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Thursday, 11 June 2009

Last part of Free Choice Studies

This is the last part of free choices in my Bachelor’s degree. This is also a photo cavalcade from the afternoon with Summer School students.
We were first in Sport school which is also a part of Applied Sciences. Students were able to familiar with indoor playground. It is a playground which is planned to serve also adults and especially ageing people. It has made a research that people over 60 years have become much more better conditions and been able to fetch and carry their every day’s life more easily. It has also refreshed them and accidents like broken legs have degreased. So why we would not start it now, have playgrounds for adults and let’s have fun.

Indoor playground







After that funny moment we went to Ranua Zoo. It is located 80 km south-east from Rovaniemi. The fauna of the Zoo is mainly collected from the animals of Lapland but there is also one animal of which I have to say it is from arctic areas and not exist in Lappish nature. It is Pola bear. Anyway it is interesting and dangerous animal. I hope we will have them in Polar Arctic still next 100 000 years.

Ranua Zoo











The Zoo in on a hill and it is mainly beach of very old lake. Actually it is the beach of Lake Ancylus. The Baltic See was a lake about 10 000 years ago when Scandinavia was covered by Ice Age. We have a treat of global warming now and Polar Arctic would melt away. We can imagine that the water high of sees will rise some hundred meters who knows. My sister who is geophysicist advised to buy a plot beside the Ancylus beach. I think that it will be really far-reaching view. I have started to collect money for it.

Lake Ancylus



Summer School seems to be tiring and for myself I am happy to end this course to the rapport. I will enclose some photos you have seen and describe the whole process.



At the end of this blog I would like to tell my best regards to the students and teachers who joined in Summer School. I think it was a good experiment and raised our experience of cultures, learning and teaching.
See you,
Taru

Comments

Hello Taru! It’s pleasure to read about your wonderful experience. I wish I took part in studies and activities as well. How did you manage to set picture in picture? I like the way you’ve done it. I’ve been facing uneasy choice after each photo session. To delete, or not to delete? Installing pic in pic may help a lot to conserve as many views as possibly but, at the same time not to have on hands endless quantity of pictures. Give me a clue please.

Hello Taru! Thanks for all interesting details about the Summer school you´ve managed to descibe despite the tiredness and best regards to the students too. Now, you have helped me to recall almost forgotten experience when I had been working with the group of students from Russia one month as a guard for their pastime activities during they Summer exchange stay in Prague years ago.

Hi Taru! I´ve tried to sent some comments on your blogs but they didn´t appeared my Internet provider it´s a bit strange these days. Anyway, I´d like to say that I´m enjoying very much your blogs. They are very interesting and informative :-). Enjoy your weekend, Ana Paula.

Oh. There are a nice girls on the last foto. Where are you from?

Hi all,i look at your picture...i am jelous with you. You have a lot of fun.I love travel .

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