Kaffila – Our home on Uni hill Until 2013, both the Department of English and Anglica considered Juslenia our home on University Hill. It was nothing fancy a dark, gloomy and cramped corridor and a tiny class room we could only use whenever there was no teaching - but home nonetheless. The building was supposed to be renovated completely ever since the 1980s, and in 2013 they finally decided to proceed with the plans. However, it turned out that the university didn’t have enough money to do anything about the building, and there it stood, until finally being demolished this year. We all had (or got) to move to our new premises in Rosetta and Signum.
easy, and we have organised a couple of parties together as well. About a year ago, as Fennicum faced the same fate as Juslenia, we welcomed seven new organisations from there into KAFFila. It now hosts 11 of the 12 different student organisations from the School of Languages and Translation Studies. KAFFila is at the students’ disposal during Signum’s opening hours. You can relax, study, meet friends, have coffee or tea, eat lunch or take a nap before, between or after lectures. Anglica also holds the board meetings in KAFFila and you’re more than welcome to join in. We also have a Coffee Hour once a week where you can come deal with any Anglica-related matters (joining Anglica, buying patches, asking advice, etc.) or just hang out. Quite a few of our events are also held in KAFFila.
In January 2013 we moved into a spacious and much more cozy student space in the ground floor of Signum, that we call KAFFila for the original four resident student organisations Kääntöpiiri, Anglica, Forum Romanum and Foneemi. We didn’t only get a new space, we also got new roommates, Whatever you do, don’t be afraid to stop by, so there’s almost always someone around to there’s almost always coffee and a friendly hang out and talk with. The coexistence of face around. the four organisations has been simple and
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