What are your expectations for the trip?
Going to Finland is going to be an amazing experience. Spending time
with people that I don’t know well is going to be interesting. I’m excited for
all the fun things we are going to get to do. Staying with a host family is
going to be interesting and visiting Santa’s village is going to be a lot of fun!
I can’t wait to see all the cities and tour everywhere. I just expect to have a
lot of fun and learn about the education system so I can compare it to ours at
home. And the ferry/cruise ship sounds like its going to be a fun night…idk if
I’ll want to sleep or stay awake all night. The night train is going to be
something I’ve never done before so I’m excited to get the chance to do
that! Basically I guess I’m just excited for this whole trip and will be sad
when its over.
Arrival/First Night
The plane rides were long and boring. I’m glad those are over and I’m
dreading having to get back on one to go home. I’ve grown up *ying on
planes so I’m used to them but they take so long and are boring. They’ve lost
the exciting effect. I was glad we were able to take that taxi bus thing to the
hostel instead of having to learn about the tram that ,rst night. It was good
to just be able to have a straight path and not have to worry about anything.
The room is nice and big which is good. The beds aren’t as nice because I’m
used to a pillow top on my queen size bed so its an adjustment to be able to
sleep on this kind. For dinner I tried reindeer sausage and ate arctic char ,sh
for my meal. It was delicious and tasted similar to salmon. Fish is one of my
favorite foods. After dinner we went back to the hostel and I read one of the
books on my computer until I was tired. Then around midnight I went to
sleep.
Compare/Contrast French Immersion School in
Finland with American Middle School that we saw
last week
Before we came to Finland, during our class time at Centenary, we took a
class ,eld trip to a middle school in Shreveport and observed how things
were there. Some things were similar to how we remembered and some were
different. Then on day three in Finland we went to a French Immersion School
and observed many classrooms and learned how things work there. Both
schools taught basic skills and it seemed like the children were enjoying
learning. In the French school though, the students did not have to wear
uniforms; its like this in all Finnish schools I found out. In America most
schools have students where uniforms so that everyone looks the same to
keep people from stealing and ,ghting over little things. In the US a lot of
