This evening we had our first meeting of the Friendship Programme. This is about exchange students meeting Finns. What you make out of it is up to yourself. Even though we had both applied separately we now have the same Finnish family together with a Russian exchange student. They’ve got two little kids and are […]

Today we went with some peoples from our floor to the north of Turku and had a fun day doing cross-country skiing. The weather was perfect, not too cold and blue sky. As nearly none of us had ever done it before or could remember the last time he/she did it, it was fun seeing […]

This evening we had a different kind of class meeting. For one of our university lectures we were supposed to meet with the people from our group (we, 2 Fins and one Austrian girl) and so something Finnish together. So we just had dinner together. We had a salad, carnelian pie with egg butter and […]

After our first ice hockey experience last week we had the chance to get a short introduction to some basic ice hockey. That included skating, stopping, retrieving the puk and playing it properly. But just the basic way 🙂 As the entrance fee to the ice ring is only EUR 1,-, but the rent for […]

… I looked out of my window and saw that:

Hi everybody, As we promised you can learn about the Finnish overalls today. There is a student tradition here in Finland (it is not that old, but fun) that each university faculty has its own overall. So the overalls are different in color and have different logos on them.  Students wear them to different events […]

We are just back from our little Tallinn trip with 10 other ERASMUS students. From Turku we went to Helsinki by train on Friday and then took the ferry to Tallinn (Estonia). We were at the hostel somewhat late, but got a very good recommendation to have dinner at a place called “Hell Hunt”. The […]