I snowed. When I woke this morning I saw the snow covered everywhere around my apartment. It started snowing a little yesterday afternoon but by the time I came home it was already turned raining.
Now really *Winter* starts. However the temperature is almost 0-2C day time now, it dose not hurt me so much. People wear thick coat or jacket with muffler and hat; those keep warm, and indeed work very well. Still people are active outside, walking, jogging, and hanging around with friends. I did the lake side walking over hour, too. After I came home I wet a lot. A Finnish boy who are born here and growing here told me the winter coldness is nothing to him, the darkness is nothing to him, just that is. I started to take Finnish class at the university. There is a culture exchange program the students to help each other. I got a boy who is interested in Japanese, so we must meet 14hrs to enhance our goal, which Finnish for me and Japanese for him. Finnish and Japanese are totally different language obviously but somehow the way to pronunciation of alphabets is more similar and easier than English. We agree this point. His study major is English and German. Of course he likes comics, that why he became be interested like others. But he entered the special vocational school a year before starting University, so he understands a lot. In Finland people start University or Graduate school whenever they are ready. Especially many graduate students for Master have their jobs and studying to complete their degree in several years. Becoming school teacher at least Master degree may require, so all school teachers at elementary school to high school have Master or more degrees. That may be one of the reasons why the Economist Intelligence Unit for Pearson, has found Finland to be the best education system in the world. The ranking of international test results is one of the top in the world.
Wao, I almost miss the full moon cause too much thinking during walking….
Winter started here at Tampere.
