Today it is snowing,the first snow and it shows that the winter is here.Cold and wet,all the tree leaves are gone.
Some people say that November is the most sad season in Finland,it becomes dark and cold...I prefer summer here more.
Anyway to run away from this cold and snow,I am going to Poland and Hungary in two weeks,hope it will not snow there yet.
Well,as last Sat. the test finished,my life will start a new period. That is mean I will not really focus on study Finnish language as before(maybe just go some class once or twice in a week).I will more focus on other things.
Study by myself and as my plan goes,lots of travellings also in the next few months.Do not know what will happen yet next year,new year always has new change.
But lately the weather is really terrible,raining and windy! Winter is coming here! Tomorrow it might snow already. Do not really like the weather,but I am happy since in the room is always warm.
It was raining and windy all the day,weather here is really terrible now. I went to one of my friends wedding,first in the registration place,really fast.About 10 minutes then they were just married. After it we went to a restaurant,because tomorrow I will have the big test,I did not go with them to another place.
It was good that to see people who loved each other and getting married,I wish them happy all the time!
Well also with myself good luck in tomorrow's test!
I planed to go to Warsaw next month,but I need visa to go there. So today I went to the embassy of Poland in Helsinki. Prepared lots of things as previows experiences told me that I always have to prepare lots of things...
Well,to my surprise this time just take me about 10 minutes and he said ok,I can get the visa tomorrow. Good! well maybe because I have residence permission in Finland,so that make it a lot easier.
After this I will go to the Hugarian embassy next week and hope I will get good luck there too.
Last night I went to an Agile presentation event.First time to listen people gave presentations about Agile.
Interesting thing,first two were finnish and they are the Agile and scrum supporters.But the last american old man who seems against Agile and scrum,he has his own theory and try to put it into practise,but I do not really like how he presented it...
Strike! strike! Today the Finnair is going on strike,lots of flights got cancelled and their service line has been overloaded with phonecalls.
Why? since I am in Finland,I have experienced bus drivers on strike,some part of the paper factory workers on strike,nokia employees on strike.... and now the quite important transportation company in Finland-Finnair is on strike.
I am not quite understand it,since I think people here is already have quite high salary and all the insurances are good. They do not focus on improving their services but focus on if their company going to hire some cheaper labor,they are afraid of competition?
Well,if you are interested you could read from here Finnair strike
Today I had a small test,well not really small,some part of it is quite difficult.After this two hours test,I felt really tired, after I graduated from university I have never have test any more. Now I need to attend much more tests here in Finland.
Next Saturday it will be my big test day,it will last about five hours.God! five hours! Although I know chinese students are quite used to tests,we had much more tests than students in other countries.
Anyway,good luck to me again for next week!
After I joined this finnish course,I have been visited lots of places here in Helsinki. Well,most of the places that I will not go if I am not in this course.
Today we went to the Finnish TV station-YLE. Not so big,but interesting. The guide first showed us some of the custums,most of them are clothes.Little bit old style clothes and most of the people said the feeling like being in a second hand shop!
It took about two hours inside the station.Tomorrow I will have a "small" test first, good luck to me then!
Last night I went to the theater to see a stage show,but they all spoke finnish,a little bit difficult for me.
Quite interesting show,the name in English is Duck hunter(Sorsastaja). It was about four persons who are half african and half finnish. Two girls and two men,about their problems and what happened to them in their childhood,because they have different looks than normal finnish person. The show totally was two and half hour, the first part was good and I could understand most,but the last part was really difficult,it was adaped from the old finnish stories...
Well,first time in a finnish theater and saw a finnish show in finnish. Maybe sometime I should go there again,even I do not understand all yet.
Today later I will go to a theater and see a finnish stage play,hope I can understand some,do not expect I will understand all of them.
Will write about it more tomorrow!
As I lived in Finland for one and half year. I discovered that finnish people are loving dogs the most. Any other countries I have been,I have never seen so many dogs, and sometimes one person with more than two dogs. So I draw the conclusion that finnish people are loving dogs the most.
Every morning,I did not hear any sounds except the birds singing and the dogs barking,well this is the natrual life here...
I do not have any approve to show how many dogs are there in Finland. But I think it can be almost the same as the population here.
Do not know if it is a good sign or not...
Although I already gratuated for six years from university.But I am still quite interested in this education area. Here I found list of this year newly published Top 100 global universities.
Well,most of them are US or UK universities,and little bit from other european countries,like swizerland,france,germany,holland. In Aisa,Japanese and Sigaporean unversities are in the list,also with Hongkong university.
Here is a link for this article : University Ranking
Today I read an article about chinese young people. It is in the Finnish newspaper,and I tried to read all the finnish,can not say that I know 100% all the words but I think I can understand most of it.
Quite interesting,a finnish journalist worte this article,use his eyes to describe how China changed and how are the young people thinking and doing now.
Hope I can read more articles about China here.
We got a new notebook now,the brand is Acer.A quite new model with Intel Core 2...Got it from China,because think about the price,but unfortunately we have to pay extra when take it back,the custom ask us to pay more tax for it. Ok,just paid it,think everything will be fine then.
Well not really,our old computer was broken down,do not know why,maybe just get jealous about the new comer.We found someone who could fix it,but the cost is quite high...
Do not know what to say,sometimes things happened just the way you do not want it!
Yesterday was the chinese national holiday,the people's republic of China has founded for 57 years. Not too long....
All the people in China has seven days vacation.The same time and with so many people,it is really just a special thing in China.When I told my classmates about this,they are surprised that all the people have holidays at the same time.
My mother told me that this year there are more people coming to Beijing,because of the 2008 Olympic games,lots of things are changing now,new parks,new streets...
Well,I hope I will go and see the Olympic games in 2008!
