Sneak a peek of my life

I think I should stop making promises about the next post's content unless I've already written it. :D In my last post I said the next one will be a book review but I have had so much other stuff going on in my life for the past three weeks!

First of all, I've traveled back to Finland from the United States. Alas, my time abroad has ended but I must confess I am relatively happy to be back in my home country. I was in Helsinki just in time for the celebrations of May 1 and the wonderful Finnish summer that is not too humid nor too hot for a person who likes to dress all black!

For a couple of months I was quite stressed about the fact that I had no summer job when I returned to Finland. I am happy to announce this no longer stresses me and I have an interesting work opportunity for the summer. It is even related to the field I am studying at the university! I shall spend my summer in the vicinity of Helsinki and to be frank I have no idea where I'll be living when Autumn comes. It all depends on my studies, are there courses I can attend at the University of Tampere and are there so many of them that it is smart to move into the city once more.

For these short three weeks I have visited my university for the one last seminar of this spring and at the same time I met with my student friends and also friends who I have known much longer. It was actually pretty weird to be in my university city Tampere for the first time this year! I felt like a tourist.

Tourist photos from Tampere!

Last weekend was Ropecon, Finland's biggest roleplaying convention. It is also the largest independent roleplaying convention in Europe and it has international honorary guests and a lot of programs are in English. It is a family friendly convention and I was amazed how many tiny creatures (=children) in cool costumes there were! The convention lasts a whole weekend but I went to Ropecon only on Saturday, mostly to see many friends I had not seen this whole year since I went to USA in January and only returned three weeks ago.

The Unreality Choir performing songs from Skyrim and Doctor Who

The most entertaining program I saw was the Unreality choir's performance. They sang well-known tunes from games and scifi/fantasy TV-shows and it was all really nice. Also, people in Ropecon tend to be on good humor and they are really supportive to all those people who have made an effort to produce program. The atmosphere in the whole convention is great, or at least that is how I perceived it.

That's about it of my life at the moment. I am relatively certain that in two weeks I can pester myself into writing that book review I was going to post "next". ;) Thanks for reading!