Summerschool

Moi!
Everything is still going very well, I'm having the time of my life in Pori!
Last week was the last week of my internship, before the Summerschool started. The last week went by so fast, you can't even imagine.. On Friday I helped out with the preparations for the Summerschool and that was so much fun! The tasks were very diverse. For example, I had to go to the store with Wade (an American intern) to buy bed linnen and pillows and stuff like that, haha.. And I had to prepare the bags that the students were going to get when they arrive here. Anyway, I liked all of it! In the weekend I was hanging out with my Finnish friends again and it was so much fun! We went to the Night of the Art at Saturday; the museum was open until 1 am! I'm not really into art, but actually I really loved it! The next day was such a beautiful day since it was something like 22 degrees, so bright and sunny that we went to the parc by the river. We bought ourselves some food and drinks and spent the whole day there, it was great!

On Monday the Summerschool started. I was really excited and a bit nervous, all those new people... But it was great actually! I had to give a tour through the building, since I've been here for three weeks so I know where everything is. After that we had some introduction classes and then we went on this city tour with a little train, I felt like such a tourist, haha...
After that we went back to school and we played typical Finnish games. One of them was "Throw the boot!" There was this boot made of rubber and you had to throw it away as far as you could. I was pretty good actually! ;)
After that we did this game: "wife carrying". The guys had to carry the girls and run as fast as they could.. It was so much fun! Then we went inside and we got divided in teams. There was this competition: "Who is able to drink or eat typical Finnish snacks the fastest?". It was also so much fun and after that we were having dinner together.
It was a wonderful start of the Summerschool, since you were able to get to know all the people so well. The groups consists of people from America, French, The Netherlands, Germany, Nepal, Ghana and Japan! So that's quite multicultural, isn't it? ;-)

On Tuesday we had lectures. My main subject is "Business case". The task is that you analyze a company, in a group of four students. But there was a special way of dividing these groups...
I hope I can explain it properly, since it's quite confusing.
Everyone had to pick a card. Three of the cards said: "You may pick first." That meant: three of the students of our group, could choose their own groups. But how can you pick someone, if you don't really know them? So everyone had to give this very short speed-interview (60 sec) where you had to sell yourself. You had to tell which competences you have, why they should pick you instead of someone else and so on.
It was so fun to do and so informative! I'm not really good at selling myself, it feels a bit like bragging. But I had to go through it and it turned out pretty well. My group is really nice and fun to hang around with and I think it's a great match! The group consists of one American guy, an American girl and one guy from Japan. They are all so kind and I'm sure it will work out well!
But can you imagine that it was quite an unusual situation? I have never experienced something like that!
After the groups were divided, we had lunch together and brainstormed about the project. After that we had a trip to Rauma, to visit the company we were about to analyze. We got this presentation about the company and it was very interesting!

Tomorrow we have more lectures and on Thursday we are going to Russia for a weekend, I am so excited!

That was it for now!

Bye!!