We love Chocolate!

Yesterday Lydie prepared a wonderfull chocolate fondue for us. Healhty fruits, bananas, apple and mandarines were dipped in melted chocolate. Hmm! But when the fruit was gone, and still so much chocolate was left, we decided to do something else. Action! With chocolate on our hands, we were running around the tables, fighting with eachother. This is the result...

Random pictures!

Taz--aka--Tanzeel Akhtar posing.

Some random pictures of the happening in and around our flat.
[Orore, Christina, Mieke, Lydie, Fanny]

[Sunday afternoon dinner. Before the crowd arrived and before the tiramisu came in]

[The frigde has hard times...]

[Fanny says 'hi']

[In Bauke's flat, just before we set of for a walk on the sea]

[Lydie and Mieke in the university choir. Why? Cos of the fun]

Taz did it again!

Hello folks!

Taz did it again! She went to the shops far far away in the deep and dark places in Helsinki, selecting high quality flour, the best fresh exotic vegetables, the most hot and spicy and juicy chilli's and perfect manufactured (what do I say, hand-made of course!) olive oil. Yes yes, The chef of our flat, ouhlala, went out shopping to serve her flatmates and friends the best Asian dish you can imagine. This process takes hours, you must take it seriously! Everything must be selected and approved by somebody who knows what cooking is like! Not Jamie Oliver that can make a nice Basilico-tomato-pasta!! No NO, Taz selects fine-healthy-well balanced good flavoured food for her loving flatmates! She spreads love! and everybody knows the expression, 'the love goes through the stomach'

This dish is her speciality, she learned to cook this dish from her mother as soon as she was able to stand on her feet. She mixes the flour with water and treats the dough with her bare hands. Then, the dough gets 12 hours of rest in the frigde. Afterwards, it's ready for further steps. She makes the perfect balls and the perfect circles. Then, she makes the filling: frying the perfect fresh vegetables, chilli's, pies, corn, more chilli's, onion, carrots, more chilli's, potato, paprika and chilli's. And of course you bring your food to taste! So you add some spices, prefferably chilli massala powder! Then you bake the dough, which is formed into perfect circles now, and make triangles from them. People in Asia always liked Origami! After making this art work, you fill the triangles with the fillings and fry them in the oil. Tadaaaaa! Ouhlalala.

Eurhgm, maybe you are still thinking 'what is this about?'.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, apples and pears, fruitcakies, it's about Samosa's !

So, to make a long story short, Taz made samosa's and her Swedish journalist friend Anna helped her, while having nice cosy converstations in the meanwhile. They invited their journalist friends, invited other friends, fun fun fun, Russian Vodka, Spanish wine, Dutch Indonesian food, Italian/Finnish cake, beer, crisps, lot of people, spicy & chilli, jammie jammie-party-party:)

Nice party, thanks for coming. Taz, thanks for your 24 hour effort. The rest of the flat, thanks for the cleaning shifts. After the crazy partying all Sunday we cleaned and talked about the night before....

Taz and Lydie were wondering what happend to Christina's legs. You can see the amazement of Chris on her face. It was a strange and magical moment.

The day after, we discussed the latter evening with a nice salty soup (this time by Mieke, not Lydie) and some 'Eastern-European food for poor people' and curry sauce. Because all of this was so bad, Chris proposed pizza and Taz made cracers with camembert. (She could blame her culture because in the UK they dont have camembert but they do have a lot of crackers).

In the evening, Chris made perfect nice little chocholate balls, hmm, Spanish speciality, and a salad with fried potatos and onion....She especially had to call here mom for the recepy, so it's not just something out of a cooking book. No NO, again, special selected food for the loving flatmates :)

Greetings from Mieke, Chris, Taz, Lydie and Fanny

(also Fanny kind of disapeared at the moment of 'the-group-cleaning-team-picture')

exploring island Saurasaari

Ah i love the sunset...i'm such a romantic, i know.

Pinky, bluey, purple sky..soooo lush and lovely- spread love-by tanzeel akhtar

guest of honour

Here we are...COOKING again...

With us is Micky's sister. It was a great pleasure meeting her. Don't we look bright and beautiful:) what a weekend...we finished with a hardcore session of sex and the city.

taz x

flatmates lost, found, hurt and confused but reunited!

OK-->i've not written much...girls, i'm going to add some pictures. This one captures THAT morning...Micky recovering from a ice skating accident, I vanished during the night and Fanny fainted. WOW what an action packed morning and then we all sat around cooking somosas and recovering....bless x

A new roommate from Spain!!!!

Hi!

Thusday was a very special day.... Guess what?!??? (easy you would say, I already wrote it) : we have a new roommate! I was so excited!!!! Christina, journalist from Spain who will write something on the blog soon, I hope.

But Mieke was in a destructive mood the day after, and decided to kill everybody by putting some green poison in my delicious apple-banana cake!

See Chris's expression, isn't she afraid???

We are making her life hard.... aren't we?

But anyway; the cake was quite good and nobody die! So Chris has 6 lifes left, but for me I think that it's less! lol (sorry if you don't understand my so funny jokes...)

After this failure, Mieke was quite upset and, because she didn't lose a life by eating the cake, decided to attend to her life in an other way. See the scars on her face! That's because of the stong man (is he a bodybuilder?) she decided to fight against. But, even with this, it wasn't enougth!!!! So she took the "scary movie" knife and Taz came at the right time to rescue the poor girl! Thanks honey, what would we do without you!

In order to have a little more peacefull life, Taz, the rescuer, decided to give everybody a good meal and did a soooooooooo delicious humm what's the name... don't remember :S But anyway, that's very good!!! yes yes So everybody decided to help her, by cutting the carrots, smashing the patatoes etc.... I must say that I had the hard work to do! I won't complain but it was hard word! Dishes? no I had to put the right quantity of oignon (already cuts) into the patatos (already mashed). What an experience!

Ha my babies roommates, I love you! lol That's so english! And to conclude, I will put a picture that was not from my camera but that I love quite a lot! On est pas mimi, comme ça, parées pour aller en soirée :P

Writer : Lydie (the curly one, not very good at puting the pictures at the right place in this blog... oulalaaa)

And Taz, if you want, you have all the rights that you want to correct my (few, for sure) mistakes!

Erasmusstories, start!

Hey all!

This is the blog of all the girls living in Block A31 in Pasila-Helsinki. I arrived in my flat after one week of snowboarding in Lapland. I was really curious who my new flatmates would be, and here we will present each other. The first week we were talking for hours, until late in the night. I showed them the roof with the sauna's & Taz did my make-up for the Erasmus opening party. Everybody gave me compliments, it was superb. Thanks Taz! We all study different things, have different interests, but we have a laugh. Though I miss my old flatmates, Karolina, Gustina and Ijlal, I am sure the second term will be as nice as the latter. I can feel it!

author: Mieke de Regt - 20 - Dutch - Studying Philosophy & Economics in Belgium

Alrighty-
Its Taz from England. I love my new flatmates, two awesome French ladies and one adventerous Dutch lass. All are excellent cooks and crazy party animals which helps. I have been an exchange student/ERASMUS student in the past and i have to say there is a good vibe in our flat, it is THE place to be. There is a tradition we must follow...FLAT 31A ROCKS...

author: Tanzeel Akhtar -23- British Asian- Studying International Journalism.

So come on let' s continue!

My name is Lydie, and I' m French, not far from Paris (Oh, I love this city so much!). I just arrived in the new flat and that' s so cool, only one week and already we have done so many things, parties, friends and everything... I won' t start now, otherwise it will be very long! I'm very happy to be in such a friendly flat with these crazy girls and I wonder how these few months will be :p

author : Lydie -22- French- Studying Agriculture and Forestry.

Salut,

So, this is our blog. I should say how i was stressed to meet the new girls i will be living with, but for now I'm glad to be here, and we definitly have a good team! The first day wasn't calm neither quiet and that's why it was a really good start, I didn't have the time to be sad or tired. Hopefully it's not party everyday, and tonight was a really nice evening with hot chocolate, photos and "girls stories"... looking forward to more!

author : Fanny Hardou -24-French- Studying French Philology.

Lydie and Tanzeel are the first to meet!