First ever Zoom-seminar between Kuriyama and Kajaani

Co-operation between Hokkaido Technical School of Care and Welfare and Kainuu Vocational College has continued many years, but this year we are doing something new and different. The only bright side of covid-19 is, that it brings new innovations to many sides of life – also to international co-operation. Students in both countries have made questions to each others. In …

FINLAND

Finland SH Oct 2019 (PDF)

Turism in Japan – experiences in Mito

Venla Moisio spent two months in Mito hotel. 2 months for a learning period at a hotel is pretty short term and I wanted to be able to learn as much as possible. So instead of sticking to bellhop and front reception I asked the GM if there was anything else I could do or at least try to do. …

GOOGLE PLAY PROJECT

Four Finnish students from HANAKO Network, Aura Koponen, Emmi Mikkilä, Lauri Ståhlberg ja Teemu Heinonen, stayed for two months internship in Japan, Tokyo, at Worker Bee Inc. (https://www.wkb.jp/en/) and created a new game in Google Play. Here you can find link to the game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.wkb.gurugurudoubutsu.gp These students are from different colleges and from different towns. They met first time during …

How we made a game in Tokyo

I arrived in Japan 11th of February, on a Sunday morning, with 3 other interns. The 10hr flight went surprisingly fast, I watched a few movies on board and tried to sleep, without much success on the latter though. We were picked up from the airport by our employers, and we drove to the Sakura House office to sign tons …

How children play in Finland

Tomomi Ashikawa, the kindergarten teacher from Suzuki Gakuen Shirayuri Kindergarten, had her intership in Finland, Vuorenmäen kindergarten in May 2017. Please read her experiences here: AshikawaReport

Sakura and wagashi in the land of rising sun

Tarja Airaksinen from Omnia Adult Education Centre was in Yamanashi in 2016. Who would have thought that it would take me almost ten years to get to the land that I have always dreamed about. The knowledge that I was really going hit me while I was sitting wating for them to start bording the plane on Thursday the 8th …