My first impressions in Finnish project

Ve čtvrtek 6. září 2012 jsem se poprvé setkala s mojí novou partnerku z Finska Eve Riikonen. Moc jsem se na ni těšila, ale z našeho setkání jsem byla trochu nervozní. Jelikož jsem kromě hodin angličtiny nemluvila anglicky, přiliš jsem jí nerozuměla. Cítila jsem se velice trapně. Eve byla velmi vlídná a snažila se mi pomoci. Po chvilce jsem byla schopna alespoň trochu komunikovat. Jelikož jsme se z dřívějška neznali, bylo naše setkání a pobyt spolu založeno na seznamování. Domů z vlakového nádraží ve Žďáře nad Sázavou jsme jeli s mým taťkou, který ovšem neumí mluvit anglicky. Maminka byla v práci, takže se s Eve setkala až druhý den. Samozdřejmě ani mamka neovládá angličtinu, takže domluva mezi rodiči a mojí partnerkou byla závislá na mně. Následující dny byla naše konverzace lepší a lepší.
Myslím, že jsme si společný týden všichni užili a bavili se. Poznala jsem spoustu nových lidí a našla si nové kamarády mezi finskými i českými studenty.

On the 6th of September I met my new partner from Finland Eve Riikonen at the first time. I had been looking forward to her, but I felt a little nervous. I spoke English only at school, so I didn´t understand her as well and I felt very embarrassing. However she was very pleasant and she tried to help me. After a while I was a little bit involved in the conversation with her. Everybody from our group knew her partner from the past, but we had never met before, so our meeting was based on familiarizing. We went home from the railway station in Žďár nad Sázavou by car with my father, who can´t speak English. My mom worked, so she met Eve next day. Of course my mom can´t speak English, so I had to translate everything. I think following days our conversation was getting better..

I think we enjoyed our common week a we had lots of fun. I met lots of new friends and I found new friends from Finland and our school.

Eva Fousová

The summer wedding in the Old Church of Petäjävesi

I went to see a wedding in the Petäjävesi old church on 14^th of July. The weather was grey and a little rainy, even cold. I arrived at the church and had to wait for the wedding to begin. People arrived, some nervous, some a bit confused. I believe I was the most confused and nervous of them all, since I didn’t know anyone or what I was even doing.

  We all went inside the church. First we heard some music, and then the bride and groom marched inside, looking as gorgeous as people always do in weddings. We all stood up as they walked to the altar, and the priest started talking. There were prayers and bible phrases and speeches and all that normal wedding stuff. Finally, they got to the actual matrimony. The priest asked the couple the famous words about them wanting to be with each other for the rest of their lives, and the answer was “yes” from both of them. Rings were given, and more talking. After that there wasn’t much left, just some prayers and talking, and then, lastly, music as the freshly married couple walked out of the church. It was raining very hard outside, but it didn’t really bother anyone. Rice was thrown on the couple. They left first to the actual festival site. After that everyone just drove away behind them, and I waited by the church (in the rain, may I add) to get back home.

The whole thing didn’t take very long, only about 30 minutes, and there weren’t all that many people attending the wedding. Sadly I couldn’t do any questionnaires, but I took a bunch of pictures, some of which I hope are helpful in imagining the event.

  Thank you for reading J.

 Noora and Bětka

Visits in lessons

We visited lessons at our school yesterday. We made groups of four people and every group visited two lessons. We tried to visit each class at school. Our Finnish partners introduced themselves and said something about Finland and their school and our common project of EU.
They could see English, German, Czech or music lessons, also religion, biology, mathematics, history or chemistry. Teachers were very nice and wanted to know something about Finland.

Míša


Well when I first entered the class, my first thought was that the class was different. Different in a good way too, because it is always good to try something new. I didn't understand anything about the class or anything like that. But I know it was good, and when I asked my other Finnish  friends they said even though they didn't understand anything about the classes that they enjoyed the atmosphere there. When we went to the class we introduced ourselves to the students and the teacher. After that some of the students asked us some questions about Finland, our project and our school and we answered them as best as we could. So altogether it was really good and nice.

Mariama

The best moments

by: Veera and Tessa

Unforgettable moments

- Eve and Inka

Thoughts about our trip

So we have been here with our hosts for 5 days now, and we have had lots of fun time in here. All the time we are doing something, so in the evenings we are very tired. Or at least I am so tired.

Initially, when we came to Žďár, I was a little excited. But when we came to our hosts homes, the excitement was gone. Families were very nice to us. But I think that in the first evening we didn´t do
that much, just taking a shower or eating a little bit. After that we went to bed and slept tight until the next morning.

Now it is Wednesday and we have had lots of fun. Almost a week has gone so fast in here. Only thing that I miss from Finland is my own bed.


Veikka 12.9.

Funny dancing lesson

Move your body! said Mr. Pleva to us. Do you know why? Because we had a country dancing course on Sunday afternoon. At first time nobody wanted to dance, but after a few minutes we all were on the dancing floor.

 

The first dance was in pairs and every girl wanted to have the best dancer. Unfortunately there were more girls than boys, so some girls had to pretend that they are boys. The dance was hard, but we did

not give it up! In the end we all were dancing the country dance and everyone was laughing very much. Parents and relatives were amusingly watching our dance and listening to the exciting instructions in English, Czech and Finnish language.

Then came the second dance. We were in a circle and we were changing our partners. This dance was more difficult but we managed it!

Natálie and Inka