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kyrasantae
Again there's a fancy letterhead-looking sheet of A4 paper in a fancy letterhead-looking envelope with some other sheets of regular A4 paper with words printed on them.
The fancy letterhead-looking sheet doesn't have the squiggle signature this time because there's a new person in the position to sign it now. It's a certificate of my finished Finnishness (ahahahahaha bad pun), or rather, an official letter stating that I did these courses and that these other sheets of paper are my official transcript of my grades. With the official blue ink stamps and such. Simple. Practical. Efficient.
Finnish courses are graded on a scale of 0-5 with 5 being the best and a 0 being a fail - I knew I had a 5 in crash-course-in-Finnish since I had found a completely Finnish-language email to that effect in my temporary jyu email account. And I put forth such an admirable effort in the intro-to-interculturalness-type-stuff class that I'm not surprised that I got a 5 in that too. I only got a 4 in omg-zzz-let's-see-what-Nils-is-up-to-instead class, but somehow I get the feeling that few people got a 5 in it, given how boring it was and how it was really BS in our essays.
Yeah, that's the only excitement in an otherwise crappy day, in which the zipper on my pencil bag broke, I did the wrong page in my book for German homework, and an elevator door closed on me, causing me to spill my entire lunch (which I had *just* bought 5 minutes ago) on the floor1.
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kyrasantae: and woo i have 10 random european credits.2
gemigemi: :) I noticed
kyrasantae: ...
kyrasantae: RANDOM, I TELL YOU!!
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1 Which really doesn't seem so bad anymore once you realize that a typical take-out meal in Finland costs around 6-7€. That's nothing compared to $5.50 for this wasted lunch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the taxes. It's such a strange (and unfounded) feeling of affluence after coming back.
2 That's only 1/18 of a bachelor's degree. Gosh, they make it look so easy.
The fancy letterhead-looking sheet doesn't have the squiggle signature this time because there's a new person in the position to sign it now. It's a certificate of my finished Finnishness (ahahahahaha bad pun), or rather, an official letter stating that I did these courses and that these other sheets of paper are my official transcript of my grades. With the official blue ink stamps and such. Simple. Practical. Efficient.
Finnish courses are graded on a scale of 0-5 with 5 being the best and a 0 being a fail - I knew I had a 5 in crash-course-in-Finnish since I had found a completely Finnish-language email to that effect in my temporary jyu email account. And I put forth such an admirable effort in the intro-to-interculturalness-type-stuff class that I'm not surprised that I got a 5 in that too. I only got a 4 in omg-zzz-let's-see-what-Nils-is-up-to-instead class, but somehow I get the feeling that few people got a 5 in it, given how boring it was and how it was really BS in our essays.
Yeah, that's the only excitement in an otherwise crappy day, in which the zipper on my pencil bag broke, I did the wrong page in my book for German homework, and an elevator door closed on me, causing me to spill my entire lunch (which I had *just* bought 5 minutes ago) on the floor1.
kyrasantae: and woo i have 10 random european credits.2gemigemi: :) I noticedkyrasantae: ...kyrasantae: RANDOM, I TELL YOU!!__________
1 Which really doesn't seem so bad anymore once you realize that a typical take-out meal in Finland costs around 6-7€. That's nothing compared to $5.50 for this wasted lunch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the taxes. It's such a strange (and unfounded) feeling of affluence after coming back.
2 That's only 1/18 of a bachelor's degree. Gosh, they make it look so easy.
