The last day we baked a finnish speciality called Laskiaispulla

This is a bun made with a cardamum dought and with jam and whipped cream on it. For the curious here is the recipe: 

We enjoyed to bake in class with our friends.

On Friday, we continued and ended the human project, again, this project is made in order to make us think about the human condition, and the interactions with the others. On Thursday, we completed assignments which contained different question to start a reflexion about it. After, we had to think about a message, a picture that we'd draw on a sheet with paint. 

When we finished painting all the sheets, with different messages, we presented them to all the other students and explained why we did this painting, what does it shows, what's the message. Then, we took them and we finally put them on the walls of the school.

Janusz

Thursday night we went to see a concert.

   The music was from Igor Stravinski and was cold "L'histoire du soldat".

   The story is the one of Joseph Dupraz, an infantryman, who possesses a violin for any wealth. During a permission, he meets an old man who suggests him exchanging his instrument for a book wich can predicting the future and of assuring him the wealth. Seduced and eager to appropriate such power, Joseph accepts the market. The poor innocent will understand too late that he was deceived by the devil 

   The concert was divided in two part. In the first one there were only the orchestra. In this orchestra there were 4 violins, 3 violas, 2 cellos, 2 basses, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 bassoon, 2 horns, 1 trumpet and 1 trombone.

In the second part there were only 1 violin, 1 basse, 1 trombone, 1 trumpet, 1 bassoon, 1 clarinet and a speaker who told us the story. There were also a person who didn't says anything he just walked on the stage. 

It was very well in spite of the fact that the announcer spoke only in Finn.

So today, in the afternoon, we went to a museum in Lappeenrenta. 

We had to wait for our teachers during 40 minutes, so we did a "game": every one had to tell his name, and say what he likes to do, so every one knows each other better. 

Then we started to visit the museum. This museum is a retrospective of the work of Juha Metso, an important Finnish photographer. The exhibition is entitled Emotion in Motion.

He has taken photos, in more than 60 countries and of different situations.
At first we've watch a short film which shows the work of the photographer

He takes photos but he also make films

Then we had time to see the exhibition, here are some of his photos.

Romane and Pauline

Even if the weather was not kind with us, we took a good time to visit Lappeenranta and discover it history thanks to different places. The first one was the Water Tower. This tower is 40 meter high has been built in 1955
Closed and then removed as a café, now this tower is closed again for safety reasons and still being the symbol of Lappeenranta.

Then we went to Lappeenranta's church. Built in 1924, it was supposed to be for military orthodox and Russian garrison.
Nowadays it's a beautiful lutherian church.

After the church we took the way to Lappeenranta's Old Park
Also known as the Kissing Park, it was founded in 1850 outside the southern fortification on Lappeenranta Fortress. It is called Kissing Park, because it became a popular meeting place for men and their girlfriends. Lappeenranta's oldest kiosk, Kissing Park Kiosk, built in 1893, is situated on the edge of the park.

To finish our visit of the city, we could see the Fortress of Lappeenranta. Well, it is not a Fortress anymore but we have a beautiful view of the lake and we could visit also

the "Old Town" which still habitated. In this Old Town is situated the art museum of Lappeenranta. There was an incredible exhibition of Juha Metso, a Finnish photographer, about the human kind.

HUMAN by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

This morning, we had to make groups of 4 or 5, with a finnish student. First, we watched some videos from the movie Human, directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a french photographer, reporter and director. This film presents many interviews in which people from 60 different countries answer 40 questions, which stay always the same. It deals with human conditions and it allows us to think about the meaning of life. 

Moreover, each group had to choose a task and so mine chose what humans need to be happy and be united. We list some ideas about this subject and tomorrow morning we will paint on a wallshit things that represent, for us, the ideas of hapiness and union between humain beings all around the world.

Pauline B.

Cows say mooh.