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FinlandLocations: Helsinki Highlights: Staying at the Olympic Stadium, Finnish Sauna, Ferry ride across Baltic Sea to Tallinn, Estonia Description of Highlights: •Staying at the Olympic Stadium – Our hostel was the old athletic quarters from when the Olympi Posted by amberraytx in Where in the world are Joe & Amber? | May 19, 2011
A visit to Santa in MARCH?! Why not! I arrived to Lapland the following evening after Cyn does, due to work-scheduling conflicts. Fortunately, I was able to catch a redeye flight to my connection airport (Washington DC) right after work. I get to Finland late Saturday evening, giving Posted by cynandchar in The long weekenders | Mar 23, 2011
Fascinating Finland LakesThe Nordic country of Finland is popularly referred as ‘the country of 1000 lakes’. Indeed it is one of the rarest countries in the world where majority of its landscape is adorned with unscathed thick forests and lovely lakes. Even the Posted by elatrips in Sharing the joy of travelling .... | Mar 21, 2011
Exploring a Snow castle in LaplandLast weekend we took a 4-plane, 16-hour flight time (each way) journey from San Francisco to Rovaniemi, making stops in Washington DC, Frankfurt, Germany, Helsinki, and our final destination: "the world capital of Christmas," Rovaniemi, in Lapland, Finlan Posted by cynandchar in The long weekenders | Mar 20, 2011
Arthur, The Door, please! We planned starting our Sigth Seeing tours this past Xmas. This was the coldest Xmas in Finland EVER and the Old Lady from London just couldn't take it. Posted by Lahtiska in Mind the Pedestrian! | Jan 9, 2011
The travel back homeGoing back home was better than the 1st time. Now we knew where we were going and all, we were more relaxed. The 1st thing I had to do was go and sell my bike to Ashik from India. He Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Nov 8, 2010
Bye byesThe last week was kinda odd as I have mentioned before. A mix of excitement and recognition that I am going to miss Finland. My friends were happy to see me go back at home, but also sad that I Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Nov 8, 2010
The last weekThis past week marked my last official week here in the Suomi. It started with a hectic schedule of all-day lectures (Strategic Management theories in healthcare and social organisations AND leadership theories in healthcare and social organisations) wit Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Oct 29, 2010
Marie's birthday partyLast night was Marie's 20th birthday held at Studentia (our student center). As mentioned she asked everyone to make some crazy hat to make the party interesting. My flatmate Allard (from Netherlands) came up with an insane hat idea and Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Oct 20, 2010
The last few days.....The last few days have been mellow for me. I have so many things to do just for my Finland courses that thinking about it exhausts me. I have 5 courses at [[http://www.uef.fi|UEF]] that run till November/December and I have Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Oct 20, 2010
Seeing real snow for the 1st time in my life!Hmmmmmm! where do I start?! :) The past 4 or so days burnt me lots. I was preparing for the Design Agent design brief and it drained me. Spending time at the design academy is really one of my most Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Oct 14, 2010
Pressure cookerThe last few days have seen me watch more online videos than ever, mainly because I dont sleep much and i have to watch something in between books to avoid falling asleep. I know, lame excuse but it works for Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Oct 11, 2010
Ending September....I had a hectic last week of September. Before then I was stuck on looking forward to my first course lectures at UEF, and the possibility of having to drop my design courses in case the public health course require Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Oct 4, 2010
Tampere DayHello everybody, Today was a pretty good day, and the whole week has been gorgeous. The weather has been nothing but sunshine since sunday... except for a little clouds yesterday and today... But it's been cold... the highs this week have Posted by vWildeboer in Viv In Finland | Oct 3, 2010
Health Informatics courseThe last few days have been great. I have more friends now so being here is warming up regardless of the declining weather. Friday I got invited to join my Chec Republic & Slovakian friends at Passions club and I Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Sep 27, 2010
The First Five WeeksHello People, This is a Blog I will be keeping especially for my foreign/American friends. I am sorry I am only starting now, but I already keep a Dutch blog for my friends and family at home and I was still Posted by vWildeboer in Viv In Finland | Sep 26, 2010
Rush!!As mentioned before I am attending undergrad (Bachelor) courses on Product visualization (using Kerkythea 3D rendering software + Rhinoceros 4) and one on semiotics of user interface design (strictly taught in Soumi!) at Savonia Design Academy.[i](If you Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Sep 21, 2010
Kuopio Boat cruiseWell, I have been either too busy or lazy to update the blog in real-time, you take your pick! Aaaanyways, on Friday 10th September the Student Union decided to spoil us a little and took us out on a Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Sep 16, 2010
On top of the world!The other day my supervisor invited us to go and see Kuopio from the skies. I was excited and did not even hesitate to accept the invitation! The worry was how we gon get there, but he came and picked Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Sep 14, 2010
Warming up to the FinnsThe last few days have been very hectic on me. I have signed up to attend some Industrial Design undergraduate classes and they drain my energy because everyday I am on the bike at past 7 in the morning, paddling Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Sep 5, 2010
A new leaf turned...The last few days have been hectic for me. I am attending undergraduate courses under industrial design and the classes are mostly at 08:00a.m! *yawn* so its a bummer for me! Needless to say; I am sort of keeping up! Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Aug 31, 2010
NaantaliEi mikään pörisevä kaupunki, mutta pieni ja viehättävä. Visiitti elokuun puolivälissä. Posted by vilmalotta in Levoton sielu | Aug 30, 2010
A whole new experience!!As I may have told you; I am signed up at the Savonia Design Academy here in Kuopio to get more knowledge into my young mind. The main pre-organised course for me is Service Design and that is going well Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Aug 26, 2010
7 hours of strain...Yesterday I had an early Saturday service design class to attend. Its main focus was on user-oriented design methods and was lectured by Atti (if I am "saying" it right). I am a late Saturday morning person, even if it Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Aug 22, 2010
A glimpse of JoensuuToday Prof (Bennett Alexander) and Tuija were to present their Doctoral studies at the school of computing in Joensuu so yesterday Mikko asked if we want to just tag along an atleast catch a glimpse of the place-HELL YEAH! hehehe. We Posted by Kratos in My Finland experience | Aug 19, 2010

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