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8 octobre 2007

Chapter Three: Tour of Kokkola and trip to Alavetli – or Finnish Sightseeing… [2/2]

Chapter Three: Tour of Kokkola and trip to Alavetli – or Finnish Sightseeing…  [2/2]
above: our archaeologist explaining us how the tar was made Helena thought that the archaeologist was fed up with us from the start and didn’t really know what he had to tell us. He told us he didn’t want to ‘bullshit’ us by telling us something wrong...
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18 septembre 2007

Chapter One : Team Work... [1/3]

Chapter One : Team Work... [1/3]
We met at 5:00 pm in the school and we were in Öja almost at 5:30 pm. We toured and took some photos on the little harbour at the lake and we had dinner at 6:00 pm. After that, we learnt something about writing diary and reflection. Then, we were told...
18 septembre 2007

... and Finnish Specificities. [3/3]

... and Finnish Specificities.  [3/3]
On the Friday evening, the girls went first to the Sauna. During that time, the men played floor ball again and it lasted long: the girls took their time to enjoy the sauna !. After the girls came back, the men went to the sauna.Going to the sauna is...
18 septembre 2007

Conclusion

Conclusion
To summarize our first contact, it was not really a purely cultural exchange. It was mainly human. This is of course quite normal as it is the bigenning of a new relationship.The Öja trip helped us to recognize each other. We know who is who. In French...
6 octobre 2007

Chapter Two: Watching a movie.. [1/3]

Chapter Two: Watching a movie.. [1/3]
In the frame of the GLG course, we watched a movie together, we chose 'the Spanish Apartement'. We wrote the following report about it. L’auberge espagnole / The Spanish Apartment Running time: 122 min; Release Year: 2002; Directed by: Cédric Klapisch...
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6 octobre 2007

Chapter Two: Watching a movie.. [2/3]

Chapter Two: Watching a movie.. [2/3]
§ Martine, the girlfriend Martine is Xavier’s girlfriend who lives in Paris. She’s quite weird and it seems that she has many little problems. She’s really sad when Xavier leaves to Barcelona. After half a year, she goes to see him there, but the stay...
8 octobre 2007

Chapter Three: Tour of Kokkola and trip to Alavetli – or Finnish Sightseeing… [1/2]

Chapter Three: Tour of Kokkola and trip to Alavetli – or Finnish Sightseeing…  [1/2]
On Thursday 27th of September, we had another trip: first a tour of Kokkola by bus, then a trip to the site of Alavetli. We left early in the morning -perhaps too early for some people- however we got going anyway! We drove through the old parts of Kokkola,...
18 septembre 2007

Introduction

As everyone, our story in Finland begins with an introduction...Perfect strangers to each other, we have met and started to build a relationship together.We are from different parts of the world ... Liu from China, Helena from France but of Finnish origins,...
18 septembre 2007

... Multicultural Discoveries... [2/3]

The multicultural aspect was quite restrained at the beginning. It is hard to simply start to speak about one’s culture. But the Öja trip enabled us to observe different cultures and helped us to learn more things about different cultures due to the fact...
6 octobre 2007

Chapter Two: Watching a movie.. [3/3]

Are there clashes and tensions of values? Xavier, Isabelle and their friends don’t understand a word when the class is in Catalan. Isabelle is tasked with telling the teacher for teaching the class in Castilian. However, he doesn’t accept because most...
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