So, it's mid February? How?
The only post I've done on my Finnish Adventures has been day 1. So I need to catch you up on the last 44 days of my life....
I like lists, so this is going to be a list.
Ok, let's get to it. It's recap time.
- Went to orientation, met my "tutor group." We still hang out, so it's really great.
- At the "Finnish Culture Crash Course" we learned that: There are "many layers of Finland" which I believe means Narnia is underneath Finland. I made a note to find it; We should learn Finnish words: Words I knew at the time that started with the letter "K"- Kiitos, Kiipis, Kettu: Thank You, Cheers, Fox. I felt like I had a pretty good start, "Cheers! Thank you for the fox!"; You might experience among other things, anxiety and potentially years of struggle. YEARS??
- The weekend after orientation I went to a party, and while I was planning on spending the night with a friend who has an extra mattress, my other friend as a little too drunk to go home by herself (she was DETERMINED to catch a night bus), so I decided to go find this bus with her. She kept saying she knew where the bus stop was. She did not. After walking down some street to a nonexistent bus station, some ladies asked if we needed help. They told us we needed to get to the Central Railway Station to find out bus. We began walking back.
- So, here we are, on the cold streets of Helsinki at 4:40 in the morning when all of a sudden I see six naked men running on the other side of the street. "I can't be that drunk," I thought to my at this point perfectly sober self. I take a double take. Sure enough there they still are. 6 dudes just taking at night? morning? joy run.
- Can't deny, I want to do it to....
- There was no bus. The last one last one left at 4:20. Called friend, spent the night in the center
- On Sunday we visited the Sibelius monument, but what was more fun was the Cafe we went to afterwards. It's the cutest little cafe by the sea. They had great hot chocolate and pulla (cinnamon buns)!!! AND, they were having customer appreciation day/week/month (I'm not sure which) and you could get a free sausage to cook over the fire outside!
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| Strange Wooden Baby Figurine |
- Monday was the first day of school and I smelled like smoke.
- "It's dangerous to walk around the university at noon; all the students want to eat you."- My friend Nic about our smelling like campfire smoke.
- WARNING I don't know how chronologically ordered the following stories will be.
- One day in January we went out for Blinis before going out to parrrtttaaaayyy. Blinis are these deliscious salty fluffy pancakes that you can eat with all sorts of stuff! I had mine with salmon tartar, mmmmmmm. I was one happy camper
- Another time our Finnish friend Lilli invited us over to her flat for an authentic Finnish meal. SO TASTY. We had fish, a fruit and beet salad (if i remember correctly), mushroom salad, dip a really good dip of sorts to be eaten by the Rye crakers, and a berry cake for dessert!!!
Ok, that's all for now!! As memories come back, I'll write more regarding the recap.
NEXT TIME: Special "treat"! Next post I'm uploading the first of Radio SpiritLight Helsinki! You'll see what I mean soon... ;)
For now, love always,
S
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