The Past Two Weeks - Part One

hi everyone.........sorry i haven't said anything in awhile.

well not this weekend been but the weekend before, I went to this thing at the castle in Savonlinna where students from my tourism class were. It was cool, quite cold though. When I got their Heidi and Maria were making fishing lines and then Heidi and this guy showed me around the museum and outside. Then we watched this little performance which confused all of us. Then most people left and Heidi and I watched this fire performance. It was pretty cool.

Then this weekend just been, I went to my orientation camp in Jyvaskyla. I was on a bus for two hours then on a train for another hour. It was ok i guess. I'm glad I had Christa (a girl from Switzerland) with me to talk to. We ended up being late to Jyvaskyla and when we got of the train we got loaded onto this little bus with the other students and we ended up driving for another hour. When we got there they gave us food and all the exchange students were around one table and me and Christa kept looking at each other laughing because it was so quiet cause no one wanted to talk. In the end Kerry, a guy from America asked if there was anyone who was from an english speaking country and I said I am and he goes ok are you from England?!!! that was the second time that day someone had asked me that. We then went and played games up stairs to learn each others names. Then the camp leaders said go to bed whenever.....we stayed up talking, mostly me and Kerry, till midnight plus we had to be up by 8 to be ready at 9 for the planned activities for the day. We got spilt into two groups. I was with Ayshen from turkey, Barbara from Italy and Julian from Germany. It was SOOOOOOOO boring. All we did was talk and it was like being in a therapy session for the whole day. Caitlin told me before I went that it was gonna feel like we were eating heaps.....and she was right. Everytime we finished a session we would eat. They thought it was normal. I thought it was weird. We ended up being taught how to play a game called mölkky. Its when you have theses 12 sticks standing up in a certain order and you have to throw this other one at them and depending one how many you hit is how many points you get but if you only hit one down then you get the amount of points written on the stick then the first to get to exactly 50 wins. It was pretty even between the girls and boys winning. Everytime we had spare time we would play. The camp leaders were really nice.

more in th next one