University in Finland is a bit different to what I'm used to in Germany. The greatest difference may be that here each term is divided into two periods. And that has a huge impact on the process of creating a timetable.
There can be courses which will be offered in period I and II. That likely means that the course - like in Germany - contains one lecture in the week and lasts until the end of the term.
Then there's the possibility that a course is only meant for one period. In this case it's likely that there will be held two lectures in a week. The tests will then be written at the end of the term.
Then there's courses which are twice a week but go through the whole term.
And there can be so-called Blockseminare like on Germany. That basically means that the whole programme of the course is put into 4-5 longer sessions. This can be quite annoying if these sessions are inmidst of a week and therefore impossible to come to all sessions of the course, except if you skip the other...
It was sooooo difficult and frustrating to generate my timetable this term because it's so much easier in Germany! There you just go into the internet platform, roll in for the courses you want to visit and it automatically generates your timetable. But I guess I did it quite well here in Finland nevertheless.
Another thing which is different are so-called book-exams. You don't go and listen to a kecture and write a test based on what has been said there, no. Instead you are given one or more books and have to read them on your own and then finally write a test at the end of the term. I would have loved to listen to a lecture about Finland's prehistory, but unfortunately, this course is one of these book-exams. So I decided not to take this course, unfortunately.
I did not only want to talk about University here, although the title says so.
Also, I've been at a little concert organized by TYRMY at the 5th of September. It was held in a small pub here in Turku called Rokbar. There were three not so well known finnish bands presented: Iskulintu, Gladenfold and Korpikuusen Kyynel.
Iskulintu was pretty interesting, something I've never seen before! There were just two guys, one playing an electric kantele and singing, the other playing a drum with a stick which ressembled very much a stoneage-hatchet. :D They are most likely to put into the wide category of folkmetal or something, but it was so refreshening that they were so different. There were no bagpipes, no whistles, no violin and all the like, just the kantele. So very pure. And it sounded like they were straight coming from the midst of a dark, finnish wood. I really liked them and I'd love to see them on a medieval market maybe.
The second band, Gladenfold was something like Power Metalish, perhaps. I really liked them, they were powerful and not boring to listen to because their music was pretty varied for me. Also, I really liked their vocals which is by far the most important thing for me. If I don't like the singer's voice, I won't like the band.
And that was the case - unfortunately - for the last band of the night, Korpikuusen Kyynel. I was expecting something like a Korpiklaani-clone, so a partyband singing songs about drinking booze and stuff... I listened to one of their songs beforehand on Youtube or Facebook but shut it off because I did not like the female singer's voice at all. So I did not even stay for their gig but went home instead.
Also, it was very interesting that evening to meet two German guys who both are into Metal obviously and who both do not live so very far away from me in Germany. The world is soooo small. <3
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