Our first Psychology class

Today was our second day of "real class!" By which we mean "3 credits for 16 contact hours of class," by which we mean "such a win."

The class is called Cultural Human Development and is taught by a visiting professor from Portugal. He is super laid back and our final exam is actually a 15-minute group presentation. We really can't rave any more about this class; it's relaxed, the subject is interesting, and our professor is entertaining (especially since we are pronunciation advisers for particularly tricky English words.) We have students in the class from countries all over the world (but mainly Europe) and it's neat to be able to talk about culture, cultural differences, and our perspectives with them. Though we had a hard time trying to explain the apparently very American institution of small talk!

We were actually a little early getting to class today, so we went outside and took a few photos. Our Psychology classes are on a different campus - the Mattilaniemi campus - in a different part of the city than our Finnish classes. The Mattilaniemi campus sits right on the shore of Jyväsjärvi, the huge lake on the east side of the city, and there's a bridge that spans across it to the University of Jyväskylä's third campus. There are also always TONS of bikes parked outside.