My Time In Finland: Lapland

In February I went on an AFS Trip to Rovaniemi in Lapland Finland. Its near the arctic circle. After a 17 hour train ride with 3 stops along the way, we Finally made it. It was really fun. When we firs arrived we went to a museum and looked at Lapland history and on of the guides we had in the museum was actually from Australia. On the first day we went to a amethyst mine and dug for amethyst crystals. On the second day, I tried to snowboard which didn't work out very well then I went to a spa the next day and played around in the pools and then I went ice hole fishing the day after that but didn't catch anything. For the whole two hours we were out there we only caught two fish which were probably only like 15cm long at the most. then on one of the nights, the 4th night I think, we had a competition of dressing up the guys in our groups as girls then made them do a little show. It was hilarious. Sean from America won.On our last night in Lapland they put on a little disco thing for us at the bar/cafe at the ski slopes.....no alcohol of course. On our last day when we were heading back to Rovaniemi, we went and visited Santa. REMEMBER! Santa comes from Lapland in Finland. We also went for reindeer sleigh rides. It was funny cause at one time all of the reindeer went off with people of the backs of their sleighs then when they came back one of the reindeer's didn't have any people on it. They had been over taken by two reindeer sleighs which caused them to fall off. Then we went back to the train station and left for another 17 hour train journey home.

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