Jyväskylä School
for the Visually Impaired, Finland

Resource center for learning and development


PL 319 , Keljonkatu 44, 40101  Jyväskylä, Finland
Tel +358-14-3343 100,  Fax: +358-14-3343 140
Email 
info at jynok.fi
 
 
Mainpage
 

Our trip to Kemi
http://www.kemi.fi/english/index.html

http://www.lumilinna.net/


Reindeer ride and motor sledge ride

Click the thumbnail to view the full size image!

Pupils from the7th -9th grade made a trip to Kemi in northern Finland. Here is a story written by one of the them.

FIRST DAY:
At Tuesday morning we left at 8 am in front of our school with a little bus to Kemi.
Our trip lasted roughly 6 hours. Whilst our drive we stopped one time in Pulkkila`s ABC to drink coffee
and eat some donuts. We were at Kemi at 3 pm and we picked up our dungarees, helmets
and gumboots for the next days motor sled camp and the reindeer ride.
When we had set the clothes into the big sacks, we went to the Lapponia Safaris,
where our cottages were. After dinner we went into The Kemi`s Snowcastle to see ice sculptures and snowy sights.
In the castle were church, hotel, restaurant and stage.
Even the hotel was made of ice and snow. It was possible to stay over night in the icy hotel,
but we thought that the cottages were a better option. When we came back to Lapponia Safaris,
sauna was warm and we went there to melt ourselves.

NEXT DAY: In the morning we had a good breakfast. Almost everything that man can have.
Coffee, apple juice, bread, cucumber, cheese, mush…
After breakfast we had to put dungarees and helmets on, because it wasn`t a long time to motor sled trip,
Dungarees looked like stupid. Fortunately, we all looked like the same. The sleight was waiting us in front of our cottage.
We jumped on the sleight, and the motor sled dragged us.
Motor sled drove in a forest and above the ice. Soon we were at our destination.
There were reindeers, and a silly looking man with a blue skirt and a weird hat.
We drank coffee and ate some reindeer sausages with bread.
After the little snack the funny looking man took us to a reindeer ride.
The reindeer was cute and little, but lazy. Her name was Uula. Uula walked a little circle,
when we sat by turns on the sleight behind her. After the ride the “blue skirt man” allowed us to scratch Uula.
Then the weird looking man gave us the Reindeer Driving Licenses.

Finally we went back to cottages. When we were there, we started to pack and clean up places.
Before we went back to the bus and towards Jyväskylä, we had to eat lunch.
At the way back we drank coffee at the Pulkkila`s ABC.
We were at Jyväskylä at 9 pm.
The trip was unforgettable.


Projects

24.11.2010