School celebrates traditional Day of cultures
Finnish Bible Institute has students from various backgrounds. Students in most of our other courses are Finnish, but in our Finnish language courses that make up half of the students, have students from all over the world and from various cultures.
One traditional way of learning from one another is the day of the cultures that we celebrate every autumn. This year, the day of the cultures took place Thursday 29 of October. The day of cultures is a celebration for the whole school and all of our courses have something to perform. Naturally, the main responsibility is that of the YKI-training and As a Christian in Finland course.
We started with the greeting of the director of the school, Mrs. Marja-Kaarina Marttila, who reminded us about Ruth in the Bible and how she was included to the people of Israel and became the foremother of king David himself.
Day of cultures is a great opportunity to learn and to share. It is also very nice occasion and gives a possibility to tell something in various languages and various ways. We had presentations both in English and in Finnish and we had presentations, musical performances, classical dancing and even videos and plays made just for the occasion.
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Our Finnish language courses had presentations about Moroccan and Serbian culture in Finnish and English presentation on the ancient Persian New Year and its traditions along with the Persian calendar. That was very informative.
The program also included skillful classical Indian dancing and information about elaborate national dress. We also were able to enjoy the special video on Turkey made for this occasion.
The Finnish program had folk music band from our musical course whereas the Open Bible School delighted us with the professional piano compositions of the Finnish national composer, Jean Sibelius. Besides these we had a humorous play depicting Finnish stereotypes.
From the teachers part, one of our Finnish teachers read a poem in Udmurtian, which is a language distantly related to Finnish and spoken in Russia.
In the end we got the taste of authentic Turkish delights. What a fun way to learn about different cultures!