.berlin

i arrived fine 
well
i hid a few days 
from my own flat
there is so much to do
and i am also sick.

well well

it could be worse
it could also be better
plus i miss turku and
its university libraries
[means you guys!]
a lot.

so i am trying to 
get used to my owen place

i will uptade 
still 
so stay tuned :)

.good bye

yes it is.
it is over
8 weeks
full of knowledge
and fun
and heartmelting kindness
as said before
this was my very own
best expirience!

and saying goodbye was
for sure
hard.
i cried.
i am sorry for that
haha.
but i am build near
water - i just can hold on to it.
normally.

but my stay was in no way
normal
or ordinary

words are failling here
and i am not much 
of an writer.
so i can only say

kiitos very much.

very very much.

and this are those amazing co workers
i had
[not all of them]

i also got some presents.
well
a lot of them.

THANK YOU!

and also if anyone wants to stay in touch
i would love to!
her is the link to my facebook page!
if i find you first - i will add you ;)

lucia

.first things first

i want to show you first
the cooking!
i attended a cooking class
at logomo
with some of the staffmembers
of the liebraries.

it was a lot of fun
and one of the best meals
i had.

i said it very often
i am not a fish person
but - this one. 
i could easily live on that!
ha.

enjoy. 

we were
divided in groups
and every group had
to prepare a course
we did the starter - and
believe me

well well. it was a blast.

kiitos!

.uff uff

saying goodbye is way harder 
than thought.

i got so so used to 
here.
all those amazing people!
aaaaah.

so this is the juslenia team
kiitos!
for all the knowledge
and the heartmelting
kindness!
a lot!

and after almost finnishing
the genera project
well 
marjatta took me for a ride
we visited an island
and churches
and as always 
i had the best company.
thank you marjatta!

.taidekappeli

.kiitos marjatta!

tomorrow is the
big and sad goodbye.
i do not want to think about that
but i will write about it.

.library hopping

during my last days
i am still working
on the german genera collection
which i try to evaluate
this is a pretty cool work
and i am also doing 
some service desk hours
 but
we do also all kind of fun stuff!

yesterday, marjatta took me
to see the libraries of the Åbo Akademi
this is the swedish [speaking] University
in Turku
i had no idea how big this University
and its libraries is.
it is a bit like, the one half of Turkus innercity
belongs to the finnish University
and the other to the swedish. ha.
it was really interesting to see those facilities
[but i am even more happy
that i ended up at the 'right' one. hihi] 
 
i did not made any pictures 
but
i will do some on friday. well on friday
i will be doing tons of pictures i hope
i can show you the nicest staff [all of them
or at least the majority]
i met here

oh i am getting sentimental!

.naantali & the mumins

i do work too!

ha even though
i get a bit of a special treatment during
my last days. yay me!

yesterday juha and i were
allowed to go a bit earlier
so that juha could show me
naantali
a beautiful place by the sea
and just a stones throw away 
from turku
[as everything]

juha is always my partner in crime
and yesterday while we 
visited the closed but still kinda
open muminstal
we felt like hänsel & gretel
[we had such a running joke 
going on there!
since we ended up at ikea
eating way too much cake]

and 
i was also 
for a very brief moment
a mermaid yesterday
i dream came true.

ha!

ola hyvää - pictures now.

.eighth week

yes i can not believe it either!

last week
was full of reviews.
i listed all the work i have done 
so far
all the things i learned
and i had to realize
[even though i knew that all along]
that they took such good
care of me here
i was thought so much!
i also made some really good 
achievements and experiences
i could not be happier.
 
i also had such a perfect last 
weekend here!

i managed to go to ruissalo
and this time for real
[just because juha showed
it to me prior]
and even though it was quite
cold on saturday it was
such a bliss to be there
i had a good stroll

and on sunday i was invited
to marjatas house for lunch
and it was such a lovely 
and heartwarming afternoon!
kiitos
very much!

here are some photos of ruissalo

and since i am having a thight shedule
for my last week -  bye.

.snow

the first one is always
nice

 
so i share.

the light is always so different
with snow around.
and as for any weathersituation
i could make a bazillion 
pictures of snow. 


happy me.


and kiitos juha!
as always.
 

.from inside taken around 13:40

.from a balcony, 5th floor around 16:15

#aloneatthelibrary

since i am on instagram
i love to snap some
photos of all the facilities 
i am in.

the beauty of an empty
and silent reading romm
i am never getting
tired of that.

huamenta!

.reading room of the school of economics. big love

final days.

it is getting so dark
so early
and this is not even the real darkness
and it is getting me
i am very tired - after work (of course!)
thank god
the economics library
has those fancy 
sunlight lamps
(and i am thinking about 
buying me my own one
when i am back in berlin)

so those are the last two weeks
- yes - six weeks are already done!
i am at the school of economics
i like it there
it is a bit like my home library
- no ofence though 
beause all libraries are
a bit like home 
i am always very much welcomed
and i like to work everywhere
 -
so i am doing daily business
and customer desk hours
and i am also working on a 
excel sheet, which i like
because it is researching work

so - i am very happy
but also a bit sad


ola hyvää.

.wednesday

middle of the week
and it feels like friday somehow.
i am also a bit weaklish
i think it is this weird weather.

but

i visited the library
one of the six (or five?)
of the 
university of applied science

and it was a blast.

i have to point it out 
again
i have never met nicer people
as those in all the libraries
here in turku.

i am always some kind of
an intruder/observer
[sometimes i do feel like that]
and everyone is welcoming me
always
and giving me all the insights
i would never get as a normal
patron or guest. 
i am always welcomed as
one of them.
which is suprising and makes
the most fun of my staying
[also thank you finnish keybord 
now i always tipe the "y" wrong!]

i do also meet a lot of 
remarkable women!
[and also men]

so thank you very much
for today!
kiitos!


maeh sorry for the lack of photos
here are two 
todays morning sun
and todays sunset
oh boy, i do adore weathersituations
way too much.

 

.hi monday

and i know
the posts are getting less
but
i had a visitor 
therefore i was occupied

we went ice swimming with juha,
he also took us to russialo
on a very stormy saturday
[and i realised i have to go there again!
and for real this time]
we also went shopping, 
we drank tons of coffe
and hot chocolate
and we ate way too much pizza

and everything without pictures
because my phone is slowly dying 
and quitting his job 
and my camera broke two weeks ago.

but we had a relly good weekend
(it made me miss home so much more!)


this week i am at the educarium
and it feels very familiar
i like it here,
very much.

and i am off to bookshelving

have a good start into the week!

.rauma

yesterday - tuesday
i went to rauma to see the
small university library which is a
part of the specific library anthropos
of turku university

since it is just for 
teaching education the place
is really small but the more
nice and cosy
therefore tanja and leena
know almost every student by name 
which is what i would call
the perfect customer service

tanja waited for me at the central bus station
and we took the 8 o clock bus

to arrive at 9:45 in rauma.

tanja and leena showed me
the whole library and also let me
work a bit at the service desk
and also do the finnishing on new bought books
(printing the signature, labeling the signatures
and barcodes and working the books into the
system (in voyeger))

in the afternoon tanja took me to lunch 
and showed me a lot of rauma, 
the old wooden innercity 


since rauma is the 3rd oldest town in Finland
and also by the sea
there are a lot of nice spots
and stories.

kiitos for having me tanja & leena!!!

.addition

juha is not only a really good
guide at castles and the city
he also knows the 
best places.

so we were ice swimming with sauna
last sunday and afterwards
we went for a little stroll

kiitos juha!

.we were here

.i was in the water four times. i did not die. but 9 degrees are cold. a lot.

.this was on our stroll