Hi everybody!!
This is probably my last update about my life in Pori, since I will be leaving home again on Friday, sadly enough... I wish I could stay a bit longer, because the weather is soooo wonderful, the Pori Jazz Festival is coming and because I want to spend more time with my friends! But on the other hand I am really excited to go home, to see my family and friends again! So... Mixed feelings!
Last week I spend almost every evening in the parc at the river with friends, because the weather was so good. At my internship I was brainstorming about questions for a quiz, the exchange students who will study here next fall will have to do this quiz I made! Besides that I am having email conversations with for example the guy who will do his internship at the International Office in the fall, I like that a lot! The last day has been a bit hectic in the office, because people are going on their holliday, people are leaving, etc.. But fortunately enough I have enough tasks to do, so I am satisfied.
Last weekend I went to Turku, with some Finnish friends. The parents of one of my friends live there, so we could stay in there house which was great! Turku is such a wonderful city, especially in the summertime. There is a river going through the city, and there are like six boats on them, like really huge boats where you can drink something. In the night time everyone is dirnking and partying on the boats! During the day we did some shopping and I love Marrimekko, I don´t know if I spelled it right, but it is a typical Finnish design and it´s beautiful. The next day we went to the beach in Turku, because it was over 30 degrees Celcius! I got sunburned but the water was really nice and the beach was gorgeous.
Okay, right now I am going to the parc again to lay in the sun with my friends and listen to some music! I love the Finnish life!
I discovered that I love Finnish people, the culture, the cities (especially Turku!), the work... I discovered that I really, really want to come back here soon, it feels like my second home right now!
Thursday is my goodbye party and that is going to be really sad, since I am going to miss all my friends so much... But I am sure I will see them again!
Thank you all for reading my blog, I hoped you enjoyed it!
Kind Regards,
Sanne
Moi!!
maandag 29 juni 2009
maandag 22 juni 2009
Hi everybody!
It is Monday so it means that Midsummer weekend just passed! We were hoping for nice weather at the office sooo bad, but it didn´t work... It rained two days in a row, constantly! It was aweful.. On Sunday, after the midsummer festival, the sun was shining again and today the weather is lovely.
On Thursday evening my boyfriend arrived and I showed him Pori , I introduced him to my friends and tomorrow we want to go to Yterri. Like I told you guys before, this is a beautiful beach and since the weather is so great I would like to spend my last day with him over there. Because he is leaving tomorrow evening already, that makes me sad!
But, after he is gone it´s only 1,5 week that I will be discovering the Finnish life... I feel so bad when I think about saying goodbye to all those wonderful people I have met over here!! I am so convinced of the fact that I will be back here soon to see everyone again, because I am going to miss it so bad. On the other hand I am also very excited about going home, to see my parents, family and friends again! Back to reality!
With midsummer we actually were planning to go to the festival, but since the weather was so bad and the tickets were quite expensive, we decided just walk around town a bit. On midnight (friday night) they made a bonfire at the river, so we drank something over there and watched it, it was nice!
This week at my internship I continue with uploading the scanned documents in the programme, so that would obviously take me some hours!
Moi moi!
It is Monday so it means that Midsummer weekend just passed! We were hoping for nice weather at the office sooo bad, but it didn´t work... It rained two days in a row, constantly! It was aweful.. On Sunday, after the midsummer festival, the sun was shining again and today the weather is lovely.
On Thursday evening my boyfriend arrived and I showed him Pori , I introduced him to my friends and tomorrow we want to go to Yterri. Like I told you guys before, this is a beautiful beach and since the weather is so great I would like to spend my last day with him over there. Because he is leaving tomorrow evening already, that makes me sad!
But, after he is gone it´s only 1,5 week that I will be discovering the Finnish life... I feel so bad when I think about saying goodbye to all those wonderful people I have met over here!! I am so convinced of the fact that I will be back here soon to see everyone again, because I am going to miss it so bad. On the other hand I am also very excited about going home, to see my parents, family and friends again! Back to reality!
With midsummer we actually were planning to go to the festival, but since the weather was so bad and the tickets were quite expensive, we decided just walk around town a bit. On midnight (friday night) they made a bonfire at the river, so we drank something over there and watched it, it was nice!
This week at my internship I continue with uploading the scanned documents in the programme, so that would obviously take me some hours!
Moi moi!
woensdag 17 juni 2009
Hi everybody!
Here I am again at the International Office at SAMK! It´s good to be back but I miss the Summerschool a lot, it is a wonderful memory!
Saturday I went to my friends place and we went in the sauna with six girls, it was so much fun and lovely! After that we made dinner and we went out downtown. It was very much fun and it was really good to be back with my Finnish friends again. On Sunday I didn´t do much, I was still very tired from the whole Summerschool trip and ofcourse of the night before.. at Monday my internship started again! The tasks that I got are quite interesting. Do you guys remember that I had to scan two huge maps filled with forms? Monday I got the task to upload all of them in a programme at the computer. Since the programma was in Finnish, someone had to translate it for me first! But now I am learning Finnish words like: browse, upload and save as... haha, very usefull! I also got the task to make a quiz for the incoming (exchange) students for next year. The quiz has got to do with Finland (Satakunta) so I am brainstorming about that.
Tomorrow is the last day of the week, because on Friday it is Midsummer!!! That means that the sun won´t set on Fridaynight and THAT means that this is a national holiday! I am excited about that, although I have seen the brightness in Lapland already (Oh my god, that was so weird!). There will be a Midsummer festival in Pori for three days where different kind of (Finnish) bands will perfome. Like I said before, my boyfriend is coming over tomorrow (yay!!) so I think we will hang out there a lot!
The last three days the weather in Pori was really, really bad! It was cold, 8 degrees and it was raining all day long.. But the forecast for this weekend is better (19 degrees!!) and the sun is shining today, so I am relieved!
Tomorrow we are going to a bar where a Finnish band will perform and I have to say that I really like Finnish music, especially the Finnish reggae songs! I feel bad that I can not sing along, but I love the language. And I love it when Finnish people speak English, there accent is beautiful, I am so jealous. I am fully aware that Dutch-English (how I speak) is really ugly. Some girl in the bar asked me, Where are you from? And when I said that I was from the Netherlands she said: Ohh that is the most ugly language I have ever heard..
Oops!!
Oh and then she asked me if the Netherlands was close by Holland. So... Ehhhm. :-)
Ok I am going to continue scanning, just needed some distraction!
Moi moi!
Here I am again at the International Office at SAMK! It´s good to be back but I miss the Summerschool a lot, it is a wonderful memory!
Saturday I went to my friends place and we went in the sauna with six girls, it was so much fun and lovely! After that we made dinner and we went out downtown. It was very much fun and it was really good to be back with my Finnish friends again. On Sunday I didn´t do much, I was still very tired from the whole Summerschool trip and ofcourse of the night before.. at Monday my internship started again! The tasks that I got are quite interesting. Do you guys remember that I had to scan two huge maps filled with forms? Monday I got the task to upload all of them in a programme at the computer. Since the programma was in Finnish, someone had to translate it for me first! But now I am learning Finnish words like: browse, upload and save as... haha, very usefull! I also got the task to make a quiz for the incoming (exchange) students for next year. The quiz has got to do with Finland (Satakunta) so I am brainstorming about that.
Tomorrow is the last day of the week, because on Friday it is Midsummer!!! That means that the sun won´t set on Fridaynight and THAT means that this is a national holiday! I am excited about that, although I have seen the brightness in Lapland already (Oh my god, that was so weird!). There will be a Midsummer festival in Pori for three days where different kind of (Finnish) bands will perfome. Like I said before, my boyfriend is coming over tomorrow (yay!!) so I think we will hang out there a lot!
The last three days the weather in Pori was really, really bad! It was cold, 8 degrees and it was raining all day long.. But the forecast for this weekend is better (19 degrees!!) and the sun is shining today, so I am relieved!
Tomorrow we are going to a bar where a Finnish band will perform and I have to say that I really like Finnish music, especially the Finnish reggae songs! I feel bad that I can not sing along, but I love the language. And I love it when Finnish people speak English, there accent is beautiful, I am so jealous. I am fully aware that Dutch-English (how I speak) is really ugly. Some girl in the bar asked me, Where are you from? And when I said that I was from the Netherlands she said: Ohh that is the most ugly language I have ever heard..
Oops!!
Oh and then she asked me if the Netherlands was close by Holland. So... Ehhhm. :-)
Ok I am going to continue scanning, just needed some distraction!
Moi moi!
vrijdag 12 juni 2009
Rovaniemi
Hi there!
Sorry that it has been such a long time, but I have been quite busy lately and had no access to the Internet in my room! Anyway, the last day in Pori was great! We had our final presentation that went quite well and after that we went rowing in the river. I loved it! It was such a nice weather and so much fun! After that we had diner together and after that I went to see my Finnish friends again.
On Monday we went to Rovaniemi, Lapland, by buss. The accommodation was perfect, we lived in dorms; eight girls in one apartment, a shared living room and kitchen; it was so much fun! Cooking together, watching movies… The first week we had lessons and the topics from this two weeks were wellbeing, marketing and tourism. We had to make a marketing plan for a business who had as target group the Russian market. This was very interesting and fun to do, since we have been to Russia and it's an interesting culture. We learned a lot about marketing but also about the economic crises. One teacher showed us a documentary about how it all started and what the consequences were for the rest of the world. Very informative!
After the first week we went on a Nature Trek weekend. We went hiking, rafting, we visited Sweden and in the evenings we had a campfire were we ate fresh salmon and were we did funny games! We learned a lot about Lapland, especially about the tourism. The nature is so beautiful and I certainly want to go back when it’s winter time. When we got there it was around 6th of June, that means that the midsummer starts! It lasts for 1,5 month; it means that the sun won’t set for 1,5 month! Is really amazing when you look outside at two in the morning and it’s just as bright as it was like two in the afternoon. The rafting part was by the way the best part, it was so much fun! Oh and on Saturday evening I had to arrange a evening program! I made up the game: Scavenger Hunt and it was lots of fun.
On Sunday evening we went back to Rovaniemi and on Monday we had lectures again. It was quite exhausting because lectures were starting at 8.30 every morning but of course we wanted to hang out with each other as much as possible: there were only a few days left! Result: 10 hours of sleep in three days; ai!
For example on Tuesday: we had class until four, then we went to the Zoo (polar bears! I LOVE them) and after that we went out for dinner. After that we went to an Irish pub and played pool and then all of a sudden it was 2.30 AM. Oops! But we had so much fun, the group is so awesome, so I wanted to spend every free minute that I had with them. Maximizing the time!
On Thursday night we had a goodbye party and we had one more last drink in the Irish pub. Then we had to say goodbye to everybody and that was so hard! It’s like, you got to know each other so well in these four weeks. You see each other so much, you go to school together, eat together, go out. It’s intense, so the friendships you make are intense as well. I made so many good friends all over the world and I’m so happy with that!
Like I said before, there were also a few American teachers who gave us lectures and all. But they also participated in the activities like visiting the Irish Pub ;-). Willie, my favorite teacher; he is so much fun! Is going to visit the Netherlands in October so at least I’m able to see him again soon!
Ohh I would recommend the Summerschool to everyone, because you learn so much about different cultures, about yourself, the lectures and the projects you do are really interesting and of course you make friends for life. A life time experience!
After a long train ride, I’m back in Pori now! Tomorrow I will see my Finnish friends again and I’m really looking forward because we have planned a sauna night! And next week my boyfriend is coming over for a few days, so I am really excited about that too!
On Monday I start with my internship again and I’m already looking forward; I’m excited about the tasks I will get! I will tell you about that more next time, because I’m really tired right now and I’m going to sleep!
Moi moi!!
Sorry that it has been such a long time, but I have been quite busy lately and had no access to the Internet in my room! Anyway, the last day in Pori was great! We had our final presentation that went quite well and after that we went rowing in the river. I loved it! It was such a nice weather and so much fun! After that we had diner together and after that I went to see my Finnish friends again.
On Monday we went to Rovaniemi, Lapland, by buss. The accommodation was perfect, we lived in dorms; eight girls in one apartment, a shared living room and kitchen; it was so much fun! Cooking together, watching movies… The first week we had lessons and the topics from this two weeks were wellbeing, marketing and tourism. We had to make a marketing plan for a business who had as target group the Russian market. This was very interesting and fun to do, since we have been to Russia and it's an interesting culture. We learned a lot about marketing but also about the economic crises. One teacher showed us a documentary about how it all started and what the consequences were for the rest of the world. Very informative!
After the first week we went on a Nature Trek weekend. We went hiking, rafting, we visited Sweden and in the evenings we had a campfire were we ate fresh salmon and were we did funny games! We learned a lot about Lapland, especially about the tourism. The nature is so beautiful and I certainly want to go back when it’s winter time. When we got there it was around 6th of June, that means that the midsummer starts! It lasts for 1,5 month; it means that the sun won’t set for 1,5 month! Is really amazing when you look outside at two in the morning and it’s just as bright as it was like two in the afternoon. The rafting part was by the way the best part, it was so much fun! Oh and on Saturday evening I had to arrange a evening program! I made up the game: Scavenger Hunt and it was lots of fun.
On Sunday evening we went back to Rovaniemi and on Monday we had lectures again. It was quite exhausting because lectures were starting at 8.30 every morning but of course we wanted to hang out with each other as much as possible: there were only a few days left! Result: 10 hours of sleep in three days; ai!
For example on Tuesday: we had class until four, then we went to the Zoo (polar bears! I LOVE them) and after that we went out for dinner. After that we went to an Irish pub and played pool and then all of a sudden it was 2.30 AM. Oops! But we had so much fun, the group is so awesome, so I wanted to spend every free minute that I had with them. Maximizing the time!
On Thursday night we had a goodbye party and we had one more last drink in the Irish pub. Then we had to say goodbye to everybody and that was so hard! It’s like, you got to know each other so well in these four weeks. You see each other so much, you go to school together, eat together, go out. It’s intense, so the friendships you make are intense as well. I made so many good friends all over the world and I’m so happy with that!
Like I said before, there were also a few American teachers who gave us lectures and all. But they also participated in the activities like visiting the Irish Pub ;-). Willie, my favorite teacher; he is so much fun! Is going to visit the Netherlands in October so at least I’m able to see him again soon!
Ohh I would recommend the Summerschool to everyone, because you learn so much about different cultures, about yourself, the lectures and the projects you do are really interesting and of course you make friends for life. A life time experience!
After a long train ride, I’m back in Pori now! Tomorrow I will see my Finnish friends again and I’m really looking forward because we have planned a sauna night! And next week my boyfriend is coming over for a few days, so I am really excited about that too!
On Monday I start with my internship again and I’m already looking forward; I’m excited about the tasks I will get! I will tell you about that more next time, because I’m really tired right now and I’m going to sleep!
Moi moi!!
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