...should have guessed that Spanish winter can't beat a Finnish girl!
Today, after a week of dealing with the coldness inside the house, I took a metro to Nou d'Octubre, almost other side of the city, and walked to Carrefour, a big hypermarket near to Bioparc. My intention was to find a heater (as we have only one in the apartment - and four persons needing it). Well I found some heaters (radiator in Spanish) that were quite big (how can you take one of those back home without a car?!), but then I found my love - el calefactor, a heater that keeps blowing warm air! it wasn't big, it is easy to carry and not too expensive. In addition, it is more efficient than the "radiators" comparing the watt amounts, so of course I took it with me <3
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| here it is! |
bye bye coldness! but - as you can guess - my
getting-rid-of-the-coldness -shopping wasn't just the "calefactor".. may
I introduce ...
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| a proper, warm blanket! |
So now I'm quite sure the freezing-times are over :-) Happy happy happy!
Yesterday was my first day of school here. In the morning we started Marketing -course and it sounded ok and quite interesting based on the introduction. At least I think that it's gonna be useful for me. The course consists of both theoretical lectures and practical classes and it includes also a team project - and of course written exams at the end of the spring.
Yesterday was my first day of school here. In the morning we started Marketing -course and it sounded ok and quite interesting based on the introduction. At least I think that it's gonna be useful for me. The course consists of both theoretical lectures and practical classes and it includes also a team project - and of course written exams at the end of the spring.
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| today, on my way to Carrefour. |
Yesterday evening I had a class of the course English for Business (that I skipped on Wednesday because of the match). Well... all the other students were Spanish (or at least I think so because of their pronunciation..) and the teacher too. A few times I just couldn't figure out what she said because she pronounced and spoke so incorrectly. In Finland, we have quite qualified English teachers that at least speak correctly and articulate well. Well, this teacher tried to articulate clearly and quite slowly (and she also repeated almost everything in Spanish?!) so that the students would understand, but her slow articulation just highlighted her incorrect speaking and mistakes.. Well, I guess this concludes the level of the course: as a homework, we are supposed to read and practice how to express opinions and how to agree or disagree with someone. hard, don't you think?! I'm studying the same things here in the university that were taught to me when I was about 12 years old.. well at least I'm gonna earn some easy credits from here :-D
Today I woke up really early as I had morning classes of Spanish
economy. It was a bit boring, but today we just went through the
introduction of the course so maybe it turns out to be more interesting when we go on. The only problem is that our book for the course is in
Spanish. The lecturer's explanation for that was something like "Well,
there are no good books in English about the subject so we are gonna use
the Spanish one. Who's not a native Spanish speaker? Okay, less than
10. You just have to deal with it." So let's see about that... My biggest challenge for this spring: go through the book "Lecciones de
economía española" and try to understand at least something. Right...
