I've decided to start a travel blog for my SEP experience and so here I am!
When I chose Finland I had no idea that it would so high up North and SOSOSOSO cold!
I was both shocked and overwhelmed when i was greeted by HEAPS AND HEAPS OF SNOW at the airport.
Having not seen any REAL snow (those at snow city dont count) my entire 21 years of existance, it was too much to handle for a split second but as soon as that was over, i was more excited by the beauty and purity of snow.

Oulu is awesome, it's crazily cold here, -15deg today :S
But i think im slowly getting used to the cold here, so much so that i think i would probably melt under the intense heat in sg :/
according to the locals, it was way colder last year, about -30deg??
Thank god for global warming.

Let me start by introducing my Home for the next 6months ;)

View from my window

my working desk, it's neater now

the small kitchen that i share with my flatmate

 Another thing i still have problems getting used to is the fact that the sun only rises at 930am and sets swiftly by 330pm :(
A mere 6hrs of sun just isn't enough especially when it comes to taking pictures and enjoying time outside.
it also makes me sleep more because you will think that it's still really early when you wake up with no sunlight shining through your windows.

Frozen late at night :)

Italian (Marta, Luca) and South African (Bronwyn) friends

Pirraka, traditional Finnish pastry, some kinda pastry made up of barley/rice/potato and topped with mashed  hard boiled eggs. YUMMY :)

Italian (Serena) and Lithuanian (Vidas) friends

Life is pretty much about EATING SLEEPING PARTYING over here, school is just....... secondary hahahahahaha
in fact, i dont have lessons AT ALL, at least not until jan 24 :P
For now, I'm gna enjoy all i can here :D

Labels: Finland, Oulu (Finland)