This whole week has been orientation, and let me tell you, it's been hard to sit through.
Orientation at a new school is incredibly important, and I believe that it can be chock full of extremely important information, but I also think there is such a thing as too much information. We're all adults after all, and some things should just be common knowledge to us. Take for instance the constant reminder to clean up after yourself if you use the kitchen. We got it the first time, no reason to repeat it 80 more times, and moreover, if you need to be told to clean up your own mess there's a problem.
That's beyond the point though! I really love it here in Finland even if I don't always know where I'm going haha. My sense of direction here is okay, but due to the length of the names of certain places I tend to forget the names which makes it hard to find them when people want to go there as a meeting point. Luckily I've got great friends who are practically like homing pigeons and they always make me feel safe if we end up having to walk home because we've been out too late.
Speaking of friends, today was a beautiful example as to why you should make local friends!
Firstly, when I went to go to my overall fitting (I'll talk about the overalls in more depth when I actually get them, until then live in suspense), I found the directions given to me extremely vague and unhelpful. If it wasn't for my friend I would have stood outside that office with no idea what to do. I can't wait for my survival Finnish course so I don't always have to ask for her help.
Secondly, I was invited to see a dress rehearsal of a professional production of "Evita", like I'm talking about I got in free to a show that has ticket prices starting at 28€! So, of course the whole thing was in Finnish so I didn't understand everything, but it was still a great production and I picked a lot up from context clues and from my friends.
This week has been really great all the same and I'm going to the flea market and the fresh market tomorrow so I'm going to have a lot of fun.
Moi Moi~! I'll talk to you later.
Brieana K.
Orientation at a new school is incredibly important, and I believe that it can be chock full of extremely important information, but I also think there is such a thing as too much information. We're all adults after all, and some things should just be common knowledge to us. Take for instance the constant reminder to clean up after yourself if you use the kitchen. We got it the first time, no reason to repeat it 80 more times, and moreover, if you need to be told to clean up your own mess there's a problem.
That's beyond the point though! I really love it here in Finland even if I don't always know where I'm going haha. My sense of direction here is okay, but due to the length of the names of certain places I tend to forget the names which makes it hard to find them when people want to go there as a meeting point. Luckily I've got great friends who are practically like homing pigeons and they always make me feel safe if we end up having to walk home because we've been out too late.
Speaking of friends, today was a beautiful example as to why you should make local friends!
Firstly, when I went to go to my overall fitting (I'll talk about the overalls in more depth when I actually get them, until then live in suspense), I found the directions given to me extremely vague and unhelpful. If it wasn't for my friend I would have stood outside that office with no idea what to do. I can't wait for my survival Finnish course so I don't always have to ask for her help.
Secondly, I was invited to see a dress rehearsal of a professional production of "Evita", like I'm talking about I got in free to a show that has ticket prices starting at 28€! So, of course the whole thing was in Finnish so I didn't understand everything, but it was still a great production and I picked a lot up from context clues and from my friends.
This week has been really great all the same and I'm going to the flea market and the fresh market tomorrow so I'm going to have a lot of fun.
Moi Moi~! I'll talk to you later.
Brieana K.