Sarah, Me, Ema (Portugal) and Carmen (Spain) all hanging out at Kersten's apartment before hitting the city for her birthday!

It was Kersten's (Germany) 24th birthday last week so we all got together and had a surprise party for her after class. The two girls from Italy baked the goodies which were deee-light-ful!
You can't really too much but this is the studio where we do most of our work. It's really nice, lots of windows and we each have our own personal table.

Tuesday Leena, our coordinator, took the international architecture students for a trip to Rovaniemi which is in Lapland. We first arrived to Lapland University where we heard an English lecture from Jonathan Sands, the CEO of Elmwood and Alexander Stubb, the foreign minister of Finland. The lecture was very interesting and they even brought up Second Life! It was a program I worked for last year at ECU. Afterwards, we visited the Library and Theatre designed by Finnish archtiect, Aalto Alvar. We visited the Artikum, where we saw a "Northern Light" show, "Arctic Zone", where you experience a taste of how cold it is further up into Lapland. They also had a show about the process of slaughtering reindeer (I didn't watch too much of this one). Afterwards, we went to Santa Clause village where we were able to see Santa and take a picture. Santa Clause spoke to all of us in our own language which was really cool. We all took a good photo with him and I'll have to post it as soon as I get a copy.

Albert, one of the guys from Beligum, took this shot of me. He had a heavy duty camera and was taking pictures of pretty much everything!

Picture of us attempting an action shot crossing over the Artic Circle at Santa Clause village.

Very long day and once again Albert capturing the moment...