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22.04.16 | Vol. 18 | Issue 25

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INTERNATIONAL WEEK IN THIS ISSUE Talk with the Rector, Yakubu Mohammed, E-Book Reader Apps, Japanese Mystery Novel, Japchae, M83, Eddie the Eagle

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HELLO LOVELY PEOPLE! Our staff in the Insider Magazine is very multicultural. We have couple of Finns, a German, some Vietnamese girls and even an Irish lad. As you can imagine, we absolutely love events like the international week, where we have a chance to celebrate the different cultures of our uniKaroliina Niemi versity! Traditionally we have some stories about this exciting event when it takes place and this issue is not an exception.

If you want to see what happened during the international week, just have a look at our cover story and read all about it.

This week we also had something very thrilling: an interview with the rector. That of course meant that we had loads of pressure to double check our spelling mistakes to avoid looking like a complete idiots in front of him.

Otherwise, there are no surprises in our other content: find out what kind of music Roope has been listening this week, what movie Sarah went to see and is Khue still able to cook after her holidays in Paris. You will get to know all this and loads of other shenanigans by flipping through this week’s issue.

I hope you will enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed making it!

FAVOURITE QUOTES “Once you go Mac, you never go back.”

“Adulthood is like the vet, and we’re all dogs excited for the car ride until we realise where we’re going.”

“A really bad Thursday in French is called a Trajeudi.”

“Just ask: you will get a yes or a no.”

“Raisins should be marketed as ‘grape jerky’.”

“I’ve never understood the fashion industry, those people are so clothes minded...”

“Don’t you really feel like you’re doing toilet paper a massive favour when you’re using it to blow your nose?”

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A TALK WITH THE RECTOR FEATURE ARTICLE

Heikki Saastamoinen

Text by: Richard McGrath | Photo by: Sarah Rosenthal Both UAS Kyamk & Mamk will merge in January 2017 and become one UAS with the name Xamk. At the moment, both UAS are owned by South-eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences Ltd (Xamk) and still use their own names. The merger is a big thing for the organisation but for the staff and students nothing will change, all the courses will still be available. There have been rumours about courses moving from one UAS to the other, but this is not going to happen. Things might change in a few years when something new is started, things might finish or not be available in one of the UAS but available in the other. So nobody has to worry about moving or anything like that.

The primary idea is to create one large campus instead of four different UAS. When the merge is finished in 2017, Xamk will be the second largest UAS in Finland in part and with the amount of students, Xamk is the fifth and the largest in Research & Development.

So everyone has heard that there is a fee coming for education, the fee will come in 2017. The fee is for non-European citizens only. The fee was brought in by the ministry of education so all UAS will be having this fee, each UAS can decide what amount to charge.

Also, one of the biggest problems is that international students think that they might get better teaching in Helsinki or some other large city, but what most international students don’t understand is that all UAS have the same quality of education. When both UAS become one, Xamk will be number 5 in Finland, the goal is to be in the top five UAS in Finland so there we are.

ment board, they had not found a name to use but the shareholders said that everyone knows both UAS as Xamk, so the decision was made to use it for everything, the organisation name and UAS names. Therefore, the name is now final and it will not change.

Some from of the Xamk team will work in all the campus in the future, the rector himself visits all the campus to see what is going on in each campus.

Insider got the chance to interview the Rector Heikki Saastamoinen to ask about the new plans coming and what about the name of the organisation. So the idea behind this interview was to squash the rumours in the school about what is happening and what is not happening. Below is the result of the interview.

The name came from Kaakkois-Suomen Ammattikorkeakoulu so the K & S was replaced with X. The name was a natural choice. So during one meeting a decision was made to change the KS to X. They had over 400 names in Latin, Finnish, nature and every other option you could think of, because the original idea was to have the UAS as different names than the holding company. The holding company is a limited company, which is owned by the four cities where Xamk has campuses (Kouvola, Kotka, Mikkeli, Savonlinna). During one meeting with shareholders and manage-

That is all the important information, now here is some advice and ideas from the rector to enjoy yourself while in Finland. He recommends that you should try mammi – yes mammi. He recommends that you try is with cream and try different ones don’t just try it once. He also recommend that everyone goes out and enjoys the Finnish nature – go for a walk in the forest as Finland has the everyman’s law. Also, try ice swimming in the winter, swim in the summer as the lakes are so clean and clear, ski, ice skate and all the Finnish sports. Try all the Finnish foods, pick berries and mushrooms in the forest – but make sure you don’t pick the red and white mushroom as they are poisonous.

You should try the culture and go where the locals are and try everything you can – if you don’t, you will regret it if and when you leave Finland. So now that spring is here and summer is coming, get outside and enjoy the nature.

So the final word, you don’t have to worry about any changes affecting you in the near future, so you don’t have to move or travel further away, so just study and enjoy your studying.

So I hope that all this information here clears up all your worries and stops the silly rumours.

YAKUBU MOHAMMED PROFILE

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International Business Student By: Frank van de Voorde

Why did you decide to come to Finland and study here?

I have a marketing degree from previous studies, and after working for a while I decided to come to Finland to have this experience in international business, and learn how business is done globally. To help me understand issues better and to solve problems when I go back to Ghana.

How do you perceive the differences in education between Ghana and Finland?

There are many differences. In Ghana it is more reading and memorizing. Here there is more a relation between learning and companies. I have also learned the skills needed for presentations which is very important to me.

What kind of differences are there between your marketing degree from Ghana and the international business curriculum you are following now?

There are so many differences.

Courses are structured totally different. One thing I have learned here is that the lectures are analytical in nature, and also how to write a report and work on a project for a company. These type of analyses help me a lot in differentiating what I have learned back in Ghana and what I am learning here.

I know you are a big football fan. What kind of leagues and teams do you like to follow most? Do you follow Finnish football?

The Spanish and English premier league. I don’t really have any idea about the Finnish football league. I like Real Madrid and Barcelona, and Chelsea.

Are there any other sports you are interested in?

Yeah, I like athletics! Everything

go somewhere else when your study is done?

I am planning on doing my masters in the UK, and after that I will definitely go back to Ghana.

So you already have your masters planned?

I am planning it right now. I want to get into public health administration. In Ghana we need a lot of public education in terms of health. So in the first year I decided to already do extra courses so I can graduate quickly and move on.

Who is Yakubu Mohammed ?

Yakubu is an International Business student from Ghana. He comes from a large family and likes watching football, music and dancing. about athletics from marathon to the 100 meter. Anything that involves running I really like.

How difficult was it for you to adjust to living in Finland?

It was really difficult. Back home in Ghana everything is in groups and communities. Here it is more individualistic. The weather also was really terrible at the beginning. When I came here it was very cold because in Ghana it is every day 20 to 30 degrees. Then when you are all of a sudden faced with -15 to -20 it is terrible, but I am coping. I love the nature in Finland, the fresh air, the forests. Now I am settled and have so many friends here now.

Do you see a future for yourself in Finland or do you plan to

Where in the UK would you like to study?

I am planning on going to Cardiff University, or Aberdeen. It doesn’t really matter to me if it is in Scotland, England or Wales.

Do you have a job besides your studies?

Yea, I work at Posti now. Combining working and education is very difficult but I am doing my best. It was really difficult to get a job but through online applications I got hooked up with Posti.

Do you think that Ghana is benefitting from the liberalization of trade that is going on at the moment?

It has merits and demerits. One merit is that you get foreign exchange to support your economy, and it helps to boost the local production but on the other hand it defeats local farmers in terms of how to add value to what they produce locally. Also there is the idea that anything that is cultivated in Ghana is shipped abroad.

Last week I talked to Meri Ketonen and she wanted to ask you: “If you could learn one skill what would it be?”

One skill I would really be able to learn is how to drive big machines.

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COVER STORY

INTERNATIONAL WEEK At Kyamk

Text by: Hong Hoa Truong | Photos by: Mi Nguyen

The International Week has its own highlight with an International color stand in our school’s lobby, which beautify the placid campus in the most knowledgeable way possible. Taking a glance over the messy rainbow, we can recognize obvious meaning for each color, for example: Blue stands for sadness, red for happiness, yellow for family, green are for cash, purple stands for loyalty, … besides those mainstream meanings, some are quite amazing, unexpectedly worth noticing: pink stands for death, yellow are sometime madness and sorry, green is for joy, …

In spite of the delightful recognition that stand gives me, I was still left with curiosity, yes, I am interested in international believes of colors, what do others think when they see red, pink, black or blue? Another curiosity of mine is that I really want to know what countries do you (guys) come from to have that perspective of color that I haven’t known of. As a result, here are some interesting facts I found out about color perspective based on the “Huffington Post” findings (and some heard from my international friends as well as my Vietnamese friends): RED: According to Thailand’s tradition, each day of a week is equivalent to a special God, which has his own distinctive color, and on Sunday, the God of the Sun- Surya has his color as Red was born. Thai people show their gratitude over this God by wearing Red on his birthday. Chi-

nese people usually wear red on a wedding.

Yellow: In many African countries, Yellow is especially used for high society, as it recall gold, money and success. In Japanese culture, Yellow represents bravery, wealth and sensitivity; during wars, soldiers put on Yellow daisy (a symbol for the Japanese emperor/ royal family) as commitment of their bravery.

Blue: In western perception, Blue usually stands for depression and sadness. In fact, it also means truth, security, justice, and many American banks have chosen blue to be their branding color.

This color additionally refers to boy’s stuff, which is a stereotype perception. For Jews, Blue is a sacred color, represents Gods.

According to the Hindu, the Supreme Krishna has blue as a symbolic color, this God stands for

love and happiness.

Blue also stands for heaven, the color of water, as you can see on Finnish flag, blue and white is the typical Finnish nature: beautiful sky and a lot of lakes.

Green: do you know that Green is the most pleasant color, opposite of Red, in Vietnam, to reduce the bad effect of short sighted eyes, there is an exercise that require patient to daily stare at trees for 30 minutes to comfort the eyes and reduce the possibility for worse sight habit. In the 19th Century, after gaining freedom, Spain chose Green to display their flag color, which stands for independence. Surprisingly, for many South American cultures that are rich in forest, Green is equivalent to death.

Purple: This color usually represent wealth, monopoly and pow-

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er, because in the past, purple dye was very expensive and hard to extract from sea snails, therefore, purple clothes are used for royal families, kings and queens.

Besides, purple reminds people of death just like black, probably because of the depression that it brings to us. In Brazil’s tradition, people wear purple to funerals grieving for the dead. In Vietnamese culture, Purple represent loyalty in love. In America, this color symbolizes honor and courage, which explain why they has the Purple Heart- military’s highest award for soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen as a reward for their brave acts.

Orange: During the international week, this color is not as outstanding as the others, however across countries, it still has distinctive meanings: creativity and curiosity. Orange is the theme color of the Netherlands and it

represents the Dutch Royal family. On the contrary, in Egypt, it means mourning.

Pink: during my time studying Chinese in high school, I have noticed that Chinese don’t actually have a name for Pink. They have “hong se” as Red, and when I point at pink, they say the same thing: “hong se”. It is cool knowing that pink is not recognizable in China.

We also label pink for women, lady and girl, while actually in Japan, pink is worn by both gender and it relates to men more than women. This color is relaxing and lovable, it can reduce stress, violent, that’s why prisons are holding cells in pink.

After research, readings and finding stuff, I have noticed that meanings of colors are surprising because from the very beginning, most people have their stereotype perspective towards colors

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and they (we) find it interesting to the new, opposite meaning that we have already known. Colors are divided into cold tones and warm tones, others like black, white, grey don’t possess this kind of division. So when people get access to colors, they are mentally affected by those, which cause us to have association to colors like: temperature association, size association (warmer toned colors seems to be larger, while cold colors seem to be deeper, wider), sentimental association, sound association, taste association.

In conclusion, this international week is educational, brought about a wider view for us (if we have a time to take a close look at it). I am looking forward to the next international weeks for more interesting topic and ideas. Thank you for reading this article and I wish you have a nice weekend.

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JAPCHAE

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RECIPE

Korean-style Wok By: Khue Do

Wok from China is quite popular in almost every country. So what makes the Korean wok so called Japchae different from the Chinese wok? Japchae is made from Korean sweet potato starch noodles. Such a long name, isn’t it? The texture of this type of noodles is more chewy and lighter than rice or egg noodles. You can easily find the Korean noodle in any Asian grocery shops nearby.

Thinly slice mushrooms and onions. Also, get paprika and carrots julienned. Dip the spinach in boiled water in 10 seconds only.

Remove water from the spinach and season it with a pinch of salt and sesame oil.

stove and stir-fry the minced beef mushrooms with minced garlic, 3 tablespoons of soy sauce and sesame oil. After 2 minutes, add the onions, carrots, paprika and mushrooms and keep stir-frying for another 2 minutes.

Next, boil the noodles in hot water for around 5-6 minutes. After removing the water, put the noodles into a bowl. Add 4 tablespoons of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of sesame oil.

Stir-fry the noodles in medium heat for about 3 minutes. Get a big bowl and well mix the stirfried noodles and beef with vegetables together.

After beating the egg white and egg yolk in 2 separate bowls, fry them and then thinly slice them.

Now, get your wok pan on the

Finally, you can present the noodles on a plate and put the thinly sliced egg on top. Also, don’t forget to finalize the dish with sesame seeds to make it more appealing. Good luck and enjoy your Japchae!

Ingredients

• 200g Korean sweet potato • • • • • • • •

starch noodles 100g minced beef 100g carrots 100g spinach 100g onions 50g paprika 100g shiitake mushrooms 1 egg 1 teaspoon of minced garlic

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Soy sauce Honey Sesame oil and seeds Cooking oil

M83

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MUSIC REVIEW

Junk

By: Roope Sorvo those two aspects are not found on the record, Junk features many other tiresome elements of eighties pop music that it could’ve well done without.

Genre Electronic Producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen Anthony Gonzales Released April 8, 2016 Rating M83’s 2011 album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming made the group’s name recognizable for larger audiences with the hit “Midnight City”, a song that is singlehandedly responsible for bringing saxophones back into pop music. It also made the audience aware of the immense, heat-wrenching nostalgia frontman Anthony Gonzalez feels for the eighties.

The follow-up, named Junk presumably to lower the expectations the fans have had time to build up for the last five years, continues on the shown path: Gonzalez has stated Junk was inspired by 80’s TV, which to me sounded like there would be buckets of pre-recorded laugh tracks and jokes that would be deemed incredibly offensive in 2016. Even though

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That is the ultimate dealbreaker of Junk: it is not a tribute to the decade in question, it is the exact replica, with all the problems that implies. The album shines when it is at it’s most glitzy and bombastic, with tracks like the funky “Go!” or the danceable “Laser Gun”; the sax-driven “Road Blaster” would fit perfectly for an atmospheric midnight drive around a neon-lit downtown. On the flipside “Moon Crystal” is thirty years too late from being actual eighties TV show tune. “For the Kids” sounds exactly like every single one of those ballads that Michael Bolton and Celine Dion would sing over the credits of a 80s kids’ film. The difference here is that this song never actually appeared in an old kids’ movie, so it lack all the nostalgic value that would excuse it from being a stinky pile of expired 80s cheese it is.

Despite being so strongly rooted in the 80s that it’s surprising the record didn’t come packaged with a mullet and a season box of Magnum P.I., Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming managed to have some sort of perspective regarding what aspects of the era it was celebrating. Junk, on the other hand, is too bound by its pastichical nature, becoming shackled and defined by its inspiration, rather than building upon it. It starts to verge towards the danger zone where a homage hits so close to home that there’s no real point for it; you could just be listening the original work and nothing would change.

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EDDIE THE EAGLE

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MOVIE REVIEW

Win or lose, always aim high.

By: Sarah Rosenthal

the actual outcome. The movie inspires you to reflect on any challenge you may have faced in your own life and inspires you to actually rethink how you may have handled it or behaved differently.

Genre Biography Comedy Drama Director Dexter Fletcher Starring Taron Egerton Hugh Jackman Rating Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael “Eddie” Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

With a nice touch of humor you cannot come away from this movie without feeling a sense of accomplishment regardless of

Taron Egerton played a very believable character giving the audience a real sense at who Eddie Edwards really was and how he lived his youth through perseverance and fortitude by simply not giving up. The film cleverly portrays this very quickly through a brief introduction into Eddies childhood. The story is written well and really gives you a sense of who Eddie is and the drive to fulfill a promise to himself. Hugh Jackman brings a humorous side to the film with just enough serious touch that you do not lose sight of the significant effort that was made by Eddie Edwards.

A different way of putting it would be that you go into the movie and see that it is based on a true story and think “Oh no, not another bio pic”. After an hour and 46 minutes this movie will have changed your perception about that quite thoroughly as for the first time you might actually feel all warm and fuzzy inside from a true story put to film.

As I said, the film is incredibly satisfying. It’s one of the best examples of a pure crowd-pleaser.

There’s not much to dislike about the film. I absolutely loved the music choices including the score and some timely 80’s song choices. Sure, I think the stakes could have been raised a bit here or there to give an even bigger emotional moment, but I can’t say the film didn’t already bring me to teary eyes at some points. Tears of joy, mind you. And that to me, is an experience at the movies that happens all too rarely.

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