My New Start

This is my first apartment. It has a sauna (we don't have this back home), a clothes rack for drying and washing machine in the bathroom. Its crowded when mom has to wash clothes.

            

             

     

Some differences in my home in Jyvaskyla is that the dish rack is over the sink, closets are built in the wall, the refrigerator is small and bathrooms are right next to each other. Our place has good security with 2 doors. There are lots of people in the apartments and only 1 school. People walk, take the bus or ride bikes places.

School is awesome but the times table is hard. I'm in a 1st and 2nd grade class because the Finns start school at 7 years old. In the US we start at 5.  I had a hard time making friends because they were talking 
Finnish and I did not know what they were saying. And I play rough.

I get to walk to school by myself and I walk to aftercare with a few friends. My mom and dad drive me to school in Baltimore. I can't go anywhere alone.

 

In school we get to go down an ice slide and take our shoes off.  We take off our snow pants and put our stuff on hooks and racks. There are hills for skiing and an ice skating rink. We have free time outside in the snow 3 times a day. It is cold! But I have fun playing soccer with the big kids.

We barely have homework and we go to religion class. We have short school days. Its a half day everyday. Yes! In PE we snowboard, ski and skate. School starts and finishes at a different time everyday.

Some more differences in Finland:

1      There are large snow piles to play in!

2      The buses are better in Finland because they have a stroller stop button.

3      There are less people in Finland.

4      There are less strangers talking to you.

5  My mom uses a sled for my sisters. Not the stroller.

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