After a great information session of the student housing foundation (could have done this half an hour thing in about 5 minutes), where we didn’t really get any new information, we met with around 13 people in another kitchen. The two Italian guys had bought a lot of stuff to bake some pizza for us. […]

Hi everyone, even if I have closed the last post with the Finnish words for “bye and see you tomorrow”, which you might not have understood, I have to post something else this evening … I thought it would be a good idea to do some sports here in Finnland. As the weather is so […]

Hi all, our first day of lectures at the university startet at 8.30 am this morning. Timo, our teacher for the course “Management of ICT Services” started with an introduction and shocked us by saying a different time for the lectures on Tuesday. On his papers he had different information and told us, that the […]

This weekend we relaxed a little. On Saturday we slept somewhat longer and around midday we went to IKEA. It’s a smaller one than we have in Koblenz, but other than that it’s nearly the same. We had a delicious (rather Swedish) Daimkakku (Daim Cake) and a cup of hot chocolate before buying some stuff […]

Today was the third and last day of our orientation days before the uni will start on Monday. We had a library introduction for the main uni library and a computer introduction course for the computers at our Turku School of Economics computers. At 1 pm a bus picked us up for a guided bus […]

As there is a national holiday in Finland today we didn’t have any presentations etc. from the uni. So Johannes’ tutor asked us to come to her place and go sledding. We met with a few other exchange students in the city and took a bus to her place. She lives in a really small […]