Finnish Culture Day, Finnish/English #4

Today was a special day on in our EOTO learning journey. We spent it with Ella at my place and diving into the Finnish Culture. We’ve planned this sense the beginning of all of this. We’re going to have American Culture Day as well, but today it was all about Finland.

Because it was Finnish Culture Day this meeting was 100% in Finnish. I focused especially hard on noticing any problems Ella might be facing with her Finnish so that I can search helpful material for her to improve. Next week is going to be grammar learning together which means I need to find proper material for teaching her.

But this time, we made traditional Finnish Foods: salmon soup with my mother’s recipe, Karjalan Piirakoita and egg-butter mix (munavoi). I taught Ella how to make the salmon soup and gave her the recipe to use in the future. It was fun to hear how her American friends were so mesmerized by the Karjalan piirakat and egg-butter her mother once made for their school.

I showed Ella some pictures from my birthplace Padasjoki and around my parents house; the fields, forests and other surroundings. She showed me around her parents place as well. I learned that she also lived surrounded by forest which is something we have in common. I also gave Ella a homework if she has the possibility to watch this one Finnish movie called Sooloilua, she has to watch it and tell me what did she think about it.

We were planning to enjoy some Finnish sauna as well, but ended up not having time for that because our discussions were so good, maybe some other time. This was a fun meeting for sure and I can’t wait to see what Ella is coming up with our American Culture Day.

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