The past two weeks have been exam weeks and were the last weeks of this semester. I've had five exams, which was okay, but the reports that we had to hand in took more time. The air was very polluted last week, so it was better to stay inside anyways. Two of the exams were Chinese exams, one about the Chinese culture and the other one about the Chinese language. I think both went well and I have defintely passed the exams. The same goes for the Engineering Econo...

Last week has been quite easy with the exams and deadlines, so we did have the chance to try some new beer and to explore places to go for drinking. On Tuesday I had my presentation for Money and Banking and I think it went pretty well. The teacher didn't give us a grade yet, but he said that it was good. The exam for this course, by the way, will be very difficult, maybe most difficult of all the exams. That's because it is about Money and Banking and we're stu...

This week I got the first result of an exam, plus I was teaching an English class in the supermarket. That was a really strange experience, but it was fun. For one of our Chinese classes we had an exam two weeks ago and this Thursday I got my result. I didn't do so badly, I got 98 out of 100 points. Though, this course is not about Chinese language but about Chinese culture and about the country. The real Chinese language exam I think will be way more difficul...

Shopping for souvenirs in Jinan, good weather again and a free day to end the month with. This Sunday we went to the city center of Jinan to go shopping for some souvenirs. I am not going home soon, but Roman and Victoria are so they wanted to buy some Chinese goodies. Unfortunately for them they didn't really find anything they were looking for. We went to this huge kind of shopping center with hundreds of small shops where they sell a lot of stuff that nob...

It is getting colder now, the first snow has fallen and the temperature stays below zero during the day. A true Fin is missing the snow and goes back home. In the beginning of this week we've had some snow in Jinan. It wasn't very much, not like in Finland, but it was something. The good thing then is that it is super clear, I think those were the clearest days that I've had so far. The mountains surrounding the campus could be seen very well, so I could take ...