Finland wins ice hockey world championship

Congratulations Finland! Is it 16 years already since the last title? Shit, I must be getting old. An amazing third period, 5 - 0! Sadly I'm on the other side of the world so I can't join the party. But you didn't have to slaughter Sweden, did you? I actually started to feel a little bad for them at some point, but just a little. Right now the fact that Fasth was titled as an MVP of the championship seems quite ridiculous. Showtime wasn't really convenient because the game started at 3.30am, and I had to stay up until 7.30am because the software I used to watch the game didn't stream the game in real-time, but released it in 20-minute clips to download. But it was definitely worth it. I had to skip some morning lessons though, because I had to sleep too.

Only three weeks left of my student exchange in Korea. Lately I've been mostly writing my master's thesis, so I haven't really been traveling around that much. I can see now that it wasn't such a good idea to write the thesis here, because it's really time consuming and takes the time away from everything else. I had a moment of weakness a month ago and I shaved my beard. It's summer here already so thought it would be nice to get an even tan on my face.

I finally received my student card, certificate of alien registration and passport some weeks ago. It's quite concerning how many hands has my passport actually passed during the process of acquiring the alien certificate, because all those documents were given me by a co-student of my lab, and I have no idea where he got those and why they were given to him instead of giving them straight to me. Since he doesn't speak English, it's also very hard to ask this sort of things. From what I've been hearing, this is a common habit around here, and Koreans don't see the problem in giving private documents temporarily for someone they know or someone who the document owner knows, because they have a greater sense of community compared to ours. And by knowing someone I mean merely knowing someones name.

Oo-o, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien.