City life

After the first week of school and the second living in the capital I am a little bit wiser and more experienced. First of all, I've got a better idea of what my studies will be like and well, I can't tell yet if it's a good or a bad thing. Time will show if I choose to stay here or to try again to find what I am supposed to do. I haven't had enough lessons to determine whether I like them or not, though I already like French. I am kind of in a constant panic about it, since I will have to study so damned much independently if I want to really learn it and I don't know if I will be able to make enough time for it. Also our big project for the spring has started and I gotta say I am a little nervous about it since we haven't even agreed on the company we want to research. We'll see.

It has been damned cold the whole time I've lived here. Luckily, it will be only around -8 degrees next week so I won't totally freeze. Anyway, I have used the public transport enough to a. freeze a few times waiting for a tram at the stop, b. (almost) learn how to use it and c. manage to be the only sober one in a metro. On Friday around midnight on the way from eastern Helsinki to the center I got to witness all types of drunk people and I laughed so much in my head the whole way. There were the teenage girls, one of whom was asking another one to please aim elsewhere if she was to throw up, a loud and happy group of youngsters, a small group of 30-ish men coming from a poker night, sophisticated and cool. Desperate immigrant trying to hit on every girl within five meters (not to be racist, it just happened to be an immigrant.. I am a 100 % sure a Finnish man would be the same in case he ever managed to get in a metro in still that good condition) and of course, the typical old-fashioned drunk to whom that state was probably everyday life.

I don't say I'm loving it here but it's not too bad, though sometimes I really miss the peace and quiet.