Vappu, what is that all about? Here in Finland there is a lot happening around the first of May. This day is called Vappu . It is a national holiday and a day for the spring, the students and the workers. The tradition comes from the “Walpurgisnacht”. Especially student celebrate Vappu with different events sometimes […]
This evening we took our bikes and drove to another student place nearby. We met with a few people and had barbeque together. It was really nice and we had a lot of fun playing Frisbee, even though it was really hard as it begun to get dark… We then realized that we are in […]
Today the International Office of the Turku School of Economics invited all exchange students for a get together between 12h and 14:00h. Munkki (Berliner) and sima (mead) was served and in the end there was a lottery and a group photo was taken.
At the main street which leads to the student village there is Posankka sitting in the grass, the pink mascot of the housing association which is supposed to be a mix between a duck and a pig even though we don’t know where to find the duck parts :). In anticipation of Vappu (we will […]
As we said earlier we went not only to St. Petersburg, but also to Moscow. Moscow was on the schedule roughly from April 22nd till April 25th. April 22nd We had a good, but rather short night’s sleep in the train as we arrived at about 9 a.m. But that night train was a nice […]
As usual ESN organized a great trip for exchange students. Together with the traveling company Aikamatkat Timetravels they offered us the possibility to do a seven day tour to visit St. Petersburg and Moscow between the 18th and 25th April. Monday 18th April At 14:00 o’clock a bus picked us up from the Turku bus […]
We’ve successfully returned from Russia … Stay tuned for updates on our trip 🙂