ”Free your mind” and it tells something about tolerance.
http://blogblogken.blogspot.fi/2011/07/importance-of-tolerance-this-world-is.html
Love, Miia
On last week’s Thursday, we had a Day of Tolerance in our school. We didn’t have any normal lesson because we had all kinda of different activities that was arranged to us. We have every year one day like this in our school :). We talked about different cultures and racism. Jani Toivola also kept a speech in our school. He’s a man that almost everyone knows, like a little celebrity and he’s also a member of parliament. The speech was VERY good and he told us about his own experiences about racism, because his skin color is black. There was also a little “fashion show” where was introduced different countries national costumes. Then we walked around the school and there was games and thing to do which was connected to day of tolerance. The whole day was really nice and it’s good that our school organize things like this! :)
Tolerance is a hard subject to talk about. There is so much bad happening around the world. It is important to treat anybody just as good as you would treat yourself. Racism against age group, religion or even against an individual is forbidden, but still people do it. Minority’s experience lots of racism, which is not acceptable. People should learn to live with each other or just simply leave people that they don’t like alone. Racism is not good by any means, it only causes bad things to happen. People should learn to get along with anybody. Skin color, hairstyle or clothes do not matter. We are all equal.
I’m planning on studying music after upper school. I applied for Sibelius-lukio, which is like a high school in the U.S. but it’s focused on music industry. You can study instruments, composing, music technology, musical theory and stuff like that in there. I sing, play drums, bass and guitar, so that place has so much to offer for me. I also applied for Music Conservatory, which is basically like a vocational school of music. If you get there, you can almost say you will become a musician. Unless you drop out lol. And the inadequacy of actual studying there fascinates me. My school grades have gotten much worse and seriously i am not interested in studying basic subjects anymore.. at all. So the conservatory would be the best choice for me. I don’t know what to do in my life, if not music. That’s kinda bad but super rad haha
Downhill skiing, badminton, skating, floorball, basketball.. Lot’s of fun things to choose for sports day :). We had a sports day before our winter holiday. I chose the badminton. It was fun to just chill and play with friends. Of course I would have liked to downhill ski. Actually we have a ski slope right in the center of Porvoo :) . So it’s easy to just go there because its short way there. Here’s some photos from Kokonniemi.
I think it’s good that our school organize days like this. Good change for studying :). And it was good that there was so many sorts of sport to choose so everybody could pick what they want and that’s how they made the day fun for everyone!
February 5th is one of those day’s when Finnish flag is held high and we all recall a great Finnish poet and writer J.L. (Johan Ludvig) Runeberg and his respected wife (also a writer) Fredrika Runeberg. Back then, around 1800’s Finland was getting more and more independent. And writers’ and artists’ job was a big part of that. Luckily, the wave of romanticism and poetry was all over the world of arts, which made it “easier” for writers and artists to get folks turn to nationalism. Poets, writers and painters started put aside the ugly sufferings caused by war, and highlight the beauty and love of same nationed people had for their fatherland. In the literature they describe how this small nation fought bravely to for their mother language and fatherland. For example Runeberg wrote stories and poems on how beautiful it was that young men (around 15…
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February, 27
On Sunday evening I left from home to the Helsinki-Vantaa airport where I was supposed to meet my teachers and six other students. We had this comenius project and there was four country including Finland involved this project. The theme of the project was “Water and Earth”.
This time the meeting country was France. So we were ready to go! We flew to Amsterdam, but unfortunately the plane was delayed so in Amsterdam we didn’t have time to change our plane. We slept in Amsterdam and in the morning we flew to the Paris and there to Toulouse. Finally we arrived! In Toulouse we did workshops and tested diffent waters with students from Sweden, Great Britain, France and Bulgaria.
One day we had a daytrip and we went to the Carcassonne ( it’s like an old town). It was really beautiful place and we had spare time there too!.
I had this amazing week…
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The day started in a bus. The bus took us to Canal du Midi where the water splits in two directions, one direction goes to the Atlantic ocean and the other goes to Mediterranean sea. The place itself was interesting and beautiful. I learned new things. After Canal du midi the bus took us to a historical castle, La Cité. The castle was in Carcassonne, 90km southeast from Toulouse. The castle was interesting and we had lunch in a little restaurant inside the castle. After lunch we had two hours free time to roam around the castle. We went with my friend to a little candy shop. I bought a lollipop. I ate the lollipop and took a lot of pictures of the castle which was in fact enormous. After the pictures were taken the bus took us back to the hotel in Toulouse.
After all i had a…
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Today is a long day at school and i’m really tired.
I don’t know what i’m doing right now.
I’m planning on saving the world, but not today.
Cheers for wasting 15 seconds on reading this.
Last week i read a book named ”Animal Farm”. It is a classic book which i had never heard about before. As a Finn it’s not that important to know this particular book. Anyway it is a known book all around the world and also the writer is know from his other books such as ”Nineteen Eighty-Four”. Animal Farm is a excellent book, it’s well written, interesting and easy to read. As the story goes there is a farm, a manor farm that is owned by a old man that has a very close relationship with alcohol. The animal are fed up with the man and so they take over the farm. The battle was bloody and rough but the animals won it. After the animals have taken over the farm, they re-name it as ”Animal Farm”. At first the animals are all equal, but after some time the old…
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Today we have a independence dance day in ours school.
Everybody is wearing a dress or a suit.
School arranges big party 5th December every years even though the real day is 6th December.
Then we have two days free. We have trained a dance in P.E. Every class has an own dance.
Our dance is waltz. And eight graders have a mignon dance and seventh graders have kikapoo dance.
Tomorrow December 12 is Finland’s Independence Day. Finland will be 95 years old. Finland declared its independence in 1917 from Russian. Finland has been independent for 95 years. The Finnish Senate, or government issued the Declaration of Independence in December 1917.
This is Finland’s flag.
By:Argjira
Hello everybody! Last English Club lesson we took photos of our school. I took photos with my friends Marika and Miia T. I used my phone camera. Next week we will go by bus to center and take a lot of pictures, then I will take my good camera with me. Sometimes I will want to go somewhere little bit farther :)
Our school is a big and there are so many class room. Almost everybody at 9th grade come to school by moped or scooter or microcar. I usually come to school with my friend’s scooter ride.
-mimiia
This summer has gone by so FAST! Tomorrow we’ll get to do our first exam of the year >>> math’s exam. I still recall the hot summer days by the beach or the warm summer nights enjoying the sunset by the waterfront. Ahhh… Why are summer vacations so short in Finland? I’m already kinda feeling like I need more of vacation.
But it is always fun to move into the colors of the fall. Finnish fall is so beautiful specially for its sunrises. Sun rises pretty late here compared to other countries. But it doesn’t bother me because I get to enjoy my walk to school. And the other good thing about fall is that nights here aren’t like tea time in other Southern countries. Fall is probably the only season that is totally balanced. I just L-L-L-Love ittt! In my listings, spring has the 2nd place instead of 1st because…
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We had a sports day yesterday ( November 4th, 2012 ). The day started with a moped and bicycle trick track. Few students took part in it. It was fun to watch and they all did well. After that we walked and walked for a long time through the forest and over the hills. It was a long walk and just when i felt like i couldn’t go any further we finally arrived to our destination. We had a few tasks to do while we were there, such as rope pulling, darts, quiots and some other traditional games. It was a fun day overall.
The post says it all. :)
Hello everyone!
I’m Yasaman, a nine grader student writing from Finland. Today the members of English Club 9, including me, signed up to social network Twitter. The idea is supporting language learning, without the boring paper work. In this case we are learning English.
To me, SOUNDS GREAT! And I think it also sounds great to the other student in this group.
I was already joined, but I made a new account for school. If you’re interested, you can follow me on @JazzySunny_ https://twitter.com/JazzySunny_
Have a great day! :)
My English teacher started a great project a while ago: Is there any way we (our school) could exploit social medias to stop bullying? And we are taking our first steps through this post. So I’d be very glad and grateful if you left me a comment and helped us with developing our school’s system, because all ideas below are mine.
I was 12 when Facebook got really famous, and the following year when we were 13 everyone got one. As we all know, Facebook is still in use very actively. And Facebook was a big step to network socializing after MySpace. But at the time, it was a big step for my normal people too; communication got a lot easier, some of us got new friends or met the old ones, smart criminals started to do their crime Social Media as their crime partner, and unfortunately some of us had to be their victims.
But that doesn’t give a reason to us to underestimate social networks.
Our school has used social networks in informal language education for few years now. E.g. we did presentations in English and the slides for our presentation we did in Google Docs instead of using PowerPoint and carrying a memory-stick with us when ever we had English Club. And Google Docs was a completely new place for all of us! (Personally using it daily for private sharing with friends). Then in spring we started a blog together on WordPress.com. We also have other courses like Global Education Course where the students use media as a learning tool. You can find out more about those in our school’s site: paaskytie.wordpress.com.
If social networks can be successfully used in language learning, why can’t it be in bullying?
Our school has a pretty accepting atmosphere and bullying situations are rare. Almost everybody feels comfortable. But there are still some student hanging alone and really showing that they are down and they need help. For each student there is always at least one teacher that we have a special connection with, the one we count on. But when it’s time to tell that I’m bullied, I don’t think that it is easy (specially if it has continued for a long time). You know that you have friends who are so near but still so far away and suddenly you realize “hey – I’m all alone with this problem”. And that’s when the victim might fall into a depression and bad things start happen. And I don’t want anybody to face those times.
Do we always see it? I think everybody sees it. The real question is: When do we understand it isn’t a joke? When will we get the courage to help the victim? I think teachers see it too. We are like blind chickens in front of the eagles during the lessons. If you can catch us while sneakily cheating in an exam (something that we of course don’t do..), why can’t you catch the students bullying? Teachers can and should say “Hey -stop it. What you’re doing is stupid” during the situation, but it is not as effective as if a student says so in the corridors.
But there is one big problem; no one ever does it. That’s why I’ve thought that supporting the victim by being a buddy or a friend, would be more effective solution. If one person tries to get the victim to their own group of friends, the rest of the group can’t say anything, they’ll accept it. Soon they’ll all realize that they have one more good friend!
Sometimes when the person you’re trying to help has been ignored for a long time, it is really difficult to even get an eye contact. And getting a “hi” back can get frustrating. So I think we can speed up that phase by social medias help! Dadadadaaa! The first “hi, how are you?” could start on Facebook, or Twitter. Then you wanted or not, you will have that eye contact at school too. ;)
As I mentioned the helper has to be a reliable and conscientious student who is really ready to help. And does it from his/her heart.
And that’s another reason why our teachers are eagles and not chickens like we. They simply have to pick students for an “action group”. After they’re picked, the teacher has to tell them what is the game called. And that’s when it can start. There is also couple things that are important in this project if we want to be successful: the activity has to stay as a secret between the stakeholders and the action group, and things would work better if the group is small. Another important thing is that the group has to give the stakeholders a monthly report about the progressing. That would help our school with developing this activity for next years.
Thank you very much for taking your time to read our ideas. New innovative ideas related to bullying left in the comments are all welcome and appreciated.
I have’ve had the pleasure of having this opportunity to bring up my ideas that might develop a place that is important for every student. We spent more than half of our day doing school-related things. That means that if somebody doesn’t feel comfortable at school, how can he feel ok at home? School and the social life we have there exists and effects in every detail of our life. So I cannot wait until we step into the implementation process!
Music can be considered as an international language. There are a lot of similarities between the traditional music of each country.
Five students from Pääskytie and Albert Edelfelt schools took part in the project ‘Music Colour Bridges of Tradition’ which took place in Thessaloniki November 7-14, 2011 under the support of the frame of Youth in Action. Organizations from Greece (Host), Finland, Cyprus and Spain collaborated.
Each partner presented traditional music, hymns and traditional instruments from its country. There was a discussion about the use of the traditional music scales, such as traditional songs, instruments, chords, religious music and music therapy. Additionally, visits and training activities of music schools and cultural organizations were included in the program.
Each group partner chose, prepared, presented and taught traditional music from its own music culture. The partners also presented their work in public and had a concert which was recorded and will be shown in satellite channel 4e.
The partners: . Volunteer singers of St Panteleimon Youth Choir Kalamaria-Greece (Host Organisation) . Pääskytie School -Finland . Agias Filaxeos Lyceum-Cyprus . Asociación Juvenil Intermbia -Spain
Our school was awarded second place in Teachers’ competition for Social Media use in Formal Language Learning Contexts arranged by the European Union.
Here’s our entry: http://elearningeuropa.info/en/book/practice-7
In our school students are able to choose Global Education Course. In this year we had 16 9th grade students working with this project. Our ambitions were; get to know foreign countries and their cultures and nature, discuss about global issues and global warming and make new friends with Lithuanian and Danish students.
We also had a trip to Lithuania where we met Lithuanian and Danish students and their teachers. We were living in the host families and took part in some visits and activities. For example we visited few museums, peatfield, regional nature park, ornithological bird station and stork colony. In freetime we spent time all together or in the host families.
All in all the trip was a success. We reached our course ambitions and had a great time. We learned to talk english better, got new friends and learned lots of new things of Lithuania and Denmark.
Here´s some videos of the trip.
Made by: Erika Lantz and Mia Tallqvist
Pääskytie School 