Maitotilalla lypsyapulaisina!

Työleiri autteli lypsykarjatilalla nuorisokeskuksen naapurissa.

Tuesday 9th july

Yesterday evening we went to sauna for the second time. It was as good as the first one. We spent many time into the sauna but also in the living room where we had an interesting social and politic debate which ended because we were too tired to go on fighting. No one got hurt, we are still friends so it was a good evening.

Today’s plan was to visit two farms, so after the daily breakfast we split in two groups. The first one was: Monika, Ali, Adriana, Veronica, Minseop, Marwin, Arrrrttu and Noémie. We went to the caw’s farm where we had the chance the feed the caws, milk them, and tried to catch them in the field. We also helped with cleaning the milking machines and the stables, using our favourite tool: the kotticarry.

The second group was: Laura, Gorkem, Eliska, Nuria, Alex, Romina and Hanna. We went to the horses farm where we saw 3 horses. In the morning, we carried outside some beds and everyone had a “déjà-vu”. After lunch, we painted a house in pink so now Barbie and Ken can live happily ever after in Anjala.

Emma, the owner of the farm backed some delicious blueberry and chocolate cackes. We are starting to get use to good food.

Now, everybody is quite tired after this long day at the farm and we don’t know yet how we’ll spend this evening.

 

Adriana and Romina

Cleaning the milking machines, what an experience!

 

Jokimelontaa suurkanooteilla työn lomassa

Uudet suurkanootit pääsivät neitsytmatkalle Kymijoelle.

Monday, 8.7.2013

Today was Monday. Everyone knows that Mondays are the worst day in the week, we know that in Spain, in Deutschland and they also know that in Turkey. But we are positive people and, although there is just one week left, we woke up this morning with loads of energy, and as always, we started eating. After breakfast Hannah and Arrrrttu and KAI joined us and explained that we had to change the beds for some new ones, so we started the morning with the beautiful task of carrying with the old beds in our shoulders. So we built the new beds inside the rooms and after that, Hannah told us to bring inside the old beds we had put outside!!! To sum up, girls have a bed in their living room.

Then we had lunch, and the menu was: violently smashed potatoes, and small sausages. We have to admit we miss the carrot cake more than we miss our moms.

After lunch, it was nap time before going to ride the canoes.

We went to the Kymi river and we divided the group in two, group 1 and group 2. In group one was Pia on the front and in group 2 one of our Turkish volunteers, Ali. It was all done, the only thing was that group 2 had some special ideas about how to ride the canoe. This was why group 1 had sometimes to wait a bit. But at least we are all saved. No one died. So it was a good day.

Then we went back to the rooms and we soon had lunch. It seemed we were at the international night, because we had Mexican Tacos for dinner!! Gorkem is doing a great job tagging the volunteers on facebook one by one, so we actually recognize his work. Dinner sometimes turns into intense Turkish lessons. We want to thank Professor Ali and Doctor Gorkiam for their hard work at the dinning hall.

At eight we will go to Sauna, so… yes, we can say it was a very stressful Monday!!

Vero and Marwin, Spain and Deutschland

To river Kymi with new canoes.

Vapaalla pesäpalloa ja puistoretkiä!

Finnish weekend, baseball and blueberrypie!

Sunday 7th of July

Last night after dinner, we played some games and then half of the group decided that it was the perfect time to go fishing. At first we were digging the worms up and then we put the worms to the hooks and started fishing. Minseop was really lucky with choosing the right spot where to fish on, so he got fife fishes (after throwing two of them to the ground).  After fishing some of the girls went to boys apartment to play Twister and to listen to some music. Then somebody (the Turkish guys) had a crazy idea of going to the lake at 2 in the night.

Today most of us skipped the breakfast and slept in. But by lunch, everyone of us had gotten up from the bed and was at the lunch. After the lunch Noemie introduced us the plans for next week and then we went by train to Kouvola. Thanks to Laura¸ we had free tickets to the baseball game. After the baseball game, we went to Laura’s place to eat blueberry pie and korvapuusti. Then we came back to Anjala.

Monika and Adriana

Viikonloppuna työleiriläiset nauttivat pesäpallosta ja mustikkapiirakasta.

 

Saturday 6th July

How it was said in the last report, we had barbecue in Kota yesterday evening. When we successfully made fire, we baked some sausages, but also marshmallows and bananas with chocolate. And of course we can’t forget on beef for Turkish boys. We got into the beds after midnight, which wasn’t really good for our trip on Saturday morning. But everyone was ready on the time and we caught the train to Kotka at 9. Kotka is town by Baltic Sea. It’s small but beautiful town. We tested the temperature of sea and we decided to stay on the edge. We chose the beach for lunch place. We shared our meal with ducklings and seabirds. Like in everywhere else ducks were hungry. It was big fight between mother of ducklings, what she was trying to protect them, and seabirds. But everyone survived. Then Gorkem became the leader for 15 minutes. After that we realised, that he didn’t know where we were going and had no idea where we were. So Laura and Monika, our Finnish girls, took control of the group. We didn’t miss our coffee break, which was in a café, where they have water with strawberries. We had also some time to make some shop in the mall. In 14 o’clock we caught our train back to Anjala. So we won’t miss dinner! Although this nice journey, it wasn’t so good day, because Alex could be arrested. He wanted to try to climb on stairs, which lead from windows of Finnish houses. But fortunately he is still with us. Maybe next time man!

Eliska and Ali Ekin