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Warm hello from Tenerife!

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Hello everyone!

I have now stayed in Tenerife for 7 days. I arrived on Tuesday afternoon.

I started working on Wednesday with the Animación team at the pool. We play different games with people of all ages. We also do “water gym” and other activities.

On Thursday morning I went to the other side of the island with Eva to get my NIE-number. We went to the police station around 8 am and waited in a line for an hour. Once we got inside I got a time for my appointment, and it was at 11.30… So me and my coworker went to get some coffee and went to the bank to pay my NIE.

This far everything has been nice and the weather has been great 🙂

 

Love,

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Hello everyone ! :)

Training Places, ,

Hi !

My name is Nea. I am a last year tourism student at Jämsä Vocational School and I’m leaving in February to Tenerife to study abroad. In this post I will introduce to you little bit of the island of Tenerife, and also the hotel that I’m going, which is Globales Tamaimo Tropical !  So, shall we get started ?

Tenerife  is the largest  island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 square kilometers and  about 898,680 inhabitants, which is 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands.

About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year,  it is the most of any of the Canary Islands.  It is also one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain. Tenerife has two airports, Tenerife North Airport and Tenerife South Airport.

And then something about the hotel itself !

The Globales Tamaimo Tropical Hotel is made up of 372 comfortable apartments and is located in Puerto Santiago in Tenerife between Los Gigantes and the lovely beach known of Playa de la Arena.

At the Globales Tamaimo Tropical Hotel there is a variety of accommodation to choose from such as comfortable studio apartments, large one-bedroom apartments or two-bedroom apartments – ideal for family holidays.

Within the holiday complex there are spacious and peaceful solariums with free sun-lounger service for you to relax in or you can take a refreshing dip in one of the 5 swimming pools (2 adult, 2 kids and 1 heated). For an unforgettable holiday in the sun, entertainment is available for both adults and children from 11:00am to 11:00pm when the disco bar comes to life with with professional night shows.

 

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Our last blog

Learning Diaries, Teacher Mobility,

It has been a while when we last time wrote a blog.

Time has went really fast and now is time to go home.

Three weeks ago we were in local vocational school with Jussi. Students made a presentation about Ibiza and cooked local foods for us. One day later we went to the old town (Dalt Vila), where students gave us a tour. They told about history and important places.

We did a skills demonstration this week that had different kind of installations and tasks. Skills demonstration went well and both of us get it done.

In the last day our work mates offered foods and drinks and gave us few gifts.

Hola Ibiza!

Teacher Mobility,

I was in Spain and more specifically in Ibiza which is part of Balearic Islands. Two electrical engineering students to do their on-the-job learning in Ibiza Town. Catalan is most spoken language in Balearic Island, so on many places can see name Eivissa, what is Ibiza in Catalan.

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Students start their on-the-job period on end of September and they will come back after 8 week on mid-November. Student’s wok in local electrical company Medori Electricicad and they just do normal electrical installations like in Finland.

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Here is Mikko and he just doing installations on local house. They will change main connection from 3-phase to 1-phase system. In Ibiza it is usual that houses use 1-phase system, because they don’t have a devices what need 3-phase system (like sauna heaters).

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Here is Aleksi and he was tearing down old installation in local adult school. After that they will install new electrical appliances there.

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Here is picture from local school and its electrical engineering workshop. Students in workshop made direct on like starter for motor. Miniature circuit breakers (MCB), contractors, overload units seems to be same kind what we use. The local students was friendly and only few of them spoken English.

Group on Dalt Vila

Here we are on Dalt Vila (upper town) what is old town in Ibiza town. Tourism students give as a guided tour in Dalt Vila. The tourist season in Ibiza was over, so there was pretty quiet. But weather was nice, sun shine and temperature was in the daytime 20-22°C and in the evenings about 15°C.

Gracias

Jussi Ahonen

Electrical Engineering Teacher

greetings from ibiza !

Learning Diaries,

Hi!

Everything has went very well.  While ago we moved to new flat and it’s very nice. Location is little bit better than the old. Grocery stores, city and the work place are closer now. Here lives the owner of the apartment and her son with us.

Last week we visited local vocational school. Dani showed school to us and introduced us some students.

Here are few pictures from electrical department.

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Ibiza

Training Places,

Ibiza is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, 79 kilometres off the coast of the city of Valencia, in eastern Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. Ibiza has a population of 112.000 inhabitants, concentrated in the five municipalities in which it is divided: The capital Ibiza, Sant Antoni de Portmany, Sant Joan de Labritja, Sant Josep de sa Talaia and Santa Eulària des Riu. Its highest point Sa Talaiassa is 475 metres above sea level. Size of ibiza is 571km2.

The main industry is the tourism. 75 % of the population gets their income from the tourism sector.

The summer climate of Ibiza typically ranges in the upper 20s °C, often reaching 30.0 °C , with overnight lows below 22.2 °C . The winter, off-season temperature reaches 8.1–14.2 °C. On average it snows once every ten years.

 

Last days!

Learning Diaries,

Hello! This will be my last blog update. Today was my last workday and tomorrow i will go to the bank for my salary. Then tomorrow i’ll pack my stuffs so it will be ready for saturday when i come back Finland!

well. About this final week. SO BUSY, we have like 1000 people eating so lot of work.

This week we had special decorations because days 21.6, 23,6 and 24,6 we have Sant Juan Ciutadella festivals! I have some photos about these.

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I was watching this festival one day. There was like 300 people or more in the streets and following horsemans. The idea of the festival: First horseman takes the Sant juan flag from the balcony and like 50 more horsemans follow this first one. Then people follow these horsemans.

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And this is the flag of Sant Juan:

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I have to say thanks everybody for making this trip possible for me! This has been so amazing and teaching.

Holaa!

Learning Diaries,

Hello! Two weeks anymore before i go back Finland.

About last week. It has been normal but more busier because 2 days ago the hotel got 100 new tourists. So more and more work coming 🙂

My roommate Lukas went work other place than me so i had to do all the things on my own again. He said me that next week i go to work in another place than salad place, maybe.

Here is some photos about this week:
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And this is the beach where I always go after work or day offs.

Cala en Forcat:

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