Archive for February, 2011

Sightseeing in Helsinki

February 25, 2011

Okay, guys. This is about our Helsinki trip. We had the chance to visit Helsinki for just EUR 10 and even though we did not have the chance to visit the chocolate factory it was a beautiful trip 🙂 (actually ‘the others’ only visited the chocolate factory’s visitor rooms and not the production site itself […]

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Aboa Vetus

February 24, 2011

Today we visited Aboa Vetus, the museum of history and contemporary art (even though skipped most of the art part). As the owner of the museum had his name day the entrance was for free. We met with our friendship family and spent about an hour in the museum. It is about Turku in its […]

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Jogging

February 22, 2011

Hi everyone, We are now here for more than one and a half month and we didn’t go out to jog yet. But I finally made it today and it wasn’t as cold or slippery as I expected it to be. Okay, I just walked for 3 kilometers, but come on, that’s better than nothing. […]

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Finish Test no. 3

February 21, 2011

Yes, we made it! Today we had our third and last Finish test for the course “Finish for Foreigners: Beginners Course I”. Not that we now can speak Finish, but we at least learned the numbers, weekdays, month, how to say the time, food vocabulary and a little bit more. I think that’s quite a […]

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Erasmus in Finland? What is wrong with you?!

February 20, 2011

When sitting in the university in one of the last weeks I found a Finish student newspaper called Kyliste of the association of economics students in Turku (http://www.tuky.fi/kyliste/kyliste-410). Aside form all Finish articles which were in there and which I couldn’t understand I found one which was in English. And this was really really good […]

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Walk along/on the river

February 19, 2011

We used this cold, but sunny day for a walk on and along the river. Yes, you read right. We walked on the Aurojoki. Within the last week it was always under – 8°C (a lot of days nearly -20°C). We were a little bit scared walking on the river and actually didn’t want to […]

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German evening

February 17, 2011

Jouko, one guy in one of our courses asked us if we could help him and his student union to organize a German evening. The idea was to cook a three course meal and have fun for around 40 people. So we met on Tuesday to decide what to cook and started cooking on Wednesday […]

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