Internationality is a subject that has been discussed a lot during our Soteekki practise. It resurfaces again and again every time from a different point of view. In Soteekki we want to offer an equal chance to participate not only on the services but also the action inside the world of Soteekki. Together we take these steps forward little by little and treasure this idea.
On Friday 29th of April Soteekki had an international day. This event was planned by Soteekki’s own international team. The main goal was to bring together international students and people from Soteekki. We were hoping for an easily approachable event where people could enjoy multiculturality, have fun together and get a chance to get to know to Soteekki before starting their own practice.
The day started at 10am when Agora hall doors were opened. There were games to get to know each other, games to celebrate Finnish culture and beautiful souvenirs from different parts of the world. We started with our own Soteekki people and even though we’ve worked together for the past three weeks, you can always learn something new about each other.
After lunch we finally got some international guests. For a bit we just got to know each other and after that carried on to tasting some Finnish delicacies. There was mämmi, breadcheese, salted liquorice and of course to celebrate Vappu: sima and mini doughnuts. We had also some fun little competitions and games like Alias, traditional boot throwing and finally a tug of war.
Favourites from our little taste testing ended up being sima and breadcheese. To our surprise even mämmi was bravely tasted and as always it really divided opinions. There were some heated debates both for and against. While planning we also looked up traditional foods from different countries. There would’ve been nothing better than to get some of these to taste too.
Multiculturality was also present through clothing. Every member of the international team brought something from their own culture to wear for the day. You could see fashion from Africa and Vietnam and also very traditional finnish bathrobe and rain boots. These were proudly presented on catwalk with backround music to set the mood.
The best part of the whole event was definitely the spirit and how everyone just threw themselves right on the fun! You couldn’t miss the laughter and glee ringing through the walls. All the joy was heard all the way back in the Soteekki office! It was also the last day of Soteekki for our nursing students so you couldn’t really hope for a better final day. We are grateful to get the chance to organize this event. Thank you to everyone who took part on the fun with us, to all members of the international team and of course our amazing supervisors that made this thing possible.
