| Hello everyone, Most of you have no idea how I've been doing since I left the USA. I know this issupposed to be a MONTHLY report, but in two weeks I've had enough to write a whole book. I met the American group which was going to Finland on the Airport of Newart. When we arrived to the Airport of Helsinki surprise surprise... Since nothing can be perfect, my week needed something to mess it up. Well what happend was that I did not get my luggages until two days later. We went to a camp, where there were all exchange students from all around the world going to Finland. It was awesome because I met several people, and we also had finnish classes during the day. The place was gorgeous: pine trees all around, lakes and a tipical finnish Sauna (in finland after you go to the Sauna you run towards the lake and jump on it. It feels so good!). During the day we would have the classes, and lectures about finland. We would also go visit some imporant places on that area. We visited the city of Tampere, and most of the students decided that day that they would do whatever they couldn't have done for the past years. People came to the camp with piercings, blue and pink hair, and stuff like that. Well I'm still the same, but I've been thinking about cutting my hair shorter. Any suggestion? We went to many churches, and I found out that I'm the only person who can't
sing in Finland. The last day each group of the countries presented something about it. We, the americans sang the anthem of the USA. But I also
sang the Brazilian Anthem with them because, you know, right? I'm Brazilian
too. All the parents went to pick up their host daughters and sons, but the
group which was comming to my city went home by bus because it was too far
for our parents to pick us up. This last day on the camp was very sad because before we went to Finland we had to leave all of our frends behind,
and then, when we made new friends, we had to spread around Finland, and
sometimes the people you got along better stayed so far from you... Again,
you see yourself alone having to make new friends, going to a place you have
no idea he kind of people you will find. Mariana |