On the edge of Culture and Nature (Finnish mobility program) - Taulukko1.pdf
One of the main goals of this project is to connect the school learning with the real world. Thus the many visits to places related to culture and nature during this week.
MONDAY - CULTURE DAY
On monday morning we had a Welcoming Party and then our choir Keskuskoulu's Musicclass choir sang some songs.
After Welcoming Party we had some activities, how to know each other and then we made our teams with a little puzzle by pictures of Finnish Nature. We made three teams from students and two teams from teachers.
We had Qr-code navigation with groups in our school. Qr-codes included some pictures from our school, and by those pictures each group visited some classes and places in our school. Finnish students told about our school in groups and helped our visitors to find the places from pictures, which was transfered to Qr-codes.
After school lunch we had a Guided history and Ghost tour by Raahe Travel Guides in two groups. Then we visited Sovelius House and our guide told about Candle Story of Sovelius family and Raahe’s history.
Then we went to Raahe Museum. First the guide told us about Raahe’s Old Church and old degorations, which are in Raahe Museum. Then we started our Amazing Race Raahe- We had different places to visit with our teams and we solved the problems of those places. Even our logal newpaper Raahen Seutu came to write an article about our activity and our week and reporter walked with one group from place to another.
We did cooperation with Raahe Lutherian Church, Teather of Raahe, Logal Library and Galleria Myötätuuli. In Church they had to find some places from pictures of Church. In Library you solved books names by pictures in english. And in Galleria Myötätuuli you created a new little house for yourself by recycled material. Each groups got points from their activity to Final points.
In the evening teachers had dinner together in the Chinese Restaurant Hai Long and students spent their evening with hostfamilies.
TUESDAY - NATURE DAY
We started our day with Litter@Sea presentation by Manuela Correia from Portugal. That was for our visitors and for older students of our school. Manuela told us about Plastics on Oceans and how we can recycle Blastics in a better way.
We supposed have snowshoes, motorvehicles, icefishing and playfull competitions to get to know Raahe archipelago, but cause the lack of snow and ice of the sea, we had to change our activities. We had fatbiking and walking tour by Botnia Outdoor. After this we took bus to Varvi and had a nice Nature Lunch in Cottage. We went for a little walk in groups and some of us made their own sticks and roast sausages in fire. We had a lovely and relazing Nature day near the sea. Nature day was for our visitors and for some of our Finnish students and teachers.
In the afternoon teachers had Sauna Experience in Boutigue Hotel Langin Kauppahuone. Some of our visitors was first time in Finnish Sauna and finnish teachers helpt they to survive there and told about Finnish Sauna Culture.
In the evening teachers had dinner together in Raahe Hovi and students spent their evening with hostfamilies.
WEDNESDAY - TRIP TO LAPLAND
On Wednesday we took a bus to Lapland. Trip was to our International group and hoststudents of the visitors. Our first destination was Snowcastle of Kemi. On our way to Kemi and Rovaniemi, we wrote letters to Santa Claus, had a little playful competition about Santa Claus in our teams and we wrote a postcard to home. That postcard supposed to send to home from the Arctic Circle from Santa Claus Post Office.
In Snowcastle we had two hours time to look around and took pictures. Then we drived to the Arctic Circle and had a lunch in Restaurant Kotahovi. We eat some traditional Finnish food.
Then we had time to took Reindeer Path with our own groups from different countreis.
We had a little time to look around in the Arctic Circle and then we went to met the Santa Claus with whole group and took pictures with him.
On our way back home we wrote new lyrics to our Project Song called On the edge. We sang that song together in our Final Party on Thurday.
THURSDAY - ACTIVITY DAY
On Thursday morning we met at Ice Hall, we had skating and ice hockey. We had some playfull activities in teams. Then we walked to school and had lunch, visited some classes and coordinators had meeting.
Then we walked together to Arina Areena, where we had Finnish Baseball. We catch ball with räpylä, batting with Baseball Bat and had playfull home base run with our teams. A couple of Finnish Baseball players from Pattijoen Urheilijat Poikien Superpesis team show their skills and helped us to get to know a little about Finnish Baseball.
In the evening we had or Final Party in Brain Center. Every country took something biscuits or sweets from home and we had some tastes from different countries by visitors and hostfamilies. We started our Dinner with some Speech and then we had show by Maaru – a logal duo with kantele and singer. Then we song our Team Song together and had two Finnish dances together. In the end of Final Party we had a Prize Ceremony for Teams and every visitor got their Diploms and presents from Finnish team.
