Our trip to Joensuu has been amazing and as many of our trips, it has its own story wich is worthy to tell. Our adventure started on thursday morning, when we took the bus in Lepaa, at 8 o´clock. Everything was white!! We knew that it had snowed, cause just the night before we were playing with it and walking around, but... in the morning it was like 5 cm. of thickness. Everything was alright during the journey. We travelled by train, and VR (the train company in Finland) was really in time despite the snow. There, we had Erasmus parties everyday, and our friends were too nice, as they offered us a place where to sleep and took care of us in every moment. That night, we had our first dinner in a girl´s place: roast chicken with onion and potatoes...mmm, delicious. After that, coming back home to Blai´s (our host), who was living in Noljakka district. From the downtown to Blai´s is 4,5 km. Always by walk. In friday morning (we had already bought our sledges in KCitymarket :D) we decided to go for a walk around the city (again 4,5 km.). The first hill we found was our playground for a couple of hours, and we downhill without stop! Even the kids in the school next to us were looking not undestanding how 5 people more than 20 were playing like children...but it was incredibly funny. Around 4 pm. we went to RAX Pizza Buffet, where for only 8€ you can eat as much as you can (that´s the meaning of buffet, of course) and end your absolutely unhealthy lunch with an icecream. At night... erasmus party in Lisankatu (the name of the street) and of course, meeting new people all over the place.
Next morning was spent in sleeping and preparing ourselves for the barbecue we had: we had to buy everything and take the bus to Outra (another district), which was 10 km. away. In that district there was an island where we had the fireplaces. It was the first time I was eating outside at -7 degrees!!! When we finish it was around 7 pm and we walked almost 3 km to go to another student place. We played "What do I have in my head?" game and we had dinner there. That night we had to go to the "reagge party" in the city center. The only way of going there without walking was sharing the bikes with the other students...so there we went 2 per bike with the streets full of snow, ice and countless traps made by the traffic and people walking in the snow. The ground was VERY slippery...and I could confirm it twice! Yes, I DID fall. That night we got home at 5 am. We took lots of photos and laugh a lot. It was the end of our trip, more or less, because the next morning the train was leaving at 3 pm. When we got up on sunday, the first thing we saw through the window was the snow falling and the strong wind shaking the trees in the street. It was a snow-storm. We left Blai´s at 2 pm, and we almost miss the train because it was too late. The wind and the snow were all around, you could feel how the snow was gettin into your nose and eyes, the wind was sticking little needles into your skin and the cold was trying to go through the 4 layers you were wearing. All of this almost running, sweaty inside, frozen outside... Eventually we arrive 5 minutes before the departure and we could take the train... we thought everything was over, but we were wrong. We had to take 3 trains; the first one was Joensuu-Lahti (4 hours), the second one was Lahti-Riihimäki (40 min.) and the last one Riihimäki-Hämeenlinna (15 min.) . After that, it was assumed that we´d arrive at 8 pm. and we only would have to wait half an hour for the bus to Lepaa, the only bus on sunday to Lepaa. Ok, it wasn´t like we expected. The train to Lahti was 40 min.delayed, but we could take the second one. The second one stopped twice in the middle of nowhere, tried to come back and restart again. But it was too late. In Riihimäaki we hadn´t got any train to Häameenlinna. Soooooo we waited for 45 min. At the end we arrived around 10:30 pm. We had to call some friends there to stay the night. That friends live also really far from the city centre. Normally, it´d have taken around 30 min. walking, but with the snow and the wind it took us 1 hour and 5 minutes! When we reached their place we only tought in having dinner and go to bed. Today in the morning we took the bus at 7:50 in the morning and we finally arrived home at 9!As I said it was a "non-boring" trip!
Some pics that might give you an idea of our experience...
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