Mid-term training camp

First of all, in the beginning of the year I'll start with a new personally achieved skills: listening proficiency and remarkable patience. In Finland I experienced the saying "Silence is golden/talking silver" and indeed learned to appreciate it more because it means that you are really listening to person next to you not replying in a casual conversation when you have nothing to say or help. Following this "golden" lesson we appreciate our own competence and utilise it. So I will be as concise as I can. On the last day before leaving they asked as to summarize our future plans and hopes in one sentence. In one sentence this is what I expect:

Having my home and income, working either with children in an international kindergarten/preschool when support education and educational reforms and rights in public schools and nonprofit sector in Europe or my home country. 

I also have a dream about starting my home based learning center or at least something like a reading room, a place for art and crafts for parents and children:) where my mom can run her dreamed healthy home bakery. Of course my father will build the center cause his dream is a small construction company to help other people building their own dreams. But those are just dreams! 

I'm now concern about continuing with the youth work. It's not my field, but it's very important as experience- professional and personal development. I would look at it as developing psychologist skills for "reading " teenagers better when I'm around them in the youth center. They are at very complicated (monimutkainen) age so there are pretty many ways to "read" them. 

Just wish myself some more confidence and good luck whatsoever is going to happen!

Here are my ups and downs regarding doing my EVS in Janakkala, connected mainly to my Youth work experience, which is the newest experience in my life, a big deal for me and I assume it will be even more meaningful and important (a bit stressful sometimes) in 2016; my private shared life in Vapari and still getting used to share it indeed:

Some pictures of the beautiful landscape of Sopukka:

#EVS20 

Peace and hope,
M.