Finnish-German 1st Meeting with gorgeous waffles

Starting out the meeting with the other 2 German girls Meike and Sofia and having a walk to the tiny café “Vohvelkahvila”. Outside we met our Finnish tutor Jasmin already waiting for us 🙂

The café is really recommendable all of us have been very happy with their choice.

We started out with some general small talk, quickly drifting away to random topics like the fit and sizes of jeans or how the infrastructure differs from Germany to Finland. So we learned that in winter the maximum speed is 80 Km/h on the streets, whereas in summer it is 100Km/h. Also that spike tires get more common the more northern you actually live. Over the German fining system we finally ended up at drinking habits. When our waffles were ready we got to the topic “sweets” and that liquorice, especially the salty one, is really popular in Finnland.

After some time the speech got to festivities: so we learned about how Finns celebrate midsummer , easter or vappu, which is compareable to the german “Walpurgis Nacht”. It sounds like a really big festival here in Finland, a celebration of the spring at the 1st May. I’d love to see that but due to corona there will be no festivities this year round.

Speaking of Corona we also discussed our travel plans for the up comming weeks or the summer. Also how long we all are going to stay in Tampere or around and how Finnish classic holidays actually look like.

Really chill meeting thanks for that girls looking forward to see you on Monaday 🙂

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