Get Finternational
Finnish colleges and universities find international relations and intercultural communication very important. That’s why they offer a Get Finternational course to the exchange students.
This week I’ve had a first ‘meetig’ about this course. As you can imagine the course is all about engaging the students to have a rich social life based on various international events and workshops.
During the first ‘meeting’ we were talking about different clichés we have about each others country. Apparently Chinese food in the Chinese restaurants all over the world isn’t so Chinese you could wish because other countries tend to lack many key-ingredients required for the real Chinese dishes. Spanish people aren’t so lazy as other countries see them because they try to finish the work as soon as possible and spend the rest of the time as they want it (hobbies, resting, shopping and so on). Frenchmen are way less romantic then you picture them. Those and many other examples were discussed during the ‘meeting’.
What else is yet to come? The workshops are spread across the whole semester. Those I, personally, want to participate are: traditional Finnish blueberry pie baking, language workshop where you can exchange and expand your language knowledge with other people and meeting the Finnish ‘friends’.