The Freshmen's Party

After a pretty "normal" and busy week, on Thursday, we new students were introduced officially into the student life of Helsinki - the Freshmen's party took place. It's not a party only for exchange students, every first-semester student has to participate (yeah, it's a kind of the same what the crazy dudes from Leoben have in the beginning of December). And most of us took part, dressed up in crazy clothes...

The event starts at around 3:00pm, the students walk around in groups of around 10 people in the center of Helsinki. In several bars, there are different activities to do (like roleplays, singing songs and such crazy stuff). The result was unbelievable: In the center, you could see many groups of students walking around (for those who don't know: the "downtown" of Helsinki is - concerning size - comparable to Graz, means rather small), singing all kinds of songs on the way to their next stations.

After completing all the stations (and getting points for the competition), all the students moved to the DTM Club (the biggest Gay-Club in Scandinavia ;-)), where the show went on. It was a really funny afternoon, evening and night - even though I had to do lots of work for university on Friday. Now, I'm just preparing for going to the countryside, me and some friends rent a little cottage by a lake and will spend the weekend there. More stories to follow ;-).