Finnish way of partying.

The university organized a pick-nick for all the new students on Tuesday. It was on the field on front of the main building. They drove a stage on the field and I was expecting some food stands and a bar including beer pump. There was only one hot-dog stand where a single hot-dog was at least 4 Euro. Nevertheless, we didn't expect this to be our only 'dinner option' because the event was labelled as 'pick-nick'. Every guild brought their own grill and sausages. However, our guild only brought a grill, no beer and no food. So we (Barthold and me) bought our own beer in the supermarket and drunk that among the others. After a while we started to feel hungry.. and because our own architecture guild didn't bring any food we tried to get some at a guild which grill was packed. Our attempt was without any lucky, cause in Finland it seems to be that at an organized pick-nick at which you're invited, you're suppose to bring your own drinks an food. With a supermarket around this was easily solved, but we were kinda amazed.
Besides it wasn't that crowded. And I can image why when the university invites a so called 'Love Metal' band which only attracts 15 year old groupies. Anyway, we had a nice time learning some Finns with strange names: Antti, Antti-Matti, Aku, Jirre, Tuamen, Elsi and many many more which I can't remember. On the other hand Koen isn't that common as well. Usually it is written down as Kun or pronounced as Koën. Pronounced in the correct way it means 'sleepy' in Chinese, 'ass' in Afghan and 'when' in Finnish........ then there is also 'Barendregt', well I don't have to explain any further.
After the pick-nick we had an after-party in someone's dorm. This was a real 'after party', cause it wasn't particularly a party. Although this had a High-School character it was still good to meet some more Finns. Around midnight I went back home on my just rented bike. The usual 20 minutes ride took me about 1 hour cause a sign was broken off, which doesn't really help when it's your first time.

Yesterday there was this 'Fuksi' event. The Fuksi are the freshmen, after a while they are allowed to wear a cap. Therefore they need to earn points, which can be done by playing games. Barthold and I are not really interested in this cap cause it is still considerable expensive. Anyway, we did some games. Among we sang a Finnish song at the Karaoke,and acted as Mario and Luigi in a television show. The students here have their own television channel and all the activities during the last days are live broadcastings. While we were live on cam Barthold was so nice to mention 'Okenoken' which comes from the purno de purno cartoons. Meanwhile I had drunk tooo much what made me offer to explaining the game. Watch the movie and figure out whether the Finns liked it or not :S.



After the games there was a party, which again reminded me of High-School. But then again there were a lot of exchange students, so it was good evening anyway.
Tonight I take a brake, cause tomorrow is promising!