I’m back home now since over one week and it still feels strange. Everybody here is in his/her daily routine and it seems that I’ve never been away for four months… very strange… Here are some things I definitely miss about Helsinki and people that became important to me during my four month long stay [...]

I spent the very last weekend of my exchange semester in Finland together with my flatmate Marielle in Rovaniemi, the heart of Finnish Lapland. It was a good decision to go there for three days, otherwise I guess we would just sit around in our flat and start to get depressive because the days went [...]

It is incredible. The day that seemed so far away at the beginning of the semester abroad is now just around the corner – the day of going back home! I stayed now four months here in Helsinki and the time here was absolutely awesome. I met so many different people from all over the [...]

Yesterday evening Marielle, Melina and me went to the nearby Hartwall Arena to watch the SM-liiga (Finnish professional ice hockey league) game Jokerit versus Tappara. Jokerit (engl. “Jokers”) is the one of the two ice hockey teams from Helsinki. Their opponents of the Tappara (“battleaxe”) ice hockey team are from Tampere. In the beginning it [...]

The last weekend (5th and 6th of December) I spent in Estland’s capital, Tallinn, together with Marielle, two other exchange students and five Finns. The trip was organized by ESN Helga originally for exchange students, but most of them have already been there or are run out of money so that we were only a [...]