The past 3 days

WOW! I <3 Finland! I've been without internet for the past 3 days so sorry, but this is gonna be kind of a longer blog :/

Tuesday (4/9/12)

1st lunch in Finland

• The 1st day of orientation! All of the exchange students met their Kummi and went to the big cafeteria and had breakfast (traditional Finnish pulla and coffee). 
• Then we all sat in a big lecture hall and listened to talks about important things we should know. 
• Next was lunch! Yum! You go through a line where you get bread, 2 drinks (water & milk, juice, or beer), rice or potatoes, and then choose one of the main entrees. All this for only 2,70 euro! Then you go to the salad bar. You get really full for such a good deal! 
• More orientation followed. 
• I then went shopping at Prisma (the European version of Walmart) where I got a cheap-o phone
• Then to the lake that is next to campus 

Wednesday (5/9/12)

• More orientation!
• then they had a lot of booths set up (like they do at the beginning of MSU) to advertise all the different organizations on campus. there were a lot! but it was all in Finnish, so I didn't know what most of it meant :/



Me with my Kummi, Saara

• VULCANALIAN! A really big back to school type party. The legendary "party bus 69" only makes it routes on this day to take students to the party. The music was blaring and the bus was rocking! Once we got there, me and my friend met up with a whole bunch of other people. I met 6 other Americans! Crazy! I think that's all of us lol. But we soon branched off and I ended up in a totally different group far away where I met a lot more people. At this party, there was face painting (your country's flag and finland's one the other side), bands, drinks, food, and a TON of people! I think the entire 17,000 student enrollment was there! 

Thrusday (today)

2nd Finnish lunch

• This morning was our faculty informational meeting. I went to the biology and humanities one. Very informative.
• Then I went to the student center and got a number to wait in line to get my username and password. It took so long that I went to lunch with a friend and came back and was still waiting. 3 hours for the guy to tell me to come back tomorrow because that's when it's available v_v
• and finally, I just got back from a banquet at Oulu City Hall put on just for us exchange students. It is a beautiful building and great food, but I forgot my camera :( Other friends took pictures, so I will put their pix on here when I can.

And that's all for now really! I should make a post explaining all the weird/different/interesting/awesome things here! ...maybe after awhile.... I'm sure this is WAY more than enough reading for now!

<3 Hannah

P.S. I promise not all my blogs will be like this. I just want to record in detail the 1st few days because I never remember them very well. And it's exciting as heck to be here!!