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Bingo Tuesday

March 29, 2011

This night we went to practice Finnish numbers … How? Well, playing Bingo at a bar 🙂 Besides the bar being a rather nice place to visit, they have Bingo every Tuesday. We’ve been told by others that they go every once in a while, but we couldn’t make it to any of those occasions […]

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Final Day of Ice Hockey

March 20, 2011

This has been a very sad day in a way, but the ice is melting under one’s skates. In most parts of the ice place the top-most layer was a bit like snow – you went into the ice a centimeter or so. Not nice to skate on. Anyway, we kind of managed to play […]

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Last man standing …

March 16, 2011

… or playing ice hockey for a last time? Ice and snow are gradually disappearing over here. That makes us wonder how long the ice hockey place will stay open. As it is open-air we worry with every bit of snow and ice that goes away. That last game has been pretty intense at some […]

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Roundtrip in South Eastern Finland

March 7, 2011

Now that we’ve already told you that we had a guest coming over we want to share a bit of what we did together. This is a story of a little roundtrip that took us from Turku/Helsinki back to Turku/Helsinki … Once upon a time (that was last week Wednesday 😉 ) there was a […]

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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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Running Dinner

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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