2 months!!
It has again been a while since my last blog posting oops.. But here I am again writing about my week since I can actually write about it without the text being just a stub :D Quality content (not) but here you have it, enjoy :)
Last weekend we went to buy me the last pieces of my school uniform, and a pair of shoes to use with it. I'm not feeling that comfortable with the skirt yet but I guess that's just a minor downside that I'll have to (and I will) deal with. The skirts were a bit too big for me so we had to drop them off to some woman who will sew them to fit me better. Not waiting too anxiously for next Tuesday when I have to start using the uniform... but anyways!
I did my first test here on Monday! It was obviously maths since I can't really understand that much of any other subjects yet (and so far we haven't had tests in English). The test was about second grade equations and inverse functions (probably had something else to it as well but I don't really remember) which I haven't yet gone through in Finland so I think I have actually learned something here. I think I did pretty ok on the test even though I didn't have enough time to complete the whole thing. We had about 60 minutes to complete the whole test, which was 2 double-sided A4 sheets, which is a bit different compared to the maths tests I did in Finland. They were usually just one double-sided A4 paper and the time ranged anywhere from half an hour to 90 minutes, mainly because of my teacher though.
More about school (and maths): Right now I'm on second grade of medio (suomessa vähänniinku yläasteen ja lukion sekotus) so I will need to elect some optional subjects for next year. We had to take a poll about what elective courses/subjects we would want to take, and I chose health sciences, physical education and a course of maths which includes derivatives (?) and some other things I will go through in Finland. I thought it will probably be useful for me if I can go through them here already, especially if I decide to continue with A maths (pitkä) in Finland because that's at least what I'm starting with.
Right now we are going through geometry which I have already passed so for once I feel like I know something. Although they don't go through all the phases of the problems here and it disturbs me a lot since I'm always taking my calculations a step further and then I realise that I didn't need to do that phase. But I'll get over it.
On Tuesday we went to Santiago with my class. It was raining when we got there and we all got super wet because we had to walk in the rain for quite a long way to our destination. We visited the Museum of Memory and Human Rights and we had a tour there. I didn't really catch anything the guide was talking about because she was talking so fast and quietly, and in Spanish, but it didn't really matter since I knew what the museum was about. The human rights violations in Chile that started in the 1970's affected a lot of people even outside of Chile, and many countries helped Chile a lot during them, including Finland. There's even a Finnish mini series about it from Finland's point of view. It's called Invisible Heroes (suom. Näkymättömät Sankarit, katottavissa Yle Areenasta, vahva suositus!) and although I never saw it until the end (because of reason x) it had an impact on me and it was actually really interesting to watch. (muumiespanja best <3 If anybody knows how I can watch it here in Chile let me know)
After taking the tour in the museum, we headed to a university campus. There was a college expo where you could see and hear more about different studying opportunities. We went on a tour to the nursing section of the university, which was quite interesting since my sister is currently studying something quite similar in Finland. We also waited for more than half an hour for our food, and another half an hour in Starbucks to get coffee. I also met Merle, a german exchange student who I got to know on our first orientation in Santiago. She was also at the expo with her school. After hanging out at the expo for several hours we started our way back to San Fernando, making a "quick" stop in a McDonald's which was on the way.
2nd of October meant the 2 months mark for me here in Chile. On our Spanish class we only played some word game in Spanish but it was fun. After the class I walked to the mall which was great since I haven't really walked that much here, and in Finland I used to walk all the time. But I guess I've already gotten used to it. Wednesday was also my sister's 20th birthday and on Thursday I talked to her for over an hour while my class was doing a chemistry test. It was great but everyone in the library was just laughing / staring at me because I was just talking in Finnish. Must've been a really weird experience for them.
Friday night we held a little get-together with my sister to some of our classmates and the other afs exchange students here in San Fernando. As a finn I was super worried about how it will turn out but it went pretty great. I guess I just have to accept the fact that finns are anti-social and it's only a Finnish thing that these kind of get-togethers with people who don't know each other won't work.
On Saturday my little sister had her first communion. It was kinda weird to be in a church because I think I haven't been in one (well technically this was a chapel but what differences do they even have) since my own confirmation a year ago, but the ceremony was quite pretty. After the ceremony we went to eat with some family and friends in some restaurant where we had reserved a buffet. Pretty much the rest of the Saturday I spent writing this :D
Sunday went by quite quickly, nothing really to write about it. During the weekend my back started to hurt once again, and apparently my knees hadn't been hurting enough either.. Oh well I got some painkillers for it and it's now a bit better although I know the pain will be back pretty soon :D but I know how to deal with it, nothing to worry about.
We are supposed to be having our second orientation in two weeks but we still haven't heard anything from AFS.. Oh well not really my problem. My problem right now is that I have to make a presentation about the nordic wellness state model from Finland's point of view. In Spanish. Yeah I doubt that anything of the presentation will make sense but at least I'll try. I don't even know the due date for it, oops. Oh well I'm not going to stress about it. If I can't get it done in time I can't get it done in time, this year (or at least this semester) is going to be stress-free :D
Nothing more for now I guess, congrats if you made it this far, have a great week!
Saara
I did my first test here on Monday! It was obviously maths since I can't really understand that much of any other subjects yet (and so far we haven't had tests in English). The test was about second grade equations and inverse functions (probably had something else to it as well but I don't really remember) which I haven't yet gone through in Finland so I think I have actually learned something here. I think I did pretty ok on the test even though I didn't have enough time to complete the whole thing. We had about 60 minutes to complete the whole test, which was 2 double-sided A4 sheets, which is a bit different compared to the maths tests I did in Finland. They were usually just one double-sided A4 paper and the time ranged anywhere from half an hour to 90 minutes, mainly because of my teacher though.
More about school (and maths): Right now I'm on second grade of medio (suomessa vähänniinku yläasteen ja lukion sekotus) so I will need to elect some optional subjects for next year. We had to take a poll about what elective courses/subjects we would want to take, and I chose health sciences, physical education and a course of maths which includes derivatives (?) and some other things I will go through in Finland. I thought it will probably be useful for me if I can go through them here already, especially if I decide to continue with A maths (pitkä) in Finland because that's at least what I'm starting with.
Right now we are going through geometry which I have already passed so for once I feel like I know something. Although they don't go through all the phases of the problems here and it disturbs me a lot since I'm always taking my calculations a step further and then I realise that I didn't need to do that phase. But I'll get over it.
On Tuesday we went to Santiago with my class. It was raining when we got there and we all got super wet because we had to walk in the rain for quite a long way to our destination. We visited the Museum of Memory and Human Rights and we had a tour there. I didn't really catch anything the guide was talking about because she was talking so fast and quietly, and in Spanish, but it didn't really matter since I knew what the museum was about. The human rights violations in Chile that started in the 1970's affected a lot of people even outside of Chile, and many countries helped Chile a lot during them, including Finland. There's even a Finnish mini series about it from Finland's point of view. It's called Invisible Heroes (suom. Näkymättömät Sankarit, katottavissa Yle Areenasta, vahva suositus!) and although I never saw it until the end (because of reason x) it had an impact on me and it was actually really interesting to watch. (muumiespanja best <3 If anybody knows how I can watch it here in Chile let me know)
After taking the tour in the museum, we headed to a university campus. There was a college expo where you could see and hear more about different studying opportunities. We went on a tour to the nursing section of the university, which was quite interesting since my sister is currently studying something quite similar in Finland. We also waited for more than half an hour for our food, and another half an hour in Starbucks to get coffee. I also met Merle, a german exchange student who I got to know on our first orientation in Santiago. She was also at the expo with her school. After hanging out at the expo for several hours we started our way back to San Fernando, making a "quick" stop in a McDonald's which was on the way.
2nd of October meant the 2 months mark for me here in Chile. On our Spanish class we only played some word game in Spanish but it was fun. After the class I walked to the mall which was great since I haven't really walked that much here, and in Finland I used to walk all the time. But I guess I've already gotten used to it. Wednesday was also my sister's 20th birthday and on Thursday I talked to her for over an hour while my class was doing a chemistry test. It was great but everyone in the library was just laughing / staring at me because I was just talking in Finnish. Must've been a really weird experience for them.
Friday night we held a little get-together with my sister to some of our classmates and the other afs exchange students here in San Fernando. As a finn I was super worried about how it will turn out but it went pretty great. I guess I just have to accept the fact that finns are anti-social and it's only a Finnish thing that these kind of get-togethers with people who don't know each other won't work.
On Saturday my little sister had her first communion. It was kinda weird to be in a church because I think I haven't been in one (well technically this was a chapel but what differences do they even have) since my own confirmation a year ago, but the ceremony was quite pretty. After the ceremony we went to eat with some family and friends in some restaurant where we had reserved a buffet. Pretty much the rest of the Saturday I spent writing this :D
Sunday went by quite quickly, nothing really to write about it. During the weekend my back started to hurt once again, and apparently my knees hadn't been hurting enough either.. Oh well I got some painkillers for it and it's now a bit better although I know the pain will be back pretty soon :D but I know how to deal with it, nothing to worry about.
We are supposed to be having our second orientation in two weeks but we still haven't heard anything from AFS.. Oh well not really my problem. My problem right now is that I have to make a presentation about the nordic wellness state model from Finland's point of view. In Spanish. Yeah I doubt that anything of the presentation will make sense but at least I'll try. I don't even know the due date for it, oops. Oh well I'm not going to stress about it. If I can't get it done in time I can't get it done in time, this year (or at least this semester) is going to be stress-free :D
Nothing more for now I guess, congrats if you made it this far, have a great week!
Saara
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