Above: our archaeologist explaining us how the tar was made helena thought that the archaeologist was fed up with us from the start and didn’t really know what he had to tell us. he told us he didn’t want to ‘bullshit’ us by telling us something wrong and he couldn’t really explain everything as a ‘shit load’ of things could have happ

Are there clashes and tensions of values? xavier, isabelle and their friends don’t understand a word when the class is in catalan. isabelle is tasked with telling the teacher for teaching the class in castilian. however, he doesn’t accept because most of the students are catalan. when isabelle talks about fifteen erasmus students who don’t kn

As everyone, our story in finland begins with an introduction...perfect strangers to each other, we have met and started to build a relationship together.we are from different parts of the world ... liu from china, helena from france but of finnish origins, mehmetali from turkey and nicolas also from france. different origins, cultures and personal

The multicultural aspect was quite restrained at the beginning. it is hard to simply start to speak about one’s culture. but the öja trip enabled us to observe different cultures and helped us to learn more things about different cultures due to the fact that there were so many people from different countries and cultures. we ate, played, swam,

On thursday 27th of september, we had another trip: first a tour of kokkola by bus, then a trip to the site of alavetli. we left early in the morning -perhaps too early for some people- however we got going anyway! we drove through the old parts of kokkola, kirkonmäki (: church hill) a place which used to be an island when water was deeper inlands

We met at 5:00 pm in the school and we were in öja almost at 5:30 pm. we toured and took some photos on the little harbour at the lake and we had dinner at 6:00 pm. after that, we learnt something about writing diary and reflection. then, we were told in which groups we were and some surprises were announced, such as : like floor ball, sauna and s

In the frame of the glg course, we watched a movie together, we chose 'the spanish apartement'. we wrote the following report about it. l’auberge espagnole / the spanish apartment running time: 122 min; release year: 2002; directed by: cédric klapisch what is the plot? the film is about xavier, an economics graduate student, who is doing two exc

§ martine, the girlfriend martine is xavier’s girlfriend who lives in paris. she’s quite weird and it seems that she has many little problems. she’s really sad when xavier leaves to barcelona. after half a year, she goes to see him there, but the stay isn’t really satisfying for both of them. shortly after her return in paris, she is break

To summarize our first contact, it was not really a purely cultural exchange. it was mainly human. this is of course quite normal as it is the bigenning of a new relationship.the öja trip helped us to recognize each other. we know who is who. in french we would say that we are all in the same boat, that is to say we are sharing the same problems a

On the friday evening, the girls went first to the sauna. during that time, the men played floor ball again and it lasted long: the girls took their time to enjoy the sauna !. after the girls came back, the men went to the sauna.going to the sauna is a whole process : you first take of all unnecessary clothes and then sit on the wooden benches in t