First day of classes, how did you get THERE?!?, and my cupboards are bare

I had my first class today, European Foreign, Security, and Defense Policy. I think it will be really interesting, I'm looking forward to it a lot. I'm at a severe disadvantage though because I know absolutely nothing about the EU or European politics in general. I'm the only American in the class, and the only native English speaker, so we shall see how that goes. Having English as my mother tongue is great when writing essays though.

My class wasn't until 4, but I was hungry early, so I went to Porthania for lunch. I was looking for noodles with minced meat, but they had fried whitefish stuffed with shrimp, which was so freaking amazing I almost died. My system needed the infusion of grease like you wouldn't believe. i ate lunch with Rafal, he happened to be eating already while I was looking for a seat. After that I went to the bookstore to price my swedish books, 50 euro. Not too bad, considering they are the only books I have to have. I also have to locate a Swedish-English dictionary, which should be fun.

I wandered the city for an hour or so after lunch. I walked down to the harbor through Senate Square. It kind of hit me that I am in freaking Helsinki, after 2 years of looking forward to it. The harbor was nice, and there were a few tents open in the market area. Mostly selling fresh fish, but there was a sketchy tent selling dyed fur stuff. Afterwards I went and got coffee and hung out in Alekandria until time for class.

After class I think I left the building out the wrong exit, and ended up completely lost, in Kallio(which is where, so it seems, Ville Valo's dad's sex shop is).  Thats about 2-3 miles from my apartment, a 20 minute tram ride. I walked through a residential area full of apartments and didn't see a soul for about 15 minutes. I eventually saw a tower in the distance that I recognized, and made myway back to there. I was across the lake from Kamppi, where I live. I didn't even know the lake existed.

But I made it back safe. Thank goodness Helsinki is nice and safe, since I was alone and it was dark out.

Nothing exciting tonight, just hung out with people. I'm not feeling incredibly social today.

On tomorrows agenda: grocery shopping. My apartment contains 5 tea bags, half a carton of milk, a package of turkey, about 20 sugar cubes, a shitton of butter and a half a loaf of bread.

Also on tomorrows agenda: going to Nordea and getting my damn internet banking straight, since I still haven't paid rent.

Also: getting a cell phone fron DNA.

History of the Nordic Countries is my only class tomorrow, but it should be fun. Woot.