Cheers and rejoice, the semester is almost over!! Spring is in the air and the sun is waking from hibernation. Your legendary and crazy exchange might be coming to an end but no need to worry, the EPIC FAREWELL FINLAND Party is upon and about to rock Helsinki!

One last time, let’s show how hard International Students party and let’s shake the building off its foundations!

What’s a more perfect souvenir for home than a t-shirt scribbled on, signed and destroyed by all your best exchange friends?? Absolutely nothing! So… remember to BRING A WHITE T-SHIRT! The markers/pens will be provided for free at the party.

Very cheap student friendly drink prices all night.

TICKETS: For students of Helsinki University: get your pre-sale tickets for free @ the ESN Help Desk: Tuesday 14.5. at 4-6pm at the New Student House (Mannerheimintie 5A, 2nd floor) and Wednesday 15.5. at 1-2.30pm in the lobby of Porthania (Yliopistonkatu 3). Please bring a proof that you study at the University of Helsinki. With the pre-sale ticket you get a free entrance and can skip the queue until 23:00!

Tickets sold at the door are 3€.

TIME: Thursday the 16th of May. Doors open at 9pm and we will party all night!

LOCATION: Baarikärpänen (Mikonkatu 15)

DRESSCODE: White T-shirt. Also use your last chance to wear the ultimate Finnish students’ party outfit and feel free to wear your student overalls!

Provided to you by XGroup and ESN-HYY Helsinki, in co-operation with ESN Aalto, ESN Metropolia and ESN HELGA

The event on Facebook 

ESN HYY Vappupicnic in Ruttopuisto
We start vappufestivities with picnic in Ruttopuisto, bring your snacks, drinks, a blanket and yourself at Ruttopuisto 15 o’clock. From there you can easily move to see capping of Havis Amanda at 6.00 pm and other events, or just hang around there for the evening! 

Vappu with the Social sciences students https://www.facebook.com/events/503002639748141/

On the Vappu evening the social sciences students will gather around Kuppala and Snellmania from 2pm until very late in the evening (or night). Head for Snellmaninkatu 14 for the best party of the year!
The people will be going to watch the capping of Havis Amanda statue at 18:00 on Kauppatori and then return to Kuppala. At the same time there is a party inside, tickets 5e. https://www.facebook.com/events/155174611317802/

We Love Helsinki –Vappuball https://www.facebook.com/events/103029866562345

Korjaamo is a very popular place to spend Vappu. Tickets cost 12e from the internet and 15e from the door. They should be purchased beforehand though because this event is sold out every year. http://www.tiketti.fi/We-Love-Helsinki-Vapputanssit-Kulttuuritehdas-Korjaamo-tickets/19566

Metropolia Wappuevent @Kaisaniemi https://www.facebook.com/events/375883729191686/

Kaisaniemi offers a traditional day including wonderful and wanted programmes, such as checkpoint tour, beer race, 20 cnt bottle and capping of the engineer students. The wrist bands for the checkpoint race you get from a tent in the park as usual, and the DJs of Having Fun With Records are entertaining people with their music lifting the wappu spirit!
The programme starts at 12:oo with the capping of the engineer students, and the other programmes are organized throughout the day. The event ends at 16:oo.

Hämiksen Wappu https://www.facebook.com/events/151077205062416/

Hämis organizes a very popular vappuparty, this year in Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 D. There will be livemusic and partying in four floors until the early morning. Tickets cost 12e and can be purchased on Monday at the office in the 3^rd floor at Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 D. The office is open from 3-6pm.

Vappureha 2013 https://www.facebook.com/events/560276573996278/

Limes, Matlu and Condus are throwing common parties on Mayday’s eve!
The party will be in Club Venue (Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21, Helsinki). Tickets cost 3 € beforehand and 4€ from the door. Door service is not included in the price. You can get a ticket on Monday the 29^th either in Porthania 11:00am-00:15pm or in Physicum (Kumpula) at 11:00am-01:00pm.
Tickets are also sold at Limes’ office(Exactum, C132) when it is open.

Vappuevening @ Bank https://www.facebook.com/events/189731754509419/

There will also be a big vappu party in Unioninkatu 20 at Bank from 10pm-4am. A normal ticket is 10e and a VIP ticket 15e. With the VIP tickets the queue will be faster and you will be allowed to enter the VIP area. Purchase your tickets at http://www.tiketti.fi/Vappuaatto-2013-+-Bank-Ravintola-Bank-Helsinki-tickets/19683

Teekkariwappu @ Onnela https://www.facebook.com/events/181028182049218/

After the capping of Manta statue, the Technical Students move the May Day Eve celebrations to Helsinki Onnela, where the dance floor gets wild with the rap artist Juno and a bunch of top DJs.

At midnight, it is time for traditional festivities when student caps with a tassel can also be pressed on the head after a long wait. Whether your cap is gilded with champagne or shiny brand new, come to experience the midnight magic and new French horn music. This is really something that you do not want to miss!

Ticket sales in Otaniemi
@Main building (Mellin lobby), 29 Apr, 10am-2pm, @Fuksi spex (Dipoli), 29 Apr, 5pm-9pm and @Otaniemi Service Point (Otakaari 11), 29 Apr

Wappuparade http://kyweb.fi/event/kyn-wappukulkue/

Feel the Wappu spirit and join KY’s wappu parade! Let’s fill the streets of Helsinki with KY’s colors and celebrate Wappu with a style – go big or go home!

The parade leaves from the KY-building (Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21) at 16:00 and will lead you to Kauppatori, where the statue of Havis Amanda is capped. The parade will be led by a 15-meter-long truck which is decorated with KY colors. In addition, on the truck, Mikael from OD will play music that will surely raise your wappu spirits!

KY Wappu Party https://www.facebook.com/events/531095530267565/

This year the KY Wappu party is held in Kaivohuone (Iso Puistotie 1), where the beat does not stop before dawn! Kuningasidea, a relaxed and outgoing Finnish band, and Roope Salminen & Koirat, an energetic party band playing hip hop classics and well known cover songs, are entertaining the audience during the night. Tickets for KY-Wappu party cost 15 euros (17 from the entrance) and include the coat check fee. Tickets are sold in the lobby of School of Economics on 29.4. on the breaks at 12 and 14 o’clock. Small amount of tickets will be sold also via Tiketti. The event is open for everyone, not just for KY-members.

Put your overalls on and enjoy the Wappu spirit like never again – Wappu is only once a year!

VappuAllianssi2013

Four of our faculty organisations at UH are organising a massive Vappu party! Come join Biosfääri, Humanisticum, MMYL and TYT for some super fun times at Gloria (Pieni Roobertinkatu 12, Helsinki)!
Bringing down the house for the party people is gonna be Get Me and DJ Zacharius. Tickets are 8€ in advance (incl. coatroom and an overall patch) and at the door 10€ (incl. coatroom). With the tickets bought in advance you get a new fancy VappuAllianssi overall patch on the night at Gloria!

Ticket sale on Monday 29th: Humanisticum at 11.30am-2.30 (Main Building),
Biosfääri at 11am-1pm (Entrance of Biokeskus 1) and Porthania at 11am-3p

Also, all the big clubs have their own vappuparties, so basically wherever you go, vappu will be there! .)

Kaivopuisto on the 1st of May

Vappupicnic with ESN Helsinki sections (plus the rest of Helsinki) https://www.facebook.com/events/369502413166826/?fref=ts
Join ESN Helsinki sections at Ullanlinnanmäki, just find our flag and you find us! We are there around 10.00 am. Just remember to bring  your own snacks, drinks and blanket

Put your overalls on and enjoy the Wappu spirit like never again – Wappu is only once a year!

DISCLAIMER: Possibly boring historical & cultural facts coming up!

Vappu comes possibly from german name Walburg. Walburg was Bavarian abbess during 8th Century, who was declared as Saint on her nameday 1st of May. As had happened many times during Christianization, this same day happened to be a day of festivities in older religious habits at Finland and even though the name changed, many traditions have stayed the same, at least at the countryside. During vappu people brew low-alcohol mead, which is called sima in Finnish and bake deepfried doughnut covered in sugar, munkki, or funnel cake, tippaleipä, which is made by pouring batter into hot cooking oil in circular pattern, ending up looking like brains with powdered sugar on the top. Mead and beer have always belonged to vappu festivities, nowadays sparkling wine and champagne have many ways replaced those as more common drinks at vappu.

To students vappu is one of the biggest events during the year, especially in Helsinki region. Nowadays the Vappu celebrations start already at 30th of April or even earlier with Pre-Vappu parties. Vappu as a traditional student festivity day has come from Sweden during 18th Century, when Finland’s only university was situated at Turku. At Academy of Finland, people celebrated spring by singing at Vappu. When Finland was part of Russia, 1820s czar of Russia forbade these old celebrations of spring. After huge fire at Turku 1827, Academy of Finland was moved to Helsinki and spring festivies were restarted. During 1870s celebration of Vappu became more common, probably because the use of student cap was allowed from beginning of May to end of September and it was presented in it’s modern form.

So what is this strange hat everybody seems to be wearing? The Finnish student cap or ylioppilaslakki is a tradition that follows the Swedish model, like many other Finnish academic traditions. The Finnish student cap has an appearance similar to the Swedish version, but instead of coloured fabric cockade, it has a metallic, gold-colored cockade depicting the lyre of Apollo, the insignia of the University of Helsinki. The cap was introduced in its present form in 1870s. Until 1950′s, the university students usually wore the cap during the whole summer holiday of the university, from Walpurgis Night or Vappu until the end of September. Nowadays, the cap is used mostly during 1 May and in academic ceremonies and occasions. The cap is worn by all Finnish high school, lukio, graduates. As in Sweden, the students of Engineering usually wear a special student cap, teekkarilakki, with a long tassel.

The biggest events of Vappu are Mantan lakitus and Vappu picnic. Mantan lakitus is an event where students from different Student Unions place a cap on Havis Amanda statue’s head. Havis Amanda is a nude female statue right next to the Kauppatori, where ferries leave to Suomenlinna. It is a huge event on 30.4 beginning 17 o’clock, where students of young and old gather to celebrate and place their caps on their heads on the second Amanda has it’s own. The whole evening of 30th of April is filled with different parties. 1st of May vappu picnic is organized at Ullanlinnanmäki, where people can enjoy spring weather with sparkling wine and potato salad. In short, many wonderous, delightful, happy and fabulous events happen on vappu. Join in and have a unforgettable experience!

Didn’t sign-up at the Help Desk? No worries, you can still join us, just show up on time!

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/119791814881861/?fref=ts

Don’t miss this fun sport afternoon!

WHEN: Sunday 21.4. at 7pm
WHERE: Alina Hall, New Student House (Mannerheimintie 5A, 3rd floor)
PRICE: With ESNcard 12e/non-alcoholic 10e (without ESNcard 14e/12e)
DRESSCODE: Smart casual

You can buy your tickets at the ESN Help Desk on Thursday 11.4. at 5pm, New Student House (Mannerheimintie 5A, 2nd floor).

For those who don’t know what a Sitsit is:
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/esn-hyy/finnish-student-life/sitsit/

The event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/360612600716551/ ]]> http://blogs.helsinki.fi/esn-hyy/2013/04/08/esn-hyy-esn-aalto-pre-vappu-sitsit-21-4/feed/ 0 http://blogs.helsinki.fi/esn-hyy/2013/03/23/esn-hyy-playes-basketball/ http://blogs.helsinki.fi/esn-hyy/2013/03/23/esn-hyy-playes-basketball/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:42:14 +0000 Eeva R S Koivunen http://blogs.helsinki.fi/esn-hyy/?p=1143 Continue reading →]]> In co-operation with Unisport, ESN HYY is continuing series of indoor ball games on Tuesdays at UniSport City Centre Campus (Fabianinkatu 20 C). Next week, on Tuesday 26th (10.30am-11.30 am), it’s BASKETBALL time!!

Participation is free, all you need is stretchy clothes and indoor sports shoes. Please bring a padlock as well for the lockers where you can keep your clothes and valuables while we’re playing. If you don’t have a lock, you can either buy one at UniSport for 3,2e or rent one for 1e + deposit (e.g. id card). We’ll get basketballs from Unisport but feel free to bring yours if you have one!

PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION BELOW:
- If you don’t have UniSport membership, you will be made a SportsCard which you will use when you come to these sessions. For registration, please bring you ID CARD + Lyyra card if you have one and come to Tuesday’s sports session early enough and sign up at the customer service desk.
- Unfortunately the event is only for student’s of University of Helsinki

FB-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/594784470551305/?ref=ts&fref=ts

See you next Tuesday!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5yhbio6nuk5lnft/Pirates-booklet.pdf

Please act according to the rules. There are police and security personnel on the ferry, we do not want any trouble. You’re also liable for anything you might break. So have a great time but remember to behave and respect other passengers.

Boarding
ESN HYY Helsinki (University of Helsinki) boarding time will be at 3.30pm (if you bought your ticket from us this concerns you – it doesn’t matter where you actually study). That’s why I ask you to be at the terminal at 2:30 pm already (Olympic Terminal/South Harbour, address: Olympiaranta 1). We will have to board as a group and we will also receive our boarding passes, dinner vouchers and so on as a group. There are 139 in our group so it will take time, even more so if you’re late. So please be on time and remember to bring a valid ID (and a valid visa if needed) with you.

There will be a security check at the terminal. Please note that it is not allowed to bring any alcohol to the ferry. Any found bottles (or other creative solutions containing alcohol) will thus be confiscated by TallinkSilja. In fact, all open containers (possibly even closed bottles) will be taken away at the security checks. Food is fine and also recommended especially if you travel a long way. Boarding passes are personal and boarding with someone else’s ticket is not possible. Also cabin mate wishes can not be made anymore. Those who didn’t send the wishes on time are automatically allocated to some cabin.

Buffet
A buffet is included in the ticket on the first evening only. In the buffet you can eat and drink as much as you want and anything you want. The buffet time for ESN HYY Helsinki section is 9:30pm. Don´t forget to bring your voucher.

Opening Show and Programme
Each passenger will receive an entrance ticket to the opening show. That entrance ticket also entitles you to 1 glass of champagne when entering. Take a good care of the ticket! Without it you will be left out of the whole show (also no champagne for you)!
We will have ESN specific programme on board on both evenings and a photographer to capture all the best moments. We’ll have a costume competition the first night! The themes are: St. Patrick’s Day and Pirates! More info on the booklet.

T-shirts
We will be selling black Pirates of the Baltic Sea t-shirts for all passengers for the price of 12 € during the opening show. We will only take cash!

More info: http://nationalcruise.esnfinland.eu/
FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/524547177578320/
ESN HYY FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/400861836676156/

There you can:

1) Sign up for the YLE-visit 14.3. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/166783866806829/?ref=ts&fref=ts. (FREE of charge but 5e deposit needed for the sign-up)

2) Sign up for the Fazer visit 12.3. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/530230057016625/?ref=ts&fref=ts. (FREE of charge but 5 euro deposit needed for the sign-up)

3) Buy an ESN-card! (2 euros for the members of University of Helsinki Student Union, 4 euros for non-members)

Remember to bring the deposit in coins or 5 € bill as we won’t have any change!

See you there!

there are a few nice parties coming up this weekend. Here is the info:

1) On Friday March 8th KY-Sub & Mosaic host a Rave Party at the KY-Building 1st floor (Alakertsi), Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21. For the mere price of 5 euros you get to enjoy drinks (3 shots + a long drink), music, dancing and laser lighting. After midnight we shall continue the fist pumping and Harlem shaking at the oh so legendary bar Onnela. Move to the beat!

Dresscode: Overalls (i…f you have them)
Price: 5e (incl. 3 shots + a long drink + overall badge)

Feel free to bring your own additional drinks (but no glass bottles, please)!

NB! The event is open to ALL STUDENTS.

Ticket sales:

Aalto School of Business, Main Building lobby (Runeberginkatu 14–16):

Thu 7.3. 11.30-12.15 & 13.45-14.15

NOW ALSO TICKET SALES FOR OTANIEMI:

Ticket sales @ the main library entrance hall in Otaniemi
Thursday 7.3. 11-13 o’clock
Friday 8.3. 11-13 o’clock

FB: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/340028236097365/

AND 2)

ESN Aalto Sauna Party on Sunday the 10th of March at 19:00

- Bring a towel, swimsuit (if you want to) and of course, BEER or whatever you’d drink!

- Don’t forget to close the door of the sauna!

- This time we’ll only have 1 sauna (warm since 19:00), and it is going to be mixed all night long

The address is Otakaari 20.

If you’re coming from Kamppi, take 102 or 102T and get off at the last stop or try http://www.reittiopas.fi/en/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/425894044162694/?fref=ts

Have a great weekend!