Snow, Sauna and Santa Claus: Back to Elemetary School

Olá,

Yesterday i visited the working place of my host mother. She works in a elementary school. I must to say that the school here is so must better to prepare the students for real life. They have like Home Economics where they learn to cook (and guess what they have to do at homeowork), how to iron the clothes and another things to survive in our house. Or also they have Techincal Crafts where they can do what they want. The first time that i saw the students working with the machines i was thiking "I'm gonna die here, they only have 14 years and working with rotary saws", but after the techer explain me that during some classes they learn how to work correctly and safety rules, so that's not a problem. But still exists some machines that he will not alloud to work without his supervision. The project are all made by the students, obligating them to think by their selfs and not do a thing already made. Usually they like to do knifes, axes and one kind of spoon to put the water in the rocks of the sauna.

The first time that i saw this i thing that didn't work, but after, the teacher show me and it's not only for buttering.

Everybody in the school was very nice, i made two presentations about Portugal, and I recived GIFT's. Some teachers that i talk with, had been in Portugal, of course Algarve and Madeira, and they also say that Portuguese people are like the Finnish, not so much fiesta like the Spanish. In another time i will write what i think.

Here are my GIFT'S.

With this calendar I discover that exists a tradition called Name Day, you can see that in this link: http://www.namedaycalendar.com/

At lunch i went to one Thai buffet, really good the food but too spicy. And also i bought a tube scarf, because it starts to be cold here.

And to finnish the day, at afternoon I've been with another exchange students that they are here in Jyväskylä. We went to the Coffee House in Keskusta, and all costs more than 6€, quite expensive. And after we went to the Church Park and to the Harbour and to the Forum and to home, uff.