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| Umeå University |
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| Is this how the man invented skis?! Look at all the skis to the right -> |
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| Skis that date back to the early 1800s |
This past weekend kept us busy as well. On Saturday, we went to Gammilia. In Gammilia is a big museum which is called the Västerbotten Museet. We got to se the oldest skies in the world, walk around an open air museum, expect that everything was closed up. The area where the Västerbotten Museum is located is called Gammlia. Nowadays, since Umeå grown, it is actually the center of town. Right next to the museum is open-air museum Gammlia. Here you can check out old buildings from around the county. For the open-air museum, Gammlia, has different kinds of houses from Västerbotten since its inception in 1921 until 1990. Most of the buildings have its origins in the farming community; houses, sheds, barns, bakery house, barns and mills, among other things. In the Swedish Ski museum, it was a museum about the skiing history of the Swedish. It marked from the Stone Age to Stenmark and to 2011. We saw skis from the first time man used skis to the updated 2011 verisions. Along with the history of skis, were exhibits about Anja Paerson and Per Elofsson, both from Umeå who have won numerous skiing medals from World Championships to the Olympic Games. The ski museum was very cool learning about skis and snowshoes that were once used to travel through the snow. Then we looked at the Sami people and the culture, learned about Umeå’s past, present, and future. (www.vbm.se)
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| A type of house they used to live in. |
I heard Gammlia is better to visit in the spring/summer time and next weekend when they have their Christmas Market here in Sweden, but unfortunately we will be up in the mountains. After walking through the Museums, we decided that we did not want to stay much longer, since the sun goes down around 2:00 p.m. After we left the museum, we went downtown Umeå and ate at a fabulous restaurant. We then went shopping in some of the shops looking for those last minute presents to bring home for Christmas. Most of our Christmas shopping is being done in Sweden rather than at home because it is so close to the holiday.
Today in the school I had a wonderful day again with the students. In the morning, the students attended art class where they continued to work on their rooters that they started last week. It is very interesting that you can use newspaper and wire to create a rooster-looking animal. Today, most of the students were decorating their roosters with colorful feathers. After art class, the students were working on their Europe test. The students had to memorize 40 European countries and their capitals, so while the students were working on their European test, I was watching the students work and working on homework that I need to do for the schools. After two classes of the European test, the students went to lunch. I did not eat with the students today. I ate in the teachers lounge and then I went back to the classroom to continue working on my work that I need to get done for the schools. After lunch, the students had English! Yay!! This is my favorite part of the day. The students were extremely excited to come to English because they two that they had two tasks to work on today for me. The first task was to finish their pen pal letters and the second task was to start working on their State project! I explained that they needed to finish up their letters by Wednesday this week because I want them to finish up their State projects by Monday, so they can share what they are learning about the States with the class. I am very proud of the hard work the students put into writing their letters to Mrs. Anderson’s class and how hard they are working on their State projects!
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| Teaching the 5th graders about how to write a Pen Pal letter! |
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| Writing a Sample Pen Pal letter! Notice I do not have a SmartBoard to work with, I had to write on the dry erase board! |
After school, I was in charge of detention. Students received detention for not going to class or showing up for the day tardy. These students spend between 10 to 40 minutes in detention depending on what they did to deserve detention. Many of the students were finishing up their pen pal letters to their friends in the States and were working on their State projects. They were all excited to ask me questions about their pen pals and asking me questions about the United States.
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| Reading our Pen Pal letters from our New Friends in the United States! |
After finally getting back to my room about 3:45, Amanda and I went to on an adventure to the post office on campus. Amanda had to mail out a letter to her students in the United States and I sent out a few post – cards to family and friends. Who knew that the post office on campus would be so busy around 4:30 in the afternoon? We didn’t because we waited in line for about thirty minutes before we got our letters in the mail.
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| Another type of house they used to live in during the early years of living in Umeå. |
Lennart, our supervisor, stopped by tonight to check in on us, to drop off our evaluations, and to talk to us about Åre. We are very excited to go to Åre, apparently there is a huge chocolate factory there and we will be on top of one of the tallest mountains in Sweden. We do not think we will be able to go skiing because there is no snow here in Sweden, but we might be able to see Norway from the top of the mountain!
I cannot believe how fast time has flown since we arrived in Sweden a month ago! I can admit that I am starting to really miss a few things from home, but after talking with Amanda and Erika, we can now say that we had the experience of living in another country for 6 weeks. Even though it has only been 6 weeks, we can still say that we lived in another country. Well, for me, I have now lived in three countries, The United States, Canada, and Sweden! I never thought that would ever happen to me before!
Well, Good Night everyone! I must rest up for the rest of the week, catch up on my e-mails, and continue to write my papers for school! 12 days and counting until I am on a plane back to the United States!
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