The morning started with a nice wintry walk to the local Police Station where the students were met by two police officers who gave them a brief overview of Estonian legislation connected with alcohol, tobacco and drug usage. The students got to know that the legal age level to use tobacco or alcohol starts from the age of 18 and using drugs is absolutely illegal in Estonia. The students were also introduced to different punishments that illegal use of drugs can cause and what happens to under aged children who are caught smoking or drinking alcohol.
Vello Vihterpal, the police officer of Lääne district and
Anneli Katkosilt, the officer who deals with the cases of young people didn't just give a lecture, but offered the students an opportunity to test the influence of substances like liqueur candies, non-alcohol cider, Estonian national non alcohol drink Kali (kvas), sour milk and throat spread, which consistence shows a very small amount of alcohol usage.
For measuring the results they used a small indicator that shows the amount of alcohol, that stays in your mount for 5 minutes.
The Estonian project coordinator
Heli Heimo tested the liqueur candies and was tested after that.
Erik Hägglund from
Sweden tested an ordinary chocolate candy that contained a bit of rum
The
Latvian teacher
Anatolijs Sokols tested the throat spray with propolis and calendula.
The
Finnish teacher
Eija Raisk drank a glass of sour milk.
Everybody could touch and examine all the instruments that the police officers are using to indentify intoxication.
After five minutes all the examinees were tasted again and none of them had any intoxication. So it is not possible to fool the police officers when you are drunk and tell them lies about eating candies, drinking sour milk or using throat spray. The influence lasts not over 5 minutes and this is called the influence of in-mouth alcohol. The alcohol meters don't even measure it. Here are the results of measuremets just after testing and five minutes later. You can see, that everyone got clean results.
After testing the whole group was taken to the detention chamber where they were shown the process how the criminal are treated before they are going to have their detention. The police officer showed the students how they have to search through the persons, and take away their personal belongings. It was also possible to see the chambers where the criminals are going to stay during the detention. We had a volunteer to help the police officers to present the whole process.
Sometimes when the criminals get agressive the police officer has to use the handcuffs.
Ieva from
Latvia wanted to test how it feels and told us that it didn't feel too comfortable.
After all these experiences and a great amount of new knowledge the students went back to school to start to work on their videos.
Yesterday the groups had chosen the themes of their videos and set the shcedule of shooting the scenes, processing the filmed material with video programs and elaborate the results. The students started to work in groups, they went around and interviews the Estonian students and teachers and involved the students of Haapsalu Vocational Education and Training Centre to act as a cast.
When the students were working and going around the schoolhouse to find the interviwees and cast, the teachers visited the handicraft class and got acquainted to the Estonian handicraft traditions. As it is well known that the best thing for learning is touching and getting involved into the process, the teachers spent a pleasureful hour among the handicraft products made by the students of Haapsalu Vocational Education and Training Centre. The handicraft teacher Marju Heldemaa talked about the traditional clothes of Estonia, Haapsalu scarf, old patterns that have come back into fashion and the handicraft and textile speciality.
The groups of students were working with their videos. Group number 4 - Andra Johanna from Estonia, Eveliina Pulkkanen from Finland and Birta from Iceland were taking interviews connected with smoking habits.
Group number 1 - Eric from Sweden, Laura from Estonia and Camilla from Norway were also discussing the smoking problems among youth.
Group number 2 - Maija from Sweden, Veera from Finland and Sintija from Latvia interviewed the local students about their drinking habits.
Group number 3 - Ieva from Latvia, Rakel from Iceland and Ann-Helen from Norway chose the drug problems and are trying to find out what makes the young people to use drugs.
The students were supported by the Info Technology students of Haapsalu and by their own teachers.
As we all know that chocolate makes you smart and the teachers have to be smart during all these long working days, all the participating teachers learned to make chocolate truffles and cookies from oat. The teachers were guided by the cooking teacher Kersti Raak.
The results looked really nice and tasted delicious. So it proved that the teachers are also able to learn new things. As they all wanted to bake the oat cookies at home, the recipe will come here very soon:
Ingredients:
The day ended with the tour in the Bishop Castle of Haapsalu. Now everyone knows who is the White Lady and where and when you can see her.
