Success! I have slept!
Finding a spot was significantly harder than I anticipated. Either my memory is shot or they moved all the comfortable couches out of all the hidden away nooks while I was gone. I ended up just going to the undergraduate society office and sleeping on one of the couches in there. At first when I got to the office, I thought there was already someone sleeping there, the pile of blankets was so high! Then all I could think was "Blankets!!! Those things are so much more comfortable than my coat!" Then I slept under my coat anyway due to the "you don't know where that's been" factor (not sure why this factor was considered at all, but it seemed logical at 3am)
Despite my luxurious sleeping quarters, I must now go in search of coffee and food and coffee.
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Fall Count
Biking 4
Walking 1.5
Walking 1.5
Things that are weird about Finland (In one Canadian's opinion, anyway)
- There are slot machines everywhere: cruise ships, gas stations, grocery stores, etc. And gambling is considered a positive thing as all the money goes to the government kind of like another form of taxation.
- People are good parallel parkers (especially my roommate)...I appreciate this as a Vancouverite
- There are no stop signs, at four way stops everyone just yields to the right
- Nobody locks their bike to anything, they just lock the back wheel in place...you could just carry them away...it would be so easy...I need a bike
- People won’t jaywalk, but they’ll ride on the back of someone’s bike with no helmet
- Yogurt comes in a carton.
- Teachers are respected as highly as doctors or lawyers and need almost as much education.
- People take notes on grid paper, not lined.
- Nobody speaks English, but if you speak to them in English they will understand and respond...in English
- Stopping for a pedestrian waiting at a crosswalk is only a suggestion, but heaven forbid if you jaywalk!
- Everyone wants to know if you like Finland and what you did wrong to end up here :-)
- Bicycles are not allowed on the street and have to run over pedestrians instead.
- You have to take a number to do anything, but I guess it beats waiting in line!
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