Finnish - invented by Engineers?

Finnish - invented by Engineers to communicate and take part in social life?...

"The key to life is accepting challenges. 

Once someone stops doing this, he's dead." 

(Bette Davis)

Puhutko Suomea? [ Do you speak finnish? ]
In this post, I would like to talk a little bit about the Language "Finnish/Suomea".

I am now here in Rovaniemi, Finland, since September 2012..and finnish is still a quite interesting challenge for me.

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It was never a problem for me to learn a foreign language.
When I started my studies here in Rovaniemi, everyone was speaking English. English at the University, English in your working and living area, English while you are buying things, asking things etc. all the time English.
English is really the most common used language here for us Students.

And then came my "Survival Finnish"-Course...let's learn some Finnish and try it in Real life in practice.

Well finnish is not easy to understand. The mainly reason for this are fast speaking-people.
I don't know sometimes when a word starts or ends, and/or if the person is still alive and breathing or already swallowing new words :)

Society widely thinks that we Engineers are unable to take part in sociality and life
As an Engineer, Life is not easy!
That's maybe the reason why we Engineers are trying to develop simple and easy solutions for complicated problems, to make life for effective and simple.

BUT How will be for an Engineer? or somebody like me who is a becoming engineer?

Let's take a close look to applied finnish in technics - Cold Technics.
I don't to go too much into detail, but all of you are using this cold technics for example in your fridge/freezer( don't mix it up ).

Here comes the first proof,  the finnish language might be invented by some technical engineers!
As you can see in the picture, there are a lot of similarities to the german Language:

...To be continued!


The Fins don't only use a few gramatical cases as we germans do. I guess they have around 15 :)

Here are some grammatical aspects: take a close look to the endings for the word "talo = house" :)

Finnish cases
Case	Suffix	English prep.	Example	Translation
Grammatical
nominative (nominatiivi)	-	-	talo	house
genitive (genetiivi)	-n	of / 's	talon	of (a) house / house's
accusative (akkusatiivi)	-, -t or -n	-	talo / talon	house
partitive (partitiivi)	-(t)a	-	taloa	house (as an object)
Locative (internal)
inessive (inessiivi)	-ssa	in	talossa	in (a) house
elative (elatiivi)	-sta	from (inside)	talosta	from (a) house
illative (illatiivi)	-an, -en, etc.	into	taloon	into (a) house
Locative (external)
adessive (adessiivi)	-lla	at, on	talolla	at (a) house
ablative (ablatiivi)	-lta	from	talolta	from (a) house
allative (allatiivi)	-lle	to	talolle	to (a) house
Essive
essive (essiivi)	-na	as	talona	as a house
(exessive; dialectal) (eksessiivi)	-nta	from being	talonta	from being a house
translative (translatiivi)	-ksi	to (role of)	taloksi	to a house
Marginal
instructive (instruktiivi)	-n	with (the aid of)	taloin	with the houses
abessive (abessiivi)	-tta	without	talotta	without (a) house
comitative (komitatiivi)	-ne-	together (with)	taloineen	with the house(s)

Life as an Insinööri in Finland

 Life of an Insinööri in Finland!

Tervetuola kaikki!(Welcome All). In this post I would like to reflect the current situation of my experiences here somewhere at the end of the world,  where some Northern Lights rules the night sky...

taken  in the city center of Rovaniemi on Sunday 17.03.2013 at 20.30 o' clock
Camera: Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 :)

...light and darkness in Winter and Summer playing tricks on people's mind...

...and the snow is still present until propably the end of May...

...where people don't get enough of cold and go ice-swimming...

...and where the Nature still dominates Humanity...


Welcome to the Artic Circle and the officla Hometown of Santa and the Heart of Lappland...Rovaniemi!

First of all, I have to disappoint some of you guys. I am sorry :D but until now, there is no marriage plant in Kuntotie :P

 but let s see what and how Finnland and it's magical impacts affect myself :)

Well I have to admit, I started to drink coffee here...

 and I somedays, I have the feeling that I can swear already in Finnish( except rolling the "R" )

and that I am always on the run. Everytime there is something, and I am happy that I didn't compeltely lost one of the main parts of German Culture besides drinking beer...the timetable-addictness and feeling organized.

For sure my room looks always clean, when my parents, my friends, or even my grandfather calls me :)

 I have so many things to tell you, and no idea when I should write all those posts, but stay tuned :)

An Update about the finnish Language is coming soon:)

Top 100 and Sleeping in a Snow-Icehotel

Sleeping in a Snow-Icehotel?

Come to sleep in a Snow-Icehotel...they said...it will be an experience..they said...

Let's take a look at the prices...Okay aaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone...

As a student it is not easy to purchase all those kind of trips and adventures, but there are always possibilites to reach your aims and dreams...

Why and how can somebody imagine to sleep in a Hotel, which is made completely out of Snow and Ice ?

The whole group of testies

You could ask: "Isn't there enough snow, cold, ice and darkness( no polar bears ) in Finland? I mean they have snow until May/June :( :( :(

Why is somebody interested in spending more time in cold winter conditions..?

In the Medicine and Health Care Campus of the University of Applied Sciences, there was a request for "rabbits" presented by normal students to take part in a medical survey project. The project's aim was that all the testies(rabbits) were spending one night in a snow-ice hotel in Kemi, while having some EKG-Measuresystem wearing for a total time of three days and three nights. They want to take a look at your stresslevel, about the sleeping experience, how your body will react to such cold winter conditions ( -5 °C Room temperature ) and some other medical stuff which I tried to understand and to follow the points, but already forget.

Sleeping in a  Snow-Icehotel...well it could be a nice and unique experience,... and it is also standing on some of those prepared, " Oh I don't know what to post on the internet" Guys who search some attraction and eyecatchers or social friends while uploading some random stuff and renaming it like " TOP 100 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE..."-lists.

So it could be a nice idea. The project also paid the hotel night...so let's go!

The whole hotel is build of snow and ice. The hotel includes around 50 rooms,

The hotel is rebuild every year, and represented with a new art topic :)

It also includes:

 one restaurant, where you can eat for a lot of money :)

but atleast everythign feels like totally icy and provide you a unique winter experience

one chapel

a lot of poeple get married in there, maybe some good idea for somebody?

and some places for creative artists,to present some of their works(topic and theme changes every year,  this year it was comic and media)

And of course there should be no ANGRY BIRDS missing :)

an integrated sound level indication bar :)

Some random sculptures in one of the restaurant rooms

again the Angry Birds

Ahhh I love those Angry Birds :D :D :D

and also some very impressive ice sculptures :)

To sleep there was a quite nice experience. The room was about -5°C cold, and almost completely dark.
It took some time to get in those sleepingbags, because you really had to be cover yourself totally except a small window for your face to breath.

Luckily we had some really warm sleeping bags,  but you could not move very well with it. While I was trying to sleep, I thought , hey let s keep some more space on your face...3 min later I could feel the freezing air on my lips, it felt like they were totally stuck in cold water.

But before you go to sleep in a Icehotel, you should also be a little bit creative and try some things out:

Me in the chapel as a pastor :)

I could not really convince the people to trust an engineer...

That was there result for me :D

But I found afterwards a good playground for kids :P

So stay tuned for the next blogupdate about the finnish Language and a Snow Mobile Safari

finnish Honeybread and Sauna

Honeybread, Sauna, and Finnish Directness

 Even if the weather looks beautiful outside,

 it is not that cold outside, only around - 15 °C.

You sometimes just feel like...

yes exactly, surrounded and covered by snow :) [and cold ]

Then it is the right time to have a finnish Sauna :)

And it can not always match your expectations, but atleast you can have some good talks ( see my older post about finnish sauna ) and relax.

And sometimes you can just heat up too much, as you can see the reactions on the following picture.
First, let s take a look about the reaction of the finnish guys after the Sauna

"It is too fuckin hot here... I ll need some cool fresh air...ahh...now it s fine..." said Vesa
"For sure we can sit here next to the cold door, only in tshirts... we are finnish..." said Eero

On the one hand i can understand the finnish reaction, I mean when you are used to live in the cold, and always covered and traced by coldness, snow, and darkness, In a land when you can be happy if there is NO snow left in Begin of June...

But let s also take a look at the reaction of my friends from Ethopia

I think you can easily see, who s get used to cold and who is get used to heat :)

On the weekend it was time for the cottage weekend in Leirikarie, where lots of Games, Drinks, and Group Activities were placed on the schedule.

Thanks for the amazing weekend!

One of my finnish friends, Topi, yes there is no writing mistake in his name, it is correct with a "p" in the middle,  strange naming conventions but nevertheless, Topi, was a little bit suspicious about our Sauna stories...

Topi: I don't believe you guys :)

So at this point, it was his try, to make sure, that we all drink a little bit more, or play the games in a finnish way :)

Rosa, and Topi ( Finland )

Atleast Rosa was our insurance to stay alive the whole evening :)

This whole scenery reminds me totally of the movie called "Horrible Bosses" known as "Kill the Boss" in Germany :)

Maybe some of you guys remember this scene of the movie:


 The next morning was a little bit "hangovered". And it got even better, when some of the Austrian guys eat some good Honeybread in the morning.

Philipp and Hubert

"How can you put Honey on a bread for breakfast?"... said by a few finnish tutors

For us middle, east, center, south and west Europeans it is totally normal to put honey on your bread in the morning... I am not sure about the Swedish or Norwegian guys, but I ll ask some and let s see :)

But the lovely weather and coffee helps a lot :)

Stay tuned for the next blog update :)

Metal/Rock-Music increases Productivity

Metal and Rock Music increases Productivity

First of all I would like to thank my Rakas, Henna-Emilia for the nice post :)
It was a total surprise for me to open my blog in the morning and read the new post.

At the moment, I am working independently on a project to calculate/measure the load of snow or ice on a roof of as building and its impacts on the building. My task is to develop and built an easy-to-use connection for a Compressed Loading Cell ( it is a weight-sensor).
Later on, it should be possible to directly access the measurements on a Laptop.

This day, I was pretending to work on my current project in the laboratory...

trying to test the Compression Loading Cell

But unfortunately I didn t get the expected results, so I was trying out some configurations and settings, and it took a long time to wait to exceed the settings.

So I tried to resolder some connections in the Electronical Laboratory of the University.
As it is usual in a laboratory, chaos and complexity rules a laboratory. Everyone tries atleast to keep a little order...good luck with that in Finland.

"We are here not in Germany Claudio, so don't try to order things..."(said by one of my professors)

Normally, it is good to have a quiet room to structure your thoughts and mind on the project...

my first draft :)

But in some cases, according to one of my professor, "HEAVY METAL AND HARD ROCK MUSIC" increases productivity permantly up to 10-20 %"... and "let's see if the finnish radio here can play some Rammstein, then it will be additionally + 5 % " ( said by one of my professors)

I was improving my solution and developing it over almost 2 weeks, until I finally make it work.
Sometimes, it can cost s a lot of self-control to finally find a solution for technical problems, but when you find it, you feel very good :)

After testing my draft, it was time to change the lab to collect all the measurement data.

collecting the lab data

After spending a lot of time in buildings and in front of laptops, you maybe sometimes forget to realize how good it is to see finland's nature:

Preview for the next update tomorrow:

The Finnish Sauna - Leirikarie and Finnish Directness :)

The day with Claudio

Hello! 

My name is Henna-Emilia and many of the readers might know me already. Some months ago Claudio promised me that one day I can make a post to his blog. There would be so many different things that I could write about him but finally I decided to tell about how are the days here with him.

As many you might know, most of the days go totally just walking to school, being in the laboratory, walking again, being in the apartment few minutes, sometimes even have time for a gym, walking again in the my place and studying more. But when the weekends come there are always something special happening and couple weeks ago it was a surprise evening for me.

The day started with sleeping long and just hanging out in my apartment in center Rovaniemi. My dad called me and invited us to have some lunch in the Chinese restaurant. It was really nice to hear them trying to speak German to each other – and even a bit Finnish included in the conversations.

Claudio had prepared some white wine and honey melon ice-cream for dessert and after a few hours resting it was time to go again. I had my eyes closed the whole journey to our destination because it was supposed to be a surprise for me. We ended up to Café & Bar 21 with Mari and Eero to drink some cocktails. The evening went fast and the whole day was amazing, hopefully we will do it again soon.

I can’t thank Claudio enough for having always time for things like that even when he is totally busy!

With Love,

Henna