First week, from January 29th to February 4th.
Our journey began on Monday, January 29th. I left Kouvola at 10 in the morning to make it to the airport on time for our 4:20 PM flight to Amsterdam. The plane was delayed by an hour, so we arrived later than expected in Amsterdam and, consequently, in Sneek. We reached the rented house at 11 PM, which turned out to be quite pleasant in a beautiful Dutch neighborhood. Arriving so late, we only unpacked and went to sleep, as the next day, we had to go to school early. Our first day at school was quite interesting. The school we attended is called Firda, a vocational school with technical programs. We were given a tour of the culinary program facilities and were impressed by the spacious kitchens. The plan for that day was to learn how to debone a pig, but the person in charge of bring the pig fell ill, so that activity was canceled. However, we ended up having a very entertaining class where we learned various cooking techniques and how to use equipment we hadn't used before. In...