My weekend holiday in Ylläs

I (Milla) spent my last weekend on Ylläs with my family. Ylläs is a skiing center in Lapland. Ylläs has some of the most longest skiing slopes in Finland. (highest one is 718 meters above sea level) We stayed at a hotel called SaagaSkiChalets. I think that Ylläs is the best place for skiing and snowboarding in Finland.

Here are some pictures from Ylläs:

More information about Ylläs:

http://www.yllas.fi/?deptid=8951

Snow

Today at first we were at the computerclass working on our SOS-projects. But then it started raining snow outside so we (Milla,Jaakko and Iiro) went out to play with it! We made a snow man and throw few snowballs at each other.

This is the snowman we made!

Here is a view from our schools yard

Jaakko is making a snow ball

Our group at the computerclass

Here we are!

From left to right: Iiro, Jaakko, Milla and Ville.

So we are the four writers of this blog!  Were all from Finland Rovaniemi and we study at the Lapland Vocational College at the Department of Service Training.

Now we are going to introduce ourselves and tell you some facts about us:

My name is Jaakko Ranua and I live in Rovaniemi. I am 18 years old boy and my hobbies are ice-hockey, snowboarding and floor ball. I work Mediapex Oy, which is a direct marketing company. When I have freetime I spend it with my friends and I also do a lot of sports.

My name is Milla Kuoksa and I also live in Rovaniemi. I’m 17 year-old girl and I like to spend lot of my freetime with my friends. I have a big family. All together my family includes nine persons. I used to be into photographing, and nowadays I seldom go to the gym.


My name is Ville Malmström and I am a 17 year-old boy from Rovaniemi. I play ice hockey in a team which name is RoKi. My other hobbies are skiing, football and gym. When I have freetime I spent it often with my friends.


My name is Iiro Mäkelä and I’m 17 years old. I live in Rovaniemi and I spend a lot of my free time with my friends. I like snowboarding also.

This is a picture of our school

This is Rovaniemi.....

So at first we  are going to tell some facts about our home town Rovaniemi.
Rovaniemi is the capital of Lapland and the centre for international expertise and culture. The population of the city is about 60 000. The city is located in the nortic circle, between Sweden and Russia. Rovaniemi is also known as the home town of Santa Claus.

Dispite the small size of the city it has a lot to offer for its residents. Over here you can enjoy real winter and nightless nights in summer. You can enjoy Finnish forests and nature year round in the land of thousand lakes.

There are many activities you can do here in Rovaniemi. You can try out everything from hiking to ice fishing or even try out more exotic hobbies like winter swimming!

In this blog were going to tell you about some of these hobbies and freetime activities that we mentioned earlier.

If you want to know more about Rovaniemi visit these sites:
http://www.rovaniemi.fi/Intro.iw3
http://kartta.rovaniemi.fi/

JeJe Maddo has joined the GRUUP:)))