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We had 日本語の follow-up course’s Autumn period’s final test today. むずかしかったです, I hope I’ll pass. In the university’s main lobby there was some gingerbread houses on display. Among them there was this lattice structure, which had won a honorary award:

Apparently the gingerbread competition wasn’t just for houses.

First weekend of December in Helsinki. Christmas lights in trees and hanging over some streets – I thought some of them looked like bats, but there were different opinions (not bats). See for yourself:

If those aren’t bat-like lights, then what are they?

Some foreign guy was selling roast chestnuts and glögi by the Kolmen sepän patsas. I bought a small bag of chestnuts. They taste a bit like sweet baked potatoes.

Why my fingers look so thick in that photo?

What a wonderful Decemberlike weather it was. Wet ice everywhere, raining a little.

Also visited Keltainen Jäänsärkijä, bought two CD’s: Caravan’s For Girls Who Grow Plum in the Night (I’ve been looking for that one for a long time) and Rasputina’s first album, Thanks for the Ether (I’ve only recently listened to Rasputina a little bit so this was quite randomly selected).