I have been lazy with this writing stuff lately.
The end of my exchange is near, less than three weeks now and have to start thinking about going home. Blah. :/
I would've liked to stay longer and nothing was stopping, but maybe I have to take myself from the neck and finish my school back home. Maybe then it is time for another adventure. It has been that, Great adventure. They said, when I applied to exchange, that it will be one of the greatest experiences and it will change you. Yes it have done that. A really life-long-experience.
There is one legendary line that Finnish javelin thrower Seppo Räty said when he lost place to finals in Stuttgart 1993:
"Saksa on paska maa"
Loosely translated: German is crappy country.
He was/is known about his straight comments without any snobbery.
But I would say it is good country, it has it's own problems like everywhere else. For example if you have to make any paperwork or documents to goverment or any office. It is not a legend, the German bureaucracy.. :)
Or lowpaid workers that don't give a shit about your problems. Usually there is really good service but sometimes the lower prices come with this side.
I also have been learn much to speak Deutschesprache, still have long way to go for longer discussions though. But I am happy with that. :)
And I got many new friends. Of course some of them might drop off some point for not beeing in contact but I think there is few people that might be longer friendships, atleast the Finns and few Finnish fans. Yes, there is foreign people that like Finland for other reasons than social benefits from goverment!
My god it is really confusing feeling that same time I would like to stay and I miss Finland and would like to go home.
So now for the news, football is over now and have to say that here it is really more than game. It is amazing how these people are supporting their team. Cars have flags(some have even more than two) and sidemirror sleeves with German flag colours. When people go out to see a game from big screens (in every bar and restaurant and kiosk) they wear German colours and flags and blowing their vuvuzelas (German flag coloured vuvuzelas of course).
Everywhere was told how the game was going, train timetables, train announcements and so on. Even the polices were sometimes wearing something flag related. People got free time from jobs because of German game. Crazy. But it was so sad when they lost against Spain. :(
And I had two trips also, to Barcelona and Berlin.
Barcelona was very interesting place and hot. Boy it was nice weather for a walking there. Saw first time ever a living palm tree outside in nature and that is the most southest point I have been this far. And it was first time in Ryanair trip, that was interesting experience too. Flight left from Memming which is in border of Bavaria and Baden-Württenberg and ended to Reus, about 100km east from Barcelona. Hometrip was from Girona-> Memming, so we had to travel quite a while to get to aeroplane, but there were few spectacular views in those trips.
Berlin was really confusing place, in same time really good old eastern block, modern, historic and new. Like there is old DDR building looking like it is going to collapse and next to it has new modern glas and steel building. They can really make out interesting stuff about times of a Iron curtain. People selling stamps to your passport from DDR, old soviet stuff and trabant safaris. And there was a gay pride also, wasn't there but saw really many of them. It is kind of sad that wasn't there, even if I'm not same kind of a people. :/
Quite much to tell in one post, but I have been lazy and this is how it backfires. I'm sorry. I know there will be spelling errors and stuff, but I don't really care. I'm sorry with that too. I still write relatively good english, I hope. Atleast it is better than my German.. :)
maanantai 12. heinäkuuta 2010
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