Helsinki Guides

On Wednesday we had a little Helsinki sightseeing. Each of us had 10 minutes time to present our part. My turn was next to last, so I needed to wait a couple hours my turn.

I will present our route shortly.

• Helsinki Railway Station & Railway Square
• Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
• Helsinki Music Centre & Parliament House
• The Glass Palace
• Kamppi
• The Three Smiths Statue
• Swedish Theatre
• Esplanade Park
• Market Square
• Sofia's Street (me)
• Senate Square (me)
• Helsinki Catedral

I already know so much about Helsinki, so this sightseeing tought me a lot about guiding. I kept attention where to stand that everybody can hear you. It's important to stand in a silence place and if the place where you are going is not silence or there is happening something which disturb your guiding, you have to be ready maybe skip the place and change your ways. For example 'Three Smiths Statue is good example for it. My classmate didn't guide her group to the statue, because somebody played a drum there. So if you wanna be a guide, you should be ready to improvise sometimes.

Helsinki Catedral

Kamppi Chapel of Silence

Old bussterminal

Helsinki Music Centre

Mannerheim

Railway Station

Railway Square

We also visited in "Helsinki Dresses"- exhibition. Anne Mustarastas got an inspiration from buildings in Helsinki and she designed dresses from them. The dresses are so amazing, please take a look from my pictures and go watch the exhibiton yourself.
http://laituri.hel.fi/nayttelyt/4

Greetings from Helmi Liiketalousopisto.

Annankatu.

Kamppi Chapel of Silence

A this dress could be 'Helsinki Catedral' aswell, right?

 Now I will write about my guiding turn. My topic was Sofiankatu and Senate Square. The purpose of our sightseeing were to watch out how to guide and test it. This time it was possible have a paper with you, but actually I didn't need it first in Sofiankatu. I was ready tell about Sofiankatu more than Senate Square.

What I think about my guiding?

• before my turn, I was not nervous at all, but then when my turn come I almost forgot all what I should say
• I had a ghost story and everybody waited for it (I guess), so I decided to tell it almost first, because it helped me a lot remember what should I really say in Sofiankatu
• I actually felt a little bit weird, I needed to talk in a loud voice and I felt like it's not my voice. But I was afraid that nobody hear me if I speak with a normal voice.
• I also drunk some coffee, which I should never do before a presentation, because it made my body to shake a little
• I think Sofiankatu was the best part from my guiding
• Senate Square didn't go that well. I just spoke all I knew and then I took a paper and huh. It just didn't go so well.

What could I do better next time?

•  don't drink coffee before your guiding
• I think the best way to me is take more contact to my customers, because it makes me feel normal and natural, maybe ask some questions etc.
• close your hair that wind does not take them and you don't need to all the time touch them
• Study your attractions by heart
• walk more slowly to another place
• speak slowly and take your time

Well it was our first time and I am proud of it anyway! :)






  

Helsinki City Museum

We visited in Helsinki City Museum and it is in Sofiankatu 4 near to Helsinki Catedral.

First we had an hour time to watch exhibition and after it we went to seminar where older people talked about 'hot dog kioskes'.

What I remember from the exhibition?

• women used fun to show their feelings to a man. For example if a woman touched her left cheek with fun it meaned 'Go way! I am not intrested."
• there were big coins and medals in the museum
• there was also an old kitchen
• pictures from old Linnanmäki
• old stuff from civil war: red or white armband, guns 
•  newspaper article from peace treaty between Finland and Soviet Union
• there was also picture gallery and old cameras in vitrine
  
  

Handheld fun.

It was a very nice to see which kind of clothes people used in the 17th century.  

What I remember from seminar and what I think about it?

• when does ketchup and mustard come to Finland
• Which kind of kioskes is exist: kiosk culture, some kiosks open their doors only at night
• What does kiosks sell? - Fast food: meat pies, sausages, trips, juices, limonade, newspapers and other stuff
• we saw much old pictures (black and white pics)
• Linnanmäki serves first hamburgers in Finland
• Porilainen is not actually from Pori, but the sausage is. 
• I actually expect more about seminar. I tought we will hear something else than 'when hot dog kioskes come to Finland? 

I could suggest exhibition for all who like history and love to see old goods.

Old camera

We needed also choose our favorite place from Helsinki and I choosed 'Esplanade park'. Why I choosed?

• It is so beautiful at summer
• you can just relax there or have a picnic
• You can easily walk there to Market Square and enjoy the sea air
• You meet happy people there
• You can sit down edge of the Havis Amanda statue

From here you can read more about beautiful Esplanade park:
http://www.visithelsinki.fi/en/sights-and-attractions/esplanade-park

Guiding

About a week ago I started to study guiding at school. We have to write our own blog and first I made a new blog to wordpress. Now I feel I can't even use wordpress and It doesn't feel natural for me to write in finnish. I had get used to write in english so I decided to write my school things to here - to my original blog.

So let's start:

About two weeks ago - before I went to Copenhagen - we needed to stay evening classes with adult students. I spend time at school from 8.00 am to 7.00 pm. We had two evening classes and one Helsinki sightseeing. Now I will tell more about classes and the sihgtseeing.


Evening Classes 1&2:

• we talked about brand of Finland
• what kind of things tourist expect to see in Finland? Answers was: snow, Santa Claus, Lapland, Aurora Borealis, sauna, Porvoo, Helsinki, Mumin, midnight sun etc.
• we had a little quiz. There was some claims and we needed to show green card if it was right or red card if it was wrong
• Classes was also in english, because there was a lot international students 
• we talked about map of Finland, how does it looks like and where is the most important places to travel.
• we talked about finnish drinking culture
• we also shared our opinions from Finland
• and ofc we tought how to be good guide

Helsinki Sightseeing

• there was groups - each of them was about 6 students
• adult students practised to guide and we young ones just watched and learned

On our sightseeing there was a lot familiar information. Most of guides spoke english so it was a little bit hard to follow their point, but luckily one Finnish woman started to speak finnish and she told amazing story from Sofiankatu. It was ghost story and I also used this story on my own 'sightseeing'. I remember that the best.

I will tell more later. 

Fireworks

On Sunday I was in Linnanmäki. There was the light carneval week and Linnanmäki was its last day open in this year. It was very beautiful to see all lights and how all the theme park was alive.

On last week I was also in Denmark in Copenhagen and it's absolutely so beautiful place. I will write about the jorney later, when my friend will send pictures for me. 

Here some fireworks pictures from my Instagram.