Trung Dang

Hello everyone! Nice to meet you!

My name is Trung but you can call me Daniel. I'm from Hochiminh city, Vietnam and my hometown is Cantho city. There are a lot of beautiful places there. You can have a tour on the Mekong River and enjoy a special food such as many food from catfish or crab and you can travel around the Hochiminh city. And I really want to know find out about your countries in our class as well as the Finnish culture. That's why I attend this class.

My hobbies are watching movies and listening to music and I like playing the piano but I don't know how to play. If you can play it, I hope you teach me :).

The street of Finland is so quite but people are so friendly and helpful and have a warm heart. I really hope that we can talk much more about our cultures, countries, or lives together.

Hi all, I am Phuong and I come from Vietnam. My major is Business Management. I'm really interested in this course because I could understand more about culture as well as Finnish people.

I prefer watching horror films, traveling but I have just visited Thailand and Finland, so I would like to travel more. Because tropical weather is one of characteristics in Vietnam, there are so many kinds of fruits and vegetables, and delicious foods… I think you should try Vietnamese food J. It is really wonderful.

I love Finland because it is really beautiful and peaceful. And it is very great for me to meet and know nice friends J

Lesson on 19 October 2015

Dear all, 

Welcome to "after holiday class"! We will start with wrapping up on Finnish values. I will introduce a new task, where I want you to describe, interpret and analyze (D-I-E) a "cultural bump". You will make the blog post with Description, Interpretation and Evaluation as an individual post. It will then be commented in a multicultural group. 

Then we will continue to reflect on the visit to Donnerska skolan and look a bit into Finnish Education.

D-I-E and Education presentation

See you at 8:00 at Centria, room 282.
Best regards, 
Linda Krokfors 

PS. Students, who were not in class on 19 October, contact Linda Krokfors by e-mail. I need to set you up with a group for the DIE task!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

My name is Chau, Vietnam
Something about me: libra, love travel and adventure.
Why i choose this course? Secret!
My favorite quote: Life is a journey.

Nice to meet all of you guys.

Nguyen Ngoc Bao Chau.

Music Task

Last Thursday, 8 of October, in the Centrian konserttisali it was held the Centria Night Music. Although I couldn’t assist to all the concerts, I got a really good view of the different styles that were played.

One of the plays in the concert was from J. Sibelius, a Finnish composer who was born in 1865 in Hämeenlinna. From what I read in the internet, he composed music for orchestra, mainly for piano and violin, but he also composed music for choir and orchestra. The composer said this in an interview with Berlingske Tidende, 10th June 1919: “Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music”. This gave me an idea of what kind of composer was him. He played a really important role in the definition of the Finnish national identity and now a days he is remembered as one of the best Finnish composers.

The group that I saw played Jägargossen by J.Sibelius. The singer was Aksel Alakärppä, baritone and in the piano there was Pauliina Virkkala. I don’t go to listen to opera often, but I must say I could enjoy that piece of Finnish music, even if I couldn’t understand it, the melody of it and the voice of Aksel made me feel like I wasn’t touching the grown anymore and in my mind there was only that music. I also saw other groups who sang in English, one of them, the soft potatoes, had our friend Colin Harvey who played really good. Then there was another group who sang in English but they added one more song that was not on the leaflet and I think it was in Finnish. Anyway the concerts were amazing and the strength of the musicians gave the public the feeling of being part of the music. 

Introduction

 Hello,My name is Yajuan Shui. You can also called me Maleah.I'm an exchange student from China.My major is IT,and my university is Sandau university in Shanghai.I will be here for one whole year.
    I like Traveling,I had been to Korea,Japan,HongKong,Macau etc.And i also been to most areas of China.So if you want to take more recognize about China,you can come to talk with me.I am pleasure to share my experience to you.
    When I am in the university,I also studyed a little Japanese.I like Drawing and Photography.I will record my traveling by drawing and photograpy,and I very enjoyed it.I like collecting Car model,I had already own many Car model just like Ferrari,Maserati,Porsche,etc.
    I also like to know new friends because I'm very  interested in knowing culture , tradition and Scenery in others country.So I joined Finnish Society and Culture,in order to learn more about Finland.I want to know how the country to build up.And know more about the evolution of culture.I think it will be interesting to learn it.

My name is Huynh Xuan Tuan Chau and I am 21 years old and I am from Vietnam. My hometown is Dong Nai in the South of Vietnam. 

My hobbies is watching movies and listening to music.

I want to learn finish culture and society :). 

I am first year student IT.

Nice too meet you.