Moi! [hello]
Sooo.. time is going faster and faster! Even don't have time for yourself, to relax and just watch some movie. I watched "Before Sunset" in four nights, and currently watching "Pirates of Carribean" already for 3 days, but always you start to watch and realize that you are so tired and have many things to do, that stop watching and start realizing your ideas.
So, what are we doing?
First of all, making food takes a lot of time! Even if you prepare just some pasta, you need go to shop to buy it, boil the water, put the pasta, wait till it prepares, make a sauce for it, make some drink with it! Soo, food preparation requires time and energy :D
After that, we have a free gym, so Lithuanian have to go there, as it for free! Soo, if I have some energy, always going there to use it. But not today, yesterday was first party, and I hope it won't be again the same!
Our tutor came around 7PM, and he was prepared with the beer and finnish vodka. Soo.. We had great chat, then to lithuanians came and we decided start drinking vodka. Ouch! I had one bottle as well, so when we went to the welcoming party:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=202567536471018
... we were "dead" already! Soo, party was very short, we came home in few hours! Next time, drinking little by little outside, and making some dances! :D Not like yesterday, as morning was terrible!
Also, all the week we had orientation courses, there we were introduced to university, student organizations, free time activities, study system in Tampere and so on:
http://www.uta.fi/admissions/newstudents/orientation/orientation_autumn2011.pdf
On Thursday, one of student organization organized free (!!!) trip to island in the lake:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127162964043131
It was nice time and over 140people. We had sauna, barbecue, even found a boat and went to swim with it.
Overall, people stay in country groups mostly, sometimes you chat with others, but mostly everybody speaks in their own language till you go and start talking with them. Of course if it gathering, lets say in Sauna, everybody speaks english. By the way, there are sauna's separated for the man and girls, and usually people are going naked there. But not always, we are international one, so mostly we are going to joined sauna and with bikini (apatiniais :D).
Mhm, soo everyday you meet new people, my dorm is very active one, as it is in the city center, others are a bit outside of it. Even in the summer time, it is a hostel. So, every evening there are plenty people who comes to drink a beer, and just chatting. In fact, my dorm has 5 floors, I am in the 3rd floor and there are the biggest kitchen, hall and even a huge smoking room, so people always gather in my floor next to my doors! In the study time, it can be difficult with the noise, but yesterday security guy came and said that we have to be quiet, but only thing he did, he closed our room doors!
So, that how it goes! Weather is perfect, always really warm, just quite cloudy, but not raining, at least in daytime. We are waiting for our tutor, she should come soon, then two more finnish should join us as well, and maybe we'll go the lake just to sit there and play some card game? We'll see..
Let me know, how are you! What are you doing and what are your future plans? Lithuania, Finland? See yeah!
Some photos:
The weir was broken, so the river was without water. I saw today, that it is already with the water
Local community organised gathering near Kaleva church. It is a church!
The view from the top of the church :) Flea market, people hanging around and local music artist
A boat in island!
Our food :)
Chilly festival, I tried some sweeties, but it was too chilly, so I through it away
