Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Life in Finland

I feel like I need something to make my blog more interesting and exiting as this year is so far! Can't say what exactly, but once my mom's sends my photo uploader i forgot i'll be sure to put lots of pictures up. Last friday my host family took me to their summer cottage about 30 min from here. We had tea with the grandparents and then went in the sauna and lake. On saturday I went with my host sister to one of her friends 18th birthday at a summer cottage, just some friends and food and such. It was nice meeting more new people but I was just way too tired that night! School has been pretty good, i'm liking my classes, esp. 3 art courses! Yesterday some friends and I went out to lunch which was nice and we discussed tea party, which i will talk about more later on when i know more about it! I'm anxiously awaiting my longboard that i ordered (Loaded Dervish) so i can use it before more rain, and snow comes. Other than that I am enjoying the newness of this all, and biking to school!

5 comments:

  1. hey ives! I love reading your blog-- I thought the education post was so interesting!! In fact, I continued on to research and found some very interesting articles! Did you know Finland hosts an annual conference to teach other nations about their education system? A lot of countries want to model Finland's system... get this: of developed nations, they spend the fewest hours in class, yet their students consistently rank in the top 5 or so internationally!! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080502015.html

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  2. Sounds like lots of summer cottages. Don't they use them in the winter? How is the water temperature?

    Your blog doesn't tell me when you update it. I have to "discover" it. Don't know why that is?

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  3. Ivy has to change the settings to send email notification to "followers" when she updates the blog.. then you won't have to "discover" it anymore.

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  4. OH, Well I got your comment in an email!

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  5. Hmm, No most summer cottages aren't furnished or are on long trails in the woods. sorry I haven't gotten to these comments sooner, I didn't even know they were there! Yeah I can imagine because there isn't a ton of school hours but yet they are all very well educated!

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