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28 APRIL 2015

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FIRST STUDENT MOBILITY 18-23 OF APRIL

RAUMA FINLAND

SUANA EXPERIENCE

EXPERIENCE A NEW CULTURE

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Rauma, Finland 18-23 of April.

On our way It was eight very tired but excited students that we met at Landvetter airport at 5 o'clock a cold Saturday morning.

Two flights, a pizza and 6 hours later we met up with students and teachers from our project schools in Denmark and England. We had a long journey by coach ahead of us. Luckily all the students were entertaining us with music and singing. Once arriving in Rauma it literally

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took two minutes before all students got their luggage and drove away with their host families.

Old Rauma - UNESCO world heritage The next day the students and teachers experiences Old Rauma, part of UNESCO world heritage center. Old Rauma is one of few medieval towns in Finland. Old Rauma is composed of some 600 wood buildings, most of them are private homes.

Originally Old Rauma was situated at the seashore but due to land raise the coast is now 1,5 km away.

PEER WORK AT IT´S BEST

The students worked in their peer groups where their solved different tasks in Old Rauma.

Sauna In the afternoon we all went to Rauman Lukkos, Rauma hockey clubs clubhouse where we used the sauna, swam in the ice cold water and enjoyed the view from the hot tub, and ate a delicious barbeque. All the swedish students and teacher took on the challenge and had a dip in the sea. Afterwards the finnish students had organized some games. It was a fantastic evening.

OUR STUDENTS MADE NEW FRIENDS FOR LIFE. THE THINGS THEY WILL REMEBER THE MOST IS MOST LIKELY NOT THOSE CAREFULLY PLANNED BY THEIR TEACHER, BUT ALL THOSE MOMENT WHEN PEOPLE GET TO KNOW ONEANOTHER AND ARE HAVING FUN TOGETHER.

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To school Monday morning is in Finland as well as the rest of the world when school starts. Minerva, Johanna and Titta had planned an very varied and interesting program for us where we learnt new skills and experience new things.

Film making The main activity was professional film making all students started by writing a script about netiquette in the peer groups. They choose the one they liked the best and made a movie of. One group also made an animated movie and a third group made a documentary about making a movie.

Lace making

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In addition to the movie making we had a lot of other activities like lace making, making Karelian pierogi and start to work together with a commercial campaign for the project. We also visited different classes to learn more about the Finish schools.

Visiting Finish teachers Teachers visited the Turku teachers college, a school for children with disabilities and met a lot of different teachers whom gave us an unique opportunity to learn more about Finish school system, teacher training and special education. it was very inspirational.

Good bye party The final evening we had a movie premier and had a goodbye party with homemade pizza and desert. We were very impressed by the result of three days hard work as well as the directors speeches. The Finish team handed out our certificate and a wounderful gift. A keyring with the lace we made.

Going home The next morning the bus was picking us up to start our journey back home. It had been a great week with lots of experiences, laughter and fun. We all feel like we have an extended family in Rauma Finland. We would like to thank the Finnish host families, students, teacher and of course a Minerva, Johanna and Titta, whom made this first meeting a huge success. We are looking forward to see you all again soon!!

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