Sauna and Pictures

Just got out of my first sauna. It was crazy. You get in the sauna, which is like 95 degrees Celcius, then jump in a freezing cold shower, then back in the sauna, then repeat again. All in all I think we were in the sauna probably 40 minutes or so. Really clears out your sinuses and all your pores and everything. I'm definitely looking forward to doing it again later.
So I went to the welcoming party last night, it was at a club called Onnela. Nice place, but the band they had playing for the first couple hours was playing like country music type stuff, so it was boring, but then after they quit the dj played some good stuff. They had drinks and quiche and chips, pretzels, nuts, etc. for us to snack on, so it was fun just sitting with a group of people talking about stuff.
The group I sat with and have been hanging out with a lot since the first day is my roommate, Jan (with an accent over the a, pronounced yan), from the Czech Republic, his girlfriend Nadia, also from the Czech Republic, Marleen and Laurentia, from the Netherlands, Olesya, from Russia, and Andrea, from Germany.
The church in town is a Lutheran one, but all the services are in Finnish, so I think I'll try to go once I've got a little bit of Finnish down, but for now I think it'd be kinda pointless, so will just have to do something at home. They do have a special night service once a month in English, so will be going to that next Sunday night.
The weather's getting a lot nicer. Was only -20 today, and by Monday it's only supposed to be -10, or as the Finns call it, T-shirt weather. :D

Now for some pictures. This first one is of the road that I take to school and back every day.

















This next one is me all bundled up on the way back from my second day of orientation. It was still light out because it was just 2:00 or so.

This last one is my dorm building. The top left window there is my room. The one next to it is another room, then there's another window half hidden by that tree, which is our living room/kitchenette window. The tiny window on the end of the building is in the shower room. And in case you're wondering, those aren't parking meters, they're outlets to plug block heaters in. I was standing at the end of the road pictured above when i took this picture.


That's all for now.