First steps in Varkaus

Amandine and I on our way to Finland

Hello, we finally arrived in Varkaus the 18th of January! We were at Varkaus airport at  7:30 pm and it was a very long day. We left from Nice at around 6 am and we had two layovers, one in Amsterdam for one hour and one in Helsinki for about four hours! We were both exhausted but also excited to be in Finland. At the arrival in Varkaus, two of our teachers were waiting for us (the airport is 30 minutes away from the university by car), the temperature was -29°C, so no need to say it was really cold, we were frozen! The hair in our nose got hard and one of the cars of our teachers broke down because of the cold (even if in Finland, they have free power that they can use for their cars on the parking lots), we were in Finland!

I still don't know why two teachers came to pick us up, but anyway we left with the car of Mr. Salkinoja (the car almost broke down too on the way to our dormirtory). We arrived around 8:30 pm and some French students were waiting for us, they explained some things about the life here and then we met a spanish boy and a finnish girl, it was fun. We will explain later how the life on the campus is.