Bratislava was cool, but it feels so good to be back in Budapest.

Midterm results from Corvinus

According to the midterm results at Corvinus I am a nerd. That's right - a nerd.


From decision making & negotiation strategies midterm I got a grade of 14.5/15 (I got an extra point for guessing my exact score from the midterm which was 13.5), which is obviously not a bad result. Apparently it was the second highest score of that class.


Decision methods-course midterm provided me with 30/30, which was a bit surprising to me since I thought I had screwed up the first question a bit. Apparently that was not the case.


So if you need to know something about decision-making, I guess I am the go-to guy for that :)

Thoughts about Finland

I saw a Hug a Finn-event in Facebook today. That is kind of cool, but I hope that not all the people that I know will go for that - there is really not that many Finns in here so I might have to "suffer" maaaany hugs :D 

But that is not what I wanted to talk about really. Living outside of Finland for the second time within a year has given me some more perspective to my dear native country. Let's start with a potentially shocking realization: I do not miss Finland at all. Seriously, there is nothing that I miss about Finland as a country. I do miss some people in there, like family and friends, but when it comes to the country I am surprisingly indifferent. I do not miss overpriced food and living expenses, I don't miss the gray winter and for sure I don't miss anything from Finnish tv, especially not BB.

Tv brings me to my next point - the language. Earlier today I met one other Finn at the university. He is in the same class than me, but we rarely talk. While chit-chatting during an elevator ride today I realized that it was the first time I spoke Finnish out loud in several weeks. I do read Finnish "news" almost daily, but speaking the language is not that frequent for me and I could say that I don't really miss speaking it that much either - living through English (and a bit of Hungarian) comes very naturally nowadays.

Salmiakki and ruisleipä have not come to mind either. Last week when I went to the movies I kinda wanted to buy some Finnish candy (they don't sell that kind of stuff here), but with that exception I haven't missed the food either. 

I am really hard pressed to come up with one thing that I do miss from Finland. Maybe the fact that houses and apartments can hold the heat well and that you don't have to operate a gas stove. 

I guess it is true that the longer you are away from Finland the less you want to go back. Even though of all this, Finland is not a bad country. It could be so much worse - it could be Sweden :D

Time flies

It is already November. I can't believe that this semester is already over the half point! It feels like I have just moved in, but according to the calendar I've been living here for 2.5 months already. That's just crazy.


Next week few very good friends of mine are coming here to visit me, which is great :) So this week I need to study as much as I can so I can spend next week hanging out. In this case studying means working on 2 group works, writing at least 5 pages on my thesis as well as studying Hungarian. When I say studying Hungarian I mean reading a book in Hungarian. No, I am not that advanced yet, but trying to raise the level using native materials.


On top of these things, life is really good and I do enjoy myself in here.