I hope that you are enjoying your first few days of school after the Easter break. I thought of you today as I toured a Grade 5 classroom in the city of Vaasa. Students in Grade 5 in Finland are actually the same age as students in Grade 6 in Canada. Consider yourself lucky that most of you now have desks without buckets. All the desks in this classroom had buckets where the students keep their things. I opened up one of the desks and took a picture of what was inside. Do you think it was clean and organized or messy? I will post the picture soon so that you will know the answer. Right now my camera is having trouble connecting to the computer.
What else can I tell you? Well I guess I can tell you that I have been eating a lot of fish. The fish here is very good. It is very fresh as the ocean is near. Most of the fish we eat is white fish or slamon but yesterday I tried baltic herring and it was raw! Hey...remember those ugly fish that I caught? Do you remmeber the burbot? They catch them here. However, instead of eating the meat, the Finns eat the liver and the eggs of the fish. It is a special meal here. Someone please tell Mr. Wingerter about this!
There is still some snow here. I think that is it colder here than at home. The last things I packed in my suitcase were a toque and mitts as well as a pair of shorts. So far the toque andmitts have been used everyday. The shorts have not enjoyed Finland at all as they are still at the bottom of my suitcase.
Well that is all for now. I will post pictures when I can.
Work hard and keep watching the blog.
