On the Ciclovia.

  Hi,
  One of the things that i really like here it's the fact of one of the most important transport it's the bycicle. This area it's almost plane, so it's very easy to go somewhere with bike, and also exist good one good system of bike paths.
  It's also very ecological, a thing that pleases a lot the Finnish.

This is a symbol that you may see a lot, here in Jyväskylä.

Everywhere you go, you may find some place to park your bike.

  It's very good for our health to ride a bike but for a person who usually don't use the bike, after two days i was like broken in pieces, everything on me hurts, my back, my legs, my ass, oh terrible.

http://www.cycletourer.co.uk/cycletouring/finland.shtml

In this site are interesting information about cycling in Finland.

First day of school.

  Hello,
  Today was my first day of school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  For the last year students exists an interesting tradition: in the night before the first day of school they camp in grass next to the school. Sometimes appears some bottles and some cans from anyone knows.
 

(this image comes from the blog: http://jalkaisin.blogspot.fi/2011/08/abiteltat.html)

  Besides me also exists two exchange students: one spanish and one slovakian. To start the day we choose our subjects. I will have German, Photography, Geography, English, and English Conversation. After we had an demonstration of the school with three nice tutors. The headmaster spoke with everybody in the auditorium in finnish (and of course i understand everything) and then we join with our groups. The groups only exists to treat administrative things so that means that it's possible that i will never had the same subjects with of my colleagues, but we also should know them. During that, it was the lunch (and the food was good!!!!!). 

  After the school i bought a bus card with 40 travels for 58€ in SOKOS and a Finnish-Portuguese/ Portuguese-Finnish dictionary in Suomalainen Kirjakauppa for 12, 99€.

  This was my very very interesting day at my first day at school where i didn't understand 99% of what they said in finnish.

 See you later.

  

Water please. No, we only have milk.

  Moi,
  One of the first things that my host family told me about the finnish food was that, in the meals the king drink it's the milk. It was an huge surprise for me because in Portugal it's water.
  Everybody knows that the milk it's good for the health, but here it's another level! But the truth is, the finnish people are very healthy and they like to do a lots of sports and eat healthy
  The brand that you can see, Valio, it's one of the most popular.

http://www.maitojaterveys.fi/www/en/milk_in_finland.php

(in this site you can see more about milk facts in Finland)

Oh my god, classes in Finnish?

  Moi,

  Everybody that i tell that i will study in Finland ask me "What the people speaks in Finland" and i say "Finnish", and after they ask "And the classes will be in what language", and i "in Finnish" and to end the interview "But you understand something in Finnish" and i say "No".

  Almost everybody, to not say everybody speaks or understands English. Of course that in the classes will be hard to understand something, but like one woman said in one preparation to go "You will to there to have new experiences, not to do the same what you do in Portugal, if it's to do the same you don't need to go to another country". 

  Just for general knowledge in Finland exists two official languages: the Finnish and Swedish.