Cross-country ski

The last weekend, with all the family we went ski. It was really cool and after some kilometers we ate a snack at the cafeteria.
Before use the ski, Timo, Anni's father put some "wax" Under the blame of the ski to brake the move because it's very slippery. There are a lot of differents "wax" for differents temperatures : for -10 until -1, 0 until 2....but the one we used was 0 until -1.

The ski is an important sport in Finland. But the alpine ski is not the more widespread, it is especially the cross-country ski. There are two type of cross country : the classic style and the skating style. The first one looks like walking. We take support on our foot to propel our body forward.Then, we slide on the other foot. And as far as the skating style we move diagonally, and push with poles.

Opening of Pop-Up Café

Yesterday, at school, it was the opening of the Pop-Up Café.
This is why, during my Home Economics hour we have cooked some différents food : pizzas, blueberry muffins, sesame cookies, chocolate cake....Everybody was very busy !
At 12:00, after the lunch, Minttu made a speech and Manisha cut the red ribbon. Then, some boys played eletric guitar and drums while pupiles were waiting to buy the food. Very quickly all the food was selling !

Haltia, the finnish nature centre

Sunday afternoon we were at the finnish nature centre named Haltia. In car, it makes    minutes since Paivakumpu.
First of all, we visited a room where there is a screen with panoramas of Finland landscapes. There are also some interactive tablet who show us the different park and centre of the Finland with pictures and explications. I tried glasses to have a 360° vision of landscapes again.
Then, there were some others little room where we feel like we were underwater like the fish, in a foxhole, a bear dens or a bird nest. It was really cool.
The last room was dive in the dark and we could hear the night noises of the forest.

Sauna

Yesterday, after a shopping afternoon in the commercial center called Jumbo, I went to the sauna. Anni show me how to make it work. It's very simple, we must put some wood and birch bark in the sauna stove and then put a match in the middle. In general, the temperature in a sauna is about 80 degres but it depends of the person who use the sauna. The higher temperature can be 120° but it is really hot. During the sauna seance, we take break to go under the shower and even IN THE SNOW ! Yes, when you think you've enough hot you can go out quickly and lie down in the snow. This is what we have done with Anni and it was really fun !

Ice hockey match

Monday evening, I saw an ice hockey match. The Jokerit (finnish team) was against the Lada Togliatti (russian team). Jokerit have won a lot of awards like, among others;

Championship of Finland :

1973, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997 and 2002

Championship of Europe :

1995 and 1996

At the end of the match the score was 3-3, so, they added an additionnal time of 5 minutes. During this 5 minutes, no goal scored. As a consequence, the players did some penalty until one team win. Finally, the Jokerit lose 4-3.

First day of school

Monday, at 7:45 Anni and me have left the house to go to school. We joined Lotta and Léa at the corner of the street and we walked together until the school. In the teacher room we have filled a lot of papers and then, Minttu, Manisha and Salla make us a visit of the school. It is very cool : there are many table and chairs to sit, students can use there phone, listen to musics....And nobody is outside !! Everyone are in the corridors. There is just one weird point : they eat very early ! Something like 11:15 but it's not everyday, just sometimes. At 13:00 we took the bus with Pasi (math teacher and Erasmus representant) to creat our bus card. Back to school, we have been in english class. The room is very big and there are only 20 pupils in each class !! At 15:30, come back to home !!

Ice skating

I did ice skating yesterday. At the beginning I was not very rassured but over time, I'll take assurance and I do some simple figure like the "moon". I'm not falling so that's good because if I was falling I'll be wet and it's will be very unconfortable.
There are two different shoes of ice skating : the classical and the hockey one.
The first is a shoe, usually white but it might be more colorful. This is the shoes to do ice skating figures and stuff like that. The blame is straight and it's serrated at the end.
Whereas the second one is for the hockey players and the blame is curved.

Specialities

This morning I have eaten some specialities like Karjalanpiirakka, karelian pie in English and it's some little pie garnished with rice.

 You can put some mix of eggs and butter on this karelian pie and it's really good. Finnish people eat this everytime. I mean, they can eat this for the breakfast, lunch, or even at the dinner.

Flight to Finland

Saturday 7 of january, I leave France to Finland with Léa and Mr.Maillard.
The first flight at 6:20 is canceled, but, fortunately, teacher find an other flight at 12:50.
When we arrived in Paris, we ran troughout the airport because the terminal D was a little bit far away from our exit. Léa's bag was so heavy so, we were two to hold this. She has even stepped the foot of a man and it was very laughing.
At 19:20 we were in Helsinki. And we met our family.