Killanvaihto

Anbei ein kleiner optischer Gruss aus Finnland - zu sehen ein zugefrorener See im Morgenlicht. 20 Minuten später war der Himmel ganz zugezogen :)

Summer Week

Finally summer seems to have arrived in Vaasa - meaning sunshine and temperatures between 20 and 25°. Not something that I'd have called summer a year ago, but heck - sun is shining! And with my new sunglasses, I can actually enjoy it.

Summary: Went to the beach almost every day and did some swimming. Sightseeing on the weekend and watching sunrise at Öjberget at 5am. As it is about 12 km by bike that I'd have to go before breakfast, that meant getting up at 3:30 am. But it was worth it, although it was bitterly cold. :)

guter tag :)

früh aufgestanden um mir einmal eine von unseren gratis sporteinheiten zu geben - dadurch einen wunderschönen prae-sonnenaufgangshimmel gesehen. wunderschön!
von einem professor den ich wegen eines labors besucht habe im prinzip einen ferienjob angeboten bekommen :)
2x eine unterhaltung auf finnisch only geführt (dank meiner finnischlehrerin, die am anfang des kurses zu mir gesagt hat, dass ich nur mehr finnisch reden soll!) und es hat sogar ziemlich gut funktioniert, wenn etwas gefehlt hat auf deutsch probiert (beide gegenübers reden auch mehr oder weniger gut deutsch)
und zum abschluss eines (auch) erfolgreichen (uni)tages noch sauna.

time goes by...

A lot has happened since the last real entry:

Last thursday was Stadisuunistus, which is Orienteering in Helsinki (=Stadi). We met in Senaatintori in our Overalls and after some warm up training guided by the Fuksikapteenit of all guilds we went of on our 'exercises'. Our group was built out of internationals only but we had loads of fun.Things we had to do included organising a demonstration and collecting signatures for that (more sun in wintertime!), show leadership to a human dog, build human pyramids and other Geschicklichkeitsspiele, open a bottle of bear creatively, do a mortal combat replay, build a bridge and solve puzzles, catch the christmas pig, ...
After about 4 hours of walking through Helsinki we have filled our paper with points and went to macky for a break (wo i aussagfundn hob, dass si mei geldboersl verduennisiert hot). Afterwards we dispersed instead of going to the afterparty.
Friday I spent in my classes and doing the first bureaucracy round to request and lock all kinds of stuff and met with Kerstin in the evening. Saturday and Sunday were quite quiet, except from a short excursion to Suomenlinna with the other internationals.

Monday also was busy with lectures and I got some books from the library, which meant I didn't get a lot of sleep. I'm reading the Canterbury Tales in their original language now and some poems by William Blake.
And I also registered for the Fuksisitsit and a trip to Russia. The first one has already been approved, for the second approval I'm still waiting.
Tuesday after Finnish class I went to my guilds room to get a new Fuksipistekortti and get a 'Songbook' with all kinds of finnish and swedish songs. One of the guilds members (Joel) explained the basic meaning to me while I was trying to translate them with the Finnish I already knew. With some others we went to lunch afterwards and I found out about FXQ - which is a trip for the fuksit to Stockholm in November. The registration for that started (and ended) on thursday in the morning and there is quite a fuss about the registration: We met before 6 pm in the guild room to put our name on the list. At half past six we made a change of location to OK20 where we discussed our freshmanparty Oikosulku (kurzschluss) which will be organised by the fuksit themselves (which is actually a quite good idea). After electing the 'leading council' we went to Ossinlammi which is the little pond in front of Sähkö. There we spent the rest of the night drinking, singing, talking and watching the ISOt and some others of the vanha having a sitsit. By now I already know quite some people from seeing and I even remember some of the names. The excursion will be quite nice, I think. There are even a lot of people who can speak a little bit of German and all were quite astonished about my Finnish ;) At 8 o'clock in the morning queuing (which more or less happened by reading out all the names on the list every 15 minutes) was finished and we put our contact details on another list. So it came to pass, that I spent my first whole night outside in Finland in a cold (and sometimes rainy) September night with an all Finnish group of students as the only exchange student.

Now I just was at a departmental presentation session of Power Electronics and the like, where it turned out that my power electronics prof and one from 'Energieversorgung' can speak German quite ok and also that the second guy knows Brauner where we had our 'Energieversorgung'slecture. Die Welt is ein Dorf, wirklich.
In zwei Wochen kommt ein Prof aus Graz, der über Netzstabilität und solche Dinge referiert für 2 Monate als guestlecturer. Vielleicht geb ichs mir, mal schauen.

Now I will be going to a boardgame event - one of the few events here, that was organised by ESN TKY

Nordic Walking

Have been nordic walking w/ the esn people through the hood, saw the sibelius monument and the sea, the olympic stadion and some pictureframes. was very nice and some exercise finally although i got a sunburn again as it was quite sunny :)
afterwards been to the sea to watch the sunset in the middle of an industrial region - quite a special flair, i assure you ;)