Hei everyone,
The time is flying, it is more than one month has passed since the first CBU/BCBU summer school have successfully finished in Rovaniemi. The school has gathered experts and students from different fields, universities and countries. Our batch has started from Joensuu by bus, we were more than 20 people in there, representing St-Petersburg University and University of Joensuu. Our chief was always with us, Eero Forss has been a good manager during the entire trip and staying in there. The School has been aimed to vanish the borders between neighbouring countries, and it seemed to working fine. Even though officially it was Finnish-Russian Cross-Border Summer School the event has accounted huge number of different nationalities. Totally the school has gathered students from Arctic University in Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk State University, St-Petersburg State University, University of Eastern Finland (both Joensuu and Kuopio campuses were presented), University of Helsinki, University of Oulu, and of course University of Lapland. Actually it was the first trip up to the north so far within Finland, I have been on Kola peninsula (Murmansk region) in Khibiny mountains earlier, however I was very excited to see what is up north in Finland. The timing of the event has been chosen perfectly, since it was still the last week of calendar summer and was relatively warm. The distance from Joensuu to Rovaniemi was over 550 km and lasted about 8 hours drive. So we started our jorney at 1 p.m. in order to arrive not too late to our final destination. While traveling to the north you can easily notice the difference in the landscape and vegatation. The most exciting things appeared close to Rovaniemi, the drive had to use emergency breaking in order to prevent the road accidents with northern pedestrian. You can easily guess that I am talking about deers. These animals are semi-free in here, it means that they are freely walking, however each of them has a mark which tells the owner. So we are safely arrive to Rovaniemi and looking forward towards school programme, more in details I will tell you in next blog... see you!!!
The time is flying, it is more than one month has passed since the first CBU/BCBU summer school have successfully finished in Rovaniemi. The school has gathered experts and students from different fields, universities and countries. Our batch has started from Joensuu by bus, we were more than 20 people in there, representing St-Petersburg University and University of Joensuu. Our chief was always with us, Eero Forss has been a good manager during the entire trip and staying in there. The School has been aimed to vanish the borders between neighbouring countries, and it seemed to working fine. Even though officially it was Finnish-Russian Cross-Border Summer School the event has accounted huge number of different nationalities. Totally the school has gathered students from Arctic University in Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk State University, St-Petersburg State University, University of Eastern Finland (both Joensuu and Kuopio campuses were presented), University of Helsinki, University of Oulu, and of course University of Lapland. Actually it was the first trip up to the north so far within Finland, I have been on Kola peninsula (Murmansk region) in Khibiny mountains earlier, however I was very excited to see what is up north in Finland. The timing of the event has been chosen perfectly, since it was still the last week of calendar summer and was relatively warm. The distance from Joensuu to Rovaniemi was over 550 km and lasted about 8 hours drive. So we started our jorney at 1 p.m. in order to arrive not too late to our final destination. While traveling to the north you can easily notice the difference in the landscape and vegatation. The most exciting things appeared close to Rovaniemi, the drive had to use emergency breaking in order to prevent the road accidents with northern pedestrian. You can easily guess that I am talking about deers. These animals are semi-free in here, it means that they are freely walking, however each of them has a mark which tells the owner. So we are safely arrive to Rovaniemi and looking forward towards school programme, more in details I will tell you in next blog... see you!!!
