Hello. To start off I would like to introduce myself. I'm Gustav Perttilä and I'm a 19-year old student from Finland. Last year I decided that I would like to go study abroad. I soon realised that there was a solution to my desire. It was called Erasmus project.

My trip to Holland started a week ago 1.12.2019. I'm here for the next 2weeks, 3 in total.
I would like to share with you what we have been doing here for the past week.

We arrived on Sunday to Hoorn, Amsterdam at 10 am. After that our representative teacher picked us up from the train station and then we were off. Sunday was mainly committed to unpacking our luggage and for some relaxation.

On Monday, our teacher drove us to the Horizon School in which we were going to study. We met the whole staff of Horizon college and also our classmates. Everybody were great and extremely welcoming. The school day started at 9.30 and ended at around 12ish. So it was a super fast school day but nevertheless a great one. After school I went straight to the local gym and bought a membership for 27€. Later that night I had a really good training session.

Tuesday was a pretty typical school day, nothing ordinary. We had a couple of lessons (english, history). After school I went to workout and afterwards to a local supermarket to get my groceries. I spent the night editing my YouTube videos. I'm making a series called "Unelmista Totta" translated "Dreams becoming reality". If you're interested you can check them out from my channel gstav.o.

On Wednesday we went to a school trip. We visited a shoppingcenter or you could even call it a shopping village. There were all of the big name brands (Nike, Puma, Gucci etc) and everything was on sale. I personally didn't buy anything but I still had a great time. We left from the school at 9.00 am and came back to the school at 15.00 pm. After that I I stayed at the school campus and used the free wifi to edit my videos until 18.00 pm when the school closed.

Thursday and Friday was dedicated to our work experiment and we spent the days at the local department store which was called HEMA. Our boss Sergei is a really fair guy. The other staff has welcomed us also and everybody gets along quite easily. Our work hours are too long in my opinion (6hrs) because the purpose for us to work there is to actually learn new things and get something out of it. We are not learning anything more if we would work for 2hours than instead of 6hours. Our job is to swoop the floors and stack the shelves. We are not learning anything from that. Especially when everything is written in dutch. I think the work experience was not tought thru and now our time in here is going to waste. There is so much more that we could do rather than that. Not quite happy about it.

On the weekend we were planning to visit Amsterdam but the weather turned around on us and we decided not to go. Exited for the upcoming week and for everything it has instore for us.