Job + Museums + Concert

Cristina and at the moment I'm living in Helsinki, Finland.
This week I am going to tell about my work and a concert that i went today.
Here in Finland I'm working in a K-Market in Aurinkolahti that is near to the sea ( there is colder than in my house in Mellunmaki. I start work at 10 am in the morning and i finish at 3 pm, my job is there is restocking products and order them.

On Friday we went with the tutors to visit museums in the center of Helsinki, we visited the Kiasma and the Natural History Museum.

Today we went to a concert of a finish singer Benjamin, we wait there in the queue for two ours in fornt of Nosturi in the cold because it was -6 degrees. Finally when the concert started we were inside warmand listening the music it was cool and fun.

Saturday

Today we get up at 11 am and we went whith our german brother's to a  water park named "Galaxy Water Parc at Therme Erding". Moreover it is an hour from our home. Also is the biggest indor water park in europe.

We have gone with our german brother's and some friends of their.

Furthermore we've tried all the water slides and all the pools. For us the better thing is the outdoor pool, because in the outside it was at -2º and the pool water was 30º.

Finally we returned home and we eat some great food.
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Wednesday

Our Wednesday, was not really bussy, We started the day at 8 am weaking up to go to work like every day.
After the work, We returned home to take the gloves and the hat because it was very cold (-8º).
Later, we met our Spanish friends, we went to visit some shops, moreover we went to a restaurant named "Opatija" that makes very good food.
Finally we returned home to sleep.

Tuesday, workday

Hi everyone!

On Sunday my family took Marta, Cristina, Ayan (Cristina's sister) and me through a "car tour" over Helsinki. Actually, that was a very good idea because that day the temperature was of -6 degrees 😏. 

We were travelling to places we haven't been when we were at the centre, such as the house of the Prime Minister, the Spanish Embassy or the Sibelius Monument.

When we were near the sea, something shocked us. It was very cold and there was a swimming pool in the same sea. We went to look it carrefully, and was a sauna and a hot outdoor swimming pool.

Monday was a very exciting day because, finally, we bought our tickets to Rovaniemi, in Lapland, North of Finland, to see Santa Claus 🎅🎅🎅! We were wondering all the days about when we could go and finally, we bought them. We leave on Friday evening, we sleep at the train, we arrive on Saturday morning. On Saturday we visit Santa Claus home and the same Saturday we take the train back home.

The same day, I also tried sauna at home, very relaxing! 😫

Today, Tuesday, as always, working at the morning. My boss is really nice and my colleagues are very friendly. I really like my job, is not too hard and not too stressfull. I enjoy it. 

At midday we went to a lake that was completely frozen. We took photos in there and at the afternoon, we went to the library to do English exercises and to check tickets because maybe on Sunday we go to Tallinn (Estonia)!

Next Tuesday more!

Angel

My wonderful first week in München

My first day at work I was very nervous for meeting my colleagues, but now I'm happy because everyone is very nice to me.

I work in a designer furniture shop, The name of the shop is CAIRO.

Normally, I put the price of the furniture and I help them to decorate the showroom.

Every day I'm going to eat with a guy from the company and he teaches me the city, his name is Timo.

I haven't work today because on Saturday I have to work, and during the week I have a free day.

At half past two I've gone to get Marlena and we have eaten together, we went shopping later with Pol and Edgar.

It's been a fantastic day.

Saturday

Saturday,

We started the day with our German Sister, She show us some Munich monumets
1-. We went to a big tower in the center of MarienPlatz, we go up through the tower and we saw all the city from the top.
2-. Then we visited a very big church named: "Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Múnich"  in the city.
3-. Later, we went to eat in a very famous restaurant in the center of munich "Ratskeller München", with our German Sister and some friends of him "Ratskeller München". Where we eat "Snitcher", that it's a steak of meat breaded.

And Finally when we arrived at home we saw some movies in english.

Sunday, the last day of the week

Hi everyone!!
I'm Marlena and I'm a student that wents to München, with Nerea, Pol and Edgar. It was a great first week. I strated my first job at Tuesday and  I was really nervous but my colleagues were really nice with me.
I work in a Supermarket called Basic-Bio, and here is a photo.

I went to Austria with my dad and my stepbrother and we were in a Christmas festival, it was really fun but it was very cold...

I will publish a post every Sunday.

The first day of snow

Hello my name is Marta, I am another student, who has had the good fortune to go from Erasmus.

As you can see here it is always cold so always and it is typical to drink hot chocolate or tea.

This photo is from our first week and our first hot chocolate, with our teacher Montse.

And besides that today is the first day that snows, and this is a photo with the first snowfall of our trip.

My First Week

Hi, My name is Cristina Fernández and I'm one of the 3 students that we are in Finland.
We arrived in Monday like my friend Angel said in his blog, that day we went home and meet our families that are very nice people and also in Tuesday we meet our tutors that are from the school of Helmi and visit the center of Helsinki to took some photos.

This one is my favourite picture of all. On Wenesday I started working in K-Market thats it's like a Mercadona in Spain, my collegues of work are also very nice and friendly, the work it's not similar like the one i have in Spain but now I'm getting used to and the time that they're have lunch, because it's at 11.00am.

On Friday we met the tutors again at Helmi and we went with Suvi, Sanni ( that are two very friendly girls that now they are our friends) and Juhani ( that is the "brother" of Angel) to the center to catch the Tram to do a tour of the city and of course to take pictures.

Schuster shop (Edgar and Pol)

Hello, Our name is Edgar and Pol and we will be writing every Wednesday and Sunday,to explain about how is the live in "Munich", our day and what we do every day.

Today, we start the day going the work in "schuster sports", a very important shops in Munich. There are three shops:

The firts is a shop with all material necesary for to have sports and it have 6 floors, later there is the second shop especialized in shirts and material for practice fitness.

And finaly the third shop is for soccer clothes ,one curiosity of it is than there are a lot of t-shirts teams form all arround the world, especial the "La liga" football teams and also a lot of  historic football balls of all time.

Our work is about puting alarms to the clothes and all the logistic exercices than are in a normal shop, also we stablish relations with our work collegues to learn more about german people and how is his live here and obviously to practice and impruve our english.

Later on when we finish working we see how it's München and all the shops than have,

with a coffe in our hands, furthermore we meet our Spanish friend and whe talk of our day.

My first day in Germany

Hello, I'm Nerea and I'll explain my first day in Germany with Pol, Marlena, Edgar and our teacher Oriol.

At 9 o´clock we were in the airport, I was very nervous.

When we arrived, We went to the school to met the director and then we went to eat at a typical german restaurant. I asked "Gurmeteller", is a dish with different types of meat, I liked.

Then, I met Julia, is my sister in Germany. She is 28 years old and is very nice and always helping me in everything. 

My first day in Germany was great!!

Starting our Erasmus experience in Helsinki

Hello everybody. My name is Angel Rodríguez and I'm one of the 3 students we are in Finland.
The other 2 students are Marta Cabello and Cristina Fernandez and we travelled with teacher Montse to Helsinki from 21th November to 20th December.
Monday morning. We had our flight at 6:00 in the morning. We had to be at the airport at 4:00. We were all sleeppy...😪 The flight was nice, they gave us a little snack that was a little bit weird but acceptable 😊

We had a connection in Frankfurt for an hour so we had time to relax, go to the toilet, etc.

Finally we arrived to Helsinki.
You could notice you were there because it was 4ºC a warm weather there.
Later, our families came to receive us at the airport and we went to our houses to install ourselves.

At tuesday morning, we had to be at 10 at the school. I took the bus with my brother in there. A very curious thing is that the people prefer to be quiet, so there was nobody at the bus talking, just looking at the window.
We had a little meeting at the school, there we met our tutors, students volunteers that make activities for you, then a tour in the school. It's very different from our school: they have cafeteria, sports center, gym, PE room, theatre room...
Later on, we visited our job places, we all work in supermarkets in the mornings for 5 hours more or less.

After that, we went to Helsinki city center where we visited some cathedrals and shopping centres. It's a very nice city in this days because it's all decorated with Christmas trees, christmas lights... Tomorrow is our first day of work, we're very anxious!

Rundale Palace

Hiiiiii!! It's Raquel,

A couple of weeks ago I went to a guided visit Rundale palace with a couple of England by car.

The ride was an hour to a ruined castle called BausMuseum. That was our first stop.                     She had beautiful views of the river, we climbed to the highest point of the castle.





After visiting the castle and the forest we returned to the car and went to Rundale palace.














Just that day was crowded since there was a meeting in the main garden.

The palace is huge and very nice, we walked through an entrance stairs and the hall was impressive.

This palace is the most important baroque palaces built by the Duke of Courland from 1736-1740 and from 1764-1768.

The interior of the palace was all decorated with fabrics on the walls, family portraits and objects valuable for them.

We saw the Duke's room, the bathroom, the guest rooms, lounges, games room, etc.

After visiting all went to the garden palace that everything is full of roses of different colors and types.
I had never seen such a large and colorful garden, the halls are filled with stands of clothing, food, souvenirs, flowers, etc.


















After a hot and interesting day we returned to Riga.

Have a nice day!!

Raquel.

Tallin, Estonia

Hi!! It's Raquel,


A few weeks ago Jordi and I went to Tallinn, Estonia.
We met my friend Veera of Finland and had a great day.


We went by bus for about 4 hours with a company that makes it very cheap and comfortable routes where we could enjoy internet, games, music and movies.


There we could visit all the old town and typical Estonian places. The old part was nice but to bad wheather.

We went to visit churches and souvenir shops, after visiting the old town we went to eat at a typical restaurant Estonian.

Then we went to visit the panoramic view of the city where we took pictures and we bought a coffee and some snak.

We found a machine where we could made Estonian stamp in a coin.

Finally, Veera went to Finland and we went to the bus station to come back to Riga where we could enjoy a comfortable trip.

See you!!

Raquel

Trip to Sigulda

Hello! It's Jordi!

My placement work offer me a free tour to one of the most beautiful cities in Latvia, Sigulda.

It is located not far away from Riga, just an hour and 20 minutes by car.

The first stop we made was in a farm where me and two other tourists were able to touch a deer, after that we visited a fantastic castle in the heart of Sigulda.

If that castle was not enough later we visited another castle not far away from there, that one was bigger than the Sigulda castle and there are fantastic views from the top of the tower.

Then we visited the center of Sigulda, a really cute place, almost everything is covered by grass and there are also a lot of leafy trees so while we were enjoying about that heavenly place our guide was explainig to us what happened there when the Russians ivaded the city.

 After that we found a nice place to eat typical food , while we were eating we discussed about the possibility to go to Cesis where there is an stunning castle over there. 

 Before we went to Cesis we had made some other stops, the first one was in a cave where the people from the 13th century wrote their names in the rocks and the the other one was near a lake where a family were selling some sculptures made of iron and stone.

Finally we arrived to that huge castle, the biggest I have ever seen. There was a festival next to the castle about "lamps", I don't know what that means but I suppose that is something relationed with party.

 

After our last stop we were glad to return to the car, we visited a lot of places in a really short period of time so we were really satisfied with ourselves.

Finally in home I just relaxed so, I used my time sleeping for the rest of the weekend.