Feedback from the stay in Finland given by the pupils of Pitkäkangas school:
- It was a pity that we couldn’t have visitors staying in my home.
- It was a great experience to be able to talk in English with foreigners. I started to think how it would feel to talk English all the time.
- It was awfully nice to play football esp. with the Turkish boys. The Turkish girls taught us a new game, they were fun.
- The party in school hall was terrific. The English had a familiar song and we could sing it together. The Czech had nice pictures and music of their country.
- It was nice to have them on the lessons but we didn’t understand everything. Some of them had funny names.
- I was excited when they came in the morning. The visitors greeted us cheerfully but then I didn’t have time to get to know them and speak to them. It felt bad.
And the lodgers commented as follows:
- We looked forward to getting to know new people and to talk to them. The visitors were friendly and eager to experience new tastes and habits –even sauna. We got along well.
- Some children were rather quiet and shy. Some ate chocolate and not food.
- Some visitors seemed to be very interested of shopping and late nights, we would have liked to spend more time together.
