Well, since this is my first report, I guess I should start from the beginning.  We left for the airport at 6am and my flight from Miami to Detroit took off at 9:30.  It was about a 3 hour flight to Detroit and then I had a 6 hour layover in the airport.  I met up with a group of other kids who were also going to Finland and we boarded our flight to Amsterdam .  This flight was quite interesting and exhausting.  It took 8 hours the seats and food were horrible.  My favorite part of the flight were the evil stewardesses.  They would run over your feet and make like it was your fault and they would 'accidentally' forget to ask you if you wanted a drink three times in a row.  But we finally landed in Amsterdam and we had a 3 hour layover there.  A couple of girls decided to go back down to the lobby and have some lunch and almost ended up missing the plane.  Even though this flight was and hour and a half, it was the roughest flight of the day.  We were all so exhausted that none of us really realized when the plane took off or landed.  It just seemed to happen.  Then, we landed in Helsinki and were greeted by a bunch of rotary people who told us to just hang out in the airport for 3 hours so we could wait for other kids to arrive.  So,we loaded our bags onto a truck and we got on a bus and rode for three hours to a small little town called Karkku.  This was the smallest town I had ever seen.  Literally, only 100 people lived here and the closest town was a half hour away.  The next day, we started our finnish lessons and we got to meet everyone.  I met people from Canada , Ecuador , Mexico , Brasil , Argentina , Switzerland , France , Germany , Japan , and Italy .  At the camp, we got to visit Tampere, the third largest city in Finland, a gothic Cathedral which was home of that famous painting of the two little boys carrying an injured angel, and a candle church (some kind of church service held at a medieval church with a dirt floor).  Tampere was amazing.  It was so much different than the rest of Finland .  We went to downtown Tampere where there were many old factories and a huge variety of architecture.  Then we took a bus tour around the entire city.  We rode to the top of a giant hill where we got an amazing view of the city and nearby towns.  The last day of camp, our host families came to pick us up.  We loaded the luggages into the car and we headed east towards Outokumpu.  It was a five hour drive and we stopped in Jyväskylä for coffee and food.  Then, we finally reached our town.  It's a pretty small town with only 8.000 people.  Most of the towns in Finland are like this.  Tomorrow I start school and today I get to pick my classes.  My school isn't too big either.  There's only 170 students, but that's normal for Finland .  The weather has been pretty nice lately, since it was cold and rainy when I first arrived.  Now, it's in the high 60's.  Finnish food is very different, too.  There are about 5-6 meals a day and nothing is artificial.  All the food is very healthy and I've tried it all.  Other than that, nothing has really been going on here.  Finland is sort of a 'do what you want, when you want' kind of country and I like it so far.  I would just like to thank everyone in rotary who has made this experience possible and I will try and make the most out of my trip.