1st of May

Spring is fantastic time, not only I will wake up again, but also the nature around us! Although it has been a late and relatively cold spring so far, the increasing daylight is warmly welcome! Last Friday, we celebrated the First of May in our coffee room with traditional donuts and sima, a drink containing raisins, which I can't even explain... Well, sima is a typical Finnish fermented non-alcoholic soft drink, like lemonade. But definitely home-made! 

Anyway, a tradition in Kuopio in May Day Eve is also to dip one of the University's professor into the waterpool in the market place. This year, we had the honor, and our Head of The School took the responsibility and presented our Faculty proudly. See more from the local news (link). This was the 50th professor in the history and Prof. Ketolainen was selected most likely since our School of Phamracy is celebrating 50th anniversary this year. More about that behind this link (in Finnish unfortunately). So this year will be pretty interesting and nice events are around the corner!