Newsletter #4

Erasmus +

    We have an interview with the Kokemäki community about the European Union and Erasmus + .

We have been in Supermarket , coffee shop, library and bank.

Erasmus +  is a programme of the European Union which give us a possibility to travel around the Europe. The first exchange was in the 80's  and continues till now. The programme is for youths between 13 and 30 years old.

    For an exchange we can spend week till 21 days (depends on project). Throught last 7 years the programm was known under the name " Youth in Action" and this January it changed for " Erasmus +".

Under the name Erasmus +  there are many actions:

-Youth Initiative

-European Volunteers Services

-Erasmus (programme for Students)

-Youth Exchanges

-Training courses

 If you would like to know more, go to the website of Erasmus +

We have a short video for you, where the people explain what they think about this programme.

Baseball

Baseball

     This morning students from school invited us to a common game, we learned the rules, then we play with them. During this time we "tried" and we "succeed" to hit the ball and to catch it.

We are not sure about the results but we had a great time and people who didn't practice baseball made a basketball match.

Intercultural Evening

Intercultural Evening #2

    Hello, yesterday we had an intercultural evening and this is a presentation of the countries - Finland and France. They showed the traditional food, music, dance and games. Yesterday we had a Christmas because of the Finnish people, who wanted to let has know about the way how they celebrate their Christmas. We learned to dance "Tonttujen joulugö", they give us a map of Kokemäki so this way we can remember it forever. 

    After that, the French people presented a Breaking News about France.

They had a video about Marmande, they had traditional food like cheese, marmalade, candy, paté and tomato juice. We danced "La Valse" and we played a quiz about France. 

The presentation was very interesting and important because we could learn about culture, tradition and the cities from where the participants are from.

Newsletter #3

Intercultural Evening

Yesterday people from exchange had an intercultural night Poland and Portugal.

Enjoy !

The Finish point of view

We asked citizens about differences and similarities between other countries. At the subject of the food, they told us the portuguese people  eat 3 times a day, French really enjoy eating and celebrate their meals, and about the Finish, they agreed that eat a lot and often.

About stereotypes we found out that Portugal is considered as a country of really friendly people, French are artists who eat garlic a lot and don't speak English. About the Polish the main opinion is that they drink a lot

When we came here we saw only red,blue and yellow houses and we were courious. Today we asked people about it and they told us that this is a tradition, there is no rule for painting houses in Finland. 

We asked the teacher about school differences. In his opinion students in other countries behave better, discuss more while the lessons, but in Finland comparing to us they have more practical lessons. Also lenght of lessons is different. In Portugal it's 90 minutes, in Finland 75 minutes, in France 30-60 minutes and in Poland 45 minutes. 

The most popular sport in a France, Poland and Portugal is football and in Finland is ice hockey.

The newspapers in Portugal are mostly about scandals and gossips. The French press is focused on politics. 

We found out that Finish people think that Portugal like latino music, Poland pop and techno, French pop and Finland rock. 

The most popular festival in Finland is Pori Jazz, opera and rock festivals. In Portugal it's Rock in Rio, and in Poland it's Sopot Hit Festival and Woodstock.