I'm sitting in dad's class, watching him teach. The students must think I'm very hardworking, making lots of notes, since I'm constantly typing. I have to admit that I have absolutely no idea of what he's talking about. Well, something about service innovation and networks and so on..I've been walking around the campus and occasionally people waved at me. I guess I'm such a rare sight, since this is a very Chinese campus and I doubt that there are any western stu...

My first trip to China started five days ago in Shanghai. Dad was coming here on business trip so I decided to tag along. The whole trip is almost 3 weeks and we'll visit three cities + hopefully go to the Emeishan mountain. (There was convinently a long article about it in this months Mondo magazine.)Shanghai is said to be the Paris of the East, but I was still surprised how western it seemed. I was prepared for a big culture shock, but I guess when you're stayi...

We haven't been able find working computers for a while, so now I have a bunch of stories for you.. I'll try to write as many, before my time runs up.So last week we were in San Francisco, it was a nice city, but because we were staying at this very seedy part of town, our first experssions weren't that good. Once we walked around a bit further it was actually quite charming city with victorian houses and the steep steep hills (you should've seen Liina coming d...

It's a week into our trip now and we've already seen lots. So let's start from the beginning... Exactly a week ago, mum dropped us off at Helsinki-Vantaa airport. It was raining, cold and gray. We got on our flight to Frankfurt and everything went smoothly until we arrived there.. our connecting flight to US was canceled!! We were meant to fly to Chicago and change there to catch the Seattle flight, but so many flights had been canceled and there was no chance to...

Following the footprints of the incas.. So we climbed to Machu Picchu. It took as two hours and we were barely alive as we reached the top to admire the magnificent views of the lost Inca city. It was well worth it when we finally reached it but it was a really steep climb. After resting a while and taking the usual touristy pictures, we wandered around the ruins and I have to say that the incas creations are really impressive.The Inca empire was the largest emp...