Archive for April, 2011

Spring Flower

April 16, 2011

Our Finish friendship family told us that spring in Finland has arrived when the first flowers called “leskenlehti” can be seen. So here also this evidence that the spring is there:

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Mylly

April 16, 2011

The Mall Mylly is supposed to be one of Finland’s largest commercial centers. As it is only 9km away from where we live we thought it would be worth going there. So we took our bikes and started our tour. Arrived there we expected a few nice hours of shopping. But, we are in Finland […]

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Spring has finally arrived

April 15, 2011

As people from Germany are telling us since a few weeks how nice the weather is, how often they barbecued already and how nice it is to be outside we were really looking forward to the spring in Finland. Even though that in a few areas you still can find a little bit of snow […]

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Brunch at Logomo

April 14, 2011

Today we had brunch at Logomo, the central exhibition for the cultural year. This was also our first bike tour 🙂 Basically all exchange students were invited by the Turku 2011 Foundation and the City of Turku to join in on a brunch and visit the exhibitions afterwards. We were greeted by the CEO of […]

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Got Bikes

April 12, 2011

As we will do a bike tour at the end of our stay here in Finland we were thinking of buying used bikes and using them already now instead of renting some from the tourist office just for the tour. After one week of searching we finally got two today. They are probably not the […]

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Last lecture in Finland

April 12, 2011

We are just back from our last lesson in Uni here in Finland. We will have an exam tomorrow and 2 in May. Furthermore we still have to do a few assignments. But aside we are finished with our studies here. I guess with all the traveling we have planned for the next weeks time […]

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Sitz-Party

April 6, 2011

Tonight we attended one of the popular Finnish sitz-parties. You are asking what a sits party is? Yes, we also did when coming here! In Germany that would probably never happen, but in Finland people come together to get drunk (okay, this part is also true for Germany) and sing songs together. How this goes […]

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