Lange Nacht

Last night there was in Stuttgart an event called Lange Nacht der Museen. There was events, museums, art galleries and other cultural places open until 2pm. Ticket to the event cost 15e and with that ticket you could go those places. And there was busses running special lines between places.
We went with our exchange people and I saw

- Kunstmuseum, modern art gallery
- Planetarium, space and star exhibition
- Staatsgalerie, state gallery
- Porsche museum, museum of Porsche cars

It was very exciting event and I think it has required huge work to make that event.

What else has happened here?
Well, the weather went better, almost t-shirt weather and that friggin snow is gone. :)
School started with selected courses, most exciting is the Interactive Media production course(12 ECTS points!) where I participate to project to make Flash based multiplayer game. Wow! Nothing less easier.. :)
I have four courses selected and German language course and with those I think my total ECTS are something like 24 points. There was also one smaller project course(6 points) but I didn't get response from professor, so I might remove that course.
And got some good news and bad news from Finland.. But it's no time to worry things, they have a habit to get in order.
Eastern holiday is coming and I should start to think what to do with all that free time, maybe little trip. There was people interested to go see Berlin for example. Maybe we will be able to gather a group so traveling with Deutsche Bahn is allmost free. :)

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

Why Germany?
Why not a country or school that everybody speaks English? That would have been an easy option.
Why country that speaks language that you barely understand? Well, that's how you learn stuff.
And that's why I came here. Well, Vancouver was my first option but I'm kind of happy that I came here. Nice people, nice weather (not right now, but eventually..), things are cheaper and school is so cool. :)
These past two weeks have been allmost one massive party with guided tours and I heard that going to be even crazier. Our exchange group is nice, about 25 people from various places all over the world. We have been doing different activities and parties on our own.
Well next week should change the scene, because school should start and I took some courses that are only in Germany. :D
But I think I will survive this and get some awesome memories and experiences.
Places that I have visit since arrive:
-Esslingen,  very old city southeast from Stuttgart
-Kessler, German's oldest winery
-Mercedes-Benz Museum, from first combustion engines to current success of automobile

I also went yesterday to see Alice in Wonderland (3D version), I liked it. I don't shame to admit that Tim Burton allways works for me somehow. And it was English version in small theater in Vaihingen, because here they do like to change voices. CSI Miami was very different experience in German TV..

Linzen mit Spätzle

Hallo!

It is time to finish first week and start a blog.
So here I am, exchange in Hochschule der Medien(HdM) in Stuttgart Germany, and this blog is about my time here. Writing in (bad?) english, because Finns don't speak Germany (I'm speaking little) and maybe someone else might be actually interested in my experiences.

What?

Little specs from city:
Stuttgart is capital of Baden-Wurttenberg, which is one of the states in Germany.
Baden-Wurttenberg is third largest area and populated in Germany and Stuttgart is sixth largest city in Germany.
Population (in Germany): 80 million people
Population ( in Baden-Wurttenberg): 10 million
Population ( in Stuttgart): 5 million

I don't know where to start, just been so amazing.. :)
I came here week ago on friday 26.2 with aeroplane without knowledge where I had myself got into. Well, I read the wikipedia article of course, but that is not the whole truth.. People speaking everywhere German and never been in Germany or Stuttgart.. Whoa!
Weather changed from Finland's warm winter weather( -10 or something, snowing) to Stuttgart's warm winter weather(+10, raining and sun shine) and magically all snow disappeared on the way.
And then she was there, Michaela, who was my student buddy from HdM. She came there to pick me up from the airport and to get me through the city to the student hotel in city center, where I stayed three nights, because I couldn't get my keys to accomodation until 1.3.
And she was even kind to show me little about the city on weekend and tell me about the city and took me to eat traditional food Spätzle, that's for the title, meal I ate.
Thank you so much Michaela. :)

Then it was time to move in our perminent accomodation in Student Wohnheim near the school in Vaihingen. Well, it's like Teekkarikylä in Espoo with full of crazy germans.
Room is OK, the bathroom allmost OK (without the funky smell) and the kitchen was like WTF?! So dirty at first and looked like junkyard with broken sofas and old tv. Now i'm little bit used to it and it is tolerable.
Then there was much paperwork to do (accomodation, bank account, etc.) and tours and drinking and getting know the other exchange students. Whole week just went by so fast.
Now it is saturday, some guided tours to local sightseeings and SNOW! Weird stuff to the locals.
Rained all morning and probably will be gone on monday.

Maybe this is a good start, don't want to write everything, because then I would have to write a bible. There has been so many thing happened here. Tsüss :)

P.S Getting on with the German language.