Our Day in Helsinki

Our Day In Helsinki.

Sunday the 23rd

The next morning we had time to walk through  Helsinki. It was kinda windy an cold but we were very curious about how that city will be. With not really an idea were to start or were to go first we started just walking in a direction. 

But so we saw a lot of Helsinki.

The Harbor, the Johannes Church, older parts of the city and also the new parts.

There were a lot of little shops all around the town. Pubs, Coffee shops and so on.

Helsinki really is a big city and has offers for everyone.

In the afternoon we went to the train station and our travel to Joensuu began.

It was a four and a half hour drive through  the landscape of Finland. A lot of forest and between the typical red cottages.

When we arrived in Joensuu, jana picked us up and brought us to our accommodation. After putting our suitcases in our room we went to Restaurant "Amerillo" to have our dinner. It was a delicious and funny evening with Janaa.

But I have to say we were very happy to go to bed after that 

long day... an we were excited about how our first day will be.


Monday the 24th

So our first day in Joensuu was here. Time to get to school and look how and what the finish students are doing and learning.  We got picked up by Janna and on our first day she brought us to school. We got some breakfast and after that we met "our" class-teacher Kaisa. With some students of the class we got a tour around the school.

The school and the people are much different from us in Austria. 

It's interesting to get to know different culture and to see how the school system is diffrent from ours.

What was amazing is that the students prepared a 

ot of stuff for us. They talked about what they learn in school, they told us abbout Finland and Joensuu and so on.

It was a nice first day at the "Phojois- Karjalan koulutuskunayhtymä".

After our school-day we went for a walk with Mrs. Krall and them went again to the "Amarillo" Restaurant for a drink and a little snack. We talked for a while and then went to our accommodation. 

A nice first day in Joensuu ended an we was looking forward to the next days!

Greetings from the three girls in Finland,

Lisa, Tamara and Melanie!