I made it!
Turku: Some first impressions. Well...
(one minor correction from my last entry: I meant to say Frankfurt)
This might make little sense as I haven't slept in 21 hours. The flight Chicago - Frankfurt was oversold and 
cramped. I sat next to some entertaining people from Oregon though and I got to finish On the Outside Looking Indian. Now I'm well into The Unbearable Lightness of Being which is very melancholic, and beautiful. After landing in Frankfurt (I got it right that time!) I had 40 minutes to make it to my next flight. A line-up at customs and another one to go through security again made getting to my connecting flight the ultimate challenge! To add to it all, none of the attendants spoke English, so when I desperately pointed at my boarding time (20 minutes ago) all I got was, "Yes, B12 is to the right. Follow the line." I received the exact same response to other questions, which clued me in that I wasn't getting through. Anyway, I had to beg to go in front of people and a nice girl from Marseilles helped me find a 'secret' faster line. With no minutes to spare before the plane took off, I had made it! After that I caught my two other flights and now I'm in Turku.
cramped. I sat next to some entertaining people from Oregon though and I got to finish On the Outside Looking Indian. Now I'm well into The Unbearable Lightness of Being which is very melancholic, and beautiful. After landing in Frankfurt (I got it right that time!) I had 40 minutes to make it to my next flight. A line-up at customs and another one to go through security again made getting to my connecting flight the ultimate challenge! To add to it all, none of the attendants spoke English, so when I desperately pointed at my boarding time (20 minutes ago) all I got was, "Yes, B12 is to the right. Follow the line." I received the exact same response to other questions, which clued me in that I wasn't getting through. Anyway, I had to beg to go in front of people and a nice girl from Marseilles helped me find a 'secret' faster line. With no minutes to spare before the plane took off, I had made it! After that I caught my two other flights and now I'm in Turku.
Turku: Some first impressions. Well... It's interesting.
There's a GIANT mirror above my bed, with um, pink lights surrounding this very elaborate golden frame. There are about 4 other mirrors in this otherwise small room. Everything else is very modest. On TV, all the american actors speak Finnish.
There's a GIANT mirror above my bed, with um, pink lights surrounding this very elaborate golden frame. There are about 4 other mirrors in this otherwise small room. Everything else is very modest. On TV, all the american actors speak Finnish.
To add to my list of things I wish I had brought: plug adaptor. I'm running on battery and if I don't find one tomorrow at a store I may be MIA when the battery runs out.
I'm off to try and get some intermittent sleep.
I miss everyone dearly.
Gabi
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How's the food?
Ah, my first comment! Yay.
The food is...alright. I came from Chicago, so my expectations may have been set too high. It's pretty standard European food: meat plus side dish.
Foods I miss from scandinavia: pickled herring in mustard sauce, (my guilty pleasure comfort food) messmör... the "caviar" in toothpaste tubes is pretty decent poor student food with havarti on knäckebröd (or whatever the Finns call it).
Tunnbrodsrulle is the most awesomely perfect food for those moments when one suddenly realizes that one is staggeringly drunk and needs to have some solid food before being able to figure out which direction leads home, should that ever be useful information.
Pyttipanna... I miss pyttipanna too (I gather it's called pyttipannu in Finland).
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