Hey hey,
how are you?
So, I decided to write my agenda, just to remember what happened as the time is really full of interesting stuff there!
Sep 30 [Friday]
My cousin came on Wednesday, so we decided visit Helsinki on Weekend. I had Finnish language: Survival Course in the morning, so after it we met and tried to catch a car to Helsinki by hitchhiking. It didn't go well, so we decided take bus 26 and go till the last bus station, and start hitchhiking from the point where I have been hitchhiked already [to Turku]. There stopped man who didn't speak English well, but it didn't matter so much. He let us near Helsinki, so we had took a train, which cost 4 euro, it looked quite expensive. After that, we visited photo-gallery and made lot of sightseeing. Also, we stayed in japan couchsurfer's flat, who told his life story, which didn't let me sleep easily, as I was thinking about his life choices.
Oct 1 [Saturday]
I have won lottery, and got 2 VIP tickets to Ice-Hockey game Tappara-Blues in Tampere, and even VIP reindeer food before match, so it was unbelievable. However, we couldn't stay long in Helsinki, so we made all the day to come back from Helsinki to Tampere. At this time, man from Nigeria stopped and asked if we have money. My cousin said "No, we have only cookies", so he smiled and took us to Tampere. Really, nice guy who decided make his life in Finland.
Ice-Hockey food was awesome, raindeer is national finnish food, but it is really expensive one. There were only rich people, and during eating time, there were some interviews with players or team stuff, but everything was in finnish, but still, we felt great to be in such place. The match was awesome as well, cause I saw first time it. Soo, lot of first times, during the weekend.
Oct 2 [Sunday]
Soo, Sep 30-Oct 2 was Tampere days, where were lot of the events, free entrance to the museums and most important police auction. I wanted bike for so long time, so after I got up, I went there and auction looked like from the movie. There was a lot people in the hall, and the guy who stood on the platform above all the people's heads. Soo, he shouted the price [for sure in finnish] and people were raising their hands if they can offer bigger price. Buuut, it was so fast, each bike was sold in 5-15 sec. I tried understand numbers, but they made shorter version of words, to make it faster, so it took some time for me, to buy a bike for 20euro. Only problem, that rear tire is holed, so I will have to repair or buy new one. After that, I was in Lenin museum, which was full of photos and some small sculptures, but nothing too much impressive. And I left other time for movies and formula 1.
Oct 3 [Monday]
In the morning, I had Finnish Survival course and after it I made some time by internet, to write emails for friends, and search for internship, plan some time for the week and so on.
Later on, ESN organised table evening, so we played Risk there. Heh, we were only people there [except of ESN members], so lot of snacks were only for us! When we finished, Ieva was decided to stay in couchsurfers flat for a night, so we went to chat with them. There was a nice girl who made a cake, introduced with her friend, offered some alchohol and we had interesting chat at all!
Oct 4 [Tuesday]
I think I was tired and lazy, so I spend day at home, so I read book, prepared food, watched movies and so on. And there were great time with cousin in the evening :)
Oct 5 [Wednesday]
Wednesday is the day when I have lot of lectures. So I had Finnish: Survival Course and E-Business. After that I have 2 hours break till the last lecture of Society And Culture, where lecturer talks about Finnish [history, traditions, forests, environment and so on]. So, my cousin had go home in the evening, so we made lot of food, just to enjoy it, it was really great pie and rissoles [kotletai] with salats!
Oct 6 [Thursday]
Cause I have not been in most of the museums yet, so all the day I went to different museums [cause most of the museums were free for students on that week]. I visited Moominvalley museum [more for the children, all museum is like a story tale, where you walk and can feel like in animation movie], Tampere mineral museum [full of minerals mostly from Brasil, there are quite cheap postcards really ;D], TR1 [it is art museum, quite interesting one], Mediamuseum Rupriikki [It is about media history in Tampere region, I enjoyed there so much, old techs were introduced]. So, it took all the day to visit these museums. After them, university organised "African dinner", where lot of food was given, ehh so much dessert was there, great evening really. Also, there were told about studies in Africa and some girls even were there, so they made presentation about that.
Oct 7 [Friday]
In the morning, student organisation invited people from organisation which explains chocolate creation stages. Really, I didn't understand there so much, as evening was in finnish ;D But, there were many sorts of finnish chocolate and great movie:
http://documentaryheaven.com/the-dark-side-of-chocolate/
I recommend watch it for everybody, it tells story about slave children who works in cacao plantations and all the world doesn't react and don't make anything to solve that. Great research of one journalist!
After that, I visited other museums as The Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame museum and Museum centre Vapriiki [both of them were in the same building and Vaprikki included more than 5 different exhibitions as Innovations, Tampere in 1918, Shoes history, Presentation of nature: animals, bugs, plants, trees.., children toys, ladies Ostapeck's American costumes and portraits, etc.]. Also, one lithuanian guy made party in his place, so bunch of lithuanians, french, italian, finnish and some japanese made a party there.
Oct 8 [Saturday]
I got up earlier as I went to inflate my tire [one couchsurger replied me that he has a pump and we can check if tire is holed or not]. He was from England so it was soo difficult to understand him where he was talking without any pauses and in long sentences! Sadly, my tire was holed, but he gave me one Lithuanian guy who lives in Tampere for long time and organize Lithuanian meetings there. I knew him before, but didn't have chance to meet him, yet.
Again, I and spanish guy Lucas went to pick mushrooms. Cause I was there before, I knew some sorts which finnish people call valuable, so I tried to find as most as possible of them. After we had some mushrooms, we prepared two dishes [cuisines? ;D]: one lithuanian one with potatoes and other spannish one with eggs and onions. Also, I served lithuanian drink kisielius, which was hot, so it wasn't so tasty really.
Sooo, time goes like that, every day is something new what doesn't let me bored... Currently main mission is to find internship and find some course for next period [semester made of 2 periods there], as university declined some courses which I have already passed/chosen.
See you next time,
Moi Moi,
Gedas
My VIP package!
Cousin and me
Random guys :D
