Verena Hausmann — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:00:19 +0000

Hi all,
we had an exam this morning, but beside this the day was really nice :).
Blue sky, sunshine and nearly 20°C and that in Finland, isn’t it great? We had our first lunch outside in the sun today and we didn’t freeze at all!

But I have to say the spring here is different than in Germany. While my mum was telling me that she has already eaten strawberries from our backyard, the trees here in Turku are just starting to get green. But anyway, it is nice to also experience a little bit of the spring here in Finland.

Verena Hausmann — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:00:12 +0000

6 weeks of courses are now behind us and we wrote our last exam for the first period in Finland today. So half of our study time here is already around…

Verena Hausmann — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:35:30 +0000

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 lot for 6 week of Finish.

Verena Hausmann — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:41:07 +0000

Today we had our first exam in Finland. It was in the subject Management of ICT Services and consisted of 3 questions, one about the book we had to read, one about one of the articles we also had to read and one about a topic we had in class. It was different from the ‘normal’ German exam, as we only got a headline (not a real quetion) and then we had write about that topic. And… in Finland you have 4 hours for each exam. It is planed for the case that you have two exams at the same time so that you have two hours for each. But as we didn’t had another one today we really had 4 hours. The teacher told us before that we will probably neead around an hour or a little bit more. We took our time and needed 1 1/2 hours. We will see how the result is, but we think it was okay!

Verena Hausmann — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:00:44 +0000

Hey everyone,

Sorry for not reporting so much within the last days, but there wasn’t really something interesting. We had to hand in three tasks until yesterday so that me were mainly studying all the time. And this will continue through the weekend. We will have our first exam here in Finland on Tuesday and there is a whole book, 8 articles and the course slides to study…

Verena Hausmann — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:00:07 +0000

Today we had our second Finnish language test. It wasn’t so complicated as expected, but we will see what the results say We were quite tired as we just came back from the Lapland trip at 5 o’clock this morning…

Johannes H. Glitsch — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:14:00 +0000

We are just back from our first test in Finnish language. It was not too hard, but more than we expected. However, we should pass it anyway. Before the test we had our regular lecture and learned a lot of numbers. Besides this we have talked about our nationalities. The result: we have about 13 different nationalities within our class of around 20 people. That’s multinational right there