Reading another AFSer blog, I noticed that I forgot to write sth important that had happened here in Finland!
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| candles, candies, flags, cookies, etc with Finland's colors. |
By December 6th was the Finland's National Day.
When my contact person told me about it, I was waiting to hear about a big celebration of some days and everybody happy being together... but maybe that's not the way that the Finnish people celebrate it. As u may know, Finland had been in a War mostly against the Russians (that's why many people hate them...), and in this day is when the Finnish think about them, put candles on and say thanks to the soldiers who were in the war, also is common to watch a War Film, but I can say that the main thing of the day is watch in the T.V. for about 3 hours how the
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| Shaking hands. |
president and his wife shake their hands with a lot (a lot) of people and look at their "pretty dresses". This would never ever be a common thing for me in Chile, at least for me.- This day was free for the school and the next day (Friday) also, but at Friday was the Dagsverk , a day when u should work as sth, earn 10€ and then give them to ur school and the school give it to some place that need it (the money from this year went to Haití or South Africa, I don't remember it well)
But.... what did I do these days? Well on the självständighetsdag (yes, that's a real word) I was at home, we eat sth at lunch and then we started to look at the 3 hours shaking hands eating chocolates. We were in that when a family friend came here and then everything went well! He's an Argentinian guy, so we could speak Spanish together (I have to say that was so difficult to talk good Spanish, I was thinking in English :O ) At the next day I went to Helsingfors with a friend and her family, what an Awesome trip! I met more Finnish people and tried to get some "Finnish profile" (what's every day more difficult) Was so strange to get in a Capital city with that feeling that u still in another city, why? 'cause I'm so used to sth like Capital City = Disaster, full of people, Crash, Kabúm! But here is not like that, and I really liked it! (Helsinki has only 1 metro line)
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| One of the public transport in Helsinki; they also have metro and buses, but this is the most common to use. |
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| Playing in the snow after sauna :) |
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| Church in Helsinki + Julmarket |
