During my visit in Hytölä, two musicians (sorry, I
didn’t write down their name, but they did wonderful jobs) visited the
school. They brought many traditional musical instruments from
Finland, but also the rest of the world. Pupils were so excited to try different musical
instruments, They picked the most favorite one they would like to play later
on. The musicians invited all the pupils to create a song together from melody
to lyrics. That’s a really creative way to let pupils to be involved. During the
process, the musician asked pupils speak out the characters they would like put
in the song, and made up a story with them. I can’t imagine there is another more
inspiring way to make a song than this one. Of course, it was just a draft, finally, two
musicians had to use their talents to make it into a musical composition. At the
end, when musicians sang that song together with pupils, I was so surprised that
it just took around one hour, and which is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve
ever heard.
On February 5, 2019, the Year of the Earth
Pig begins in Chinese astrology. As few youngsters in Konnevesi are ethnic
Chinese, we decided to celebrate it together in Finland J.
To help achieve youngsters’ potentials,
Lapunmäki School invited the local entrepreneurs to the school hiring students. It
was my first time to see a job fair aiming at youngsters. It is apparently
helpful for youngsters to gain the vision on what kinds of job they would like
to be involved in the future career life. And the youngster could also spend
their spare time productively.
To be honest, before I thought pony is just
small horse, and they will grow up as big as “normal” size, until I visited Pony
club. Mervi’s family organize this club for the kids with pony ride and knowledge
popularization of horses. I had the honor to be on the pony-drawn vehicle. They
are much stronger than I expected.
Every Tuesday, lower secondary students can
play floorball in the sports hall, I didn’t try it before coming to
Finland,which is really interesting,just wish there will be more students to
join J.
On the Valentine’s Day, the third-year
senior high school students were leaving school to prepare for the final exam
at home. Before leaving school, they prepared a big cake and coffee for
the teachers, which seems a tradition in Finland to be thankful in the heart (of
course, also put into actions). There is another interesting tradition for the
graduation, pre-graduated students will prepare lots of candies for the people
in the town. They board on the truck,then distribute sweets to the crowd. The
truck drove around the town, and some pupils followed the truck around to get
more candies J.
As third-year senior high school students
left school, the next day, second-year high school students had a wanhat-dance
to celebrate the fact that they will be the “highest” ones in this school soon. They
are very talented to danced quite different types of dances. Their parents were
also invited to celebrate this memorable day.
Mingchen J
Mingchenin vapaaehtoisjakso päättyi helmikuun loppuun 2019. Vapaaehtoisjakson aikana Mingchen, tutummin Minski, tuli tutuksi monelle konnevetiselle iästä riippumatta. Konneveden 4H-yhdistys kiittää projektin yhteistyökumppaneita, ja ennen kaikkea Minskiä vapaaehtoisjaksosta! Toivotamme Minskille mitä parhainta jatkoa. 😊