Dilara The Explorer

Today, I and my friends decided to visit Parainen. We didn't really know anything about the place, we only had seen about the chalk mine. I had seen it but they hadn't so we thought it would be fun to go and see it. We set off and around an hour later with a bus, we dropped off at Parainen. I must say, I think we were the only tourists. We started to walk around to the city center where we entered a local coffee shop. Our friends got coffee and we decided to buy this giant donut. It tasted quite good! We loved the fact of antique stores swarming the place and wished that they were open. All we could do was, stick our faces on the windows to see what they had inside. We walked towards the sea and sat down along the sea for a while, just relaxing, looking at the boats and talking. It was nice to relax there and feel the wind against our skin. From there, we set off to walk to the chalk mine. It was nice to climb up there and see the view. Interesting mine. From the mine,

First of all, I always wanted to take a trip to the Finnish Archipelago. Everyone was talking about it when I arrived in Finland. It wasn’t really the best times to go since it was wintertime but I had plans for the summer. Unfortunately, the trip was postponed since the epidemic made its great appearance. Expect from today. Today, I and my Finnish family decided to make this trip happen. So everyone packed whatever they needed and off we were. I must say, it was a long car trip but just looking out of the window, it was amazing. It was also very interesting to see all the people going to their summer cottages. Everyone either were taking their boat or other things attached to their cars. We waited a little bit at the ferry line but it was okay. For the first time since the epidemic, it really just felt normal and you could feel summer. After the ferry and going through different areas, we went to our secret place that my family had discovered before and had a barbecue.

Let’s talk about something I really love in general: Ice Cream. Now, I must say that summer has officially come (not to Finland in this case since it was basically raining and snowing a couple of days ago) but, summer is out there. And here we are still wearing coats. But, that doesn’t mean you can’t have ice cream! Ice cream is life. One of the best things about summer is, you can have ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can even make your own ice cream or popsicles. I remember making these lovely strawberry popsicles last summer, they were healthy too! Overall, everyone loves a bit of ice cream. Coming to ice cream flavours, I am a great bitter chocolate, normal chocolate, strawberry, vanilla and another ice cream type they have fan. As long as it is ice cream, I have no problem gobbling it down. But…Salmiakki ice cream? We need to talk. First of all, as we had tried Salmiakki which you can check out from the video up there! It wasn’t the sweetest f

Did you know that dinosaurs can sing too? Probably not, expect from Barney. Oh Barney, the cute purple dino. When I say dinosaur, Jurassic Park pops up in my mind. As a child I loved to watch that movie and am hoping to visit the Universal Studios to see them too! Now here is the fun thing about dinosaurs in Finland, they are cooler. I might have had a traumatic shock when me and my friend were doing some research for our radio show to come upon…Hevisaurus. Yes! They are real. Like really real. It’s happening! I am talking about some dinosaurs but what is cooler than just dinosaurs? A group of dinosaurs playing Heavy Metal! There is Komppi, Riffi, Herra, Milli and Muffi! Muffi is my favourite one cause he has the purple hair but other than that, who would’ve know that we would have dinosaurs compete in the music industry? They have an amazing website in Finnish that I couldn’t understand at all but Google translate is there for nothing! And you will have a laugh s

I’ve been through many education systems. From home schooling to the Slavic education system, from British to the American and Turkish school system. So, I’ve been through a lot and I can definitely point out what Finland is doing differently. First of all, when I visited the primary school in Finland, one of the things I noticed was, you cannot enter the school with shoes. I think it really starts from there. That type of thing we also had in my school at Slovakia. We were not allowed to proceed with normal shoes, we would change into our indoor shoes or socks and go inside the school. I was shocked when I saw that. It was familiar with me but I like the idea. It is more like, school is your house. So you respect it. Keep it clean. I think that is one of the most important parts of education in general. Respecting your environment. One of the others things I noticed were the classes. You don’t just sit around. The classes are different, a lot of group activities and individu