Snow, Sauna and Santa Claus: Holidays of Fall

Ahoj,

OMG, I'm in a crisis of news to publish. Well, now I'm in holidays of Automn during one week, this is a thing in Portugal could exists. But well, let's start with what I did.

More than one week ago the exchange students we went with our tutors to walk to Vesilinna, the water tower in the city center, and where you can see all the area around Jyväskylä (and also a museum of natural science that I didn't saw already), and after we went to the American Dinner which is a a restaurant close to Kompassi in an American style. The hambuguers were very big, so that compensate the price (for us was very expensive but for the Finnish was very cheap for the normal price). It was a very nice evening.

This are the views in opposite sides of the Tower.

This is inside the restaurant.

Last week happened the Olympic Games for the first graders meet each others. In their groups they make some activities and they need to have some theme and dress according to that theme, and the group with the best costums and best pontuation in the games wins a package of gums. They also need to do some "performance" to convince that they are the best. Some groups were poor, 70's style, army, zombie, others with clothes to go to the beach, and bodyguard that protects some royal couple. The function of the exchange students were choose the best costum and we choose the last one.

Sometimes I think that the school in Portugal is just boring, we don't have this kind of activities. They have a lot in this school and Finland have the best educational system in teh world. Happy and active students, better education. Stange motto.

Here they are doing some games and some performances. The last was the winner.

Last Thirsday I participate in a course of cuisine of the world, and that day was Spanish food. We made tortilla and pimientos assados and some drinks. Very good food. It was in Lyseon, the oldest school in Finland. The old part of the building is very beautiful and they call to the libray Hogwarts, for its aspect. Because of the age of the school, some people have some health issues (specially breathing problems) so the school will be closed next year.

Like in all the High Schools in the world also this one have dead animals in the corridors.

This weekend one friend came to visit us (me and another exchange students) here in Jyväskylä. She comes from The Netherlands and she is now in Raahe, next to Oulu in the north.

I show her Vesilinna because at morning she saw with anothers, some parts of the city, and after we went to do ice skating. This was the third time that I made that, but it was in that moment that I fall for the first time (twice!!!!!). After we went to eat in a buffet. On the next day we went to see Alvar Aato Museum (for free, and the last time I paid 4€) and the campus of the University of Jyväskylä. We walked around Jyväsjärvi, after to SOKOS to buy some food , and to end, Matkakeskus to her take the bus.