Alcohol in Finland is a serious problem among the population, as they have a tendency to drink vodk

The "Orientation Course", as its name suggests, it is an orientation course for exchange students. pond Basically, it involves explaining the functioning of the University and all its services. Also, there are talks of each Faculty, which will show all the courses you can do and how it will be. The truth is that you are required to know where things are, but at the same time they are very boring, pond too. For Erasmus, the "Orientation Course" pond started on 28 and ends tomorrow at night, as a party, and to which we advanced today buying alcohol.
Alcohol in Finland is a serious problem among the population, as they have a tendency to drink vodka. In fact, the Finnish mood for jokes only talk about sex and vodka. Today, we have witnessed during the course of a speech on society, politics and Finnish culture in which the teacher has explained the joke to reflect the behavior of Finnish pond society towards alcohol: A British pond reporter was ask a Finn, who had just two weeks military service, what would you when you return home. He replied: sex with my wife. The reporter will be put red cheeks and returned him to ask now of another pond indirect way what would when returning home. He said, sex with my wife. The reporter, as all red, he asked: - And when you've done with your wife, what will you do? And he replied: Go buy a bottle of vodka. I suppose that is the reason why you can not buy alcohol in supermarkets Finns.
"Alko" is the only store where you can buy alcoholic drinks, like a tobacco snuff. In other supermarkets you can buy beer only, provided you have a graduation pond less than 5 . Beverages that exceed this rate only sold to "Alko", which also have their own laws. Young people between pond 18 and 20 years, as is my case, you can just buy drinks "average" ranking, as in the case of wine. Is from 20 when you have access to all kinds of drinks. We do not know it until today, we have directed the establishment, there were four, two 20 and two 19 years. So when we headed pond to buy the bottle of vodka we wanted to have asked tomorrow the ID. Then we have stopped pond buying the bottle because pond the group had two 19 years. The cashier, very kindly explained to us how it worked "Alko" surprise us to tell us that we could not buy a bottle today but tomorrow, if only they were those who had 20 years, if the could sell.
Regarding the price of alcohol, the beer can Lidl is the cheapest of 0.49, the cheapest bottle of wine is around 8 euros, 10 gin and vodka 20.99. In general, as you can see they are quite expensive, however, and hopefully better quality of the famous "jug."
In short, the Finns are very strict with the law, yet very friendly, despite its dry character. Tomorrow, back to the bottle nostalgiada, have dinner together pond and a little alcohol in the body we will go to the first official celebration Erasmus.
2012 (23) December (1) November pond (3) October pond (6) September pond (10) August (3) "Orientation Course". After the storm comes the calm always. The first sensations.