Korso - Sequoia

Thursday, May 2, 2013

New Friends For the Future!

Osku is safely back at home! It has been amazing couple of years with the best part being having the new friends over the sea! Also Osku and Riikka's baby girl are getting to be the best buddies - thank's for the sunglasses which will make a good use in Finland where finally the long winter is over and we have some sunshine :)

What can we say. Let's stay in touch, dream new projects and enjoy LIFE!

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Osku came, Kali left

The package from California!!!!

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Oh, my God: it`s Osku! Very californian style.

And a lot of candies with a lovely letter.

The remarkable meeting: "May I kiss you?"

Then Kali left. This was it´s last day in Korso school...

...and there is some sadness in the air.

Dear friends, IT WAS SO GREAT that you shared these unique experiences with us. Nothing is more important than serious playfulness. Go, Sequoia, go!

Monday, December 10, 2012

Christmas pictures and osku's final visit to SF

Christmas in Disneyland

Thanksgiving carving of the turkey

Dog with Christmas lights

Osku intertwined with the Christmas decorations on a math classroom door at Sequoia

Osku teaching on a Smartboard

Osku's last visit to Golden Gate Bridge

Osku at the Palace of Fine Arts

See it DOES rain in California! And when it rains, it pours!!!!!

See, we are not always happy in California....infact the seniors have been STRESSED all fall!

Working of college applications at a local cafe (again, notice these students are not happy!)

A rainy commute!

Christmas Kitty

Christmas cookie making

Family Christmas gathering

California FOG!!!!!
(We see fog a lot in the mornings and at the beach most of the summer in Northern Califoria!)

Osku's Christmas friends

Post Thanksgiving feast turkey carcass

Hi to our dear friends in Finland!!! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

This blog spot is bittersweet for us.

We are so happy for the friendships we have created with all of you across the sea for the last year and a half. However, we are also sad that this is one of our final blog posts. As we write, sweet Osku (who has become part of our IB Art family at Sequoia) has caught an early sleigh ride with Santa and is headed back home to you. He should be arriving by the 18th of December; just in time to help you sing California Dreaming. Once he is home we will send photos of his travel preparations.

THANK YOU SOOOOO much for the wonderful package filled with your school photo, delicious Finnish chocolates (we really loved them----much more than the licorice you sent us a year ago!!!!), and the lovely advent calendar created by Minna Immonen, the famous Finnish artist. We are enjoying discovering the new drawing each day. What was so great was that, as fate would have it, we opened your package on December 6th, Finland's independence day! We felt connected with all of you and that we were part of your country's big day. We loved that you think we are always happy and that it never rains here (this year is a very rainy year!).....believe us that is NOT how it is! In fact, many of the seniors (students in their last year of high school) have been very stressed for most of the fall with national exams called "The SATs" and "The ACTs", preparing college applications, and large amounts of homework. We have sent some photos to enlighten you to the reality of your misconceived stereotypes ......we did this from our windsurf boards (also something not all of us have!)....HA HA!

Thank you again for your love and friendship and for sharing Osku with all of us here at Sequoia High School. He has become quite a famous rabbit at this school! Let us know how his journey home went. We will sing California Dreamin' on the 16th and think of all of you.

Happy Holidays and much love,
The IB Art Students and Teacher of Sequoia High School (graduating classes of 2012 and 2013)