{"id":2745,"date":"2020-08-30T15:52:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T12:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/?post_type=ajankohtaiset&#038;p=2745"},"modified":"2020-08-30T15:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T12:52:43","slug":"gemman-kesakuulumiset","status":"publish","type":"ajankohtaiset","link":"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/ajankohtaiset\/gemman-kesakuulumiset\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemman kes\u00e4kuulumiset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer in Finland update 30\/08\/20<\/p>\n<p>Well summer has already come and gone here in Finland. After an extremely interesting to say the least winter I\u2019m extremely pleased with the summer turnout. I am so happy that in Finland COVID-19 is mostly under control and no longer a huge threat. Although most rotary planned trips were cancelled, I am pleased with all the trips I was able to make with my host family.<\/p>\n<p>So, what have I gotten up to this summer? Well for one thing, who knew such a Northern country could have such warm summers? I was shocked to find Finland reaching 30\u00b0C when before coming everyone had told me it would never go above 25\u00b0C. Sure it\u2019s nothing compared to an Australian summer but when you take into account Finland\u2019s northern location and typical summer temp of around 20\u00b0C, it really shows the true effects of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>On June 25th my host family and I took a ferry to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia from Helsinki. It is so cool to me that there are other countries so close, as Australia has no land borders and the closest countries are many 100s or even 1000s of kilometres away. I was fortunate enough to be able to stay the night in a hotel, giving us lots of time to explore Tallinn and I have to say, Tallinn\u2019s old town is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been in. In Australia our oldest towns are only a couple of hundred years old so it was really interesting to check out all the old castles and churches.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2751\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2751\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2751\" src=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-6-tallinn-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-6-tallinn-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-6-tallinn-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-6-tallinn-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tallinn old town<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the month of July, I was able to see many new parts of Finland I hadn\u2019t seen before. We first travelled to Kortesj\u00e4rvi, Pohjanmaa to stay a week with my host grandparents. They lived on a farm and there I was able to see the gorgeous Finnish countryside. During my time in Kortesj\u00e4rvi I was interviewed by a local newspaper about my exchange so far, and how it has been affected by COVID-19. I was also able to spend a day in Vaasa, watch a pes\u00e4pallo game in Sein\u00e4joki and go to the Svedjehmn archipelago, a beautiful collection of islands only about 40km from Sweden.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2747\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2747\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2747\" src=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-2-pesapallo-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-2-pesapallo-1024x813.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-2-pesapallo-980x778.jpg 980w, https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-2-pesapallo-480x381.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pes\u00e4pallo<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2750\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2750\" src=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-5-svedjehamn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-5-svedjehamn.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-5-svedjehamn-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 768px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Svedjehamn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following our stay with them, we travelled up North to Rovaniemi to stay with my host auntie and uncle. In Rovaniemi I was able to go above the Arctic circle and go to Santa\u2019s village, and meet the jolly man himself!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2746\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2746\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2746\" src=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-1-santa-claus-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-1-santa-claus-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-1-santa-claus-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting with the Santa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also was able to ride a bike to Rovaniemi centre, it was almost completely empty due to the coronavirus situation which was really interesting to see and experience as I\u2019d imagine that there would normally be a lot of tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, on our way home, we stayed in a summer cottage in a small ski village called Ruka in Kuusamo. In Ruka I was able to see reindeer for the first time in my life. I never knew how common they were in North-eastern Finland, I saw probably 100s of them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2748\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2748\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2748\" src=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-3-reindeer-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-3-reindeer-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-3-reindeer-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-3-reindeer-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reindeer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also made multiple trips to Turku to see Erika, a Rotary exchange student from Finland who went to my rotary district 9570 in Australia and later in summer I was able to catch up with most of the Australia\/New Zealand\/South Africa 19\/20 exchange students in Tampere, including Klaukkala Rotary\u2019s own Julia Olenius.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" src=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-4-rotary-exchange-students.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-4-rotary-exchange-students.jpg 828w, https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/08\/202008-gemma-4-rotary-exchange-students-480x359.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 828px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finland has really made me appreciate summer, something that I have always taken for granted in Australia as being a definite all the time and I know that when I go home, I will be seeing my country through a totally new perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Greetings,<\/p>\n<p>Gemma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2745","ajankohtaiset","type-ajankohtaiset","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gemman kes\u00e4kuulumiset - Nurmij\u00e4rvi-Klaukkalan Rotaryklubi ry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rotary.fi\/nurmijarviklaukkala\/ajankohtaiset\/gemman-kesakuulumiset\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fi_FI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gemman kes\u00e4kuulumiset - Nurmij\u00e4rvi-Klaukkalan Rotaryklubi ry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Summer in Finland update 30\/08\/20 Well summer has already come and gone here in Finland. 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