Helsinki School of Economics (AALTO UNIVERSITY)

Travelling from Finland is not so convenient. There are not so many low cost airlines. However there are interesting places which the average tourist would not see such as Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lapaland.

Of course, you should try to enjoy all the travels organized by the students: St Petersburg and Stockholm. But it is really easy to travel around Estonia, Tallin is beautiful ... Going to Lapland remain expensive if you don't rent a cottage for ten... Also, if you come from France, like I do , try to train yourself to respect the queuing system, and try to remember not to cross the street when it is not allowed!! You will be so rude in Finland otherwise!! I'd like to add that I have a lot of respect for the Finnish nation, for the honesty (one of the most amazing thing for me: I forgot my wallet in the compuer lab for a day, and it was still there in the evening!!!) and the respect of the "rules necessary to live togehter"... Last, but not least, i ve neen fascinated with the nature...According to me, there was something between nature and the Finns, that, unfortunately, i won't be able to understand fully one day.

Plan 1: Strinberg Cafe to begin the day with an excellent breakfast on a terrasse (if the sun is shinning) or in a livingroom (yes, in a livingroom an d you can eat in the dinigroom, like bourgeois do. Then, you can eat a very good sandwich in a Pickwick cafe (or something like that). In the evening, Pravda is a trendy place to eat with your friends a good salad, listining good music. Of course, you need to dance so you just go to Teatri (but you need to be very well dressed or to have more than 24). Plan 2 : the day after you sleep til 12 and then a bath or a sauna to clean your skin (you have many places for that, one of them is the Olympic swimming pool in Pasila). A diner at Ostrobotna (maybe one of the best price-quality ratio of Helsinki) a good French wine with a big pizza or rendeer meat. You are then ready to go to the Finlandia Hall and listen Sibelius songs and hymns. After that I can drive you to Henry 13 if you want to dance again.

These stays are a great experience to visit countries and to meet different people. In Finland for exemple, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Lapland are places easy to go and fantastic. There are people from all over the world to meet and to learn from, Europe of course but from North and South America as well.