February 15, 2011
Today we had our first exam in Finland. It was in the subject Management of ICT Services and consisted of 3 questions, one about the book we had to read, one about one of the articles we also had to read and one about a topic we had in class. It was different from the […]
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February 14, 2011
Running Dinner … a Finnish tradition? We don’t know 😉 What we do know is that it was fun! This was another ESN event. We (that was a group of 4 students altogether) got a schedule with addresses and contact numbers. Our task was to be there on time and eat 🙂 Easy, right? At […]
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February 14, 2011
When we went to university this morning we experienced the real cold of Finland. Said to last for about 3 weeks every year we had about -28°C (that’s what people told us). Well, maybe -25°C, but it definitely was an interesting experience 🙂 It was actually an extremely nice day without even a single cloud […]
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February 13, 2011
Today we had our second meeting with our Finish friendship family. We first decided to go sledding and then cook some finish food together. But as it was -18°C it was too cold for Leo and Lotta, the two children of the family. So we just skipped the sledding part and just did the cooking. […]
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February 12, 2011
Hey everyone, Sorry for not reporting so much within the last days, but there wasn’t really something interesting. We had to hand in three tasks until yesterday so that me were mainly studying all the time. And this will continue through the weekend. We will have our first exam here in Finland on Tuesday and […]
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February 7, 2011
Today we had our second Finnish language test. It wasn’t so complicated as expected, but we will see what the results say 😉 We were quite tired as we just came back from the Lapland trip at 5 o’clock this morning…
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February 6, 2011
On our long way back we stopped at the snow castle in Kemi for about an hour. It is a building completely made from snow and ice – well, almost. The lights, etc., are not from ice of course 🙂 You walk into the castle through a long tunnel-like path with high snow walls that is […]
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