An Interview with Our Student Counselor, Kirsi Jarkia
Kirsi is one of our student counselors and she has worked in Rieskalähde for six years. Before she started to work as a teacher she worked on a cruise ship.
Her hobbies include gardening and doing handicrafts.
She has studied to be a physical education instructor and a teacher but currently she works as a student counselor. Kirsi has also studied catering business.
As a teenager she was very good in school and liked to go there. She also enjoyed being with her friends. At first she wanted to become a lawyer but later on she realized that it wasn´t her dream job. In high school she used to organize schools events.
We asked her what the best thing about being a teacher is and she answered that the students are the best part of her work. The worst thing is that she might sometimes be very strict when the students don´t do as she asks them to.
Kirsi doesn´t get to use English at all at work. However, she can speak English. She can also speak fluent Swedish, and she knows some German and French.