In Lycée Saint Joseph you can choose to study in European section. It means you have more English during these three years in Lycée, history in English and of course exchanges. So today I job shadowed one history teacher and his lesson. The students were working in library (which I would like to take with me). They had been talking about disagreement with the Greeks and the Britsh Museum about those treasures which are in London, not in Athens. The students were supposed to make a discussion between ancient greek gods about this subject. Seemed they took their task very seriously.

Before history I had two lessons English with the Secondée. Same content but while the groups were different also the lessons were different.

Those students who had been in Finland or in Slovakia had a task to study more something of culture in country they visited. They were supposed to keep a presentation about things they've studied for two teachers and was given a mark from it. They also had kept a diary during they trip. I went to see couple of those presentations, for example from Vaasa sport hockey team and sauna :)




We had a meeting between local international team and I after school. They need our decision about next February before end of June. The visit to Slovakia is already ok, so they are hoping that we can welcome them. Next year there'll be maybe 70 students in European Section, so they'll need three schools for exchange. It's nice to here that the most important thing for collegues here is that their students can stay in families and see ordinary school. Because that's what we can offer. They had also liked the national park in Leivonmäki and the day in Pekkanen :)
A little bit like yes to our meeting was the visit which Anne, me and Riikka made in the evening. We were invited for aperitif by a family whose son we hosted in our home in December 2014. Really nice family and we had good time together. It was good to hear that both they and other families have been very satisfied their children's visit to Joutsa and to our school. They said that after the students came home from their visit you could tell from their faces and from their stories that their experience had been very well. This family also hosted one of our students last October so I heard very fine things also from our own students :) It was really good to hear these things, because sometimes you doubt the meaning of your international work.