Blogging from Finland...
So! I'm in Finland now, where the keyboards are just different enough to make things interesting. The letters are the same old qwerty layout, but all the punctuation is in different places (excepting . and ,), to make room for the 'ä', 'ö' and 'å'. I am very glad I will never have to program with this keyboard (although, now that I've said it, I probably will someday), since missing semi-colons is easy enough on a regular keyboard. Also, you need to press three keys to make an @! I guess people don't type e-mail addresses very often in Finland.
The flight here was pretty smooth. It was an hour late leaving Toronto, because Finnair was having issues with the American Airlines' computers. I couldn't sleep on the plane, so I watched the movies (Someone Like You (meh) and Music and Lyrics (very cute!)) and rented a PSP for Loco Roco. The jet-lag hasn't been too bad so far...mostly it was like I'd pulled an all-nighter to finish an assignment.
Right now I'm staying at my uncle Pertti and aunt Suvi's house in Porvoo. They've taken me to a kantele concert, which was neat. Today we went biking downtown, and I would have bought the Hitchhiker's Guide in Finnish (for practice), but they only had the hardcover and I didn't have enough money. We also went to a museum, from which there are pictures to come!
If people would like Finnish post-cards, comment/e-mail me your address! Subtle hints as to preferable souvenirs also welcome ;)
(Aaagh, HTML! < is in-between shift and z, > is shift-<, " is shift-2, / is shift-7, = is shift-0. So weird!)
The flight here was pretty smooth. It was an hour late leaving Toronto, because Finnair was having issues with the American Airlines' computers. I couldn't sleep on the plane, so I watched the movies (Someone Like You (meh) and Music and Lyrics (very cute!)) and rented a PSP for Loco Roco. The jet-lag hasn't been too bad so far...mostly it was like I'd pulled an all-nighter to finish an assignment.
Right now I'm staying at my uncle Pertti and aunt Suvi's house in Porvoo. They've taken me to a kantele concert, which was neat. Today we went biking downtown, and I would have bought the Hitchhiker's Guide in Finnish (for practice), but they only had the hardcover and I didn't have enough money. We also went to a museum, from which there are pictures to come!
If people would like Finnish post-cards, comment/e-mail me your address! Subtle hints as to preferable souvenirs also welcome ;)
(Aaagh, HTML! < is in-between shift and z, > is shift-<, " is shift-2, / is shift-7, = is shift-0. So weird!)