Busy, busy, busy!

1st off: This is my last week of classes! WOW! I have three classes and two exams this week, an essay due at some point in the near future, and my dreadful plant exam on the 12th of December, but then I'm done! 

With it being so close to the end of the semester and the on going "it's Christmas time!" feeling, my motivation is no where to be found! So of course I've been keeping busy with friends instead of studying ;)

At the lake watching the amazing
northern light display

More pizza!
For a b.day party

Pool on a snooker table
at the bar

Finnish Scrabble

ESN Sitsit party!

I need to explain this one. Sitsit's are student feasts. You sit boy-girl around the table and the proceedings are led by the master of ceremonies. The whole thing is basically singing crazy drinking songs and eating, but there are a lot of rules you have to follow, i.e., you can't talk/eat/drink while a song is being sung or someone is talking or you get a punishment. After each song, you have to toast people on both sides of you and the one in front before you can drink. The theme for this one was toga. After, we had a dance party. Such a fun night!

Pancakes!!!

Me with my Sami Culture teacher.
He's from Karigasniemi

Sami rock band, SomBy.
They are really good!

More explanations. The Sami are the indigenous people who live in the north of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the North-West of Russia. Their population isn't very big and there are currently 9 different groups, each with their own language and style of Gakti (traditional clothing). There was a Sami concert going on so me and some friends went to it after our teacher told us about it. The first group did more traditional Sami style songs called yoiking. The second group was the rock band pictured above. The third was a Sami rapper (who was my teacher's cousin). They all had very different sounds and styles of music, but they were all SO good! Best 5 euro I've ever spent!

Black light bowling!

Japanese food party!
These guys prepared traditional Japanese
food for 80+ people!
So fantastic! 

I'm loving it here way too much. I don't want to leave :( I only have a month left... *sigh* Oh well. That's still four more weeks of fun to look forward to I suppose! I should really get a bit of studying in at some point though ;)

Until next time,
<3 Hannah