Drinking, singing, fighting

It's been a while since my last post here, but nothing really has happened during the week. Just the last two days are worth telling about, I guess.

During the week I've been to university almost each day. I learned more Finnish! Especially interesting was the short information about reconstructed historical Finnish. It made many things so much clearer for me! And even some Finnish people I told about that were surprised. It's always so interesting to learn a language because people who speak that language since ever are having a totally different view on it. That's actually why it is so much fun to me to teach people my own mothertongue, German. Because they see things I do not see. They make me think about why I say something like this and not otherwise. So I'm really happy to have another language tandem again! I'm going to teach one Finnish girl German and I'll learn even more Finnish from her!

Apart from Finnish courses, I did also have courses related to Baltic Sea Region. I really like the course Knowledge about Finland - although I do already know about half of what is taught there.

But I actually did not want to talk about university at all actually. Except for the Euroopan Kielten Päivä maybe which was at friday in the Educarium building. Some students have prepared tables with information about, well, Europe's languages obviously. Also, some institutions of the university like the language center have introduced themselves. It was really nice for me to learn some words in Hungarian. :D They actually became rather useful later on!

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... at Saturday evening there as a Get-to-know evening organised by TYRMY, the association for Heavy Music here at the University of Turku. It was really nice to meet some new metalheads! Although I spent - unfortunately actually - most time with the other exchange students.
For the first time I've been talking to this one Hungarian girl who is also in all three Finnish courses I'm having. I knew that she was into metal too, but, well, as always, I'm just too shy to approach people by myself. But yesterday was kind of different. And it came in handy, too, that I learned a few Hungarian words. :D Not that I needed to talk in her language - not at all, she speaks English and Finnish too - but it was kind of nice to surprise her by saying "Égészségeré" or however it is spelled. xD (For those who don't know, that's "Cheers" in Hungarian.)

After that very entertaining evening there with the metalheads, I went to a karaoke-bar together with a few of my new acquaintances. Three of my friends were already waiting there and I suppose they were actually pretty pissed that they had to wait for that long (my apologies to all three of you! ._.)
It was really fun though in the karaoke-bar. We all metalheads ended up singing Ensiferum's Lai Lai Hei. :D It must've sound awful. :D But it was fun!

I'm so looking forward to next weekend because then even more TYRMY-people will go to the same karaoke-bar! That'll be awesome!

Today I had my first lesson in medieval sword fighting. Woohoo! :D
I learned how to walk correctly. How to hold a wooden stick to make it look like a sword, how to stab people with a dagger and how prevent being stabbed myself. :D
I can now truly say: Minä tapaan ja tapan uutta ystävää. (I meet and I kill new friends.
 -- This is one of the funny things of the Finnish language: These two words sound very similar and for a foreigner it's really hard to pronounce the difference. So whenever I say "I meet a friend", it may sound like "I kill a friend" to all Finns.)
I'm really interested to take this sword-fighting course! Why actually not?