One month later I´m here, writing about this new experience that I´m living. The 2nd of January I arrived in Helsinki from Madrid, it was a really tough day. First of all I had to get up about 3 a.m in my town (León, in the northwest of Spain), then I had to go to Madrid to take the flight, but I had with me two huge suitcases which exceeded the allowed weight, so I was really lucky because I didn´t have to pay. Also, I had another problem, one hour before the flight my backpack was broken! Luckily my father could repair it. More random things happened to me, when I was in the airport check I had to take away my boots, there were a lot of people and a big queue to the control and when I could finish the control one of my boots wasn´t there, but finally, I could find it. I had to say that the flight was good, when we arrived in Helsinki we met another Spanish girl, who now is my friend, and took a train to go to the train station in order to take another train to go to Turku (where I live), unfortunately the train to Turku was delayed one hour and we were frizzing waiting in the street. Too many hours later we arrived in Turku and took a taxi to the Student village (where we are living) and it wasn´t expensive (surprising!). I was so tired and I had pain in my arms because of the suitcases, so I got into the room and lied on the bed. The room was better than what I expected, it´s big for one person, but I live in the ground floor so it´s not warm enough for me, but I bought a heater and now I am always warm, so it´s not a problem! And also, the best part of the day was when I sit on the bed and started eating my Spanish omelette (one of my favourite meals) made of my parents. As you can see my first day wasn´t the best day of my life, but now, one month later, the things have changed and I have a lot of adventures and experiences to tell you, see you soon!
I have to dedicate one post to the alcohol because it´s really expensive here! First of all, you can´t buy "hard" alcohol at the supermarket, as you can in Spain. Here, at the supermarket, you only can buy some beers or cider (maximum 5% of alcohol) but nothing else. So, if you want to buy wine, vodka, gin, or beers with more % of alcohol you have to go to a specific shop, called Alko, they are near supermarkets normally, and for example, in Turku city centre there are two. But, remember this: if you want to buy alcohol you have to show your ID card, but also the people who go with you have to show it (one time I went with a friend but it was me the one who was buying and I couldn´t because she didn´t have it). They say that they do it to have control of the alcohol, but they don´t count the consuming of each person or something, it´s just a different shop because it´s from the Government so it earns money with that. Furthermore, they have another restriction, if you are 18...
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