Time: 0151 Finland
Weather: super cold…it’s colder here than Imatra
Feeling: Happy
I’m finally in Lappeenranta. On Friday, Swee Ting and I hitched a ride from our classmate, Marita, together with David. When we reached the Lappeenranta hostel, we first went to David’s room so that he can dump his things then bring us to Shi Yun and Mei Qi’s unit. But when we went we went over to their unit, they were still in school so we had to go back to David’s unit. It was a good thing though. He gave us free beer. Haha. A few minutes later, a couple of French guys came in. Thomas and Edu (?), France, PARIS!!!! Edu is half Greek. They are very nice people (so far) and very “interesting”.
I think I either drank the beer too fast or I didn’t eat much before eating because I was feeling woozy when I was done with the beer. We went over to Mei Qi and Shi Yun’s unit after that and settled in nicely. We met their Luthiana (?) flatmates, Sandra and Aglia (?).
There was a football game that night so we all went to the field. For some reason David, Danius and Edu had to dress as girls. I thought the image was very disturbing. It was very cold that night. We had to leave halfway through because we couldn’t take it anymore. 
We spent the whole night updating one another of our current situation. Shi Yun turned out to be a good cook since she does all the cooking for Mei Qi. She was making a cake (very nice) when we entered the unit and after that she made banana pancakes (failure...haha).
The next day we went to the habour where there was this fair (fish market fair?)going on. I managed to get some souvenirs at a bargained price. We also found many interesting things there and had a lot of fun.
After that we went to this second hand shop where I bought boots for €3. We also visited a few shopping centres after that before deciding to head back to the hostel as we were visiting the sauna at 6.30 later. Mei Qi and I then accompanied Swee Ting to the train station as she was heading back to Imatra. On the back from the station, Mei Qi and I met a drunk. We were so scared we just ran away from the guy when he was asking us a question. At first I was stunned and didn’t know what to do as the guy was speaking in Finnish. Luckily Mei Qi pulled me away and we just ran until we were far enough.
At 6.30, Aglia and the 3 Singaporeans headed for the sauna. We were having a duper duper time when suddenly we heard this male voice outside the sauna. According to him, he booked the sauna. However, Mei Qi insisted that she booked it. The man asked if he could join us and we agreed. When he stepped into the sauna, we received the largest shock of our lives. The idiot was NAKED. We were all like SHIT!!! I think the guy felt awkward as he started asking some questions about our school. After some time he left but not before telling us that we are welcomed to visit his place to hang out. Faints. Today’s sauna was really hot. WHEW!! Very different from the one in Imatra.
After sauna, we went over to some China guy’s house to take some food as he cooked some food for us. And it was DELICIOUS!!! Finally, Chinese food. YUMMY!!! We were supposed to go to Adola’s (?) unit for dinner but he postponed it to tomorrow which sucks as I will be going back already. Hmm…maybe I can stay until dinner then go back. At around 9+, we went to the French guys’ house as there was a party. Woot!! The social life here is the exact opposite from the one in Imatra. Ok…maybe it’s the Finnish people’s fault. At the party, there were only maximum 3 Finnish people and the rest were international students. Everyone was talking at the same time that most of the time we were just screaming at each other. We also played this drinking game called “I have never ever ever”. First everyone raise all their fingers. You are suppose to state something that you have never done before and if someone has done it before, they out down 1 finger and drink some alcohol. From this game, I realised that all these people are sexually active especially Edu. He will drink for almost all the statements regarding sex. It was very funny and the stories they told about their experience were absolutely unbelievable. Funniest was “I have never ever ever been paid for sex.” And Edu drank to that!!! His story was that some woman mistook him for a gigolo and invited him to her house. LOL!!!
The game got boring after awhile and everyone did an immediate dispersion. We entered Edu’s room and started playing with his laptop. Damn. The French have their own keyboards. Very different from the American version. I was like where is this alphabet and I kept pressing the wrong keys. Oh yah…I just made a facebook account so add me. Made it during the party as Thomas was like “WHAT?! YOU DON’T HAVE FACEBOOK?! SHI YUN, MAKE SURE SHE GETS AN ACCOUNT.” So I did it there and then so it’s still fresh. Shi Yun had a fight with Dainus (?) using Edu’s clothes. They were throwing Edu’s stray clothes at each other and I think Edu’s underwear landed on Shi Yun’s head like a million times.
Black shirt guy is Thomas
Dainus
12 September 2008
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