5/2/14

Time goes so fast (too fast)!

It's been a month since I last wrote. I'm sorry. Time has gone so fast and I can't believe today was our last day at South Range Elementary! I've been keeping a blog where I have told about our days at South Range Elementary with photos. You can read the blog here.

Me and Ekku have settled here, to Upper Peninsula, so well, that I can't even think about leaving here soon. Ekku is already leaving on next Monday, I still have one more week after that. Maybe I'll visit South Range once more before leaving, I'm already missing children; I had tears in my eyes when we had to leave the school today.


The month has been full of happiness, we have had such fun days with children, who have been amazing! They have been - and hopefully will always be - full of eagerness and enthusiasim to learn. Me and Ekku truly hope that children know now more about Finland and our culture, our arts, literature, sports etc. We have enjoyed those lessons and seemed that children loved them too.


At least half of the class had a Finnish last name. This has been interesting to see, as in the whole area of Hancock and Houghton. You can see Finnish last names everywhere. A couple of older people have heard us speaking Finnish in a public space and they have come to talk to us. You never know where are the ears that can understand your speech!

Raili, Elisa and Alisa wearing Finnish t-shirts.
We made it to the news here - two times. We have felt like celebrities, many people have invited us for a dinner and wanted to hear about us, Finland and a Finnish school system. You can find the news here: Mining Gazette and Upper Michigans Source.