NO ELECTRICITY! ALL TASKS DUE IN A WEEK! PANIC!

Today morning I woke up early for a weekend, around 7 a.m. Probs for half an hour tried to log on to Facebook and email etc. Then I noticed that my iPad wasn't charging, even though it was plugged to the charger that was plugged to a extension chord that was plugged to a socket, then I realize that we don't have any electricity... I look outside my window and Denmark house doesn't have any lights on either. I get worried. If the whole student village (especially Norway-house) has been out of electricity that can mean only one thing; NO ELECTRICITY for the WHOLE WEEKEND! I walked down to Kantina with my laptop and start to work with school stuff (Yes, me and Jenny still have our weekend let's sit, work and eat in the kantina for 5 hours- weekend mornings). I was doing my Global Politics IA (internal assessment) and needed to check one fact online. NONE of the WIFIs on Campus had internet. Everyone was is panic during breakfast since people have IAs and EEs to hand in tomorrow or in a week. All of the IAs I'm working on need to be handed in within the next 10 days, some of them I haven't even properly started... What means that next week I will just be working, going to classes and EACs. 

Luckily we got internet back around noon. Probably the Rektor woke up then and noticed that he has no Internet and called the IT-guys to come and fix it. For me to really get work done I need to wake up early and start to work straight away. Since this really didn't happen I started to design our room door. We have this room door decoration contest, so a lot of rooms do really nice decorations for their doors. Last year, my room had a colorful world map and we had our photos and names near our home countries. This year we are doing something different, but still nice. The competition ends tomorrow, so probs we won't have enough time to participate in it, but at least we will have a nice door. I'll post a pic when it's done. 

On Friday I went to Dale and bought a lot of food and baking equipment, I actually didn't spend that much money as I thought I would have. The reason for this massive shopping spree is that my Leirskule Media- activities changed. Granted I wanted to change them, but now I am taking photos of Welcome Group, when the Monday bus to Dale goes and during Fridays I normally have swimming EAC. This week the EAC was cancelled due to swimming tests for firsties. One of the cooking equipment I bought was a pie tray, and of course it was too large for the tiny ovens we have here at RCN. We had a Friday Cafe and they didn't need the proper oven so I go to bake my pie there. The leak pie I made was really good and not just according to me, a lot of people said that it was one of the best pies they have ever eaten. 

Since most of the firsties passed the swimming test yesterday, there were a lot of people today in the sauna. It was weird and nice at the same time. Last year there was a group of people  who were always in the sauna, mostly second years, some co-years. I really missed having Johanna, Karri, Marit (Estonia), Georgio (Belarus) etc. there. It wasn't the same.I had to defend the Finnish Sauna Culture alone. Most of the time the small upper bench was basically me and some crazy Eastern Europeans. At least people were not blaming the Finns this time for a too warm sauna. 

I can't remember did I mention of our last weeks Finnish Gathering, well tomorrow we are extending it by 4 other people and having a Finnic Gathering. So basically we have a gathering with the Estonians and Hungarians. I am planning on baking blueberry pie with a sweet bun base (pulla-taikina pohja). Before this during brunch me and Gong Pei ( a close friend of mine, from China) will be cooking and eating Asian food. I am so excited about this, since I miss our restaurant gatherings from last year with Marcella, Hana (Maldives), Evelina and Kornelia (Sweden), Pishun (Hong Kong/UK), Felipe (Mexico), Tim (Hong Kong) and some times Ray Nee (Singapore) and Astrid (Denmark) and Mais (Jordan). Everyone except for Tim and RayNee are my second years. 

Talking about second years, I skyped last week with Kelly and will skype Ange soon. Marcella sent me and some other people on Campus postcards... 

I can't remember and imagine how hard it is for all the firsties to learn 200 names, when they are not even used to all of these super complicated names. I have a hard time remembering/ distinguishing people from each other, while I have some 95 familiar faces around campus already. 

We started classes last Wednesday and I had all classes except for Econ, since the teacher was sick. I really enjoy all of my classes at the moment. My favorite class so far has been Norwegian, then Global Politics, then probably Math. In Norwegian my teacher changed and the new one is much better and I can understand everything that he says. I was super scared that I would have lost all of my Norwegian during the break since I have been listening and watching Swedish TV-programs. The opposite has happened I can actually understand and follow spoken Norwegian well. I am really excited, since hopefully in a month or so I can practice my Norwegian with my roommate. In Global Politics we started a new topic Peace & Conflict, which is basically what I am doing my EE on, so now I can actually contribute in class some way. Also I feel more confident in this new class... 

Hopefully next week will be great and I'll have time for something else as well as working all the time. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and next week, where ever you are! 

- anniina   

ps. Why couldn't writing 1000 words of academic essays be as easy as writing this blog post?