First few days

I was wondering the social differences of Finland and Malta. And what i mostly see is Finnish people aren't as social as the Maltese except after few beers. We were talking about this with Harri and Eve during lunch yesterday and i think Harri had an very exciting point. In Finland we start to study English on the third year of our school so we are around 10 years old. But from the very beginning the teacher corrects us if we say something wrong and most of the time doesn't remember to praise us when we get something right. Most of the test are made to test our english writing skils not our speaking skils. And when you are working or communicating in a multicultural enviroment as we are now, the most important thing isn't that we are speaking fluent English but to get every experience out of this wonderful opportunity.

I think student exchanges are great but i still think the exchange students dont get everything out from their exchange becouse they only interact with other exchange students and in finland with international tutors. But they still have to go to our courses and come to our lectures. In my opinion when you go to a school that is envolved with student exchange the student should commit their selves to make the exchange students feel welkome to our school. And every time an exchange student begings a course with a new group there should be a team bulding exercise so they can work and bond as a team.

Lets start with these thoughts and continue later...