Last friday I've been to Tampere, together with two Finnish friends who originally come from there. I asked them for a trip there because I heard that the metalscene in Tampere is supposed to be the most active. If you come to Finland as a fan of Finnish metal, you may find Turku quite disappointing since here's only two pubs having a Hevi-theme. Most of the bars here are more orientated to a mainstream audience. As far as I heard, Finnish people don't even like the music that is played in these normal clubs, still they go there and spend too much money on too expensive alcohol. Hm.
I'm rambling, so I should come back to the actual topic again: Tampere.
I imagined Tampere to be a bigger city than Turku, interesting and perhaps even more nice-looking than Turku. However, Tampere was indeed bigger and interesting, but not nice-looking. It is, in fact, Finland's oldest industrial town and therefore the shapes of industrial buildings like factories where still omnipresent in the image of the town.
Very interesting though was the dome (tuomiokirkko) of Tampere where Elina wanted to drag me at all costs. I'm glad she did because it was truly impressive! The outside looked rather medieval, although it was only built in the 20th century. And the inside was very nicely decorated! There were feathers and wings everywhere, a truly unique motive.I've never seen something like this before in a church. And there was a snake in the highest spot of the ceiling which was very interesting.
I may upload some photos later.
Also, in Tampere, I met my old friend again to whom I've lost contact for about 7-8 years. 2005 we were host-sisters in pupil's exchange. She stayed with my family and I stayed with her family for a month. It was the first time that I was living in Finland for a little while. And I loved it! It's so great to be back!
It was very nice to get into contact with her again and to meet her in Tampere. :) I hope, we'll meet again during my stay in Finland. It is already kind of loosely planned to go back to Tampere because we all wanted to visit a café which was closed last friday.
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Yesterday I've seen a Finnish industrial metal band called Turmion Kätilöt. It was a very nice concert, I enjoyed it a lot!
Actually my plan was to get totally drunk but however I did not have enough money for that. One other day I just have to get totally wasted here, I sorta promised it. (Damn Finns that they take said things so seriously! I still have to work on that.)
Well, yes. For those who are intersted, Turmion Kätilöt played the following songs:
Verta ja lihaa
Mistä veri pakenee
Grand ball
Jalopiina
USCH
Tirehtööri
Nimi kivessä
Teurastaja
Hades
Minä määrään
Pyhä maa
Suolainen kapteeni
Vedetäänkö vai ei.
I only knew like 4 or 5 songs but still it was a hell of a concert!
I definitely want to see them again when I have the chance.
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Vitutus. Vitutus is something very Finnish. I encountered this state of mind just recently. It is some kind of being really pissed off by something or nothing at all. You just happen to be very pissed all of a sudden.
This is what most Finnish people seem to have almost always. It has also happened to me before quite very often even in Germany, so the state of vitutus is nothing new, just the word. And I fucking like that word! It explains this feeling so well.
Friday morning, the last thing I thought in my dream was "minua vituttaa" and just then my alarm clock started to ring. I still wonder what I dreamt about that it got me so pissed.
Something very sweet was said to me yesterday by Matti and Iiris, and something similar even by Elina the day before:
All three of them have a feeling about me like I'm not a foreigner actually but rather a Finn.
Again, this is like the greatest compliment somebody can make to me! :)
There are people who feel like they are born to the wrong body, I just feel like I was born to the wrong country.
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