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Hello everybody ! It seems that this week has been very eventful! Hopefully, you all had time to try food of different countries which are represented at our university and have now some thoughts about university for exchange. If you missed something, in this issue we have prepared pretty detailed report! However, the first month of study passed quickly, and for those who have already started to get bored, I assure you October is just a perfect month for „Do“ s. Insider continues with experimentations and wishes you to make some too. With “sweater weather”, which has already come, the local nature will impress even the most desperate fans of Netflix in the evening.

Chill in a cottage on the weekend with a Finnish sauna is worth to try. You can also open the site of Onni bus and scout out some sort of a new town with a strange name. Prices start from 3 euro one way, and there are a lot of destinations from Kouvola. There are million possibilities like that, use your imagination. Personally, with all this international turmoil I was inspired by the question - „When the last time you did something for the first time?“ P.S. „It‘s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself“ - BENTLEY, W., & COOPER, C. (2000). American beauty. Universal City, CA, DreamWorks Home Entertainment.

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THE NETHERLANDS AND NEPAL: QUICK VIEW this quiet city and the open-minded and comfortable student life in Kyamk.

The international atmosphere is up in the air during this week 39 here in Kyamk. There were many events including the guest lectures from different nationalities, the university presentations from the exchange students, the Bollywood dance session and the food tasting, that all were joyfully participated by many Kyamk-ers. And during the food tasting event, the Insider team had quick interviews with some of the students from the Netherlands and Nepal. Let’s check them out!

Heading to the remaining country, if you were at the Bollywood dance session on 22 September in the afternoon, you would have met the lovely girl with the traditional dress from Nepal, Sumitra Rijal. She is a first-year International Business student of Kyamk and she also has stayed in Finland for nearly one month now. As you may know, Nepal is a small country lying between China and India, where the highest mountain of the world, Mount Everest, is located. According to Sumitra, the education system is not good in Nepal; for instance, girls are not encouraged to go to school since they eventually will have to follow her husband and spend the rest of their life staying at home whereas men go to work. However, the situation is changing now when people are fighting for the women rights. So far, Sumitra is making new friends in class and she really enjoys the study environment in Kyamk. Thank you, Mardjantie and Sumitra for your time and the Insider team wish you a great time with your new friends in Kyamk as well as in Finland.

Text: Khue Do | Photo: Sarah Rosenthal

Mardjantie Stienstra, an exchange student from The Hague university, greeted me with a smile and tasty food of the Netherlands (I love the chocolate by the way). Her hometown is The Hague, a city located in the west of the Netherlands, near to Amsterdam. Compared to Kouvola, The Hague is bigger and in her opinion, more hectic city. Indeed, The Hague is the third-largest city of the Netherlands with the population of approximately 2.7 million people whereas the population of Kouvola is less than 100,000 people. The Hague University back in her home is an international university as well. You can hear many different languages when walking around the university and everyone is able to speak English to you. Especially, there are small squares in the campus called the “hebos canteen” where the students always gather and bond with each other. Lastly, having been in Finland for nearly one month now, Mardjantie said that she is now more familiar with –3–

INTERVIEW WITH XINYUE CHEN AND ANIL ASSANI During the International Food tasting event, the Insider team along with all the students, teachers and their families have the chance to experience not only just the eating joy but also get a

Can you tell me a little bit about your food? If you have a chance to re-cook the food for today, what would you like to do? We prepare Dumpling for today, it’s a part of Dimsum, and we cook it together. I would like to cook some chicken and beaf with special sauce, Chinese is quite famous for different sauces. The Insider team also visited Nepal and Pakistan stand, which is also nice and beautiful. Answering us, here is Anil Assani. Hi Anil, I notice that people from Pakistan and Nepal work together on the stand, is it difﬁcult or like how’s the food from two different contries differs?

bite of each culture’s traditional clothes. Firstly I visited the Chinese stand with their exclusive Dumpling dish and then have a little interview with Ryan (Xinyue Chen), an exchange student from China Hello I’m a staff from Insider, the student magazine and I would like to ask you some quick question, so, you are an exchange student right? How is your living in Finland and how does it differ from your home country? I‘d love to answer these questions I think Finland is a beautiful country in such a great silence. People here are really friendly and willing to help. I like Finland. Compared with China, you know China is a big country with huge population. So it‘s quite crowded and noisy in China. But now I can enjoy the silence and peace of Finland.

It’s not that different, I mean like our countries share the same language and the food is the same spicy taste, so we don’t find much difficulty working and cooking together. Is it hard to ﬁnd the original condiment in Finland? I brought it from my own country, we could find it in Helsinki or else but I shipped it already. So the recipe is quite special right? Yes it is. We tried your food and its very delicious, thank you again for your interesting interview.

Have you get a chance to go around and enjoy the food tasting? Sadly no, I have to stand to serve Chinese food, but if I had a chance before the food runs out, I would like to try German food, you know, they have really good sausages.

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Text: Truong Hong | Photo: Sarah Rosenthal

International Week Review

Why, you may ask? No idea. It might have something to do with the fact, that hardly anybody had in fact heard of it and knew what was going to happen or what kind of information they would get out of it that might be useful to them later on. You could say now you could hardly miss that this event was coming what with all the posters, gigantic pixelated banners and badly cut table “decorations” (seriously tho, how hard

After looking at the pictures from last years international week and specifically the food tasting it was very much necessary to write a little review about this years event. That the International Week is happening every year in autumn should be clear to most people by now. As far as I can tell from previous experience it also happens quite smoothly and nobody seems to give it another thought that the guest lectures and the university presentations are well planned and promoted. Hence they were wellvisited in the past years. This year, not so much.

can it possibly be to find somebody who knows how to properly print and avoid things like that?). Well, even the people “voluntarily” involved in the event didn’t really know what was going on. Some of the exchange students were confused –5–

about what was expected of them until like two days before the the event. What were their presentations supposed to be about? Were they just supposed to talk? If yes: what about? Pictures: yes or no?

when you’re planning events like these. Then again, can you expect a mere three people to not only handle the advertisement for a week long event, using 3rd floor machinery they probably never properly used before, prepare every venue accordingly, sort out decoration and food delivery to the venue for people from 10+ nations, find somebody to play really good music (Ivan Pennonen) and take care of the incoming lecturers? I think not. And when I say three people I mean Sara Czabai, Semyon Leshchenia and Noora Markkanen who all did an incredible job on this mammoth task that would have needed at least another three to six additional volunteers. Thank you, you did an incredible job. I hope it’s gonna be better next year. Fingers crossed. PS: Were the lights broken or something? Text: Sarah Rosenthal| Photo: Sarah Rosenthal

In the end it was even a miracle that there were enough chairs for the people joining the presentations. Same for the food tasting. It was amazingly delicious as usual and the Bollywood dance performance was terrific at the same time the tables and stands looked like some brain damaged giant just threw them there. Making a floor plan and properly briefing the international students about what they needed to do regarding the decoration of the stands might have helped there. Ever heard of a little thing called a Gantt chart? These things are incredible

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RUSSIAN-SALAD (OLIVIE). Coffe

Ingredients: Potato (4 items), Carrot (6 items), Pickled cucumbers (5 items), Canned Green Pea (1), Sausages/bacon/grilled chicken (500 g), Mayonnaise (250 g), Boiled eggs (4 items), Salt

How to do it: 1. Boil potatoes, put the skin off. 2. Grate the carrot. 3. Slice the cucumbers. 4. Dice sausages. 5. Mix all the ingredients. 6. Put mayonnaise, some sault (up to you how much you will). 7. Mix again

Text: Ekaterina Volkova | Photo: Ekaterina Volkova Page â€“ 7 â€“7

LECTURES DURING INTERNATIONAL WEEK Cornelia Polivka-Lang, lecturer Favourite quote: “Always look at the bright side of life” This is here second time here in Finland and Kyamk. Was here last year for the International week also. Love´s the surroundings and finds it really peaceful, enjoys that the school is so open. Likes working with international students and staff and enjoyed going to other lecturers lesson and see how thing are done and how students interact in the lessons. Enjoyed the food tasting and was looking forward to the company and Verla visits.

Tomislav Galovic Phd Favourite quote: “You deserve to be happy” It is his first time in Finland and is enjoying it. He has also learnt some Finnish word and is trying to use them when he can. He noticed that there is a few difference between educations here in Finland and Croatia. Thinks that students are inspiration for lecturers, also likes that students give and get respect. His final goal is to reach the top and be satisfied and also what other people to be satisfied and wants to have an impact on people and the environment around him .

Katalin Kollath, lecturer Favourite quote: “All people are the same it is only our traditions that differ” This is her fourth visit to Finland but her first visit here to Kyamk has benn to other scholl around Finland. Thinks that students are the same all over the place they don’t like studying they like parting more than anything else. Enjoyed the student presentations and see how students see the world. Sees some similarity between Finnish and Hungarian languages some words in Finnish also mean the same in Hungarian, likes working in big cities like her home town Budapest but also like small cities like Kouvola because they have things that big city’s don’t have.

Watch the full interview on Insider website. Text: Richard McGrath | Photo: Sarah Rosenthal

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I loved the Chinese dumblings with that sorte of sauce. They were just the best thing ever!!! What I didn‘t like well that would be that one cheese from the Dutch people with clove in it. But thats because I don‘t like hole cloves. Alexandra Körber

Ooooh the food, the Dutch food, and the French food and the spring-rolls and then also the Czech potato pancake things. It was perfect. All of it. Best was probably the fish-stuffed bread though. Two of my favourite foods combined. The only things I wasn’t too fond of was the unidentifiable brown sauce with the white stuff, left a funny feeling on my tongue, and the Swedish candy tasted like cancer in the making. Sorry. Sarah Rosenthal

I‘m in love with Vietnamese spring rolls! it‘s just impossible not to love it. I can not say that I didnt like something, because food is amazing thing heart emoticon Alexandra Ivchenkova

I love Finnish, especially the blueberry cake. Maybe just because I love blueberry. I don‘t really like India-Nepal-Pakistan. Maybe because the food was exotic for me, the taste is strange. Lan Le

Insider staff: food tasting

The dutch, spring rolls and the poppy seed cake and and and, everything I tried I want more of but I could not get more. Some of the foods look weird but they tasted wow,so the look of some food can put people of, but you should always try new things, you might like it, I know I like a lot of the food. Richard McGrath

Love Spanish. Its different nutritious delicious. I did not like some of the Finnish food. But all in all it was alright Ekaterina Volkova

Spanish food is quite appealing and delicious. And I would like to try Russian food also. Hong Truong

I liked the dutch food, german apple pie, Finnish choc, Springs rolls, poppy seed pie, burgliran cheese pie, Russian salad, tasty and filling, like everything else Hugh Clack

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NERO: BETWEEN II Genre: Big Beat/Electro/Dubstep/Drum and Bass Producer: NERO Released: September 11, 2015

2011 was an interesting year for pop music: the top 40 was ruled by club dance music, dubstep latched its claws into the mainstream consciousness, and suddenly every piece of music released was contractually obligated feature a bass drop in their C-part. Now that the largest tidal wave of dubstep has passed and the smaller, more superficial fish have been washed ashore, forgotten about and pecked to death by seagulls, we can safely give the stage to the bigger fish with more substance and lasting power. One of those acts is the Grammy-winning, English electronic trio Nero, who have been incubating their sophomore album for the last four years. In a scene where most artist have traded their hearts, brains and most vital organs for wiring and cybernetics that spew out beats based on computer algorithms, the mere presence of the singer Alana Watson gives the band a much-needed air of humanity, raising them above their contemporaries. Between II Worlds, named as a huge middle finger to people like me who don’t like it when numbers are used as substitute 4 letters, resembles greatly its predecessor, in both good and bad. In fact, it seems as if the band had a session where they whiteboarded their whole debut album, pinned down exactly what worked and what didn’t, and focused on the parts what worked.

hills or valleys; only a straight line where the only change on the way is that the overall tempo slows down towards the end of the album, culminating on the finishing ballad “Wasted”. Then again, complaining about Nero’s music not working in an album format is sort of like complaining about the lack of plot in a phone book; sure, it might improve the experience, but it’s not really a part of what it was meant for. Most of the tracks on the album will probably do their job better than well on the dance floor. Between II Worlds is no means a bad album, but if the band keeps focusing on smaller fractions as much they do on this record, their next album might be literally one-note.

But contrary to what one would think, this is not a change only for the better: now something that used to be only the fraction of the scale they showed on their debut has become the whole. The overall soundscape shifted from the heavier dubstep sound towards a slightly more melodic sound and organic feel, drawing influence from the likes of the recent work of Ellie Goulding. As a result their output is much more focused, but also much more repetitive. And while repetition is part of the core idea and aesthetic in electronic dance music, their last album showcased a much more versatile artist than what is served here. With the more focused sound and writing the songs are much harder to tell apart from each other; as a result nothing really stands out. So even though you take any random track from the album, listen to it and find it enjoyable, listening to the album whole way through is borderline arduous. There are no

Text: Roope Sorvo

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