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December Recap, It´s a Wrap!
So the year 2024 is now done and dusted! What a ride it was. Now we are looking at the following next 11 months with bright eyes and full of dreams and hopes!
But what happened in December? It's time for our monthly recap, and boy did we have a lot going on! I was actually so busy, and we had so many announcements, that I did not have reasonable timeslots to send our November recap, so I will highlight some of our November posts and articles as well.
Our last news update was the October 2024 recap, which is found here: › Announcement: October Recap. Some of the celebrations on European Union level were › International Students Day on 17 November and › International Human Solidarity Day 20 December.
There was several reminders about our OLS Video contest and it was closed on 16th December. Now we are waiting for the results. We also had a › Mini Contest and many reminders about that as well.
To make OLS platform useful for yourself, you can › Discover the Finnish Language With OLS and › Find Your Language Buddy! And we are still looking for you to › Get Interviewed by OLS & Share Your › Finnish Learning Journey.
And now we are only waiting for our › OLS Talk – Introduction to Finnish on 28 December! Have you signed up yet?
In the blog there is a story about Mikko. › Olipa Kerran Mikko explores and uses some of the Finnish sayings in a kids story type piece of text. Can you spot them all? And if you followed the Finnish Independence shenanigans on TV, you may have read › Itsenäisyyspäivä: Suomalaisen Juhlan Taika before that, maybe?
On the student life front, I reminded you of › ESN Party Pants Available Now! and › ESN Student Card. Have you gotten yours already?
If this amount of forum posts was not a › Culture Shock Anyone? enough for you, I congratulate you! And so, have a great 2025!
Minna, OLS Community Manager – Finnish