Dutch IT student in Turku

The Friendship program So I applied for the friendship program here in Finland, so at first I will tell you about what it is, about my experience during the friendship program and at the end I will tell you if I would recommend it to you. What is the friendship program? So what is the friendship program, the friendship program is a way to meet with the Finnish people and learning more about there culture and the differences between Finland and for me the Netherlands. My experience from the friendship program On Thursday 19th of September there was the first meeting with your Finnish friend. So I was kind of nervous, because I'm not that good at meeting with people I have never seen before. But it went really well, we had a nice talk about things we like, where we are from, what we are studying and about our future plans. We also talked about some activities we could do together while I'm here, so she is taking me to a ice hockey game, I have never been to a ice hockey ga

So now I will show you guys my apartment and tell you about my experience of living on my own in a strange country for the first time. So I'm sharing the apartment with a dutch friend of mine, so technically I'm not really living on my own, so it is nice to live with someone you already know because you can eat together and you can speak your own language when you are home so that is really nice. My first impression of the apartment that it is bigger than I thought it would be, especially the hall is very long and the kitchen is nice. The only thing I didn't like was the floor and the bed, because the floor has a black and white pattern so that irritated me at first, but know I'm getting used to it. So know about the bed the first night I slept on the bed was one of the worst nights I had, because the mattress and the pillow are really thin, so the next day my back hurt a lot and I didn't get enough sleep that night. So the next day I found a pillow in the clo

So on the 23th of august 2019 I left from Amsterdam to Turku for my minor. So I was really excited to move to Finland, but I was also kind of nervous. I was nervous because I would have to live in another country for 4 months. Also I was leaving my friends and familiy behind and I had to meet new people and make new friends, but I'm not really good at that so I was a bit worried. My first impression of Turku is that there are a lott of wooden houses and a lott of appartment buildings. Also there are a lott of hills, lakes and forest here in Finland. We don't really have that in the Netherlands, in the Netherlands there are more grassland and stone houses. And there aren't really that much hills. So later on I will tell you guys how my first school week went and how I experienced living in Turku for about two weeks and I will show you my appartement.