Allergies and Rain
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kyrasantae
The food court under one of the shopping malls in downtown Helsinki has a couple of fast food steak joints. WTF?
So yesterday I arrive in Helsinki 8:30AM, when the doors on the train jammed for some reason and the conductors had to go open them from the outside.
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gemigemi had been ill all last week and had hardly any sleep when he drove by to pick me up. The rest of the day went by pretty quickly with my working on my essay assignment on K (his gf)'s computer and watching a bit of TV and eating. It was very cloudy and very windy, but it didn't rain.
When I was almost done my essay, I took a break to play some GW with K and someone else from the GWiki. It's definitely an experience to play on a widescreen monitor on a real computer. And although the keys are different, the controls are still mapped to the same places on the keyboard as though it were an American keyboard, so I didn't have to think too hard. Then I finished my essay and submitted it. It's only 4.5 pages, but I think I ran out of things to say by page 2.
Espoo is in zone 2 of the transit system, so it costs 3,80€ to travel to zone 1 (a.k.a. Helsinki). Ouch. For 80 minutes. Normally, people can buy a reloadable debit card (like Octopus card) and put money on it, or have it set to a monthly pass and pay for it just once each month. Then it costs less.
I wanted to try Finnish Coca-Cola but first it had to rain a lot. Unfortunately I think I have discovered why I was ill on Sunday -- it's not the kebab, it's the pop I had after it. Because after a few swigs of Coke, here I am all nauseous again, but my body is holding it down and I just want it to come up so I don't have to be in agony, wondering when I need to dash to the porcelin god and make my offering...
Somehow I've managed to keep it down until I digested. Whew.
Earlier,gemigemi stopped by an arcade to show off some of his "dance" moves. He's one of the top dance game players in .fi, and at the speed one needs at that kind of level, it's actually more of a lightning fast tap dance.
We watched 'Aladdin' with Finnish subtitles on with some technical difficulty, then continued playing [board] games into the night. And I mean The Night. Like f*cked-up-sleep-pattern-from-2nd-year night. Seems like the two of them operate normally at that level. And "into the night" here also means "until the sun is completely up." And to those who say I spend too much time on the computer: you ain't seen nothing yet.
So yesterday I arrive in Helsinki 8:30AM, when the doors on the train jammed for some reason and the conductors had to go open them from the outside.
gemigemi had been ill all last week and had hardly any sleep when he drove by to pick me up. The rest of the day went by pretty quickly with my working on my essay assignment on K (his gf)'s computer and watching a bit of TV and eating. It was very cloudy and very windy, but it didn't rain. When I was almost done my essay, I took a break to play some GW with K and someone else from the GWiki. It's definitely an experience to play on a widescreen monitor on a real computer. And although the keys are different, the controls are still mapped to the same places on the keyboard as though it were an American keyboard, so I didn't have to think too hard. Then I finished my essay and submitted it. It's only 4.5 pages, but I think I ran out of things to say by page 2.
Espoo is in zone 2 of the transit system, so it costs 3,80€ to travel to zone 1 (a.k.a. Helsinki). Ouch. For 80 minutes. Normally, people can buy a reloadable debit card (like Octopus card) and put money on it, or have it set to a monthly pass and pay for it just once each month. Then it costs less.
I wanted to try Finnish Coca-Cola but first it had to rain a lot. Unfortunately I think I have discovered why I was ill on Sunday -- it's not the kebab, it's the pop I had after it. Because after a few swigs of Coke, here I am all nauseous again, but my body is holding it down and I just want it to come up so I don't have to be in agony, wondering when I need to dash to the porcelin god and make my offering...
Somehow I've managed to keep it down until I digested. Whew.
Earlier,
gemigemi stopped by an arcade to show off some of his "dance" moves. He's one of the top dance game players in .fi, and at the speed one needs at that kind of level, it's actually more of a lightning fast tap dance.We watched 'Aladdin' with Finnish subtitles on with some technical difficulty, then continued playing [board] games into the night. And I mean The Night. Like f*cked-up-sleep-pattern-from-2nd-year night. Seems like the two of them operate normally at that level. And "into the night" here also means "until the sun is completely up." And to those who say I spend too much time on the computer: you ain't seen nothing yet.
