Kiitoksin

Dear blog,

I must add a picture from yesterdays birthday party! I have never gotten that much balloons and that much attention from a such a big group of new friends! I was so surprised but so happy the whole day. Thank you again and again. Juhlien eteen oli nähty niin paljon vaivaa, että mykistyin. Kiitos, Danke, Thank you.

Birthday

Oh my gosh. What a day! I was surprised by all the other exchange students with a birthday cake with candles on it, they gave me a present including some local alcohol and chocolate, and so many balloons that I could fly up in the air with them if they were full of helium! haha!

In the afternoon we took the train to Stuttgart and found a nice restaurant where the others sang me the Happy Birthday -song as we were waiting for the food. =) The food was delicious! After the meal I wanted to have some coffee and the time went so fast; it was suddenly seven pm!

Guten Morgen!

This morning I woke up early because of the construction noises from next door. When I turned my heavy head to the window, I was amazed.
SNOW?! Whole view was all white and I had to blink twice before I remembered that we're not in Finland anymore. :)

By the way the building up on the hill in the picture is my school. I can see it from my apartment!

Germany: Day 5

Yay!! Yesterday evening we got internet connection to our apartments! At last!
But poor Eetu, it didn't work at his computer! :( Luckily our flats are so near each other that he can come to use my internet at any time.

Today begun our intensive German courses and next week we are going to study only German. Toivottavasti kielitaito tästä pikku hiljaa kehittyisi.. hyvin hitaasti muistuu saksa mieleen.

This evening we are going to have a welcoming party in Stuttgart! Nice! We'll take the bus to the city and now with the studentcards we got yesterday, we can travel between Esslingen and Stuttgart for free in the evenings! Cool, isn't it?

Day 3 in Esslingen

Dear blog,

this morning we had some fog, but now it is nice and sunny again. Today we have had some orientation with other exchange students, we got registered to Esslingen and got the German bank account. Still looking forward to the own internet! Hopefully we will get it tomorrow!

2. Day in Esslingen

Today we had our first orientation day at school and as soon as we got out of filling in the needed forms, Lukas picked me and Eetu and another Finnish guy up and we headed to Ikea! It was heaven to me!

Eetu and I wrote a shopping list for Ikea on Monday evening on the restaurant's tablecloth (haha!!), so it was basically just walking through the aisles and grabbing all the stuff we wanted.

Huokaus. I'm so happy. The only problem is not having the internet yet.. But on the meanwhile the other Finnish guys let me use their computers. As I said: People are nice!

Over and out.

We made it! Perillä Esslingenissä!

OH-MY-GOSH!! It's unbelievable in here! The city is so beautiful and people are überfriendly! Maisemat ovat ihan kuin suoraan yläasteen saksan kirjan kuvista; vuorten ympäröimä vanha kaupunki ristikkotaloineen, upeine kirkkoineen ja linnoineen ja viiniviljelmineen, joiden lisäksi Neckar-joki pujottelee laakson pohjalla halkoen keskustan pienet mukulakivikujat.

=I love it!

Our flights and arrival to Esslingen went really well, was it really just yesterday? What a long day it was. We got our apartments (kalustettu huone+keittoliesi+wc=yksiö! Yay!) and settled down, met some other Finnish exchange students, bought some food from a market nearby and even went to the the city center for döner and some beer with our local friend Lukas and his friends.  It was such a lovely evening. =)