Exchange Finland 2011

About Finland!

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Capital: Helsinki
Population: 5250275
Governmemt: Republic
Official languages: Finnish and Swedish
Religion: 81% Protestant 17% don't believe in god
Currency: Euro

Finland is one of the country of the Europian Union. Finland is between Sweden and Russia.
Finland has a lots of waters.

Some important city's are: 
- Joensuu
- Jyväskylä
- Kotka
- Kuopio
- Lahti
- Lappeenranta
- Oulu
- Pori
- Rovaniemi
- Tampere
- Turku
- Vaasa

A day for a Finnish Student!

School day:

The Finish students go to school in the week.
In the weekend they are free.
Schools in Finland start at 8 o’clock in the morning.
The schoolsystem in Finland is a very different one then in the Netherlands. In Finland they don’t have a mbo or hbo. When you are at school you are going to learn a subject area in Finland. In the Netherlands you are going to study a for a job. 
Lunch:

In Finland, they eat warm during the lunch at school. We don’t like the lunch at school in Finland. We ask the Finish students if they like the lunch. The also didn’t like the lunch, but they eat it because it is for free
Transport to school:

Most of the Finish student go to school by bike, car or train. Some students walk to school. The Finish people walk very fast.

Spare time:

After school the Finish students like to sport, shopping, doing homeworkL, or nother nice things with there friends.

Sport:

The Finnish people like nother sports then we, Dutch people do.
They like:
-          Ice hockey;
-          Ski jumping;
-          Football(the same as in the Netherlands)
-          Snowboarding;
-          (figure) Skating;’
-          A game such as hockey.

At the school in Kuopio(Finland) we played a game such as hockey.

Shopping:

In Finland you have a lot of stores such as in the Netherlands. The names of the stores are:

-          Only
-          Veromoda
-          Jack&Jones;
-          Hugo Boss;
-          Benetton;
-          Etc.

But there are also stores in Finland that we don’t have in the Netherlands.