re: My flatmate and another Hungarian :)

Someone posted some "video replies" to Rosso's and Viktor's "message"

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May & first week of June

OK, let's make it as short as possible, as I'm far behind my "schedule"... 30^th April & 1^st May is Vappu. It is the biggest student party in Finland. 48 hours of drinking and partying. Probably the biggest event is when the statue, close to the Market square gets her student hat at 18:00 on Vappu eve. 1^st May is a huge picnic, when almost everyone is out in the parks (it doesn't matter if the weather is bad). First we went to Kaisaniemi, where all the Swedish-speaking Finns are gathering, but in an hour we decided to join a much bigger event in Kaivopuisto, where the "Finnish Finns" were. 50000 people... The park was fully packed!

I had one day of "holiday" on the 2^nd, this was good for a short recovery and on the 3^rd I started to work. This year I was lucky enough again to get back to the same place where I was working last year. Only the name has changed from Nokia to Nokia Siemens Networks, because of the merger.

My first days were a bit hectic, as already on Thursday I had to leave earlier, as we had the iTutor education in the school. And just to make it even better, on Friday I left Finland for a couple days. I had to go to Hungary as my sister was having her graduation ceremony from high school.

The following week was Eurovision week. We went to see live the rehearsal of the semi-final, but of course in the evening we were in the Senate square to follow it through the huge screen, what they installed just for this event. Obviously we were there on Saturday evening also. I would like to congratulate to Magdi Rúzsa, the Hungarian participant of the Eurovision, who ended up on 9^th place in the final, while she was the 2^nd in the semi-final.

Unfortunately the ice-hockey final on Sunday did not go to well... Finland lost against Canada, and somehow the crowd on the Senate square didn't like how the Canadians celebrated on the very same square. Thanks to the security guards, nothing has happened!

Week 20 and 21 was horrible and exhausting for me, as I had to work at least 10-12 hours a day, plus I was in the office on Saturdays also, because I had to work up in advance for those days what I spent in Hungary in June.

The situation started to become normal again only in the beginning of June, when I only had around a day left, so I started to work only an hour more than it was officially necessary.

On the 29^th we had a farewell BBQ for Rossano and Nicola, even though they were staying for almost another week.   

They both left on the 5^th June.  It was just horrible... I lived with Rossano for almost a whole year, and now I had to say good-bye to him at the airport. Poor guy, he was also in a "bad shape" because of leaving Finland, but just to make it even worse, he got a nice good-bye "present" from Finnair: he had to pay 50 euro for his over luggage!

On Saturday we went to Suomenlinna for a picnic and my shoulders got burned :)

On Sunday morning we had the flight to Budapest and our holiday started, but this is for another post...

Until next time...