Hamburg Tour

 

 

 

Easter Goofies

Mom and Iines visited me in Hamburg for the Easter.

 

I'll put the rest of our holiday pictures later.

O Boy What Joy

This is going to interest you all as much as the-used-underwear-of-the-nextdoor-granny-on-a-sunny-day BUTTTT.. 

I just spend an entire day hyping over my new jeans :D

We came from the Woods..

 

..and that's where we'll return.

A month ago I started the language course prepairing me for my TestDaf. In this course every one of us was supposed to present a short intorduction of their country. Filled with pride and positive images of my beautiful Finland, spiced with homesickness of course, I told about the land of thousand lakes and great social system. Sauna, salmiakki, Nokia, Marimekko and Santa Claus. Finnish nature, Finnish education, Finnish design. After my presentation every single person in my audience wanted to move to Finland. The great country of justice and security. Yes, we have long dark cold winters, high taxation and high-ranking suicide rates but children can enjoy kindergarten and free education, and even if you are an unemployed alcoholic you have a mobile phone, income and home from the government. And talking about unemployeds and alcoholics..

..I was thinking of making a political update about the election result in Finland. Now however I feel tired and what can I say? I'm astonished and ashamed. There is no excuses for the people calling themselves True Finns. The nation get's what it deserves.

Read and learn about the soul of Finland:
- Who are they
- Situation check up
- What the world thinks

 

What are we? A tiny nation afraid of foreigners, homosexuals and taking responsibility.

"So what are we like supposed to do in the Parlament?"
"Haha, the fuck would I know."

What I think is unfair is that due to our minor population these kind of opinions push easily into the parliament and cause problems to the whole European Union. What kind of democracy is it, that 560 000 hillbillys decide for the future of an entire continent? Obviously and interestingly the voters of True Finns mainly consist of men with over 71%. The most outrageous comment I've read about the True Finns is that "a low birth rate is not solved by immigration, as that results in problems and foreigners do not fit into the Finnish culture. Instead, young women should study less and spend more time giving birth to PURE Finnish children."

Points for you nazis. I guess that would make me a traitor for leaving my country for studies and especially in having a german boyfriend? Right back to stone age. These kinds of thoughts make me laugh bitterly while remembering my presentation.

 

The lyrics of this song are the probably the best description of Finnish people. I didn't link the translation as it ruined the whole text by being dead simple and the video tells the rest. From a Finnish movie Häjyt.

Heading for the Record Store

I'm in love. Sure sure I was always a big fan of Sting but was a bit sceptic about this hype about his daughter. After hearing the album on Youtube I doubt no more. I Blame Coco won me over with cool sounds and intriguing looks.

TestDaf Horror

I had my German test today. Not just any test but the TestDaf, organized all over the world, The Test measuring if a person's German is good enough to be able to study in a German University. I have been sweating, crying, shaking and whining heavily since the last week. I have reviced and polished my skills by reading, speaking, listening and writing, with a course and without a course.. And for the fun I paid 175 euros.

I'm insanely glad that the whole monster is over as I haven't been able to sleep or eat enough since thursday. No matter how hard I learned it was still a nightmare.

The test began with a reading apprehension. An hour of desperation and perspiration. We are given 60min to read 3 texts (more or less) and answer altogether 30 questions. Normally I finish 20 min earlier but this time... Oh my Goodness, it was truely a hell. Nobody stood a chance: both the text and the questions given were out of this world. Well.. out of our immigrant league to be more exact.

Second part was listening. We hear 2 texts only once and the third one twice. Questions are in German and you answer in German. Topics remain between University life and Science. I fucked up the 2nd text ny passing a question and then had to guess the rest as I couldn't pick up anymore. This part might have just ruined my chances to get to Uni. You can just imgaine how depressed I am.


3rd one was 1 hour of writing. They give you the topic, a graphic to explain and questions to answer. I managed to finish my essay in time. I didn't point out much mistakes but it is actually the content and readability that counts. I hope to score high..



The last part was testing our spoken German. We were escorted to an empty room (in my case a small storage room 1m x 1m) with a CD-player and a device to record our talking. Everyone did it alone. Seven situations, with preparation time and a reaction time. I was really worrying the 2 graphics which I had to describe and interpret but altogether I think I did well.

So I made have fucked up, I may have survived but the feeble feeling remains. In six weeks I will find out whether my road in Hamburg has faced it's end or if I'm still allowed to dig through the hard stone towards University.

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