I've had some great teachers, especially during the upper stage of the comprehensive school (you go there at the ages of 13-15) and high school. Here's some:

- One of the teachers of my class in the elementary school: she made fun and clear lessons, she had some nice humor there, and her notes were excellent, summarizing the studying material very well. She was also helpful and understanding when some people kept bullying me all the time that year.

- My music teacher in the upper stage: a fun guy, and he's also the father of one of my friends. He was really into band and choir activity, and it was great playing in the band and in different school events (the Christmas party, Easter, spring party etc).

- The teacher of the "bad guy" class in the upper stage: he never did lessons for me because he was only teaching the special class that had people who make a lot of noise or even rage in school. He was a pretty cool guy, though, and I think he had even won something like gold or bronze in the Finnish championships in some power athletics event. He also told me his students say "Have a nice weekend!" on Monday or "Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!" on early autumn or so, so I copied those students a bit (so did he). For example, if it was Monday morning and I was heading to a lesson, I told him to have a nice weekend.

- My advanced math / IT / career's teacher in the upper stage: he reminded me a bit of my history teacher Ojanen from high school (I'll get back to that guy later ). A pretty funny guy. I remember when there was once a visit to a vocational school but I couldn't get there because I was ill, having fever and I had lost my voice, and when my mom called him about that, he said: "That's too bad, there's many noisy people in school who I almost wish would lose their voices, but he's definitely not one of them."

- My biology teacher in high school: I never liked biology too much, but she was hilarious! The stories she makes to explain some biological phenomenon were so funny. She also swears and uses quite flaming words to students, but she's clearly joking and not meaning it (in a parody movie I made about the high school, she was starring it, and she just loved flaming others there, especially Ojanen). Once there was an exercise in our biology book which she thought made absolutely no sense, so she said: "What? This question totally sucks! Give the authors of the book this answer: go smurf yourselves!"

- My history teacher (Ojanen) in high school: if you wanted a movie action hero or a rock star, here's one for you! A really cool guy. His notes in history lessons were very good. There was one course where I barely touched the history book during the course, and I didn't even open the book when I was studying for the exam, and I got 9½ from the exam (it had two essays), so I got the grade 10 (the best grade). He's somewhat flirty with the girls, so many girls think he's pretty great. My friend Kossage pretty much thinks about every "cool" movie character reminds him of Ojanen.

- Another history teacher (Härmä) in high school: he's quite a funny guy, especially when his humor is quite dark, he makes a lot of jokes about Swedish people for some reason and his laughter is quite sick. He'd make a great Kefka, only with a low-pitched laugh. In the movies, Kossage likes to think the villains or some war-crazy characters remind him of Härmä, and Kossage has this comic image in his head where Härmä invades Sweden with a tank and starts shooting at people while doing a maniacal laugh. :shoot:

Oh, here's an example about how Kossage places Ojanen and Härmä into movies. In Disney's Aladdin, he thinks Jafar is like Härmä and Iago is like Ojanen, and it creates some funny moments when we try to imagine those scenes with Ojanen being there instead of Iago, and Härmä being there instead of Jafar.

- My physics teacher (Kujanen) in high school: He teaches physics, math and nowadays religion too. I didn't get to know him much in high school, but Kossage sometimes talked with him for about an hour about religion, the purpose of life and other things like that, and I was wondering what on earth is up with them for talking so long. Later, when I got interested in religious things, I met him in the youth events in a congregation, so that's how I got to know him better. Quite a funny guy, he's good with doing speeches and coming up with examples and metaphors. He's also an all-around great person.

- My English teacher in high school: She's a pretty good teacher, and when I sometimes revisit my high school, she comes to me and asks me how I'm doing in Tampere, how my studies are going, if I've found a lot of new friends there, how I like the city etc. I remember when Kossage and I asked her how our exams went, and she said "they were quite close to 10" and then she laughed, making it almost feel like a joke, so then I told Kossage: "I know! That means we got a 4, because 4 is quite close to 10!" (the grade 4 means you failed the course)

- My Finnish teacher (AKu) in high school: Each teacher had their name abbreviations, and hers was AKu (short for Arja Kujanpää), and the teachers called her "Aku", which is Donald Duck's name in Finnish. It's funny when sometimes I called out for her name and she didn't recognize it, then I said "Aku!" and she noticed I was talking to her. She liked dark novels, and also horror novels. One of the phrases she uses is "Täh?" which means "What?" So sometimes when she was saying "What? What?" she reminded me of Stone Cold Steve Austin.

- The psychology teacher in high school: I was never in her lessons, but she was one of the youngest teachers I've ever seen. She was still studying in a university when she became a teacher in our high school for a year. In a student dance event where there's a chance for students to ask other people to dance with them, and some people traditionally ask teachers too, Kossage and I went to ask some teachers too. He danced with the English teacher, I danced with the psychology teacher. She was also one of the many teachers who Kossage and I interviewed in an article we wrote in the school's yearbook, and she was one of the teachers who were doing some live voice acting in an early version of my movie project.

- The math teacher (Sivonen) in high school: He was the form master of our class. His name is Heikki, but people call him Hessu, which means Goofy (so we had Donald and Goofy in high school ), and since he pretty much hears everything people say and he's also an always-ready type guy, many people call him the Super Goofy.

- Another math teacher (Mäkitalo) in high school: Another teacher with dark sense of humor. She once said we shouldn't be afraid of her comments or be insulted by them, she just has a weird sense of humor. I asked her, "Don't you mean you have a sadistic sense of humor?" And she laughed so hard. There were other situations when someone said a good joke, and she laughed out loud for a long time, and when she tried to continue teaching, she started to think about the joke again, so she started to laugh again.

- A physics/IT teacher (Mäkinen) in high school: he seems like a silent guy who speaks in a muttering way, but once you get to know him, he's a funny guy who jokes a lot. A pretty good and interesting teacher too. He wasn't very strict about the discipline in the classroom, but almost everyone was still quiet because they wanted to hear what he was saying. I was also acting him in the student play when high school ended for me, my lines were muttering in a style similar to Kenny from South Park. That was amusing.

Whew, I wonder if that's enough. All in all, the high school where I was going was just full of great people.