sweet summer night ...

well, summer night is relative, as it is already quite cold outside during the night. But a lot has happened in the last few days:
Tuesday and Wednesday we had our orientation day which was not very informative for me as most of the stuff i already knew. But still it was nice to get to know some people. Also I got my computer account so I will be able to access my new e-mail and the university computers 24/7.
Tuesday evening there was also the ESN welcome evening party at Onnela where everybody was meeting up and the place got quite crowded :) Wednesday evening we went to Otasuunistus which is 'Otaniemi Orienteering'. There you walk around Campus and visit stations organised by the different organisations and clubs present on campus. There is for example a car repairing one who owns a kind of VW Bus built into a drive able wood sauna!There are also a lot of singing clubs, a metal club, a digital media one, one to rid the world of alcohol, ... At every station you had to do something to get some points - like talk in the sauna and then build some car part out of plastilin which the others have to guess. Or sing an Austrian drinking song,...
Afterwards there was a party at Servinmökki where almost everybody turned up in their overalls (pics will be up soon from that!).

Thursday was the departmental orientation day (apart from getting to know where people are from) which was not very interesting. Anyway, in the afternoon there was the 'inofficial' part of the opening ceremony of university (i haven't been to the official one as all the speeches are in finnish) where 3 bands where performing in between to some action taking place: There was a rope pulling exercise between the rector of TKK (my university) with his board and the board of the TKY (student union). The students won. The second one was the huge rope pulling event of kone - sähkö (maschbau - etechnik) where we did not exactly win. Anyway, the whole area around the pond where this was taking place in the middle of a picnic under some light rain from time to time was filled with people in overalls having all colours. The picture is quite nice - having university buildings all around you and sitting on a nice green meadow next to a small pond in the middle of nature :)
At seven there was also a ESN welcome Sauna Party Evening at Rantasauna with swimming in the sea, there were a lot of people, also exchange students from university of helsinki. Afterwards I have also been to the party at Smökki, where the band 'Plastic Indians' was performing. It was quite nice, I more or less sang the TKK song for the first time and met some German guy and a finnish one from kone with whom i talked quite long after dancing stopped.

Songs are something special here - everybody is singing and there are special songs for everything. Sähkö for example has their own little song, it goes like this:

Amperi, monttööri, transformaattori,
kilowatti, Voltti ja generaattori,
oikosulku ja proppu,
tähän minun
lauluni loppu.

(Ampere, Monteur, Trafo, kW, V und Generator,
Kurzschluss und Widerstand,
so endet mein Lied)

This song is also printed on every overall. We performed it also for the rope pulling together with some other stuff. So thats more or less the collection of the last few days