Earlier today ESN encouraged us to go see the olympic icehockey semifinal between Sweden and Finland :) I was at Design Factory where they were projecting it at the stage. It was pretty strange to watch the game in the opposite country. When Sweden won I really felt like I was in the wrong place. My friend suggested that I should jump around and express my joy but it did not feel like it was the right time and place for it. However I am very excited to see Sweden in the final!
Corridor dinner - literally speaking. When everyone sat down you basically could not move. Getting the tables and chairs out from our rooms was like Tetris. The security guy payed us a visit at the end due to fire safety issues. Understandably. I have now learned that I live in an almost all girls corridor, there is one guy. Also this corridor ended up being the Scandinavian corridor. The one guy is apparently also Swedish, I have not met hime yet though. Then there is a girl from Denmark and one from Norway. My room is the first one when you enter, the one with the fully open door, to the right, by the mail boxes. Lot's of yummy food!
Yesterday I had my final math exam. I did not know what I was doing and was flipping through the statistic formulae back and forth for ideas. I performed quite poorly. However thanks to the extended Finnish grading scale (0-5 instead of the Swedish U, 3-5) I still managed to pass in the over all course result. I even got a 2, which is better than 1, which is passing! :) This potentially meant that I would be done with all University math(!)
The catch was that this probabillity and statistics course only was 5 cr, when the one in Linköping would have been 6 cr. So before I could be super happy I had to email my faculty program director in Linköping to ask if it would be ok with one credit less. He just replied, very short and sweet:
Hej!
Det är helt ok.
Med vänlig hälsning,
Lennart
OH YES!! :D :D :D
I would also like to give a shout out to my math professor, not that he reads my blog, but anyway. He delivers results the same day! Quite impressive! He is for sure an exception. It is super nice to not have to worry about the results for weeks or months like the in other courses. I am still waiting for some feedback from before Christmas.
Design Factory has its own fully equipped kitchen called Kafis, that works as a social meeting point. It really is a nice place to hang out, refill with cheap coffee and sometimes even cook dinner or lunch. Besides that, every Tuesday morning there is a breakfast served at Design Factory. The different teams and staff that work in the facility takes turns and prepare it.
I have been to the breakfast a couple of times before, but today was the first time for my team to prepare it. Besides the "getting up extra early" part it was a nice way to start the day. People were happy to be served breakfast and I was happy to serve them.
Finns love blueberries and so do I! I am very excited to try my new schampoo. The content is purple but I do not know if it contains real blueberries or not.
In Finland you have to weigh everyting, that need to be weighed Before going to the check outs. That is unless you go to Lidl (hence, Another good reason for going to Lidl besides them being cheaper). Although what Lidl is carrying is quite limited. So, back to the problem. Weighing your thing is not a hassle, it is actually quite nice to in advance find out the weight and how much you have to pay. The problem is when you arrive at the check outs and you have forgotten about weighing your things, OR due to language barriers, think that you have made the correct choice at the scale, but infact you have labeled your garlic potato without noticing.
I cannot seem to learn. I constantly have to return things because of this. Usually I will buy it the next time instead but sometimes the one who is working at the cash register is really nice and offers to run away to the scale.
I found another film festival in Helsinki so I spent my Sunday evening watching this:
A documentary about identical twin sisters adopted buy two different families. One by a family in rural Fredsvik, Norway, and the other one by an American family in the city of Sacramento, CA. The two girls really connect when they meet dispite having totally different lives and speaking different languages.
I noticed that svt will air the documentary this week. I can really reccomend it! Quite funny at times when Nordic and American values are compared. And Fredsvik might be one of the prettiest places on the world. I would love to go there someday!
My typical weekend breakfast. Look at that pancake! Perfection.
I thought that I was not cooking so much last semester due to the cheap Finnish school lunch but after starting to cook more again (even though I have less kitchen equipment now) I have come to the conclusion that it had to do with my tiny kitchen in the other apartment. It simply was not inspirering.
The grades are starting to come. I have noticed that reporting grades to the students is a slower process here. On paper I have only scrambled together 26 credits so far. I have to say that I am quite pleased with the result. The scale is from 0-5. No 1 or 2 yet but I believe that the larger scale (compared to a Swedish university) will be in my favor when it comes to the statistics and probability course I am taking right now.
Design och product development engineering student. Right now doing a year abroad in the Finnish capital.
Coffee, the Swedish West coast and creative projects make me happy. I love film festivals and do some filming and video editing myself.
I was at Design Factory where they were projecting it at the stage. It was pretty strange to watch the game in the opposite country. When Sweden won I really felt like I was in the wrong place. My friend suggested that I should jump around and express my joy but it did not feel like it was the right time and place for it. However I am very excited to see Sweden in the final!
I found another film festival in Helsinki so I spent my Sunday evening watching this:
Sauna before and after. Two times in the frozen lake. Felt quite alive!
#embracingafinnishtradition
