{"id":4751,"date":"2019-03-07T18:35:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/insmartidot\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2019-03-07T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:25:35","slug":"els-erasmus-ja-han-tornat-de-finlandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/insmartidot\/general\/els-erasmus-ja-han-tornat-de-finlandia\/","title":{"rendered":"Els Erasmus+ ja han tornat de Finl\u00e0ndia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Els nostres alumnes d’Erasmus+ a Finl\u00e0ndia ja estan de tornada. En breu ens posaran els seus comentaris a la nostra Web.<\/p>\n

The activities were, among a lot of them:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

Tuesday 26th\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the afternoon, keeping with Finnish ideals of outdoor pursuits, students and teachers trekked up the 2km uphill trail to Saukkovaara hill which we were told meant Otter Slope.\u00a0 This was a local hub for winter sports and students hiked up through beautiful forest scenes and pure fresh air to the very top, where 2 hours were dedicated to sledging, snow shoeing and Nordic Skiing, interrupted by using the giant firepit area to cook traditional Finnish snacks of Sausages, Marshmallows and pancakes with Jam.\u00a0 For some of the students this was their first experience seeing such a large amount of snow, and they quickly acclimatised to participate in pulling sledge races and sliding down the long expanse of snow, making new friends.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 27th<\/sup> February<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Finnish students and staff explained that the weather of 2 degrees was very unseasonal and as bits of snow began to melt the students set about their first experience of ice fishing.\u00a0 Students were shown how to drill a hole in the ice.\u00a0 This was about a metre high and made of metal \u2013 the ice looked to be around 40cms thick \u2013 in places where there were pockets of water in the middle of the ice.\u00a0 Two groups of students \u2013 from France and from Spain- managed to catch a fish\u00a0 which to the student\u2019s surprise was quite small. They were able to cook it and ate it with some meatballs accompanied by salad and smashed potato.<\/p>\n

After that we went to the sotkamo’s highway school and the sport academy.<\/p>\n

After around an hour outside in the cold, students were introduced to some Finnish ball games in the warm gym.\u00a0 The Finnish game was called \u2018spit and fire\u2019 where students were split into two teams, some people were allocated to opposite sides of the gym and would throw balls at the enemy team. Once you were hit by\u00a0 the ball you were no longer in the game, but you could run into the other side to kill off enemy team members.<\/p>\n

The English students tried to explain the PE favourite \u2018dodgeball\u2019 to other students with mixed success.\u00a0 In Romania, their game was similar to the Finnish too.<\/p>\n

After eating a delicious lunch of meatballs, we were transported to Sokomo High School to learn more about their school system and especially their sports .\u00a0 The high school has been open for approximately 60 years and welcomes students from 70 different parts of Finland and even different countries.\u00a0 Their core values are in order:<\/p>\n