Tuesday we had a Career Day at my school. The first years and other students were dismissed from their first classes to see a program in the lobby. Some semi famous musicians from Finland were performing and speaking to the school, they had once attended my school and wrote a song about Vantaa, the city where my school is. The song is kinda a joke and it was really funny to see it live. In the afternoon I met a friend at Kiasma with friends from his art class, we went around the museum before they went to get sushi. I had to leave early to go to a Rotary meeting. The meeting with Rotary was to discuss how my exchange had been progressing and talk about any problems I had been having. I was very nervous for the meeting, but it was less critical of my exchange but my Rotary club wondering what they could do better to help exchange students in the future.

School was uneventful during the week. I had television class and we started making an action film, which was actually really fun. we had to make a dumb that looked like one of the students to throw off the balcony of the school.

On Friday I was supposed to stay the night at my Finnish friend Tytti’s house, I had been looking forward to it all week. As I was going to meet up with her I got a text from a friend, Andrés, inviting me to go swimming with him and his host family. Tytti and I talked and decided we would go with them, but we had to go back to my house and get another bathing suit for Tytti because she didn’t have one with her. Andrés’s host brother picked us up at my home and we went swimming at this really nice place in Vantaa and met up with one of the exchange students from France, Valentin. I hung out with Tytti and Andrés’ host sister most of the time (I actually became pretty good friends with his host sister). I had so much fun swimming with them. Tytti and I went back to her house for a girls night, we talked a lot, and picked her dad up from some event he had been at. When we picked up her dad we got dragged into the venue where there was some man “singing” the noises he was making were close to croaks and moans. At first it was hard not to laugh because what was happening was really unexpected, but after time it was actually interesting how he could make so many different sounds with his voice. It was one of those crazy cultural experiences that left me feeling “what did I just see?” When I left Tytti’s house on Saturday I was supposed to meet up with friends in Helsinki but they wouldn’t get back to me so I was left at home and spent the rest of the weekend with my host family.