Finnish fall/ pre-winter hit me with it's changing temperatures and constant sweating and cooling down when going day and night by bike. So now I'm listening to the following song and hope that the coughing and fever attacks go away pretty soon.
Dedicated to all TBBT fans out there! :)
Monday, October 25, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Foreigner’s Guide to Finland
Just got a link to this hilarious article.
http://varjosanomat.com/?p=1564
Enjoy reading it! And you are free to guess which parts are actually true, because I promise there is some truth hidden, unfortunately I may have to say. ;)
http://varjosanomat.com/?p=1564
Enjoy reading it! And you are free to guess which parts are actually true, because I promise there is some truth hidden, unfortunately I may have to say. ;)
Monday, October 18, 2010
More music
In Finland you can find a dozen of different forms of music but probably the most famous is Finnish metal. I'm not a big fan of heavy metal, since I prefer melodic music over noise :P so I got stuck with what I would put into the field of power metal or something like that.
Since my favorite Finnish guitarist Jari Liimatainen (probably the best guitarist here in Finland) got kicked out of my ex-favorite power metal band called Sonata Arctica, I was looking for something as equally good as the old Sonata stuff. And now I found it! :D
Jari has a new band! Their first Album came out last year and this is my favorite song of the album:
Cain's Offering - More Than Friends
Also this is very nice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEd5K_F3C-4
but in general I would recommend the whole album!
\,,/ Rock on! ;)
PS This entry is dedicated to Suzy who loves Finnish metal as much as me. :)
Since my favorite Finnish guitarist Jari Liimatainen (probably the best guitarist here in Finland) got kicked out of my ex-favorite power metal band called Sonata Arctica, I was looking for something as equally good as the old Sonata stuff. And now I found it! :D
Jari has a new band! Their first Album came out last year and this is my favorite song of the album:
Cain's Offering - More Than Friends
Also this is very nice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEd5K_F3C-4
but in general I would recommend the whole album!
\,,/ Rock on! ;)
PS This entry is dedicated to Suzy who loves Finnish metal as much as me. :)
Sunday, October 17, 2010
snow, sitz and, of course, hockey
God Kväll! (swd. Good evening)
Another week is over and time is running really fast.
After looking through the blog, it seams like the first weeks were just about crappy parties and now everything is just about ice hockey :D Crappy ice hockey of course, but still fun not like the crappy parties who were not that much fun.
So yesterday I was - surprise surprise - at another TPS icehockey match. They lost. Again. The 11th game in a row and there was no fighting this time, no blood, so really boring and if around 60% of the audience is for the guest team (and 15% exchange students who have no clue what is going on) then something is wrong :/ but that’s all for icehockey today since nobody really cares and those who care I already told about the match :D
Anyway, winter is coming to Finland. In most parts there is snow already and yesterday I also saw the first 10 snowflakes. :) Can’t wait till it really starts snowing. But since there are almost no clouds every day it will still take a while. The nights are freezing now and during the day time it is usually around +5°C. Good that I have now all my winter clothes here including a hat which is very important when you ride your bike at 7:30 in the morning or at 3am in the night. ;)
Hmm not much is happening at the moment. I have an exam next week. Which is my first real exam since my intermediate exam in 2008. Will be interesting, especially since it is a law exam. We'll see what's going to happen.
Then something about Finnish student culture. On Friday I was putting on my lovely red student overall (swed.: halare) and went to my first sitz-party of the semester and it was really much fun.
So a sitz-party is a party were well you sit together (no way! :P) with a bunch of people, get a dinner and all the time you are singing and drinking. The songs are usually traditional sitz songs, who are very funny, sometimes a little mean against the former rulers of Finland (SWE + RUS) but in general very nice. So the whole sitz last for a few hours, depending how much you sing (and drink) and how fast the food will be served.
The sitz I went to on Friday was the famous 'Megasitz' by the student clubs DaTe (computer science) and Kleio (history) with more than 100 people. That's not so common, since my student club has usually a sitz with not more than 20 people, so it was really something special for me. We sang a lot and thanks to my previous sitz experiences I knew quite a lot of songs, unfortunately just very few by heart but well I have to start learning a few more. The food was good as well, although it took ages till the main course was served but well. More time for everybody around me to drink, a lot!
And well that's as always the only part which I don't like. What is the reason of getting completely drunk during a sitz or any other party? What is fun about not remembering a whole night, or that you don't remember how you got home in the middle of the night? Seriously I don't get it and probably never will. And why do people look at me strangely if I said that I never been drunk in my life. It is not something to achieve or be proud of, people! Not even when you are 17 or so! Well at least that's my opinion. ERASMUS students see it a little differently. But well they are young, one day they will grow up as well. I hope, or drown drunk in the Aura river. :P
Ok enough for today, need to study the Finnish court system, how to get divorced and what punishment you get for murder. Very important things to know here! ;) [Law is sooooo depressing!]
Last but not least the opening song of every sitz 'Helan Går':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyZpCs3i71s
Another week is over and time is running really fast.
After looking through the blog, it seams like the first weeks were just about crappy parties and now everything is just about ice hockey :D Crappy ice hockey of course, but still fun not like the crappy parties who were not that much fun.
So yesterday I was - surprise surprise - at another TPS icehockey match. They lost. Again. The 11th game in a row and there was no fighting this time, no blood, so really boring and if around 60% of the audience is for the guest team (and 15% exchange students who have no clue what is going on) then something is wrong :/ but that’s all for icehockey today since nobody really cares and those who care I already told about the match :D
Anyway, winter is coming to Finland. In most parts there is snow already and yesterday I also saw the first 10 snowflakes. :) Can’t wait till it really starts snowing. But since there are almost no clouds every day it will still take a while. The nights are freezing now and during the day time it is usually around +5°C. Good that I have now all my winter clothes here including a hat which is very important when you ride your bike at 7:30 in the morning or at 3am in the night. ;)Hmm not much is happening at the moment. I have an exam next week. Which is my first real exam since my intermediate exam in 2008. Will be interesting, especially since it is a law exam. We'll see what's going to happen.
Then something about Finnish student culture. On Friday I was putting on my lovely red student overall (swed.: halare) and went to my first sitz-party of the semester and it was really much fun.
So a sitz-party is a party were well you sit together (no way! :P) with a bunch of people, get a dinner and all the time you are singing and drinking. The songs are usually traditional sitz songs, who are very funny, sometimes a little mean against the former rulers of Finland (SWE + RUS) but in general very nice. So the whole sitz last for a few hours, depending how much you sing (and drink) and how fast the food will be served.
The sitz I went to on Friday was the famous 'Megasitz' by the student clubs DaTe (computer science) and Kleio (history) with more than 100 people. That's not so common, since my student club has usually a sitz with not more than 20 people, so it was really something special for me. We sang a lot and thanks to my previous sitz experiences I knew quite a lot of songs, unfortunately just very few by heart but well I have to start learning a few more. The food was good as well, although it took ages till the main course was served but well. More time for everybody around me to drink, a lot!
And well that's as always the only part which I don't like. What is the reason of getting completely drunk during a sitz or any other party? What is fun about not remembering a whole night, or that you don't remember how you got home in the middle of the night? Seriously I don't get it and probably never will. And why do people look at me strangely if I said that I never been drunk in my life. It is not something to achieve or be proud of, people! Not even when you are 17 or so! Well at least that's my opinion. ERASMUS students see it a little differently. But well they are young, one day they will grow up as well. I hope, or drown drunk in the Aura river. :P
Ok enough for today, need to study the Finnish court system, how to get divorced and what punishment you get for murder. Very important things to know here! ;) [Law is sooooo depressing!]
Last but not least the opening song of every sitz 'Helan Går':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyZpCs3i71s
Friday, October 8, 2010
jääkiekko - ice hockey
Yesterday I was again at an ice hockey match. The 10th game of the season for TPS from Turku, my favorite team. Well and they lost again. 9th loss in a row! But seriously that's more or less what i expected of them after they won the national championship last season.
But well Hitomi, Adam and me got really great tickets this time, 6th row, very close to the ice rink and since half of the seats were empty we changed the seats after the first part and were sitting then in 3rd row behind the glass. Very exciting i can tell you. You expect every 5 minutes to get hit by the puck and can practically feel the pain of the tackles into the walls. Anyway Turku lost but the match was worth seeing anyway.
Why? Well a game last 60min. And in this game the referees gave out 168 penalty minutes: 76 for TPS and 92 for KalPa. Just too bad all the fighting took place in the other end of the ice but well here you see the 'best scenes' of the game. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0laf1Rxys0
But well Hitomi, Adam and me got really great tickets this time, 6th row, very close to the ice rink and since half of the seats were empty we changed the seats after the first part and were sitting then in 3rd row behind the glass. Very exciting i can tell you. You expect every 5 minutes to get hit by the puck and can practically feel the pain of the tackles into the walls. Anyway Turku lost but the match was worth seeing anyway. Why? Well a game last 60min. And in this game the referees gave out 168 penalty minutes: 76 for TPS and 92 for KalPa. Just too bad all the fighting took place in the other end of the ice but well here you see the 'best scenes' of the game. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0laf1Rxys0
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