Post 3

So its been a while since I've been here... ill try to keep up the new posts closer between each other. These days have been real interesting , I finally went to an Irish Pub of sorts here in Pori.. it was a cool place small and crowded, finnish beer was good and ppl were real cool.. now arriving in a big group was something real funny, just imagine a group of around 10 with mostly italians storming into a pub and asking for chairs to the ppl sitting there, lol... It was not long before some of the locals started approaching to see where we were all from, and long story short we ended up getting free tequila shots from a local dude.

Indeed finnish ppl are shy, but they are easy to get along with once they started to talk, even in stores I've had good conversations with random ppl so my experience so far real good. It is still cold and "rainy" here, but after living in Orlando,Fla on hurricaine season this rain water is nottin but moist. I mean with the right motivation this weather is nottin to actually worry about, I've been going downtown almost everyday since I got here. Im pretty much the only "erasmus" (which im not cus this is the European exchange program name,but everybody uses it so why not) .. only erasmus that walks everywhere.. the only perk would be that my feet are killing me cus I pretty much walk for like 2 hours a day and I am not used to it cus back home I would drive everywhere be it one block or 10 miles away... Next week some more new stuff, a martial arts class downtown and maybe a bike trip to the beach so it should be interesting, ok later for now, ill keep the posts comming...


Bueno pues ahora si en español, estaba platicando en la parte de arriba como la gente se ha portado de maravilla conmigo.. desde el trabajo hasta en los bares en donde me han pichado hasta shots de tequila (es mucho decir, pq es carisimo aca) .. otra cosa super interesante es que estando en el bar lo primero que unos chavos dijeron cuando supieron que era mexicano fue, ahhh que bueno que despidieron a Erickson como entrenador de la seleccion.. aqui los suecos son sus rivales por excelencia... aparentemente en futbol al igual que nosotros la peor derrota posible no es contra el mejor equipo posible sino ante nuestro archirival, estados unidos.. bueno para ellos es lo mismo con Suecia... ahora de la derrota contra honduras, pues ni que decir hasta los finlandeses estaban sorprendidos pero bueno ellos con mucho gusto le echan la culpa a Erickson.

Seguire escribiendo y poniendo las curiosidades, paralelos y novedades desde aca, asi que disfruten la semana santa... saludos, bye

Post numero dos

So the temperature is rising here, it is not longer -10°C (14°F) like when I got here last week, it has risen all the way to 9 (48°F) but it still drops to the negatives at night. Big big difference if you consider that my last days in Monterrey were sunny and with temperatures around 30°C(86°F), so im pretty much wearing pants and jackets not like back home where im always in shorts and t-shirts, big chance for me i swear...

This past days I have been walking around the city, just going around trying to find the places I will need to go to while I live here. (just the basic, supermarkets, the mall, restaurants and of course the licor store ...which is government owned here)

On my way there some kids were like Moi moi (which is like Hello) which kinda freaked me out cus I didn't quite get it, that it was meant for me... now I know how exchange students feel in Mexico when people just go out of their way to talk to them cus they are different. lol

The dorm is a cool place to live in, there is a lot of ppl from all over but mostly europeans, or more like all europeans except for this one dude from the US who is half Chileno and now me from Mexico. I seem very loud next to them but I think I actually am.... if only they could see us in groups like back home, then they would really run out the door....lol

Party-wise can't complain the place i went to this last weekend was great, yet I was surprised by the music cus it went from Lady Gaga, Daft Punk and Kanye West to Michael Jackson and finnish rap. Another thing that I found out that was a pleasant surprise is that the gym is pretty much empty all the time and I have 24 hour access which beats my old school gym for sure.

There is an event here that the business students are organizing, the PROM, I'm excited about that and can't wait to see how they do this kind party here... it'll be fun, and of course I'll post all the pictures here one day after Prom on April 23... I think there is also a Metro Station concert in Helsinki soon , heard it on the radio.. at least I think thats what I heard, I mean its in finnish so I cannot really be sure.. K later for now , ill make sure I keep this interesting....

ok now en español........

Bueno pues la temperatura aqui es completamente diferente a la de Monterrey, cuando me fui de Mty estabamos a 30 grados y cuando llegue aqui a Pori estabamos como a -10 grados.. asi q si fue un gran cambio. Alla siempre usaba shorts y camisetas aca ni de relajo podria porque se me congelaria todo.. pues algo que es muy diferente para mi aqui es el tener que caminar tanto (no pienso subirme a una bici hasta que se derrita el hielo!), he estado yendo al centro casi todos los dias porque ahi esta todo lo chilo, los malls, los restaurants y el "deposito"por asi decirlo, aca solo hay una tienda de alcohol y es propiedad del gobierno.

Pues la gente es super buena onda y amigable, aunque muchas veces penosa.... unos niños en la calle empezaron a saludarme asi de la nada gritando me MOI MOI osea Hola, supongo q soy el primer latino que ven en su vida asi que ha de haber sido como ver a Mickey Mouse para ellos .. jajaja...

Apenas empeze a salir aca y pues los lugares estan bien, la musica esta chila pero de repente tambien ponen algo ochentero estilo Michael Jackson asi q medio saca de onda. Weno ya que estoy con lo de salir y eso, pues aca va a haber una fiesta que se llama PROM, muy a la gringa (perdonen ustedes mis amigos del norte, saben que lo digo con cariño) asi que estoy esperando con ansias a ver que es lo q se hace aca en fiestas grandes, es el 22 de abril asi q esperen fotos un dia despues para ver tooodooo lo que pasa en una fiesta universitaria en Finlandia....

weno bye desde Finlandia, coman tacos por mi.....