Lots and Lots of Lessons

This is my class.

Today was filled with more language classes. We had eight hours of classes scheduled! That is more than a day at school! Our class started learning adjectives – the only “agreements” for adjectives are singular and plural (more than English, less than French). However then we started with the interesting concept of Finnish propositions. There are no words for in, on, around, from, to, etc. Instead the ending of the noun is changed. For example house is talo (TAH-low): in the house is talossa, from the house is talosta, into the house is taloon, and it goes on and on… but you probably don’t care about the structure of the Finnish prepositions.

This afternoon, in between lessons, we had a group picture of everyone who is here at Karkku. The Canadians, all nine of us (at least I think there are nine…) decked out in all of our Canada gear: scarves, mittens, jerseys, and flags. I think if there was a prize for best dressed country, we would have won!

CANADA! Eh?

In one of our last lessons, we played a board game that tested our knowledge of the Finnish language so far. I actually practiced my French, though, during the game because the French people in my group had a hard time translating from Finnish to English, so they translated Finnish to French, and I translated French to English for them.

This evening we ate some makkara, which is Finnish sausage, and went swimming and sauna-ing.