I just can’t bring the
blog back and not finish off the year. I just cant. August brought the beginning
of school and it was nice to find that I could follow a bit more in class
and begun to try to talk to the teachers in Finnish only. Poor Ari, he was very
nice about the fact that I made no sense. Ari was my favourite teacher, then
Jaana. Everyone told me she was scary but then again they had to take Swedish
with her, I didn't :P
I joined a Finnish
class in August and went every Tuesday night and it was great. I was the
youngest there and in the middle in terms of skill level but it was good for my
grammar and it was nice to be surrounded by people who understood what it was
like. I also spent a few weeks in a pottery class but I had to stop going
because the time was annoying but that was great fun too and they were both
free! Some of my Tuesdays consisted of a whole school day, 1 hour in the
library, lunch, Finnish class and then an hour of swimming before being picked
up! It was nice to be busy though. I had
a German class in my first Jakso of the new school year and that was good too!
It was the first class so everyone was at the same level as me which helped for
about 2 weeks but then they just whizzed past me :P Damn Finns and their
language skills!
I visited Savonlinna
with Leena in August and it was for a Kosonen Family meeting. For the first
time in my life, I was in a room packed with people with the same last name as
me. It may sound weird but it makes you feel like you’re part of something
bigger. Nobody there was even indirectly related to me because the meeting was really
for a separate branch of the Kosonen tree but Leena had offered to bring me and
I was really grateful for the experience! I got to see the castle too which was
cool because when I was little it was the only thing I knew about Finland!
At the meeting
In Savonlinna!
Olavinlinna
Picture me on my knees taking this photo when someone walks by.. Of course being Finland they didn't even give me a second glance!
Soaking in the last of the summer days
I had the same thought! I haven't written on my blog since just before Lapland, time to get back into it, it's great for reminiscing too, love what you've written xx
ReplyDeleteYou aren't in Finland anymore, right? If you still keep checking this blog for comments , I would have a question for you! WOuld you please do a video where you speak finnish? You could especially tell about your exchange year in finnish!? :) It would be lovely to hear you speaking finnish. I found this blog about an hour ago and I've been reading it since then :) xx
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