My Hostfamily

I know that I weren't active for the last two or three weeks, but in this time happened so much that I didn't found time to write something. But yet about my hostfamily.

On Saturday the 11.08. my hostfamily picked me up in Anjala from the arrival camp.  The whole family came. But who is the whole family ? At first my host mom Mari and my host dad Juha. They are trying to do as much as possible for and with me. And then there are my two little host brothers, Juho (10 y/o) and Vilho (8 y/o). They are wanting to play the most of the time with me. But i love them after this short time as my real family. 

I live with my hostfamily on the countriyside of Vihti in there own house. It's not that big, but big enough for 5 people. I have my own room and mostly own bathroom (what is really cool).

What I did the last weeks? I were on a weekend trip with my host mom and some Finnish scouts, on a dressage tournament, had the birthday party from one of my host brothers, were on a little festival in Vihti, had my first, second, etc. School days and play the most evenings with my hostfamily. 

 

This is a picture of the project from us exchangestudents in my school (we are 6 exchangestudents).

The big day

Moi everyone

Yesterday was the big day. My adventure has started. It wad the first time to fly for me and i was really exited. 

My first planed step was to fly from Bremen to Frankfurt (at 9.15 am the airplane should start). After that was planed to fly from Frankfurt to Helsinki (this airplane should start at 1.25 pm). But nothing came how it was planed. The first plane was canceld, befor we could go into the plane we should take for the canceld one, the whole terminal was evacuated. So we missed the plane from Frankfurt and had to look for another way to come to Helsinki on this day. We had to book a fly from Bremen to Munich and then to Helsinki. With this both flights i came to Finland. While the time of the fly from Munich to Helsinki we saw a beautiful sunset, that makes us accept the waitingtime. At 10.30 pm of German time we came out of the airport in Helsinki. We were at 1.30 am of finnish time in Anjala, were we stay for the first 3 days. On Saturday my hostfamily take me from here to my new home for the next 11 month.

 In the next days i want to right something about, what i've done with and for yfu until yet and something about my hostfamily.

About YFU

The organization i make my exchange with is YFU. YFU is not only one big organization, there are many organizations worldwide they're working together as one big organization.

The beginning of YFU was in 1951. Rachel Anderson (the builder of YFU) were in Amsterdam while the first time after war the lights was going on. She thought: "If someone have a friend/family in another country, this person would never begin a war to this country." "So let the lights shell never go out again."

 this is Rachel Anderson

At first YFU only made exchangeyears to the USA. Today you can go with YFU in more than 40 countrys all over the wourld.

 

The moste of the staff from YFU are voluteers. May be 100 from 2000 people from YFU are payed. 

About me and finland

Moi everyone,

this is my new blog about my exchangeyear in finland. At first: Who am I ?

I'm Manja, 16 years old and from Bremerhaven, Germany. 

I'm doing my exchange with the organization YFU (Youth For Understanding). A big student exchange organization with mostly volunteer staff.

The second: Why finland ?

I can't really say why. I saw many picures of the beautiful natur and of some touristpoints in Helsinki and i hear something were finnish was spoken (and loved it). After that i started to learn finnish at the "Volkshochschule" (a place for mostly adults to learn). There i learned at first a little bit language and the second i learned was a little bit of the culture. So i startet to love this language and country. While that we heard in my school from YFU and i knowed directly that i wanted to do a exchange.

About Finland: 

 The Flag

Capital: Helsinki

Population: 5.503.000 (31.12.2016)

Area: 338.448 km^2

 the lokation of finland