To winter or not to winter...

Looking out of the window, especially the exchange students from southern countries had several nice moments today. I didn't (neither my father would, but he's in sunny Austria now). You can imagine - it started snowing. It seems as the winter finally arrived in Helsinki.

Anyway, that's not really the winter anybody may like. It's snowing, yes, some people consider that as romantic, beautiful or whatever. Actually, I haven't that much against it, but snow coming from the front (like the rain here) together with the unevitable heavy wind isn't really comfortable for me.

Strange for me was the impression seeing Finns having accidents (three accidents during a 3-minute walk home from university) with their cars (NB: 5 centimeters of snow on the street!) like usually only people from Vienna do. I thought snow shouldn't be a big problem for them, but you always learn something new here in Helsinki.

Today I signed up for the Freshmen's party next Thursday. It's a big event for students (there are no courses on Thursday and Friday!), moving around from bar to bar in crazy clothes (my team still thinks about a good theme for that) getting the drinks there almost for free. Isn't that a nice opportunity to save money? Also, I finally got my IxESN Card (International Exchange Erasmus Student Network) which means lots of dicounts in many matters of life in Helsinki (free entrance in clubs, cheaper drinks, special offers in stores, ...).