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New pictures and stories

  • Suomi
Posted: 25.06.2007 @ 0:06 in Life, Lithuania, Traveling, Studies, Work | No Comments »

We spent the rainy Midsummer updating old stories to blog. From the beginning of the January until recent days you are able to find lots of new entries and pictures. We forged the dates for the entries. I hope this helps occasional readers. Have fun!

Last working- and holidays

  • Suomi
Posted: 13.06.2007 @ 8:39 in Life, Lithuania, Traveling, Studies, Work | No Comments »

Well, today morning was a nightmare here at the factory. The inoculum for fermenter was grown very poorly, which never happened to me earlier. But my boss said that it was no news for her and other people had the same problem every now and then. It cheered me up a bit to know that [...]

Guests

  • Suomi
Posted: 07.05.2007 @ 12:00 in Life, Lithuania, Studies | No Comments »

Wednesday The day passed by nicely with resting and visiting Akropolis. Thursday Early in the morning everyone got a hair cut. With new heads it was pleasant to visit Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. I have briefly visited there before. We ate at Gusto with Maria after here work. The soups there are delicious and “very [...]

Studies

  • Suomi
Posted: 14.02.2007 @ 15:40 in Lithuania, Studies | No Comments »

Studies

End of EILC language course

  • Suomi
Posted: 27.01.2007 @ 12:00 in Lithuania, Traveling, Studies | No Comments »

I was sick in bed for the last week of the language course. I wasn’t even able to take the test at the same time with others. Fortunately we were able to attend to course ending party together with Maria. We took a bus to country side and ate Lithuanian food, danced and played Lithuanian [...]

Trip to Trakai

  • Suomi
Posted: 13.01.2007 @ 0:00 in Lithuania, Traveling, Studies | No Comments »

On first Saturday we had a trip to old capital of Lithuania, Trakai. 13th of January is important date for Lithuanians. In year 1991 Soviet troops killed 14 unarmed civilians at the tv-tower. More about these shocking events can be read for example from Wikipedia. We stopped at the tv-tower on the way to Trakai. [...]

City tour

  • Suomi
Posted: 10.01.2007 @ 12:00 in Lithuania, Studies | No Comments »

Schedule on Erasmus Intensive Language Course (EILC) was intensive, but there was also nice extra activities. We got to know the old buildings of Vilnius University and the old town of Vilnius

Home from Vilnius

  • Suomi
Posted: 04.12.2006 @ 16:22 in Life, Lithuania, Traveling, Studies, Work | 3 Comments »

Our plans for spring in Lithuania are starting to form quite nicely. It has been a struggle. There was a time, when my place at local university was uncertain, but Marias job seemed to form out nicely. And then there were times when it was other way around. Finally everything looks very good. I’ve been [...]

Maria has graduated

  • Suomi
Posted: 19.10.2006 @ 23:30 in Life, Studies | No Comments »

Maria has graduated! She is now officially M.Sc.(Eng.). I’m sure she will tell more about her thoughts in a time, but I will add here some pictures for you to view.

Back to school

  • Suomi
Posted: 22.09.2006 @ 12:26 in Life, Lithuania, Studies, Work, Sports | 2 Comments »

Translation underway…