The beginning of the week was as usual: I spent my days from the early morning until the late afternoon at the excavation. I found a few iron nails, enjoyed my stay there with my finnish fellow archaeologists and of course got wet again.
If I'm allowed to (I will ask beforehand) I will upload one picture here which I've done with my mobile phone because I found the construction so interesting. Because it rained to much, the finnish team has built some kind of roof out of plastic planes to cover the archaeologists from the heavy rain while they were working. It looked pretty funny and adventurous but actually proved to be quite efficient!
That were the first two days of the week.
Wednesday began the Orientation Week for all new Exchange Students. That's why I was not able to go to excavation anymore - unfortunately - but stuck in university. It was quite nice though to meet the people I'm going to spend a lot of time during the next few weeks and months. People from all over the world! How interesting!
One thing which bothers me though is the fact that among the exchange students there are too many other Germans. I try to avoid having contact to Germans as much as I can because I'm not here to speak German. Of course, it's not possible to avoid them entirely. Most of the time I'm speaking english even with the Germans. xD Mostly because we're in a group of more people and there's at least one among who does not understand German.
Well. Since Serena has mentioned it in her blog (I may link this later if I don't forget), there was a welcome fair at friday of this week where different studentoranisations presented themselves. It's so very interesting what finnish students are doing here! What kinds of clubs and activities are offered at this university!
There's even one club for Heavy Metal. It's called TYRMY. I found this very interesting! It was actually Serena who introduced me to this club. She's an American girl doing her Masterdegree here in Finland (oh how I envy her!) and she's studying musicology. Actually, she says, she's a very introvert person who has difficulties with getting into contact with other people (just like me, heh), but she took herself together and spoke to me in order to ask me if I heard of TYRMY already. I suppose this is how a nice friendship was born. :D I will continue envying her. I hope she's okay with that.
Well... what happened else in this week? Nothing much more, I suppose.
One thing worth mentioning is maybe that the weather - of course - stopped being bad and wet as soon as I switched my archaeologist's rubber boots to more comfy university sneakers... -.- As soon as I have to sit in crowded lecture halls, the weather got sunny and shiny and beautiful again! So ... probably Joonas is just right if he calls me an evil weather-witch (I just must not tell him that he's probably right with that...!)
I may add something more later if it comes to my mind.
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