Chapter 3 : Eat, study, work, repeat...

This week is on its homestretch and have to say that this particular week was for some reason quite a heavy one for me. The original plan was to find a good balance between studying, work and spare time activities but it went down the tube. I had more working shifts as usual and they contained only long evening shifts so it goes without saying that I was pretty weary when I got home. We have a deadline coming up on next Sunday for one subtask which I haven't even started yet. I simply haven't had any time to do school tasks and even if I would've had, I would have certainly had a lack of creativity and text producing because of weariness. Actually, all I did this week was basically eating and working, it was hard to find time even for sleeping. I made it to the gym just a couple of times this week which was also one reason for my "unfreshness", I just need my 4 or 5 workouts per week to keep my mind and body fresh. But I'm more than sure that next week will contain more spare time to do school tasks, work out and just relax, forgetting everything related to school or work.

In addition to heavy work week, we had once again two lectures this week in school. On Tuesday we received an assignment which takes us to the world of shooting and editing videos, really excited! We are supposed to prepare and shoot an advertisement video for Superpark which is, highly summarizing, a firm that offers exciting ways to try different activities indoors. We will also develop some ideas for them how to evolve their social media marketing and get more connected with a wider audience in different social media channels. So enthusiastic about this assignment!

On Thursday's lecture we had cultures as our day's topic. At one point we had to dive in to our history to find some experiences where we had a share in when two different cultures collided. At that point I couldn't get anything on my head but when I got home, I suddenly remembered one moment from my recent history where two countries and their cultures and habits collided. My girlfriend and her family are Estonian and I happened to spend a Christmas party with them. There's a habit in Estonia to sing a Christmas song or recite a poem before you get a present. Of course I was not told about this particular habit and as a Finnish man, I certainly wasn't in my comfort zone when I had to recite a poem or sing to get a freakin' present (yeah I got a few and had to recite some poems...). For them it was odd to see someone so confused and awkward about singing a song before getting a present because for them it was natural and an old habit. But managed to get the presents even though my performances weren't that worthy of praise...

A tough week physically but once again it was very rewarding and I have high hopes for the upcoming week!

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Keeping it a bit more shorter this time because I want to get some well deserved sleep finally but I would like to share this link to a Ilta-Sanomat article which deals with a new tool provided by Facebook. It allows its users to test their average distance to any other Facebook user in the world. The number shows by how many users are you connected to the user you are searching for. So basically it tells you how networked you really are. My number was 3,58 which was slightly above the Facebook's users' average 3,57. Very interesting tool to say the least. Network is the today's trend so being slightly more networked than an average Facebook user is pleasant to hear. Of course it's hard to say how accurate and true-proofed this tool really is but it gives at least a some pointer!

There you have it, let's get back to it once again on next Sunday!