Introduction Albert Tosca

Hello! My name is Albert Tosca Princep, I'm from Barcelona, Spain. I lived there all of my live and this is a new experience for me, living and studying with people of around the world.
Barcelona is a wonderful city and I recommend to you to visit if you can and with time because it's so big and has a lot of places to visit like Sagrada Familia or Camp Nou (F.C. Barcelona Stadium) and you must go to the beach if it's summer.
Something about me, I'm 21 years old and I'm studying chemical engineering in UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and this is my fourth year so if everything go well I will finish my degree this year. I like practicing sports but my favorite one is football, I like to watch action TV series and movies and listen electronic music too.
I'm here to improve my English, make new friend from around the world and come back to my university with new knowledge.

Nice to meet you guys!

Introduction Paula Gonzalvez

Hello,
My name is Paula Gonzalvez Querol and I come from Catalonia, Spain. I am coursing the 4th of Chemical Engineering at Universtitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). I come from a small village surrounded by forest and mountains, so I am really enjoying the weather and the environment in Kokkola. This year I am studying for one semester in Centria and I decided to join the Finnish Society and Culture subject. It is weird that a future chemical engineer picks up this subject, but I think it is important because I am going to live here for four months and I want to enjoy my life here, being able to understand the people around me and behaving according to the ethics of Finland.

Introduction Ti Nguyen

Hi all,

My name is Ti Nguyen. You can call me Ti or Quinn :) . I'm from Viet Nam. I was born on 5th January, 1996 on a rainy night. This partly explains why I have quite romantic and extrovert a soul :). I love communicating and meeting new people. I'm also interested in music, movie and book. Cooking is one big love of my life, I love to invent new recipes and still on the way to find a taster (apart from my BFF in Viet Nam :)  I'm a degree student in the BBA program of Centria UAS. Funny thing is that I randomly chose the program when applying (one thing I knew at that moment was that I love money, so I chose BBA :D). Therefore, there will be lots of changing on the way. 

I'm in love with Finland the moment I knew that Nightwish - the band that play my favorite song is from Finland ~.~. This love grows bigger and bigger when I find out about Finland's wonderful atmosphere and environment and also educational system. Consequently, I planned to go to Finland. So happy I did it !!! During this course, I hope to learn more about Finnish culture and society. Hopefully this will nourish my love for this peaceful Nordic Nation :)

Nice to meet you all ! 

P/s: You all welcomed to be my food tasters :)))

Introduction Quentin Clemenceau

Hei ! My name is Quentin. I come from Paris. Well, in its surburb, to be exact, but I wasn't born there. I've never lived in a city for more than 6 years. I didn't have time to get settled, and by that fact I haven't got any deep roots into my culture because every regions I went through have different behaviors and traditions. I like to extract the witness of every different culture in order to keep the best of each. I would like to know more about how came Finland to be so close to the nature. I read some history books about Scandinavian history and the 'Viking' background, and I wanted to know -also through this course- how it evolved through time.

Introduction Colin Harvey

Hello! 

My name is Colin Harvey. I'm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. I go to a University called Lock Haven University, located in Lock Haven, which is in the middle of Pennsylvania. I play volleyball and in-line roller hockey. My hockey team won the ECRHA (Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association) championships this past season. I also grew up playing American Football, and have even brought an American Football with me to Finland. I am 20 years old, and enjoy playing sports and also playing instruments. Most of the time I play guitar, but I also play bass, drums, or ukulele quite often. My friends and I perform at a cafe close to my University in America about once or twice per month. 

I am excited to learn about Finnish culture and what the social norms are here in Finland. In the United States, I study Sociology, and learning about cultures interests me greatly. Most Americans do not know much about Finland, so I am excited to go back home and tell stories and educate them about this country. I am also very interested in noting the differences and the alternatives to the governmental, economic, and social systems that I have been raised around. The most heavy influence on my studies of Sociology at Lock Haven University is my professor and advisor Dr. Kimberly Johnson. She is a very experienced and knowledgeable professor who classifies herself as a minarchist. It has been very interesting learning in public american schools about the government and the approach to big government practices, and now to have an influence from a very small government perspective from my professor. I am interested to learn what the perspectives on government involvement, economics, and society are here in Finland.

My Lock Haven University hockey team and I after we won the ECRHA championships

introduction Jinyu HU

BLOG TASK TODAY 7 September 2015

1. Introduce yourself and tell us at least one thing you want to learn in the course.
2. Add a picture of yourself. If you do not want to add a picture, add a drawing or something that describes you!
3. Put in labels, your first and last name e.g. Linda Krokfors
4. Comment on at least one post of a fellow student!

Hi,
My name is Hu jinyu.I am from China.And I learn environmental chemistry in this university. I like listening music and reading.About this course ,I want to know more about Finland.I want to make more friends too.So I choose this course to know how to talk with others.

Thank you!

 

Indroduction Yimeng Chen

Hey,

I am Chen Yimeng and I came from China.I am interested in environmental chemistry so I choose this subject in centria uas.I am new here and I want to understand finish society and culture deeply.I think it can hlep me to study and live in finland better.