| Getting to know teachers from other countries, schools and school systems
is more enrichment than I would have ever thought possible. It's hard to
explain.
You go home with new impressions and ideas, try out some new methods,
and suddenly your students find you "cool" and you yourself feel full of
energy, motivated to try out more new ideas.
Although my English is poor - languages are not my strong point - I
learnt a lot. I was so pleased to be understood and that I myself was able
to follow the conversation. And I tell my students how great it is to be
able to speak the language - and they believe me, realizing that I'm right.
Schools in Finland are more advanced than ours. Wherever we went there
was at least one computer in each classroom, ready to lead the students
into the realms of the world wide web.
It goes without saying that students have their lunch together, that's
the law.
Not everything is better - but its worth to think it over.
(Guido from Rome in the picture on top, holding binoculars: We visited
the "nature-school" on the island of Harrara, which is situated ahead of
Helsinki. It is reached by boat in only few minutes: A really exciting
"classroom" to understand nature by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting.
)
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