Here are a couple pictures of our recent constructions. We're very happy with the way they turned out, and also pleased that, besides minor cuts and bruises, no one was terribly injured.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
19 Architecture Students, 400 2x6's, 4 Days, 2 Awesome Pavilions!!!
Here are a couple pictures of our recent constructions. We're very happy with the way they turned out, and also pleased that, besides minor cuts and bruises, no one was terribly injured.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The only thing missing is Joe and his Big Gulp.
I found these funny/cute/adorable pictures from the trip to the Varma construction site. Enjoy!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
An Intense Game of Asshole
The contenders.
Jen's gonna cut a.... I'm always the asshole.
Punishment: someone's always locked outside.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Our trip to Lapland - in Mad Lib format.
Lapland Fairytale
Once upon a time, there was a troupe of five traveling boogers. They all studied wasty-face in sweaty St. Louis, but were taking a semester to kill in Helsinki. For elf break, they hopped on an Arctic Knife for -5 hours, and headed to glamorous Lapland, were they planned to dance, dogsled, and go schtupping.
In Rovaniemi, the buckets rented a frosty BMW, which they intended to drink around the countryside. With Jamie and Chrissy behind the wheel, the trip was licorice-y and they arrived at their destination steamily. Lapland was covered in schmooey dirty dishes and sambucca-y carrot nuggets. Our travelers were very soapy about their green cabin, and promptly made a sprocket to warm themselves up. After being swirly for so long, the cabin was very crusty. Once the hairgrease had warmed the cabin, our travelers settled into drink some toe jam and eat some hand sanitizer.
Once dinner was through, they took off all their germs and got in the buttercup, where they saunaed and cleaned themselves with shampoo they boiled on top of the barf. They also splinted around and jumped in the snowmobile naked. After the Buchensky, our travelers walked through the dense Sweden, out to a clearing, where they hoped to see Nanifer in the sky. After a naked wait, streaks of crotch finally appeared in the sky. The bruise was raw and purple, leaving our travelers slimy by what they had seen.
On the way back to the cabin, with their nipples, freezing the travelers encountered an outhouse with stanky antlers, and a glowing belly button. "Now we've quenched everything we hoped to drive," Nan exclaimed, and they skipped back to the cabin for some shots of jackass and a good night of chugging.
Holiday in Helsinki
In the year 4, four architects from smelly university in Muonio, decided to spend a semester in long Helsinki. Jen, with her greasy long hair came from Tampa and was heavy in Finland for her spewed bananas covered in potatoes. Nan sharted in from Chicago, with her short bubbly hair ready to hit the cross country clubs at any moment, her newly-born knife always ready, whether to punt a fish or fence with some herptacular Finnish Fazer bars. Jamie, from Austin, had a voracious haircut, that was ready to challenge all of the Nebraska Ave. salons any day. And lastly, Christina from New York, with her woven hair, interested in bartending and exercising more than her studies.
The four architects all scalped together on Albertinkatu, in the pommel horse of the spandex Reijo Kela. When they first got to the waffle house, they found a portable chair made by Reijo himself. Rumor had it that Mr. Kela assembled the chair himself, and would often strut chairs to his friends. He also enjoyed rocking with the chair.
Every day, the four architects woke up, drank some sequin and stole over to the truncated bakery to eat some seamstress. The swans were always scalloped and one-legged and the architects deep-fried them until their femurs grew large. After leaving the bakery they sauteed to the chicken nugget station to catch a carny to Ryan's mom's cervix where their school was every day. They saw many gluten-free boys, and tangoed at them, especially ones wearing green heads. Some days, they asked the boys for their pants, so they could julienne them and go out for jerri curls.
One day, when the architects arrived at school with many boys' acid-wash jeans in hand, they found they couldn't breakdance into the studio.
"Glory be!", Jen shouted, and sweat down her cassette tapes. "How are we ever going to get any Jane Fonda done?!"
Suddenly, the architects' Day-glo professor, Jouni, collided from behind the Afternoon Delight station.
"Quiet!" he planted. "You must be impregnated if you will ever churn a sanctuary of Bob Ross. Stop cavorting!"
"That's it!" Nanette exclaimed. "We've had enough. No more knickers! We're going to design a platinum blonde dance french braid not a panini of silence! And you can't cold press us!"
"Yeah, you think you're an umlaut but you're really a Cocker Spaniel," Christina muttered.
With that, the architects spray painted back on the haterade to Helsinki where they would teleport a dance Tilt-a-Whirl, eat lots of bikini wax, and win all sorts of waterproof competitions, making them the most triflin' architects permed university had ever masturbated and had their yellow designs window shopped in Men's Health, all before any of them even turned 52.
Everything written above is completely and absolutely true.
Mad-Libs penned by the illustrious Christina "GlamourSprocketCrotch" Draghi.
Once upon a time, there was a troupe of five traveling boogers. They all studied wasty-face in sweaty St. Louis, but were taking a semester to kill in Helsinki. For elf break, they hopped on an Arctic Knife for -5 hours, and headed to glamorous Lapland, were they planned to dance, dogsled, and go schtupping.
In Rovaniemi, the buckets rented a frosty BMW, which they intended to drink around the countryside. With Jamie and Chrissy behind the wheel, the trip was licorice-y and they arrived at their destination steamily. Lapland was covered in schmooey dirty dishes and sambucca-y carrot nuggets. Our travelers were very soapy about their green cabin, and promptly made a sprocket to warm themselves up. After being swirly for so long, the cabin was very crusty. Once the hairgrease had warmed the cabin, our travelers settled into drink some toe jam and eat some hand sanitizer.
Once dinner was through, they took off all their germs and got in the buttercup, where they saunaed and cleaned themselves with shampoo they boiled on top of the barf. They also splinted around and jumped in the snowmobile naked. After the Buchensky, our travelers walked through the dense Sweden, out to a clearing, where they hoped to see Nanifer in the sky. After a naked wait, streaks of crotch finally appeared in the sky. The bruise was raw and purple, leaving our travelers slimy by what they had seen.
On the way back to the cabin, with their nipples, freezing the travelers encountered an outhouse with stanky antlers, and a glowing belly button. "Now we've quenched everything we hoped to drive," Nan exclaimed, and they skipped back to the cabin for some shots of jackass and a good night of chugging.
Holiday in Helsinki
In the year 4, four architects from smelly university in Muonio, decided to spend a semester in long Helsinki. Jen, with her greasy long hair came from Tampa and was heavy in Finland for her spewed bananas covered in potatoes. Nan sharted in from Chicago, with her short bubbly hair ready to hit the cross country clubs at any moment, her newly-born knife always ready, whether to punt a fish or fence with some herptacular Finnish Fazer bars. Jamie, from Austin, had a voracious haircut, that was ready to challenge all of the Nebraska Ave. salons any day. And lastly, Christina from New York, with her woven hair, interested in bartending and exercising more than her studies.
The four architects all scalped together on Albertinkatu, in the pommel horse of the spandex Reijo Kela. When they first got to the waffle house, they found a portable chair made by Reijo himself. Rumor had it that Mr. Kela assembled the chair himself, and would often strut chairs to his friends. He also enjoyed rocking with the chair.
Every day, the four architects woke up, drank some sequin and stole over to the truncated bakery to eat some seamstress. The swans were always scalloped and one-legged and the architects deep-fried them until their femurs grew large. After leaving the bakery they sauteed to the chicken nugget station to catch a carny to Ryan's mom's cervix where their school was every day. They saw many gluten-free boys, and tangoed at them, especially ones wearing green heads. Some days, they asked the boys for their pants, so they could julienne them and go out for jerri curls.
One day, when the architects arrived at school with many boys' acid-wash jeans in hand, they found they couldn't breakdance into the studio.
"Glory be!", Jen shouted, and sweat down her cassette tapes. "How are we ever going to get any Jane Fonda done?!"
Suddenly, the architects' Day-glo professor, Jouni, collided from behind the Afternoon Delight station.
"Quiet!" he planted. "You must be impregnated if you will ever churn a sanctuary of Bob Ross. Stop cavorting!"
"That's it!" Nanette exclaimed. "We've had enough. No more knickers! We're going to design a platinum blonde dance french braid not a panini of silence! And you can't cold press us!"
"Yeah, you think you're an umlaut but you're really a Cocker Spaniel," Christina muttered.
With that, the architects spray painted back on the haterade to Helsinki where they would teleport a dance Tilt-a-Whirl, eat lots of bikini wax, and win all sorts of waterproof competitions, making them the most triflin' architects permed university had ever masturbated and had their yellow designs window shopped in Men's Health, all before any of them even turned 52.
Everything written above is completely and absolutely true.
Mad-Libs penned by the illustrious Christina "GlamourSprocketCrotch" Draghi.
Monday, February 25, 2008
The Many Faces of Ryan's Head(d)
Morgan put me on "the list!" Oh no!
Ooh, someone put a little rum in my YooHoo.
Paula's got a new music video?!
Nanette took my last Kismet? Oh no she diidn't! 
Number 3 face?
Should I go with moonboots or crocs...
Our neighbors are walking around naked again?
Blair -Witch-Project-face Saturday, February 16, 2008
Utö!!!
We are now spending 10 days on the island of Utö in the Finnish Archipelago. Few words can describe the beauty of this place and the power of the sea surrounding us. We are able to watch the movement of weather patterns, swans landing on the water, passing ships and the local people at work. Best of all, there are many old bunkers to explore and the rocky seashore has become our playground...cuz let's face it, we're all just kids at heart.
Monday, February 11, 2008
A mix of the new and old
Sunday, February 10, 2008
What The Heck Is "m"???
While on a trip to the Temppeliaukio Church on Saturday, we stumbled across a strange and unfamiliar sign at the Olympic Stadium. While we understood the sign to be an indicator of direction towards certain places and venues, a small "m" after numbers was recorded next to each name. What is this "m"? Anton expended all his energy attempting to decipher the code, but with no luck. Maybe we will never find out what the magical "m" is.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
ScRäBbLe Night
Last night we went to this pub called the Black Door. (So what it was at 7:30? We weren't the ONLY ones there.) We were pleasantly suprised to find they had a stash of boardgames. They were all in Finnish but we managed a game of Scrabble. The large quantity of vowels and umlauts didn't hold us back. Few things in this life are universal; board games being one of them.PS. Nan won.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Cheaper than the 2 Euro Lunches
This blog is going well......but I think we need some more posts. I have a little side blog that I started before this shindig got start so feel free to visit. It has all my pictures and some of my thoughts that may get you inspired to write a little somethin- somethin' on this one! Enjoy!
http://www.morganonthemove.spaces.live.com
http://www.morganonthemove.spaces.live.com
Monday, February 4, 2008
Suomenlinna
Sunday Feb. 3rd, going to the Suomenlinna island, was the most amazing time I've had so far. It is definitely going to be one of the highlights of this semester. I have never had so much fun with freezing fingers and toes (I learned that mittens keep your fingers warmer than gloves do). We were all freezing yet we kept going and went around the island, explored the old fort and village, watched Tim and Anton jump off the roofs of the old houses, took as many pictures as our freezing fingers could take and took the boat back to Helsinki , satisfied with the whole experience (on the way back we all sat inside, as opposed to outside on the deck since we froze on the way to the island!). Looking at the 276 pictures that I took, I realized many of them were of icicles and ice-covered rocks. The Cold is painful but it's also beautiful. I am sure that we are gonna have just as much fun once we go to the other island, Outo.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Good Eatin'
We have become quite skilled at fitting a large number of people in tiny spaces while here in Helsinki. In fact, we are surprised to find that, although the people tend to be rather tall here in Finland, the spaces that they occupy do not necessarily reflect their size. In any case, last night we had a wonderful feast in the small studio apartment that Tasneem and I are sharing. We started with bread and cheese of course and then moved on to a rice and vegetable dish, salad, pasta salad, roasted turnips and potatoes...and then dessert (chocolate and cake)! They have these little cakes called Runebergintortut (we called them Poet's Cakes because they are named after a famous Finnish poet whose name day is celebrated this time of year). No matter how much food is put on the table, we always manage to consume all of it! Hopefully we can continue to have group dinners throughout our stay here, although I'm sure we'll soon be busy with school work– afterall, we are here to study architecture.Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Top 10 Reasons Why Helsinki Is Better Than STL!
So here is my top 10 reasons why Helsinki is better than STL:
1. Public Transportation: It actually works here!
2. Stool Samples: Oh Finland, they still require feces to tell what is wrong with you.
3. Snow, not Ice. Snow is great, Ice sucks.
4. Free plotting! Yes!
5. 2 Euro lunches with salad, 3 pieces of bread, drink, and side dishes. Excellent!
6. Cheap cheese, amazing bread, AMAZING bread!
7. Russian statues.
8. You do not need a CLUB for a car, cause you don't have one!
9. You can string together words with lots of consonants. Yhskalyiittjkulaitshtii
10. They get your birthday right on their IDS. Missouri, you suck. Its 8/30/83, not 8/03/83! I HATE YOU!
1. Public Transportation: It actually works here!
2. Stool Samples: Oh Finland, they still require feces to tell what is wrong with you.
3. Snow, not Ice. Snow is great, Ice sucks.
4. Free plotting! Yes!
5. 2 Euro lunches with salad, 3 pieces of bread, drink, and side dishes. Excellent!
6. Cheap cheese, amazing bread, AMAZING bread!
7. Russian statues.
8. You do not need a CLUB for a car, cause you don't have one!
9. You can string together words with lots of consonants. Yhskalyiittjkulaitshtii
10. They get your birthday right on their IDS. Missouri, you suck. Its 8/30/83, not 8/03/83! I HATE YOU!
Monday, January 28, 2008
first impressions
fabulous roommates who pick you up at the airport when you are the last to arrive...
cute apartment
i love walking
the light
pastries
school really does have connections...happy hour with juhani pallasmaa and two embassadors
(can't spell their names)
finnish is not an easy language to pick up, but carrot is spelled porkana
jen ate in on the ice first. it was a full on whipe out - both feet our from under her with arms
flying up to the sky
nan's got a bug
hopefully i'm capable of a full night sleep
cute apartment
i love walking
the light
pastries
school really does have connections...happy hour with juhani pallasmaa and two embassadors
(can't spell their names)
finnish is not an easy language to pick up, but carrot is spelled porkana
jen ate in on the ice first. it was a full on whipe out - both feet our from under her with arms
flying up to the sky
nan's got a bug
hopefully i'm capable of a full night sleep
First Post!
Hello from Helsinki, everyone!
I hope that as a group we are able to keep this blog updated pretty frequently. For those of you who don't know, we are a bunch of architectural master's students studying in Finland for the spring 2008 semester. We have been here for 3 days and so far things are great! We'll keep you posted on our experience.
I hope that as a group we are able to keep this blog updated pretty frequently. For those of you who don't know, we are a bunch of architectural master's students studying in Finland for the spring 2008 semester. We have been here for 3 days and so far things are great! We'll keep you posted on our experience.
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