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Saturday, January 10, 2009
So my first day in Finland is behind me and when I look back … I experienced a lot
When I woke up it was 10am. I heard that Tierry and Sthefan, Tierry is from France and Sthefan is from Germany (They both are studying here from september 2008), are speaking about some opportunities to go skiing. But Tierry decided that it is really expensive to ge there now just for 3 hours. It was something around 30EUR ( equipment included ).
At 11am we have got arrangement with Antti and Justina before Justinas dormitory. We went shopping. It was very nice sunny day, with a looot of snow :) We went to shopping to the area near our dormitory by foot.
Firstly we just checking prices and find out what is expensive and what is cheap and where. We were in LIDL and another big supermarket called PRISMA. Some prices is similar to ours in Slovakia, but a lot thinks are more expensive.
After checking prices in LIDL and PRISMA , we took one guy from Hungary and go with him to the center of Jyvaskyla :). The center is 5 km far away from our dormitory.
In center I finally met with my friend Nada, who is here for one year and she wants to stay here as much as it possible.
She likes this country very much because of a lot of things which I starting getting know.
I was looking for some finish SIM card with cheap prices and Antti recommend me after visiting second KIOSK that Tele Finland will be good choice. So I buy one card for 9,90 EUR and get card with 11 EUR credit and unbelieveble prices. Call (per minute) and SMS: 0,069 EUR. It is totally great and I find out again that in Slovakia we don`t have the lowest prices.
Juchuuu, I have got new finish number :))
Then we realized to go back to dormitory and go shopping. Justina went with Antti to LIDL and I with Nada came to Nadas apartment to pick up some stuff for me. We took it to my room and went to go shopping to LIDL and PRISMA.
When I came back Sthefan told me that they are organizing some party today (he has had birtday, but I found it our later :) ). At 6pm around 6 other people came to our apartment and starting enjoying life :) Here was some French, German, Finish, Czech guys and girls. I joined them for a while and it was great to see many cultures how they are chatting off course in English :).
Just imagine, that you are in some room and behind the doors are some people chatting in English, French, German and sometimes Finish and Czech :) It was amazing atmosphere, and it was better than radio :)
What is my feelings after first day? I am very happy that I have learned English because now I can chat with people and get to know each other better. And also express my feelings. I do not know everything yet but that is the one of the reasons why I am here, to improve my English.
And I am happy that I am here now in Finland and I hope that I will be satisfied if I done everything here :)
Saturday, January 10, 2009
First part of travelling to Finland
I took my bus from Zvolen to Bratislava airport in our bus station in Zvolen. It was late more than 25 minutes. I was not upset cause I have reserve in Bratislava more than 2 hours.
I should arrive to Bratislava airport at 6:30pm and departure of my fly was at 9:30pm.
When the bus start, I realized In that moment, I will not see my parents and others for a long time. It was first time, when I should go somewhere for longer than month. I hope that I will not disappointed anybody.
Bus arrived to Bratislava on time! It was unbelievable :)
I was waiting on Bratislava airport with hundreds of others who was going to fly also somewhere. I thought that in plain will be maybe approx. 40 - 50 people. I have never fly before so…
Check-in opened 2 hours before departure. I went to check-in at 8pm. I was afraid that something will be bad, that I did not check weight of my luggage properly and I will need to pay some extra for it. And also that I will be not allowed to go with 2 pieces luggage to aircraft. In one I had got clothes and in other one just notebook and two books. I knew that to aircraft you can pick just one piece but… :)
I look for RYANAIR Check-in and when I found it there were just 10 people in queue. So I was waiting and thinking, how will I explain that I will pick to airplane two pieces of luggage and not one. But than I found out, that Citron told me one "magic" sentence: ,,I will pack this luggage with notebook in to bigger one. It will fit there." :)
My luggage has got 15,6kg and 15kg is limit, but she told me nothing, just ask for my passport or id. She found my confirmation number in system and gave me "Boarding pass". Also she ask if I have some luggage which I want to take to aircraft and I show her my two luggage's. She told I can pick just one, but I use my magic sentence ,,I will pack this luggage with notebook in to bigger one. It will fit there." :) and she said: ,,OK".
I also get information from which Gate it should be departure. I went upstairs and there where long queue.
Everybody around me has got little luggage and just one piece, just I have bigger one (it just seems like bigger).
I was watching on airport TV how they control people before enter to the gate and duty free area. I was a little bit scared, if they told me that I have oversize luggage…
Before enter was one man (I think homeless) who was waiting, if somebody has got something prohibited and he took it, cause it goes to the trash if it is not allowed. Great idea I think. :)
They were scanning our luggage and I should take one my and fit it to one "open box" like this
It has proportion 55 x 40 cm and hopefully I fit my bigger one bag there. I took off my winter jacket and put it to another one. To the third one I gave my bag with notebook and my wallet, watches, self-phone and chewing gums. Lady who was next to scanning machines ask me if I have some notebook inside my bag. I said yes and I took it out to separate "open box"
I came trough big scanner and I did not beep, what was very interesting for me because I have got problems nearly everywhere.
On another side I just take on my jacket and other stuff, pick my bags and I was there :)
No asking about weight of my luggage, no asking about mount of it. I had got luck.
By the way: I has got for the whole trip two jeans on me because of weight of jeans (limited weight of luggage) :) It was sometimes uncomfortable but…
So now I was for first time in my life in duty free area. I just take this picture of check terminal
and wait with others before gate.
Than they open doors and told us that we can go to the airplane. I went with others and through the windows I saw my aircraft.
My first language shock came when I board on aircraft I ask stewardess if I can sit everywhere off course in Slovak. And she was looking at me and said: ,,In English pleas"`. I thought that she was also from Slovakia but she wasn`t. And my brain did not switch to another language yet so I just say: ,,Can I sit. Ehm, somewhere, ... where is". And she just said: ,,Yes free sit" and I understood :)
I sit down and try to fit my baggage to the space up to me. When I successes I put there also my jacket. I sit down on my place an put my notebook bag and camera on my legs.
I was looking around me a little bit scarred but I tried to relax and read and understand everything what was before me :) (safety instructions if something happened)
After few minutes stewardess count us and then closed all doors. Captain told us via radio some information about actual status and ask us to turn off our mobile phones and everything what is on battery.
Stewardess show us some important things what we need to know.
I checked twice if my seatbelts are good and set properly.
And we start moving.
The lights shut down and we have had just some.
My first take off the earth. I knew just that I feel like in high speed car …
The aircraft start accelerating and I start thinking in which second we will able to take off. And suddenly people before me was higher than me…
I saw outside night Bratislava but just for a while cause I was not sitting near the window. I had got mixed feelings. I was excited but also a bit uncomfortable so I start breathe deeply. Deep breathe with mount and quick breathe out through the nose. I did it several times and it helped me to not feel sick.
So I am flying under me is air. Uf, what a strange feeling. Sometimes I had got feeling that we are falling down, because of some tabulation or something like that. We dropped down maybe for 5 seconds. And it is really long in that situation. Trust me :)
Before landing I need to breathe deeply again because of pressure in my ears and strange feeling in my stomach :(.
It was 11:10pm when our aircraft arrived to the Frankfurt-Hahn, I was very happy that first fly in my life is happily behind me and in my mind I have had just one thing. If my luggage arrive to the same airport :). I said Thank you to stewardess because we arrive health fully and leave my first aircraft.
How is parking such a aircraft in Frankfurt-Hahn, you can see here:
I made one photo before airport
and enter the first hall where I hopefully picked up my luggage. Aaaa it has not been lost. I am so happy :)
I send a message to my parents to inform them that everything is all right.
I enter the hall of Frankfurt-Hahn airport. It was not high but looong. It is much more smaller aircraft than in Frankfurt (I was checking it before).
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