International Hug-A-Finn Day!
Mar. 28th, 2008 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantae
Okay, not really. But feel free to hug one anyway.
I have absolutely no affiliation with either group, but today I helped out the International office with programming (in iHouse) for a few handfuls of various Rotary Exchange high school students. I'd seen the roster beforehand and knew there was a Finn.
Figure 1. Imaginary beard
(At this point I will not post the edited version
of this photo in which DLS *draws* a beard on me.)
Even as I walked into the room with all of the students, a cursory survey was all I needed to identify him out of all of the rest of them. I guess I'm just that good, huh?
We iHouse volunteers played some social games and watched some presentations with the students, and they asked us about studying here and stuff. Then we went to eat pizza together. Afterward they got a tour of the campus, but I couldn't stay for that because I had to go to class.
Otto (the Finn - I think he said he was from Tuusula) and I exchanged email addresses and phone numbers - he was really more amused than intimidated by my whole 'beloved homeland' thing - I told him that I had even specifically cleaned my room in the event that there was time for a tour of iHouse (there wasn't), but he said that he wouldn't mind coming by another time. He wanted to see my weird Finnish things, some of which even he hadn't seen before.
Figure 2. OM NOM NOM
He didn't really want a campus tour anyway, since he already comes to the campus often for his music lessons. But he went anyway, and it was really really hard for me to say goodbye. ='(
And so a Finn hugged me today. A real, live, genuine Finn. I don't need drugs to get high. I just need Finns to hug me. *heart*
I have absolutely no affiliation with either group, but today I helped out the International office with programming (in iHouse) for a few handfuls of various Rotary Exchange high school students. I'd seen the roster beforehand and knew there was a Finn.
Figure 1. Imaginary beard
(At this point I will not post the edited version
of this photo in which DLS *draws* a beard on me.)
Even as I walked into the room with all of the students, a cursory survey was all I needed to identify him out of all of the rest of them. I guess I'm just that good, huh?
We iHouse volunteers played some social games and watched some presentations with the students, and they asked us about studying here and stuff. Then we went to eat pizza together. Afterward they got a tour of the campus, but I couldn't stay for that because I had to go to class.
Otto (the Finn - I think he said he was from Tuusula) and I exchanged email addresses and phone numbers - he was really more amused than intimidated by my whole 'beloved homeland' thing - I told him that I had even specifically cleaned my room in the event that there was time for a tour of iHouse (there wasn't), but he said that he wouldn't mind coming by another time. He wanted to see my weird Finnish things, some of which even he hadn't seen before.
Figure 2. OM NOM NOM
He didn't really want a campus tour anyway, since he already comes to the campus often for his music lessons. But he went anyway, and it was really really hard for me to say goodbye. ='(
And so a Finn hugged me today. A real, live, genuine Finn. I don't need drugs to get high. I just need Finns to hug me. *heart*
