Iina Marja's Day
From Dawn to Dusk in a Lapp Village

This is part of the series A Child's Day, which focuses on the daily lives and experiences of children in countries around the world. We follow the child all through the day: from waking up, through breakfast, going to school, learning, travelling home, playing, and getting ready for bed. This book introduces Iina Marja, who lives in a village in Lapland. Iina-Marja's day begins with morning lessons. The she and her mother board the seaplane and fly over the water to Raittijärvi, their second home in the Arctic wilderness. At Raittijärvi, Iina-Marja helps make dinner, goes fishing on the lake and, at the end of the day, chats to her father by the fire in the goahti (tent).



This book is part of the series A Child's Day, photographic information books concentrating on the daily lives and experiences of children in countries around the world, published in association with Oxfam.

In the break between lessons Iina-Marja has a go on the suhkan (swing). She makes the suhkan go so high, she wonders if it will take her all the way over the top of the bar and round again!

After break, they carry on with their lessons. Jon-Isak has to finish his spelling exercises before he can play the word game on the floor with the girls.



Later on in the morning, one of the teachers takes them for a walk. They have fun playing Follow My Leader up and down the little hills of earth in the school grounds, which the builders made recently when doing some repairs. All the exercise makes Iina-Marja feel hungry.