Semester kickoff

Semester started yesterday in good weather, only raining not winding. It only rains about 2 hours a day in south belfast, so it's not that bad, just keep rihanna ft. jay-z with you all the time. Most of the G floor residents survived from the birthday partys, most. It was a great success. Anyway, semester started with 1 hour of lectures in monday. It wasn't that bad, but lecturer had kinda booring voice, suprice suprice. This week will still be easy, because there's no practical or tutorial work.
It's also purpose to visit this week some belfast's legendary spots. Maybe to see one of "entries" in northern city. Some of the worlds best pubs lies there, in the dark alleys. Only a smell of pint.
I have been in contact with the local orienteering community also. Like kepardi, they think that craic should be relaxed, not competitive. They are organizing training's once a week, maybe next week.. http://www.quboc.tk/

Cheers

Freshersh' week almoust paketissa

Uusien opiskelijoiden orientaatio viikko alkaa olemaan paketissa. Viikko on ollut ehkä hauskimpia koskaan. Elms tarjoaa todellakin erinomaiset mahdollisuudet kulttuurien välisiin kontakteihin. Yhteen viikkoon mahtuu niin paljon... tour belfastin syrjäisimpiin osiin, jonne 45-vuotta jatkunut konflikti on jättänyt suurimmat arpensa. Luodinreiät vielä rakennuksissa ja "freedom waalit" konflikti alueilla, huhhuh. Liikaa kulttuuria suomalaiselle pienessä ajassa. Paikalliset ovat kuitenkin ystävällisempiä ihmisiä mitä olen koskaan tavannut. Britti ja irkku identiteetti kysymys on saatu vihdoinkin rauhoitettua poliittiselle tasolle. No more fighting.
Freshers' week päättyi tänään hyviin pippaloihin, joihin oli vain freshers' opiskelijoilla mahdollisuus päästä, lippuja oli 1000 ja ihmisiä klubilla about saman verran. It was a great success :D Täytyy myös sanoa että belfast ei ole ollut läheskään sitä tasoa jota oletin. Se on ollut paljon parempaa. Alun pienten "ongelmien" kanssa painiminen ei poista todellakaan sitä tosiasiaa että täällä ihmiset ja kulttuuri on parasta mitä voi kuvitella. Ja vasta alle 2 viikkoa täällä ollut...

Kai englannin kielikin on parantunut jonkin verran, kun ymmärtää jo 70-vuotiasta charburgin perus irkkua respasta :O läppäää pystyy jo heittää almoust kaikkien kanssa. Meno alkaa olla jo aika relaksoitunutta.

Ainut asia joka ihmetyttää QUB:ssa ja muualla UK:ssa on yliopistoon tulevat ihmiset. Keski ikä on noin 18-v ja meno on sen mukaista. Nukkumaan ei tarvitsekkaan mennä ennen kahta yöllä, koska desibelitaso on sen mukainen, mutta ei tuota ongelmaa mulle :))

Ensi viikolla alkaa lukukausi, joten saa nähdä rauhoittuuko meno Elmsissä, jää nähtäväksi. Kurssi byrokraatit uhkailivat jo että paljon työtä on luvassa, mutta nähtäväksi jää, jotain tekisi jo mieli opiskella.

Huomenna viikko huipentuu Bartekin(alempi kuva mun vieressä), 23-v synttäreihin, puolalaista vodkaa I guess ;) joten hyviä settei vielä tarjolla tällä viikolla. MUTTA kiltisti oon ollu, tiedät ;)

It was a day of football

Today there was a football tournament in PEC courts and we managed to get team from our floor. Now that Belfast is much more familiar it was time to spent some time with sports also. Our spiritual captain, Bartek(blue shirt) promised unlimited amount of polish vodka if we will win the tournament, so our motivation was high ofcourse :D
In the first game we were a bit of lost, because most of us havent played football in a long time. We lost 1-2 to some local lad team. But it was no shame because they had trained a lot more than us, but we were much more talented, hi.
Second game was best of us. About 2 minutes played and tsipi kicked the winning goal \o/ so some amount of vodka was guaranteed :D After few close up's we won the game 2-0, cheers!
Third game was totally a piece of shit. Referee didn't know the rules and while we were explaining rules to him other team scored :D After I yelled I AM The Law to the referee, he started to get pretty pissed, no shit shelock... but we lost 0-3 and after complaining about the rules we got remach, thanks to out spiritual leader again :P We lost remach with wrong rules again 0-1, but it was much more better performance from us.
Now is time for the aftermach ofcourse!

Cheers!

So what's the craic like hi?

After the first few days shocks, it was time, actually a pint time. I live in Elms Village, which is largest accommodation that QUB offers, guess about 2000 residents. Mainly 11 residents in on floor sharing everything. Anyway, I met some Swede pals from grant house, guaranteed fun :D
Belfast is famous of it's pubs(not the reason why I came here :D) and I can confirm that information :D We have been in some pubs, like in five, and all of em' have been great. cheers! Today I tried also montain climbing in PEC(Physical Education Center) and it was a lot of fun. My climbing technic is not yet very good so it was hard sport. PEC offers great possibility to do all kind of sports.
The first week went fast, learning habits and local english. Really really hard to understand when some local lad talks. But it's better every day :) Just throw the ice braker, what's the craic hi! :D Local lads are really warm and nice, first impression of Belfast is really good. Next week the first semester will start, I can't wait to see what's the craic is in QUB. Cheers!

Intro

Tsipi has landed to Belfast! My airplane leaved from Tampere 10'th of september and destination was Belfast city airport. I had to change plane twice on the way here, so the whole day was just waiting and checking. Feeling was pretty surrealistic when I arrived to belfast city. It was monday night... a good night to have pint or two! cheers!
First few days went fast, mostly just getting known with other people from other countries. Accommodation was shock first. 11 people in the same floor, sharing kitchen and two toilets. But you can't compare accommodation between, for example finland and belfast. These
buildings have culture and history. But sharing floor with people from Spain, US, Poland, Netherland, Belgium, UK and Portugal :D it's fantastic. BRILLIANT!
We had three day orientation program last week, from wednesday to friday, it was brilliant. cheers! Now being here 7 nights and having greatest time of my life makes me wonder, how great this semester is going to be. Lots of pint and fun with fantastic people. Cheers!