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