Angry Birds at school

I've had some presentations about Finland at schools around Ajdovscina. Last week and this Tuesday I also visited Danilo Lokarja school in Ajdovscina, we were singing and dancing two Finnish songs with kids - that was a lot of fun! And I was surprised how quickly and well they learned the lyrics, pronouncing words like real Finns :-)

So far I've visited primary schools in Budanje, Smarje, Podnanos, Goce and Lokavec. (I'm sorry that I don't have these s, z, c -letters with "roofs" on my keypad -  it's Finnish so instead of those I have ä, ö, å ;). I have a Power point presentation about Finland and show some videos - for example about northern lights and ice-swimming after sauna. And these seem to be something what they haven't seen before :) After the presentation we have a workshop and make Angry Birds characters from cardboard - kids have really liked them! I chose Angry Birds theme because it comes from Finland and kids know them and like the game really much!

I will add some pictures later :-)

Let's speak English!

Every Wednesday Urska and me are teaching English for children in Danilo Lokarja school after lessons. There are eight kids and they are from 5 to 8 years old. Even some of them can't read yet, they have already learned a lot :) 

It's always so nice to spend time with them!

For the previous lesson I prepared a map of a town. And then we taught how to ask directions like "Where is the bank?" - The bank is on the left.

Yeeees I know it's upside down! I tried to get it right way but it didn't work.
It looks right until I add it here, why...?

EVS presentation

On Thursday, February 21st me and other EVS-volunteer Maria had a presentation in library. It was about EVS, voluntary work, organisations we are working for (MDPM Ajdovscina and Hisa Mladih) and our home countries Finland and Lithuania.

We had presentation in Power Point and also showed some videos. You can check them from YouTube, links below:

The Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) in Finland

Winter swimming / Ice swimming in Finland 

Crazy Finnish habit after sauna :)

And a video about Lithuania

Welcome to Lithuania

After the presentation we had some really nice conversations with guests and offered wine with Finnish dessert, Runeberg's torte. I chose to bake that because every year on February 5th we celebrate Johan Ludvig Runeberg. He is our national poet and one of the poems he wrote became lyrics for our National Anthem (Maamme-laulu). So around Feb 5th we usually bake Runeberg's torte (Runebergin torttu). The main taste is about ginger biscuits and almonds. I had the idea to bake these for presentation when I found ANNAS-ginger biscuits (Swedish biscuits but we also eat those same in Finland) from Mercator. I didn't expect to find anything Scandinavian from Slovenia :)

ANNAS ginger biscuits