New Post, New Family, New Problem

Terve everybody. Before anyone says anything new problem is supposed to be a play on words, it is to be stretched so it sounds like no. It's a pun there is no problem as of yet. But as My title says I am in a new family, I do miss the old one but I have to move on, that's part of the experience of being an exchange student. We come to leave. The Family is nice. The mother doesn't speak english but this is good because it will get me better at finnish. Finnish as a language is so hard. However I am getting the hang of it. The only problem I am having with the language so far is remembering sentences when people tell them to me. but I will when I get to use them more often. I want to give a bug Kiitos Paljon to Mrs. Margret Yli-Juuti who taught me most of the finnish I know so far, with out her I wouldn't be half of where I am today. Well that's all I have to post for now, I'll post more when I have it. Keep your stick on the ice and stay frosty and I'll talk to you soon from across the finish line
Robert

Harasmies (a gentleman in finnish)

Terve, how is Canada this week? That's great. Finland you say? it's good. Exam time again so as an exchange student I am prepared for failure. I had a math exam today, in finnish, I failed but I tried so I count it as a win. (Lame I know) I have three more exams to do. French, history, and Physics. I don't expect alot (except for history) but I still am trying.

This saturday I am switching host families. Alot to go into on that one so I'm gonna keep it short. New family, new challenges, new everything. I'm nervious. But I'm Canadian I will endure. Hahaha. I will put a better blog entry after I get settled.

Today on the bus today I did something proud to call Canadian. I saw a old woman on a crowded bus (I was also on this bus) so I stood up and offered her my seat. She was SHOCKED. I found it hilarious. I gave her my seat and now I'm here. hahaha Well that has been my recent progress in Finland. Stay frosty and keep your stick on the ice. As I said I'll talk to you later, from across the finnish line

Thoughts on Jenga

Hey guys, I'm just making another update on my exchange year. It's going very well so far. As I told you guys last week I was planning something for rememberance day in my history class. It went very nicely turns out finns don't have rememberance day. Most of them don't even know if their grandparents sis anything for the second world war. Anyway the presentation went off well, I recited "Flanders Field" surprisingly by memory. Then I asked for a moment of silence and then shared some of the stories I have been told. I was very pleased to notice that the people were actually quiet. I wish more Canadian 18 year olds could be like that.

I just finnished playing Jenga with my host parents and I couldn't help but notice that the whole thing was every architects worst nightmare. Imagine you just moved into a new appartment, you are sitting with you significant other when all of a sudden the room shakes and you are picked up and moved to the top floor. Oh look there is Joey. He used to live 5 stories above you, now you're neighbours and then the building falls down and one giant laughs and the other one screams. no wonder you got this room so cheap. Hahaha. I thought that you guys may find that little rant enjoyable

Well that's my update for this week. I hope to recieve comments and if you guys like it maybe I can post more rants like that. If no one likes them then I will not put anymore in. I recieved a package from Canada a few days ago. Skittles, 5 Gum, and Maynerds for the win.Stay frosty and keep your stick on the ice. I'll talk to you all later from accros the finnish line.

Robert

Dancing With The Devil

Hey everybody, It's blog time again. This week I started, with the other Exchange Students a great new way to stay in shape. We started boxing. My rotary councilor has been on the boxing team since he was sixteen so he was able to get us on the team. I'm going with Diego, and Kristian (a Mexican and German respectivley) It is really good excercise.

Yesterday I went to a halloween party, my second one so far this year. I discovered even though Fins don't celebrate halloween all the youth here love it. I should probably take a second to explain the title of this blog entry. The most popular costume for finnish people is to dress up as the devil. As most have you have seen from facebook the first party myself, Kristian and Thomas (French Exchange Student) all dressed up as woman. It was a really funny evening. Yesterday Thomas and myself went as skeletons. It was also a fun night.

That was this week. I hope everything is going well back home. This friday is rememberence day and even though Finland doesn't celebrate it I'm gonna try to talk to my history teacher about doing something. I'll tell you guys about how that goes in the next entry. Well stay frosty and keep your stick on the ice, I'll talk to you all later from accros the finnish line

Robert Kluke