''Ut på tur, aldri sur''

This week was full of different cultures. New week started on Monday with lecture about cultures. I already checked out ready what we have in this week and i was so anxiously waiting it. Our teacher Anna told us what kind of culture differences there are. She is also from Poland, so she told us much about Polish culture. It was so interesting. The biggest confusion was when Anna told that in some culture people blow their noses directly on the ground and they think it is disgusting to use tissue with it and put it on pocket. I would never even think to sneeze just to the floor. Different cultures have many sort of ways to eye contacts and to greeting and it was nice to learned about those.

A picture from Annas lecture

In Monday we had guest lecturer Lynn-Marie Sederlöf-Airisto. It was so nice and educational to get guest lecturer! She told first about herself and what kind of jobs she have done. Lynn-Marie told us about International marketing. She have company named Lacy box and she given homework to us. We had to find out information about Lacy box a in Finnish market. We made a report to her. The report contained for example do Finnish men buy lingerie for wives and will Finns understand the concept of a subscription box?

Summary from Lynn-Marie

Our third week project work was to decide a country and search the countries cultural ways. In Thursday we had presentations. Other groups told us about different countries and cultures, it was amazing to get to know about cultures for example Spain, Lithuanian and Albanian. Our group FTS13 decided to take Norway. Because one of our group member was living in Norway and she knew much about it. Surprise we made another video again. It took so much time but it was worth it. Our team spirit is excellent! We always come up with really good ideas and implement them well. Here you can watch FTS13 groups new video about Norway's culture. Enjoy!

In lecture we talked about The iceberg model. That was so true but i have never thought it that way. The iceberg model means at everybody can see small part of you but everything else is hiding. First impression comes when people meet you for the first time. He or she doesn't know anything about you, so how you act makes an image of you.

Picture: opengecko.com

For homework we had to make a cultural baggage. So this is my cultural baggage.

-Nelli