Night School

My school owns a villa called Villa Pukila. In the spring, when I had already gone to Hungary for the summer, our class planted barley, wheat and oats in Pukila's garden. Last week, on Monday, we harvested the grain with sickles, collected it in bundles and put them in the sauna to dry.

On Thursday we made flails by stripping the bark of branches, drilling holes and tying two branches together. Once the flails were done we took them to the sauna to thresh the grain. First we hit the bundles against the wall, then we hit the bundles with the flails to get all the grains out. Lastly, we threw the grains to separate the grains and the husks.

That night we also had a class sleepover in Pukila. It was REALLY fun. It is the best day of school in the whole year.