Welcome to crafts class, my new obsession. Ok, I am a little obsessed with the crafts classes here. As something completely different (as far as I’ve found no other country has a class similar for all students), it seems that Finland has their very own version of a “makerspace”: crafts class. Read more…
Last week marked one month since my arrival here in Finland. It has felt a little strange to not be with my students during this past month while the rest of my teacher friends are busy working away in their classrooms. It is not often teachers have the opportunity to step Read more…
When I returned from Tallinn, I was met at the ferry terminal with the second name sign I’ve ever had (the first one was made by my advisors when they met us at the Joensuu airport to welcome us to Finland). I was met by Kaija and Jukka, friends of Read more…
After a week of being here in Joensuu, it was finally time to do what I have traveled 5,500 miles to do: see what life is like in a Finnish school. Koulu is the Finnish word for school, so you will see it in the names of schools around Finland. Read more…