One month in Finland!

This is with much delay, my apologies.
I will just copy something I have previously posted. These are some thoughts about what I have already done here in my first month in Finland and what I am still up to.


Previously published at 15. Sep., 10:52 am

Oh noes, I missed the date totally because I was too busy recently.

But three days ago, the 12th of september was the day. I am now in Finland for one month already. 4 months to go.
I thought, this would be a nice occassion to think about what I have done so far and what is still on my to do list.

What I've done so far:
- I inscribed to university and got (almost) all paperwork done. (I still need to print and sign one paper for my home university which I only received two days ago and I did not have access to a printer until now.)
- I've been to a finnish excavation and found a lot of iron nails and met many interesting finnish people there.
- I made acquaintance of quite many people from all over the world. Of these acquaintances there is only a small handful of people with whom I'm spending my time. I'm glad that among these people are only three other Germans (three German guys, because I don't like girls), then a Swedish girl, an American girl, a Japanese girl, a French guy. ... I think that's it.
- I got to know far more Finns than foreigners, which is great! I try to become friends or at least good acquaintances with these Finns, because my purpose of being here is to improve my Finnish after all.
- I've seen my beloved Helsinki.
- I've been to two concerts. :)


What I still have to do:
- Go to sauna. Yes, I haven't been to sauna yet. What a shame! I need to do that, but probably I first need to get rid of my flu.
- See northern lights. Apparently there was northern lights activity in southern Finland last weekend, but I was too tired on friday and was inside of light-polluted Helsinki on saturday so I did not see them, unfortunately. :(
- I want to go to Northern Finland.
- Visit Stockholm.
- Visit Tallinn.
- Watch an ice-hockey match in a stadium.
- Find a finnish boyfriend. xD (Well, this is semi-serious. I know how much of a problem I have with closeness and then I will be gone back to Germany at january so it would not make sense at all! But ... hm. I'd really like the idea to be married to a Finn some day, because I love these finnish lastnames.)

Well. Anything else I want to achieve here? I will think about it and tell about my progress at the 12th of October. Perhaps. Or later, if I forget. :D