Terve! [more officially - " hello " ;D]
The weather is so great, only yesterday i saw some rain. But still, it is going to be colder, currently only 14 degrees outside. But it is sunny, so doesn't matter. So what happened after my another tutor came on 26 of August!
We went to small park near river, if I remember well ;D It seems it was lot of time ago. I remember that we have great chat with a beer in the hand. We talked about Finland, tampere, study system and so on. It was great to find out so much information about everything what is here. Let's say, Finland has two officials languages: Finnish and Swedish. There are only 6% of Swedish people in Finland, but still everything is translated in these 2 languages. And at the school most of the children learn in Finnish, but after that they take language courses of Swedish. Most of the Swedish people live in the west of Sweden, so let's say Turku city in Swedish is Åbo ['Obu'] and city has two faculties of university, one is in Swedish, another one is Finnish.
Next day we had excursion around Tampere. It was nice to see some churches and hear a bit more history. Also at the night we went to Miami club again, there were some music, but drinks were sooooo expensive. I don't think that I will go there again! I paid 5 euro for 0.4 beer, oh noo! Also after excursion I went to the market, and prices are not so bad there. I paid 1 euro for 1 liter of pease [zirniai]. So, I would like go there again. Also on one of the day there was meeting of our specialization student organisation, I thought there is going to be 10 or 15 people. But there were all big bar only of our organisation [around 100people]. Most of exchange people already are in master degree, and other are asian who are still in bachelaur.
Also, I realised that I have some free days, so I decided to make a trip to Turku, city with many islands. So all Lithuanians hitchhiked there. We spent night in couchsurfing huge flat, over 50 square/m2. She was studying civil pedagogics and had plenty of table games. So, we played some games in the evening, ohh it was so great to play something new again! Also we prepared, mostly girls really, traditional Lithuanian food "Zemaiciu Blynai". It was soooo tasty! And didn't cost too much. While hitchhiking I heard that there are lot of mushrooms in the forests, so I really like to go there ASAP. My tutor said she lives in countryside, and when she will go home, she will take us to her family, her mom prepare some traditional food and we could go mushrooms, some berries, oh that would awesome? Don't you think so? :D
Really, the problem is organizing everything, it takes time to think what do you want to do and make plans. As there are many of parties around, even today is Sauna party, bus tour around tampere, so it looks like easiest option. But maybe it is great for the beginning, just to party with everybody, to realize who are the others! :)
I have also heard that there is possibility to go to Sant Petersburg [Russia] without VISA, but nobody can say anything concrete. Only that there are expensive ferry which costs around 200euro, and goes from Helsinki. Noo, it doesn't so great! Also, there is a ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm for 24euro to both sides, so this one looks really great to try. Again, it need some time to plan everything, as when we were in Tartu we didn't know what we wanted to do, so it was more of walking around and sightseeing everywhere. One driver said that there is free ferry to island near Tartu, but we couldn't find it. Soooo, everything needs to be planned at least a bit? :)
Ok, my first lecture should start soon, I should probably go to ready for it. See you soon :)
Bikes gathering is central square! This one is mine! :D
Swedish poem on the fridge in couchsurfers flat
Marketplace
Kitchen becomes ugly after weekend!
Inside of the cathedral :D Their churches rules!
Table games collection
