Hämeen Ammattikorkeakoulu

Before leaving the home country, it is important to be sure that all the papers are organised and signed and mainly about the financial help. Today I am back home and I still did not receive anything from my home university, and it has been quiet difficult to deal with this kind of problems when I was abroad. When the student is abroad, he must avoid staying with other students from the same country in order to be more open to the new life that he is living.

I have written a lot about staying and studying in Finland in previous stages of questionnaire. The only thing I want to add is: It is really worth of doing!!!

Plan how you will get from the airport to the campus (we were not collected and got a bus which took a few hours). If you are going in winter bear in mind it can reach -10 degress and be VERY thick snow cover, you will need winter boots and thermal underwear. Alcohol is expensive. Supermarkets are basic. Buses are usually on time! So are trains.

Rovaniemi, or Santa Claus city, St Petersburg, Tallinn ja Valkeakoski! hyvaa hyvaa!

Buy a good travel guide, that will help you out with the country and culture.

if you are going in the winter, take plenty of warm clothes, dress like an onion (lots of layers). The Fins are really friendly if not a little quiet, but once they are your friends they are friends for life! Kiitos is thank you, you will use that a lot! No trip to Finland would be complete without a visit to the Sauna! and if you do go in the winter try swimming in the frozen lake! warning though it is not for the feighnt hearted!