I'm gonna miss our little dysfunctional family and all the stupid jokes and just hanging around. Luckily Antti and Victor will be here next semester continuing their bromance, I still strongly support the idea of webcams. And camera crew to your Buda-Pest trip as well!
THANK YOU CÉLIBATEL-CREW!
Thanks Antti for letting me use your computer when my internet was down. And being cranky almost every time I woke you up at 5pm. And giving me stupid nicknames.
Thanks Sonja for just being your funny self! Especially while being a little bit tipsy. Not that we ever were beschwipst at all :D
Thanks Shelby for the greatest Sinterklaas-present ever. I'm wearing it right now :D
Thanks Gina for keeping your bag from Italy. It really wouldn't have fitted to my suitcase. And lots of other things as well.
Thanks Klara for introducing me to the most disgusting vodka-style booze I've ever drank. When the first impression is a girl who is offering "home made" booze from a plastic bottle it must be a beginning for a good friendship.
Thanks Nadine for being really entertaining company during our drunken nights ;)
Thanks Betty for just being you - the funniest Chinese I've ever met! :)
Thanks Heikki for being so nice for me at the very beginning of this semester. And for giving me lots of stories to tell from the WEI-weekend :DDD
Thanks Victor (oh sorry, VICKYYY) for being the craziest Spanish ever. I'm gonna miss your stories!
And thanks Marbie-barbie for.. Well just for being yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE (DURING) ERASMUS
1) Treasure your time, manage it well and enjoy it to the fullest.
= make a list of all the things you wanna do and remember the existent of the list at the end of the last week.
2) Learn the language of the host country and speak it every time you can.
= order pizza online from Domino's instead of calling to a pizza place.
3) Get used to hear English language spoken in very funny pronunciations.
4) The Erasmus student doesn't celebrate common festivities that much : he rather worships the "day my parents sent me money" and the "day my parents mailed me a package full of good stuff".
...or just "day I don't have school before 12 tomorrow" or "day that I just bought few beers just in case"
5) join Erasmusu, the social network for Erasmus and exchange students http://erasmusu.com to stay in touch with your erasmus friends, share photos, find people to travel and party, launch events in the forums and stay updated of the students association events.
6) Toilet paper isn't an unlimited asset : sometimes you should go and buy it.
7) Don't worry too much if you didn't respect all your "before Erasmus good resolutions" : c' mon, you were probably too optimist or it was too serious stuff.
..and try not to worry about any promises you made before going abroad. You're gonna break them anyway.
8) Remember sometimes that you're not on holiday.
9) Remember that you're on holiday.
10) It's very likely that your biological clock will be reversed; don't worry, unless you don't bleed somebody dry you're not a vampire.
..yeah Antti it's totally ok to sleep until 5pm and be the crankiest monster ever if anyone disturbs your sleep before that.
11) Try not to fall in love during Erasmus.
... :DD
12) You can experience that Europe is much much more than a political and economic union.
13) Remember sometimes that you went to Erasmus also to study.
..sometimes
14) Remember always that you are in unique international environment.
..and now it's almost over. I wanna be an Erasmus student at least twice! ;<
15) Remember always that you're living the most beautiful and important experience of your life.
16) Remember always that you have now a unique opportunity to meet really really special people from all around the world.
..and so I did.
17) Try make friends also with local people, not only with other Erasmus/international students.
..well we tried! ;)
18) Also Monday and Tuesday are good days for partying.
..never went to Cosmo on Monday... I guess I remembered point 13 and 8am EU-classes too well I guess.
19) Carpe diem.
..and C'est la vie.
20) Erasmus parties are not common parties : they are the catharsis from all your repressed wishes of the pre-Erasmus period.
21) Every chance is good for throwing a party. And if you don't find it you're not a real Erasmus.
22) Learn how to cook well : it's very cool. Let your new international friends taste the typical food of your home country.
..Antti and Victor, this should be your challenge for the next semester. Something else than tiramisu and microwave pizza. But not pork or chicken, we don't want you to die.
23) Try not to teach only swearwords in your mother language, but also the culture of your country. And laugh about it with your Erasmus friends.
...KIPPIS. And guys did really well with Bram. He'll manage small talk anywhere in Finland, since what else does one need than "Kaikki huorat", "otatko poskeen" and vittu.
24) Don't become a lazy Erasmus student : do some form of sport, go to the gym.
..well, some people tried it once. And Heikki used to run at least at the beginning. And well, Nadine ran 10 kilometers at the running event, so I guess that was enough exercise for the whole Célibatel crew. And of course walking to and from school during the strikes. And taking velos on the way back home from partyboats.
25) Keep always ready your camera/mobile : often pictures are the only way you have to reconstruct what happened in those 3 hours you don't remember anything. Moreover this way you could immortalize unique (drunk) moments (and for this reason many will hate you).
- I really regret that I didn't keep my camera with me since the beginning. But well, sometimes the pictures were as blurry as the memories :D
26) If you can play any instrument or you can cook well, in Erasmus you are automatically cool.
27) You can finally meet people from those countries that you know only through geography books.
28) What happens in Erasmus, stays in Erasmus.
...that's just the way it's supposed to be I guess.
29) Keep in contact with the friends you have in your home country : don't forget them !
..I didn't, did I?
30) If you don't want to be killed on the first day, don't talk in your language to friends of the same country in presence of other Erasmus people.
..I think we broke this rule :D But what can you do when there's only 3 (well and a "half" :P) Finns in the group of 150 IBPs :P
31) Doing Erasmus is like a rite of passage, of initiation ; it's like jumping drunk into the icy water of a Finnish lake after a sauna : you'll never forget it.
- I know I won't. I might even remember Victor's name three weeks after tomorrow. Or even four? ;)
ps. KIPPIS.
pps. ONE SEMESTER!
ppps. SHAME ON YOU (oh well, this has more to do with David than anything else but still..)
pppps. YES WE CAN
and finally
WHERE IS THE VACUUM?
