SciFest 1 (4/16)

The main reason I am here in Finland today is because of Scifest, and this day finally came to me. I spent most of my day to introduce our robots to the visitors. This job is not so easy and not so hard, because I get nervous to talk with a lot of foreigners (in fact “I “am the foreigner). My teacher told us that we can’t “wait” for the questions from the visitors, We need to take the initiative to host guests. In the afternoon, there is a presentation ceremony of Scifest, and we got the “Golden Award”! When we went back to Youth Hostel, we ate pizza for dinner. It was a quite happy day.

the SciFest venue

my Dragon Warrior (left)

and Jerry's Mazu(right)

I'm introducing our robots
Golden Award--Yeah

2nd and 3rd school (4/15)

This morning, I went to Nepenmaen koulu School. My buddies introduce the school to us. One of my friends (from Taiwan) told me that the teachers in Finland’s elementary school all have master's degrees. This would really be a reason they have such a good education.After lunch, I went to Niinivaaran Koulu School. I taught them make the micro robots again, and this time I succeed! In this school, I like their Technology Division and Wood carving class classroom because they have really good device and tools. Then, we went to the SciFest venue. We moved a lot of tables and chair to get ready of tomorrow’s activities.
















my buddies in the first school: Saku and Pinja (both on the left)

computer classroom

we hung up our flags on a blue kanban

in Pielisjoen Koulu School (4/14)

Today we spent the whole day time in Pielisjoen Koulu School. In the morning, I taught an 8 grader to make the micro robot bug. I was sad that I didn’t teach him well, I even made a lot of mistakes.

In the afternoon, Roosa took us went around the school and introduce the school to us. I found out that the students in Finland don’t have to go to school in the same time. The time students have to arrived school depends on their first class and their last class.

I really like their music class and art class because they seems more interesting and fun to me. After school, the host family took me home. They are all really nice to me. They took us to a place by a frozen lake, and we played the snow on it and had a nice barbecue by the frozen lake. It fells really good. At night, I tried the sauna. Although my sauna is only up to 70℃ , but I still enjoyed it very much.

train to Joensuu (4/13)

In the morning, the train arrived Helsinki at 6:30. I went back to the hotel that I lived the first day to get our luggage. We had a delicious breakfast at the hotel. Then, we get on a train that sent us to Joensuu.
This time there are two floors on the train, but there aren't any beds. After we arrived in Joensuu we went to the Youth Hostel. It's the hostel they we're going to stay quite a long time!

in Rovaniemi (4/12)

In the morning , our train arrived in Rovanimie at about 9:30.I was so excited that there are snow everywhere.I discovered that a lot of the place that we "planned" to visit are mostly closed (Easter vacation), that's to bad!
So we went on a mountain and have a huge snowfight insted.

For lunch , I went to the Northest Mcdonals.

The most important thing in Rovaniemi is to visit the Santa Claus Village.

I visited Santa's Main Office and took a photo with Santa.

I also wrote a lot of letters home there.At night, Iwent on the train again and went back to Helsinki.

Helsinki-day tour (4/11)

This morning the teacher get a one-day-ticket of the 3T tram for us.
I had a Helsinki-day tour to visit the important Attractions in Helsinki.
I can see seagles everywhere on the street. I visited a lot of Street vendors beside the wharf.

I also visited a beautiful brown church ,

the sibalius park,

and the church that is made of rocks.
I took a lot of photos of all the special thing I saw today.
At night, I got on the train to Rovaniemi in Artic circle.

the first day to Finland (4/10)

"Sam, Sam, wake up! "

after I opened my eyes,

the first thing I see is the"one thirty" on the clock

oh! today is the first day I am going to Finland.

On the way to the airport,

I can't see any cars on the road.

That's amazing!!

I took the airplane to HungKung,

and then took Finnair to Helsinki.

After I ate "Finnish Chinese food" for dinner

I walked around the city although I have a long day

(because I have to minus 5 hours after I arrived)

I saw a lot of beautiful churches and buildings there

At the church as you see , I found out that there is a
parad this night . So I join the parad