German students in Helsinki

During the time from 21st April to 25th April we visited together with two other students of our school our partner school in Helsinki, Finland. While our stay there we did a program which the Finnish teachers created for us.
On Monday we arrived at 4 o’clock pm Finnish time in Helsinki, after we travelled about 1500 kilometres by train, bus and airplane. In the evening of our arrival day we went on a little sightseeing tour though the city centre.
On Thursday we visited the school for 2 lessons of English. After that we visited an exhibition about movie animations where we got a view behind the scenes of movies like “Ratatouille” or “Finding Nemo”. For the rest of the day we had free time which we used for writing postcards, more sightseeing or chilling at the stairs in front of the White Cathedral.
The next day also started at school, with 2 lessons of music. After that we visited the “Heureka”-science centre in Vantaa where we’ve seen a movie about the development of our solar system. During our following free time we’ve been at the city centre again and we also visited the tower of the Olympic Stadium. Up there we had a nice view over Helsinki and some of the small islands. In the evening we went on bowling and the victory was with the German team.
Thursday was a pretty hard day for all of us. At first we visited the “Tapanila”-sport centre in Vantaa, where we tried ourselves in different kinds of sport, for example wall climbing or boxing. After these hard hours we needed something to eat. So we went to 2 home economy lessons at school. We baked some Korelian rice pasties with egg butter (sounds better than it tastes) and some sour cream pies with blueberries. The evening of that day was our last one at “the country of the 1000 lakes”, so he needed to be something really special. And he really was. We celebrated a SingStar-Party at the Pönni-family’s house and of us had lots of fun.
On Friday we went back home to “Saksa” and somehow it was a strange feeling to be at home and to speak the own language again, but also a nice feeling. We’ve been really happy to be back in Wernigerode, but we were also a little sad that it’s all over now…


Tim Kolditz, Marie Manger