So last weekend I went to my second host family's house (conveniently located but 500 meters from my current host family's), from which we drove two hours to the town of Ylämaa in eastern Finland, which is very close to the Russian border. There, we stayed with Taina's (my second host mother's) mother, but Taina's brother and sister were also very near. We got in late at night, so I went practically straight to bed for my beauty sleep. The next morning I woke up to fog and rain (boo!), and I was picked up by Taina's brother (I guess he would be my host uncle) to go hunting. We were in a small group, and we used a dog to try to sniff out the moose. There was another much larger group that lined up horizontally and walked through the woods to try to find them. My group didn't get any moose this weekend, but the larger group got one or two, so I got a largish hunk of moose meat to take back to my host family.
The woods in eastern Finland are quite different than those in Alaska. There was a lot of springy moss and extremely tall pine trees, and not much else.
Anyways, it was wonderful to see what the Finnish country life was like (it's very much like the Alaskan), becuase before this last weekend I had only been in cities.
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