Seminar and voyage to Stockholm

That morning we (Bolashak group, IB students, University staff of 3 people) arrived at Helsinki harbour to have a conference on the board and then to sail to Stockholm, Sweden. 

At first we listened to University Lecturer Dawn Aarnio who had speech on "Dealing with Change". Then spoke another lecturer. Unfortunately I didn't listen to them because I was with our daughter.

Further our group by 2-3 people showed presentations about what they had got here in Finland to be useful in Kazakhstan. All the speakers did their work very well. Everybody created something which could be taken into consideration while writing final report or report at our home-schools. Afterwards the presentations were discussed and evaluated by group-mates and University representatives.

I worked there in collaboration with the teacher from Astana school Yerniyazova Zhupat Oralovna who taught history. But our common issue was the perspective to teach Global Perspectives when we arrive. We decided to work here together, gather materials, create plans, etc. So our work started with making up a presentation describing short review of teaching GP in Kazakhstan and showing some new things we found here. As our tutor said we did well.

Conference was hold for 5 hours with one coffee-break. After conference all the members of conference were divided into groups of 4: 3 people from Bolashak group and 1 IB student or our tutor. It was done for conducting group discussions, interview in informal atmosphere. Duman, me, Yermek were in group with Mr.Lloyd (our tutor). He told us strong and weak points of our presentation and gave some advice. 

So, the more or less formal part finished and we had opportunity to enjoy perfect meal in unlimited amount in ship restaurant and have fun.

Next morning at 10 we moored to Stockholm harbour and were given time on our own till 4 o'clock. My family decided to attend Nobel Museum and see some sightseeings that's why we went to City Centre by bus. Fortunately we were not alone who decided to go there. Quite a big group of 8-9 people arrived there too. We managed to use these 4 hours in Stockholm in memorable way. We had a lot of photos, walked by Royal Palace, watched 12 o'clock-Marsh or Swedish army, visited Nobel Museum, had lunch, bought some souvenirs. At first our daughter was happy to have a walk but then she got tired and fell asleep.

We got the ship at 3.30 and continued our voyage back to Finland. 

This voyage was great. As far as we don't have seas and oceans we haven't had such a journey on a board. It was better than going to Tallin because this time we were longer, together with our daughter and spent night on the board. She played, communicated with children of different nationalities on playground, so had fun!