Day 6

It has been cold and rainy for days here. The first day I got to camp it was nice but then it quickly got cold the next day. It has rained and stormed quite a few times but today it is absolutely beautiful out. The sun is shining and it is kind of warm. When the sun goes away it is cold but it's shining most of the time. There are only a few clouds in the sky and they are only little and really white so that is good :) I am in Finnish class and we are on a 15 minute break but I have to go back now. 
It has been a long day of finnish classes and lectures and food. Classes- boring but helpful. We have 4 hours of Finnish class each day and we have learned a lot sofar. That doest mean that I remember it though. Lectures have been good actually. we have had lectures on the Finnish way of life, sauna, a year in Finland, and Finnish school. The lady who has been speaking to us is name Mummi which means grandma in finnish. But she isn't even that old. So Finnish food. It is so good. Breakfast is really weird. It's like bread, ham, cucumber, red pepper and tomatoes to make a sandwich, and porridge and cereal. And then we get raspberry jam and everyone puts it on their cereal or porridge. This morning though we had raspberry mousse (again) with breakfast. So good. Lunches have been more like dinner. They are all meat and potatoes and salad kind of meal. A couple days we had a tuna casserole and we have had salmon ( for my first time and I actually liked it) and we had meatballs too, I forget what else. Dinner is not our typical Canadian dinner either. We have had wiener soup, spaghetti with gravy and tonight we had lasagna. They eat so much food here. There is breakfast, lunch, coffee break (finnish people love their coffee and are the only country in the world to have a specified break for it) where they drink coffee and eat some sort of dessert and cucumbers and bread. ( did I mention they eat cucumbers and bread with every meal?) then it is dinner and then evening snack. I don't know if it is like this at every Finnish household but at camp it is. 
Today I experienced the weirdest thing (well not weird but just unusual for me to see). A boy named Pedro fell and sprained his ankle really bad playing soccer on monday. He had to go to the hospital and get it all wrapped up and everything. But anyways so he's been walking around on one foot with crutches all week and today another guy came up and asked him of he could pray for pedro's foot to heal (in English). The thing is, Pedro is from Mexico. He does not speak nor understand English very much. Pedro looked utterly confused. So after finally getting a translator for the guy and for Pedro, he finally got permission to pray. It was a huge process and Pedro looked confused, annoyed and creeped out. And then the question came
"can I touch your foot while I pray?" 
"dear god please use all your power and strength to help dear pedro's foot heal. Rid him of his pain dear lord. In jesus name, amen. ......... Do you feel the difference yet?"
Pedro politely said "ci" and walked away pretending none of it had happened and wishing that no one had seen it. I was a super nice gesture but Pedro just looked helpless. Sad, but funny as well. That pretty much sums up my day. Other than walking around the camp singing with kydra, people looking at us funny but hey, we're exchange students, we're supposed to be weird. :)