The Martial Art of Fly-Swatting
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kyrasantae
I went to bed around 4pm yesterday, after finally taking a bus out of Tampere at 8am and being finally back home at around 10am and eating lunch and watching "The Terminal". When I woke my clock said 2:00 and I needed a bit of a reality check to be sure it was only 2am before I fell back asleep. Then I got up at a bit past 7 to get ready and go to class. Had it been 2pm (and I was expecting only a nap so I didn't set the alarm), I would have been very upset.
As I walked home today after school (and yet more shopping), I had a stupid thought, because I hate walking 35 minutes just to get back to the apartment and there's nothing new to see: is there anything more to life than walking home, and shopping? I'm not complaining that there is nothing to do here, but that all of these social networks we have is nothing.
J has developed a fruit fly problem in the kitchen (and indeed, the entire apartment), so we spent a significant bit of the evening swatting at flies with our hands, and listening to a couple of albums I bought which I, gasp, have not heard before. Well, one was a kind of a gimme since it's Rajaton and I have to have all of their albums but the other was completely new to me. It was okay, I'm not sure if I'm used to this normal, non-epic, non-folk, non-power metal thing.
I visited a Finnish classmate's apartment here in the student village, and it's very nice: a bachelor apartment.
I showed J the kind of money I pay for my own rent back in Edmonton, and she is completely shocked that we have to pay that, as well as tuition, from practically our own pockets. I guess it's why Finnish students are a bit slack. They get a student stipend from the government for their rent and living costs, and tuition is free. One can't help but take that for granted easily.
As I walked home today after school (and yet more shopping), I had a stupid thought, because I hate walking 35 minutes just to get back to the apartment and there's nothing new to see: is there anything more to life than walking home, and shopping? I'm not complaining that there is nothing to do here, but that all of these social networks we have is nothing.
J has developed a fruit fly problem in the kitchen (and indeed, the entire apartment), so we spent a significant bit of the evening swatting at flies with our hands, and listening to a couple of albums I bought which I, gasp, have not heard before. Well, one was a kind of a gimme since it's Rajaton and I have to have all of their albums but the other was completely new to me. It was okay, I'm not sure if I'm used to this normal, non-epic, non-folk, non-power metal thing.
I visited a Finnish classmate's apartment here in the student village, and it's very nice: a bachelor apartment.
I showed J the kind of money I pay for my own rent back in Edmonton, and she is completely shocked that we have to pay that, as well as tuition, from practically our own pockets. I guess it's why Finnish students are a bit slack. They get a student stipend from the government for their rent and living costs, and tuition is free. One can't help but take that for granted easily.
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Date: 2008-06-03 07:43 am (UTC)