On Wednesday, 16/01/2013, we met at 9:30 clock at the airport in Bremen and took the machine to Tampere at 11:00 clock. After a two hour flight we arrived in Tampere. There our host children were waiting for us. We went to those back home, where our host families were waiting. In the evening we met in the city of Tampere and our guest children showed us the town. Tampere is a bit smaller than Bremen.
The next morning, all the people from different schools met at 9:00 clock in the Tampereen lyseon lukio high school in Tampere. There we listened to lectures about the school, culture and the school system. After the presentations, there was a tour around the school. In between have eaten in the school’s cafeteria, which was free for us. We have also visited in the afternoon a lookout-tower in Tampere. In the evening, all of us played a round of Lasertech.
On Thursday morning, the individual schools have made posters about their own school system and then presented to all. In the afternoon we went to a forestry school. There you could learn everything that had to do with the forest, such as one builds a wooden house. After a brief stay in the Departure College of Forestry, we left for a picnic. It was cold in the woods around -25 degrees. In the evening, almost everyone went for ice swimming. It first went into the sauna and then to cool in an ice hole.
Saturday, the 19.1 was Museum Day. We visited the Tampere Workers Museum and the Town Museum Vipriikki. After the quite boring part of the trip we visited the highest point in Tampere, a 136 meter high tower. From there was not a so good view since it was snowing and it was half dark already. Semi-frozen we came back on to the high school, where some small snacks from the Finns were prepared. When the teachers arrived at school, we watched the videos and presentations about the countries. At the end o the day there was a “small” party at school.
With a sad thought, leaving tomorrow, began the day. We were in morning we went ice-skating and in the afternoon Lasertech was on the plan once again. It was the last opportunity to see almost everybody again. The Poles and the English were already on the way back home.
Monday was the day of the departure. In the morning all the Germans and their hosts were having breakfast together. At 12:15 clock we finally met at the airport. Our plane should take off at 14:00 clock but the plane was 30 minutes delayed. When we finally were in the air, it took about 2 hours to the next unpleasant news. By the large amount of snow that had fallen on Monday in Germany, the runway in Bremen had to be evacuated. This delayed our arrival by a further 30 minutes. Finally there was another announcement, but promised nothing good. The runway in Bremen had to be evacuated again. But the airline decided to fly to another airport and look from there, what to do in order to get us to Bremen. After a 40-minute stay in the plane at the airport in Münster, they decided that we will be taken by bus to Bremen. After 20 minutes of waiting and a two and a half hour bus ride we finally arrived in Bremen.
