Camp school in Miehikkälä

Last week I was on a short two-day camp school with the fourth-graders of our school in Miehikkälä. There is a camp centrum owned by Lasten Kesä ry. It's an independent child protection organisation which duty is to organize vacational activities for children. Out of the vacation season school's can rent the place for their camp schools.
The place was very nice. On the right and on the left you can see the housing buildings and the white building on the background is for dining. The lake is behind the white building. Here the white building closer and the view from there on:

For Finns it's a necessity to have the camp on a lake. We just can't live without our lakes and any out door activities don't feel the same if there isn't a lake available. During the day children got to go rowing and fishing and in th evening it was time for swimming.



The best part of the lake this time was that we had a water and fish scientist with us (father of one of our pupils). So first children got to do seine fishing with our scientist and then it was time to examine our catch. It was interesting!


So what we got?

We got a water spider, crucian carp and lot's of small fish. Take a look at yourself!

Then it was time to examine the crucian carp. First you measure it's length then it's weight then you take the blood examble. The scientist father also opened the fish and showed all the intestines. Much more interesting than just studying out of book.





You can't have a camp school without makkara (sausages) either. I even ate two even tough we had been eating very well during the day. Well, you just can't count calories when you are around makkara.

All in all I had good time in Miehikkälä. I love being on a lake while I grew on a lake. I got to swim and I had makkara. Still I enjoyed our camp school in Ilomantsi last May more, well there is my home... (In that link there are 5 posts of camp school in Ilomantsi, just click the previous post in the margin)

This view is so Finnish and so beautiful to my eyes: birch on a waterside...