Turun linna

This week is awfully dull. It's exam week and therefore there are almost no regular courses. I have a hell lot to do, but it anyhow feels rather tiring when I don't have the need to get out of the house because of a lecture. Other people I know have organized some trips to either their family or to go abroad and see Norway or Sweden or Lapland. Just I stayed here because I thought I had courses. Voi vittu!
I end up sleeping like 12 hours a day at the moment. It's just so fucking cold in my room, so I rather lay down in my bed to get warm, but then I get tired and when I wake up 12 hours have passed and I just think "what the fuck has happened?".
I'm plagued by vitutus and I think I am a bit homesick, too.

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But then again, today I met my tandempartner (a Finnish-German tandem, yay!) and we went to Turunlinna which I haven't seen yet. It is the oldest still preserved building in whole Finland, some 700-ish years old. From the outside it looks - to me at least - rather ugly.

I just don't like how stained it looks. I'm just used to something entirely different from the German castles I often visit. Turun linna is not really comparable to these German castles.
But it's really huge!

It does not look so huge from the outside, but we spent like 2,5 hours inside and we were not reading everything, not looking to closely at everything they have exhibited there. Most interesting to me was the medieval part of the castle.

I love the decoration! :D

A model of Turunlinna in winter, apparently.

My second favourite part of the exhibition was the children's museum. I just love children's museums! Where you can open boxes to get more information, where you can touch different kinds of fabric, where you can investigate and do whatever you like. They even had a puzzle where we could dress up a knight! :D I love that!
If I should end up in a museum I will definitely want to design exhibitions for children!
They even had one area where one was able to dress up with medieval clothes and take photos. So lovely! However, we did not do that.

To sum this up, it was a very pleasent day today! :)