Sokos Vaakuna Joensuu
Torikatu 20 Joensuu, The Lakelands, Eastern Finland, 80100, Finland
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Into the unknown...
... which was massive and even had its own nightclub! Needless to say, I didn't go to bed until 5am, and the intercom wake-up at 6:30 was not a welcome one.
Samuli was returning home from a summer job in England, via many countries, and as we frantically got ready to disembark he asked if I wanted to visit his house - I soon jumped on the opportunity, and 6 hours and two trains later we arrived at his. Just as an aside, most of Finland (75%) is forested, and another 10% is ...
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Back to Joensuu
... while, I start playing the Big Brain Academy on the Nintendo DS. Thank you so much, Frank, for letting me borrow it. The Nintendo DS surely saved my life during these first two days in Finland. And I have a feeling that it will do much more for me during the next two weeks. When we arrive in Joensuu in the evening, everything is the same as we had left it about one year earlier (Joensuu 2006). Mari's mom ...
Pre-Christmas party
Pictures from the IB pre-Christmas party (in Finnish pikkujoulut). Finns are crazy about celebrating Christmas already before Christmas, starting in November. Every work place arranges a party, where the employer offers great food and drinks. Then you have your own parties with your friends.. so you are fed up with Christmas well before Christmas, after taking part in couple of parties and gaining some kilos after eating ...
How to spend money when you have none
... never checked the date again, only the exact time. And so I stood at Charles le Gaulle one day too late... (maybe I'm becoming too much of an artist..) Some clear signs of approaching Finland. In the plane a drunken Finnish man came to talk to me. Trying to hit on me with his drunken charm. A man almost double my age. How admired I was. He just could not understand that I could not have been less interested in his drunken bla-bla-bla. Amazing how they let ...



