I'm leaving Sydney later today, for the (temporarily) warmer climes of Zaragoza, Spain, for a two semester, year-long exchange at the University of Zaragoza. Very exciting, naturally. Of course, I'm sort of in a low-level panic over the language aspect... everytime somebody attempts to speak to me in Spanish (and it happens surprisingly often in Sydney) I freeze up and panic and yell DON'T DO THAT TO ME at them.
Hopefully total immersion in a place without a huge number of English speakers will remind me that I do, actually, know a decent amount of Spanish and force that two and a half years of study to resurface.
ANYWAYS. My flight is stopping in Helsinki and I'm spending two nights there. It seems a satisfyingly obscure place to start a European odessy, but I have NO idea what is there to see. I'm thinking of taking a ferry to Talinn just to say I have. Any other suggestions?
Hopefully total immersion in a place without a huge number of English speakers will remind me that I do, actually, know a decent amount of Spanish and force that two and a half years of study to resurface.
ANYWAYS. My flight is stopping in Helsinki and I'm spending two nights there. It seems a satisfyingly obscure place to start a European odessy, but I have NO idea what is there to see. I'm thinking of taking a ferry to Talinn just to say I have. Any other suggestions?