Psychology and miscellaneous

 Greetings my dear reader!

  It has been busy as ever! So many great things ahead! Starting from next week it's going to be busy till the end of March. On Sunday it's Superball Sunday and in Brunel we gather watch the game in our night club! Next week I am going to go see the Neon trees (a band I love) and the week after that it's going to be One World week, Valentine's day and my birthday. But what I am waiting for the most is dance show week in March. I'll definitely post about it!

  Last Friday we had a get together with international student. We've all been busy and haven't seen each other properly after Fresher's week. We just went out for drinks and a bit of dancing! We also had some visitors from Ireland. An Erasmus student from last year came to visit us. Some of us had no idea that he was coming so it was a great surprise! Maybe next time it's our turn to go to Ireland.

 I haven't really talked about what it is like to study psychology in the UK so I figured I'd enlighten you. Compared to Finnish university system it quite similar. The content of the courses is the same. Only exception is that here you are concentrated on one subject totally. A lot of essay writing. We already got to do an experiment and our dissertation will be an experiment while in Finland during bachelor's degree student will only write a literature review (but they do have more modules than us). Next year will be my last year and I'll be able to pick my own modules.

   The lectures have all been good and interesting. But this term we definitely have the best lecturers! My favorite by far is Biological Psychology! Not only because of the content, but also because of our professor Taeko Wydell. She is amazing! Every time we go to lectures we wait for the part that we call Taeko's tourism tips. On the first lecture she talked about Finland. I was over the moon! Finland doesn't get mentioned that often and she was telling funny stories about her trips to Finland. For example how she was in Finland during winter and they went ran between the sauna and an icy lake. What she found funny was that the Finnish people were doing this naked. We'll that's us! :D
   At some point she asked if there are any Finnish people in the class. My hand flew to the sealing before I even though about it. She was asking me loads of things about Finnish culture and language. I kind of felt that other people were waiting for the lecture to go on and but I enjoyed it!

   Besides biopsychology we have individual differences, social psychology, developmental psychology and cognitive psychology. And on all of these we will have an exam, so the end of the term is going to be hectic!

At the moment I am also searching for a job since I am tired of being a poor student. We'll see if I find something!

Christmas break

 Hello people!

   I am back! After two weeks back home in Finland and finishing my assignment I finally have time to write! So a lot has happened! A lot of birthdays to take part in: Charlotte, Jesus and Janni.

   Before Christmas break my flatmate had her birthday. We bought her a gift, rapped it in thousands of covers and filled her room with a 100 balloons. If you want to see it's here: Charlie opening her present :D

   Then I had a two week Christmas break, which went by too quickly! The flight back to Finland was a nightmare! I had two connection flights, from Berlin and Frankfurt. My first flight was late so I missed to first connection. But thank goodness the people at Berlin airport were extremely nice and found me another flight! The guy who helped me even wished me Hyvää Joulua (= Merry Christmas in Finnish)!

 I I spent Christmas with my family in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. There was so much snow and it was so beautiful! It was great to see my relatives who I hadn't seen in so long! But the best part was spending time with my brother! I got home on 23. of December so we had to take the bus to get to the cottage. It was one of the best three hour trips that I have had! :) So on the right you can see what Finnish people do on winter! I leave it up to you to decide if we are crazy or not! :D

   My friend in Finland had her birthday too! She was born just after Christmas so she really didn't have birthday parties as a kid! So now we have this tradition that we go to her house, blindfold her and take her to places! This time we went sledding first. After climbing up the hill couple of times we came to the conclusion that we have become old. After this she was blindfolded again. This time we took her to a grocery store. The idea was to make her sit in the cart and tell us when to stop and just pick on random something to buy while she was blindfolded. We ended up buying cereal, grapes, yogurt, bread, cottage cheese (Finnish treat), fruit juice and Ben & Jerry's. My friend had to make a 'gourmet' meal out of this which turned out to be a disaster!
   After the amazing meal we told our friend to pack some really weird stuff like: duct tape, one sock, bikini, top, party clothes etc. She was again blindfolded and we took her in a car. We got her into a cruise ship's cabin without her realising anything. When the ship left Helsinki she still had no idea where we were. Her face was priceless when we removed the blindfold!
  We gave her this huge birthday card that she had to collect birthday wishes on! She got quite a few and some phone numbers too! :)

  So now I am back at uni with my London family. So far I have handed in three assignment and one to go! But enough about me! How have you been?