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Today, we started our day even more early! We are all ready for leaving Iittala behind and driving with the bus (“bussi”) to Tampere, the third-largest city in Finland. It took about an hour to get there and the drive was absolutely worth it: we went directly to the Varala sports institute, where five instructors were waiting for us! Our Erasmus+ team were split into 4 groups and everyone just needed to put on the helmet: we were learning a lot about climbing, securing each other with ropes and overcoming the fear of height! No matter if you stack drinks crates[…]

Even early in the morning (at around 5.30am) the sun was already shining!!! Nevertheless, our students had to be at school on time for a nice presentation and a physiotherapist’s lecture on ergonomics, exercise and physical health. We learned what a “text neck” is and how we can handle back pain caused by long sitting on a chair. We made exercises and everyone could check how fit he/she is and how everyone can do these kind of exercises in the everyday life easily. After lunch at school we went to Hugo Park in Aulanko. We were all very astonished by[…]

After the exciting first night in the host families‘ houses, all our students arrived at school… excited and curious about what the first day will be like: We started with a warm welcome and everyone introduced himself/herself. After that we had a meeting with all students of the Iittalan Yhtenäiskoulu in the sports hall. Very impressive! In addition to that, we got to know our school much better with a little guided tour through the buildings, which ended in the school‘s sports hall with some exciting sports: the whole Erasmus team was splitted in three different groups. The first group[…]

Today is the day our six girls were waiting for.. we met at the airport in Hannover at 7am in the morning, with the luggage packed for a fun-filled week in Finland. We were flying from Hannover to Munich first, where we changed flights to get to Helsinki on time! All our luggage made it as well and our bus (now we know that bussi means bus in finnish) was waiting for us at Terminal 1.. the German team was tired but happy to see the beautiful landscape of Finnland with a lot of sunshine! And you know what? The[…]

We practice our cheerleading 🤗

Here it is – the instructional video for BATTLE BALL: the new sports from Finland! ?

After several weeks of Easter holidays in Germany, we went back to work today! ? And we have a lot to do right from the beginning.. next Friday we will have an Open-door day in our school and, of course, Erasmus+ will be represented. We have started decorating our own classroom with tons of banners, logos and the website link. We will offer some healthy candy and the chocolate cookies (with many calories) we used to eat a few weeks ago (click here to read the post about what we did with high-calorie cookies): we will have a little quiz[…]