Erasmus

The orientation week is finished now. But the tutor program will continue. Our tutor Mikko takes care of the international physics students. He showed us the different campuses, explained important things and yesterday we even had a discussion session about "cultural shocks" which may appear while living abroad. Now we aware that the so-called "honeymoon" phase (during which everything in the foreign country seems so fabulous) might be followed by a depression, loss of identity, homesickness,... due to non-understanding of the other culture. Well, I will see... So far I have been enjoying the start in Finland very much!

ERASMUS - commonly associated with lots of parties: yes, of course also here are many of them. However, the beer costs 4 euros and the music isn't always so good, but therefore extremely loud.
Further on, I like living in the international students' hostel. I usually have dinner with my nice flatmates and we often have visitors from other flats.