I'm in Utö

So I'm in Utö.

A small island off the coast of BFE.

It is absolutely beautiful here.

I will show you more in a minute.

Mo Fotoz

I will explain these later.

Night night.

Photo dump 3

Finger statue inside city hall.

We got some pretty sweet bags and a couple books from the City of Helsinki!  We were also treated to some fresh fruit, red current juice, and of course coffee.

Our tour guide, he was fabulous.

I found where I go to church!

We have a palace in front of our apartment building.

Our apartment entrance is in between two stores, a bookstore and a bait/fishing store.

Lonnrotinkatu at night.

Hand

I just read my roommates blog and it reminded me...

I found out that Cassie or kasi means "hand" in finnish!

So all last semester when I went around saying "Mina olin Cassie" what I was really saying was "I'm handy."

So "Mina olen Cassandra."

Photo Dump 2

Well here is the second dump of photographs.

We went to Otaniemi where our school is located.  It is about a 15 minute bus ride from Kamppi in town.  I didn't photograph a lot while we were out there, but here are a few of the ones I took.

Nice meditation/religious center on campus

Only strip mall ever designed by Aalto.

(on campus)

This was one night where we met up with the gang to walk around and check out a cool bar which is in the tallest building in Helsinki.  It was pretty much a clock tower on top of a 7 story building.  Cool views though.

Some square at night.

View from a bar.  A coke was 4,50 euros.

Check out the triangle skylights on the bottom left.

I made Jonathan take a picture with me.  Poor kid.

Cool stairs.  One flight of 12 to get up to the bar!

Another night we met our history professor and took a walking tour of some buildings in Helsinki.

At our meeting spot, aka Phil's bosses office.  

Creepy/cool crypt/chapel under the large Cathedral.

The Library in Senate Square.

This was in the addition of the library.

Cool staircase at Helsinki University at Senate Square.

Sirrkalissa, our history professor, is the cutest person ever tied with our kickboxing 3 time grandmother landlord Britta!

Will add more later.  I'm going to bed now.

Sleepy time

Hello everybody!

Well I am absolutely exhausted so I am not going to write very much. Jet lag sucks.
I love it here. It is really neat. I feel as though I am in a scene from Mission Impossible or the Bourne Identity all the time. It is relatively dark. The sun has only made a real appearance once otherwise it has been hiding behind fog and cloud cover.

I left Maine on Thursday. Got to the Munich airport on Friday and met up with Vac.  Arrived in Finland around 2 pm. Drove around with our program assistants Maiju and Phillip while they were shuttling people to their various apartments. I got car sick.

The apartment is great. There's Jordan, James, and I living together. When we arrived the dining area had been partitioned by a curtain and a bed placed where the table should be, so there was no common space or area to hang out in. So Jordie and I took the large room and James took the smaller middle room.

We met up with some of the other students that night at a place called Nolle.  Pretty chill place, it was fun.  The cheese there was not my favorite.

I'm falling asleep.
I will fix this later.
Night night.

I'm here!

I arrived in Finland yesterday!

More to come...