this afternoon we stayed at school with Rayhan, a french student and two of our exchangers.
We took a video of us to explain the goal of the trip, what we liked on it...
It was a good and creativ moment 💁🏽‍♀
Morgane and Marie

Today we visited a windmill alternator building company. It started with a presentation of the company : SWITCH. They presented the different products they sold: windmill alternators, motors (boats and other machines) as well as générators. They also explained us how electromagnetism worked and how their different products used this principe. He also showed us the different types of windmills and the evolution of the electric rendering of these through the years. Then we visited the factory. The guide explained us the security rules and the different steps of their product making. He also made a few jokes which made the visit less boring than the first presentation. The factory was huge and they had to use cranes to move the product because they were very heavy. 

In the evening we learned how to play salibandi.
This is a finish indoor hockey without skates, so you are in shoes and you have to run with the stick in the hands. Score is simple you just have to put the ball ( the puck is remplaced by a plastic ball) in the goals..

We started the game by doing two different teams (bleue and red) and as we were to many we separated the 2 teams in 2 groups and we were turning every 5 minutes.
The game was really fun and we enjoyed it.

Matéo and Loris 

Today, we went to visit Lappenranta at 10am.
First we went to the harbour and the lake was frozen.

Then, we saw the fortress wich has been
build during the 17 century.

After, we walked just next to a famous park called « pusupuisto ».

We also saw the old town hall wich has been build in 1829 and now is used as offices

And then, we went into the biggest shopping center of Lappeenranta

This morning was so cool because we saw a lot of things that we didn’t know so we learned a lot of things.

On Thursday afternoon, all the French students went to Imatra, a town in eastern Finland. They are all accompanied by their English teachers with guides to know about the dam and to understand the challenges of global warming.

Arriving there, the students had a tour with explanations by the personnels. We even watched a short video about the construction of the dam, unfortunately there was no traduction in English.
Besides during the whole tour we had to wear some safety clothes ( a helmet and a reflective jacket).

Rayhan and Cyril

We start the day by the visit of the city hall Here We met someone who works for the municipality. Then we went to a big conference room. And the woman start an presentation about the city and what they make to preserve nature. We learned lots of things about lappeenrenta, for example:

- Lappeenrenta is the finland's largest user of bioenergy in 2010
- finland's first and largest inland wind farm (21MW)in 2014
-The biggest wind turbines in the world is in lappeenranta
-The city have an internationnaly awarded green campus
-40%of finnish energy research is conducted at Lappeenranta university of technology

Loris
Mathéo

Today we went on a walk in the town. We got to talk with other correspondants and some played with snowballs. We stopped at a burger restaurant were almost everyone had a burger and some fries. It was fun to see how the finish walked fast. The streets were covered of snow and I was happy to have my winter suit because it was cold.

Victor

This week in Finland we will spend 3 hours to make a project about french innovation. Thus we divided our french classe in four groups who had to choose two innovations and present it Wednesday . The purpose of this project is to share some information between Finland a young country aged 100 years and France a older country.

Camille 

Maud

Shana

My first activity was to wake up at 10:00, after a good breakfast we went to watch with my exchange and other french guys a match of floorball, it's like hockey but inside. At 3:00pm went with other exchange in McDo where we ate for 1€ a delicious hamburger. Then we visited the center hall with shops and during 2h we were sat here and we talked together.

Savinien. 

We took the bus at 14h30 at the airport.
We are all pretty tired but very excited !
The bus is huge !!! The bus ride is 3 hours, it’s quite long but we are all together , having fun , singing , laughing :) !
We are meeting our exchange around 6 p.m ... We are all very excited.

 Lily and Emma.