End of the first week.

Wednesday 08/02/2012
We started our third day with introductions of Maltese, Italian, Danish and Czech (English and Finnish were on Friday) nursing and study as a nurse. The introductions were full of useful information because I'm thinking to go an exchange. It was interesting to see how much we have similarities and differences in nursing between countries. I realized that I should be a bit proud of study as a nurse in Finland because here nurses can do more things than in other countries. I have never thought about that in UK nurses can't cannulate. So these introductions was really rewarding to me.

After lunch we worked with learning theories. We started working in our own groups. We were taught by every group because every group had to present of the learning theories. I think that work was a icebreaker to our group. Learning theory quiz was fun, even though we were really bad in it. :D

After a working day we had trip to Pettu Eerikin hovi in Kankaanpää for a traditional Finnish dinner (hopefully no one thinks that the dessert was traditional Finnish food, because it was far away from it :D). The upper floor of Pettu Eerikin hovi was brilliant. It was nice to see how many of our group was interested about Finnish history.  The food was good and atmosphere of the place and company even better. The whole group feels like a small family. :)

Thursday 09/02/2012
On Thursday we continued our theme about Finnish traditions; sauna, ice swimming, sausage grilling. We went to cabin to Merikarvia. The place was beautiful because the sun was shining and there were a lot of snow. The place was like a little village. We started act like a little children when we saw so much snow. Regardless of age or culture we belonged to the same kindergarten playground. We had so much fun.

At lunch we had kinkkukiusaus (ham and potato casserole), I heard that some of you said that Finnish food is really heavy and you are getting weight in here. Our excuse: We have to keep ourselves warm during the winter.

Time to sauna and ice swimming… I was surprised how many of us tried ice swimming and rolling in the snow. I will never have that kind of experience anymore in my life: six (or even more) different nationalities in the same sauna and every of us were excited about ice swimming. Ice swimming was therapeutic. After relaxing sauna we started grill sausages. It was a good ending to that day.

On our way back to Pori everyone was sleeping. Relaxing day had done its job.

Friday  10/02/2012

Work, work, work….
Finally we started to do our group working. First we gathered as a one group of twelve students (group number 1 and 2). We went through the assignment and what it is all about. We found four questions in our assignment. We talk about are we going to work together or separately. We decided to work as a two groups which was really good idea because then we got our voices heard. One group took two questions and another two. Now our group had two questions which we split to six different parts. Every member of our group had to create a few questions about their own subject. We started to use forum to collect our answers. The forum was perfect idea, so we ended our day to create those few questions to forum. We had a really good start to our group working.