First Day at School!

I really should have posted this yesterday, but I took the photos today because the weather's just much nicer!


This is a Finnish keyboard, apparently. It has very strange character sets that keep throwing me off when I try to type on it.


This is the top of one of the major shopping centres in Helsinki, Kamppi. If I paid 540e PER MONTH, I would be living here in the Studios. Uhh... no thanks.




This is a street sweeper waiting to pounce - they sweep sidewalks too! Water gets sprayed while its sweeping so the dust doesn't get kicked up all over the place, its kinda neat.




Another snippet of home - Metro!




In front Aalto University School of Economics (aka Helsinki School of Economics). The locals still call it HSE because of the branding. Apparently, HSE is a difficult school to get into. I guess either a) international students are exempt, or b) I'm awesome?


The Arkadia buildling. Another building that belongs to HSE.


Dr. Gregory House - yet another thing to remind me of home.

Finland is great so far. I'm meeting lots of international students, all with very interesting stories to tell about their own cultures and experience. I've also had the fortune to meet another student from SFU - very cool! We formed an all Canadian row in our Management of Technology class and for any group work, I think we'll be working together. It makes it a heck lot easier for us to accomplish the work.

So far my expenditures are not looking good - already spent upwards of 400e but I don't know where its gone! I must keep better track of my finances, otherwise I run the risk of being bankrupt and bankrupting my parents!