I'm in Finland There’s no escaping Germans
Terve! Mä oon Edgar. Mä olen kotoisin Bermudasta, mä olen hollantilainen ma puhun englantia ja hollantia ja ranskaa ja saksa. Mä olen opiskelija. Mitä Kuuluu? These are the first Finnish sentences I learnt today. Can you guess what they mean? If you want to guess, write a comment to this post and get some discussion going or send me an e-mail info@edgarvandermeer.com (if you are Finnish yourself, please write me if you find any mistakes).
Coming back to the title; there’s no escaping Germans, or saksalainen as they are known here. I thought my Erasmus would be an escape from the German invasion of university (no offence) but one of my roommates is German and there are three people in my language class alone who are German as well. Not to mention the group of Germans (well 5 of them, but who’s counting) who came into the bicycle store to all buy bikes. On the topic of bicycles, after having watched the shopkeeper deal with 5 nitpicking Germans who all had something to complain about so they could get a discount, I bought one! No, not a German, a bicycle (que Queen song: Bicycle Race) I’ll get some pictures up soon. Thank god it has gears because some of the ones I’ve seen people riding on don’t and let’s just say the hills are a bit more plentiful than back home!
Anyway things are going extremely well and I am really enjoying myself. But there’s no escaping homework either so I am going to get back to learning Finnish,
Hyvää yötä!
E
Coming back to the title; there’s no escaping Germans, or saksalainen as they are known here. I thought my Erasmus would be an escape from the German invasion of university (no offence) but one of my roommates is German and there are three people in my language class alone who are German as well. Not to mention the group of Germans (well 5 of them, but who’s counting) who came into the bicycle store to all buy bikes. On the topic of bicycles, after having watched the shopkeeper deal with 5 nitpicking Germans who all had something to complain about so they could get a discount, I bought one! No, not a German, a bicycle (que Queen song: Bicycle Race) I’ll get some pictures up soon. Thank god it has gears because some of the ones I’ve seen people riding on don’t and let’s just say the hills are a bit more plentiful than back home!
Anyway things are going extremely well and I am really enjoying myself. But there’s no escaping homework either so I am going to get back to learning Finnish,
Hyvää yötä!
E
posted by Edgar van der Meer at
8:22 PM
2 Comments:
Well I must say that there are plenty Germans here. But I must also add that it is not as bad as it is shown. Not all the Germans are complaining. Actually the ones I know, which are the ones form the laguage course, never complained.
I am well aware that you are primed by Maastricht, but try to keep an open mind. We are not all so bad.
And don't get me started on the Dutch!
I do have an open mind, all I'm trying to say is that there are a lot of Germans here (which is inevitable). I do not think that this is a bad thing though! And of course not all Germans complain, it was just Ironic that I got a better deal on my bike without complaining than the people who came in and started to find things that were wrong with the bikes to get a discount. They didn't necessarily have to be German to do that. Honestly I expect it more from the Dutch! And if you want, you may get started on the dutch, (I'll even join in)!
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