my new flat

:) well I mentioned some time ago, that I didn't have time to blog about everything because of me moving and so on ... anyway moving has actually been done already before vappu... (but unpacking took a bit longer),.. still my flat is not very furnitured or so.. but now after the construction worker started to  remove their construction frames in front of my windows, I decided I can show you my nice little flat with its view :) (unpacking still not 100% finished and I will buy furniture as soon as I know the results of my new plans ^^) ... :)
(I also decided to show you how my old flat looked like, when I was packing and getting ready for moving)

my old flat when I was prepairing everything for the move :)

entrance (view from the kitchen)

view from my bedroom's window :)

my bedroom (or atleast a little piece of it ^^)

my kitchen :D

my (unfurnished) living room :)

view from my balcony

Talinn

:) well I've made a short trip to Talinn,... it was just two days :) but it was enough to find out that Talinn is a very nice city! We've visited museums, tasted estonian food and walked around the city centre :) ... luckily we had very nice weather!.. ^^ so here are a few pictures

Vappu

:) well today I'm gonna talk about Vappu!.. (May Day.. 1st of May)
Finns do celebrate that one a lot ... at least students happen to drink a lot around that date, means some start a week before the actual Vappu with all the parties and drinking etc.
So, what did I do on Vappu? xD Well I tried to make it like the finns (with out drinking that much, but not without alcohol either ..) on Sunday there was an Exchange Vappu party (means for exchange students, but of course not only for them ..) I stayed until they closed (means around 4!) at the party,... then me and some friends had a picknick on monday and on tuesday (1st of may) there was the Vappu-picknick, it started at around 12. We had a nice spot from which we could see the student tipping... :) some students got tipped into the cold water! At the picknick we had a lot of food, but not only regular snacks and so on... no :) of course we had some home made Sima and some Munkkies ... At Vappu Finns eat Tipaleipä and Munkki and they drink Sima ... Sima is some sort of mead. - Very delicious :D
oh and students of course wear their overalls and their student hats :)!

so here are some pictures of the tipping, the sima, tipaleipä, munkkies and students outfit.. (my overal is very empty at the moment because I didn't have patches ... but anyway, I kinda like it!)

SIMA

Student tipping :)

Munkki

Tipaleipä

 

Student's outfit :)

St. Petersburg

:) finally I found some time to post this!..

I was in St. Petersburg for a few days and I have seen a lot there, I wasn't alone there, I was there with a group of people from ESN Fint.
We went by ship to St. Petersburg, so we didn't need a Visa but we had something similar to it... When we arrived we had a City Tour, to see as much as possible of St Petersburg. In the evening we went to see the Ballet Swan Lake. (It was very interessting and I liked it!) Afterwards we had the oppurtunity to have a small city tour with a limosine and then party in a club.
The next day we were going on a small tour which was called "City of the Tsars", during that we also visited the Cathrine's Cathedral, which is very beautiful! In the evening we had the "Russian Dinner"... which I would recomment everybody to also book :) when doing that trip!... It was a lot of fun, the food was delicious and the folkloreshow was really good.
The day after we went to see the Hermitage Museum (which is very huge!) After that we went on a small Cathedrals Tour to see a few beautiful Cathedrals such as St. Isaacs, Trinity or Cathedral on spilled blood...
I took a lot of pictures :) and now that I've summed up what we did, I'm going to show a few to you!