Paid picnic

Now it's done: my first paid picnic this year, in other words matriculation examination. It's the major exam on Finnish senior highs. All abiturs (final year students) around the nation make same exams (they can pick up the subjects) on same days. The exam take at least three hours, but max. six. You can take your own provisions, but there can't be any text on them. Teachers even walk you to a toilet and back. And censors, who will check exams, they're quit... Well lets say they love to go to details.

Penkkarit

   Most students think the exam is ridiculously hard. Questions are often a little bit vague, and some abiturs have made their own versions of them, like 'Which one was first, egg or hen, and what was rooster's part in the business?'.
   My exam was the first part of  äidinkieli (mother tongue) exam. It's cutted up to two part: first, which I did, I had to write three short answers about given material. In the other part I will have to write just one essay from a given subject.
    On Monday I have a hearing exam about English and on Tuesday a hearing exam about Swedish. On Wednesday second year students organize potkijaiset (a party where abiturs are 'kicked' out of the school) to us. And on Thuesday we have a another party called penkkarit (abiturs dress to funny costumes and throw candy from tractor's trailer). And on Saturday and Sunday we're on abiristeily (a cruise only for abiturs on the Baltic) Yay!