Trip to Kuopio, Finland

Edward Snowden est né en 1983 en Caroline du Nord. Il grandit dans le Maryland où il étudie l'informatique  à l'université.

Par la suite, il a travaillé en tant que technicien à la CIA puis pendant quatre ans à la NSA.Il est devenu célèbre le 6 juin 2013 à travers le Guardian, car il a révélé au monde entier que les services de renseignements américains espionnent les agissements des américains et des étrangers sur internet et que ces derniers possèdent également les métadonnées téléphoniques du plus grand opérateur de télécommunication des Etats-Unis.

Edward Snowden a choisit d’assumer ses actes et de révéler sa véritable identité lorsqu’il a publié les informations au monde entier même si ce dernier risquait de lourdes sanctions de la part du gouvernement américain. “La seule chose qui m’effraie, ce sont les effets nuisibles pour ma famille, que je ne pourrai plus aider. C’est ce qui me tient éveillé toute lanuit”, a t-il confié au Guardian. Mais ce dernier avait déjà quitté Hawaï pour s’exiler à Hong-Kong le 20 mai 2013 avec une clé USB contenant des données ultraconfidentielles.

Edward Snowden s’est dans un premier temps exilé à Hong Kong, mais la Chine a un accord d’extradition avec les Etats-Unis. Il s’est donc ensuite rendu à Moscou et a obtenu le 1er août 2013 un asile provisoire d'un an en Russie, après avoir passé plus d'un mois dans la zone de transit de l'aéroport Cheremetievo de Moscou. Il a aujourd’hui fait une demande d’asile en Equateur qui est actuellement analysée par les dirigeants du pays mais la réponse serait a priori favorable.

Edward Snowden encourt au moins trente ans de prison. Il est accusé par le gouvernement américain de deux violations de l'Espionage Act et du vol de documents appartenant à l'État.

Mais Edward Snowden mérite t-il cette peine ? En effet, pour certaines personnes il est un traître mais pour d’autres il est au contraire un héros qui a eu raison de révéler ces informations.

• USA                            Indécis
• UK                              A la limite du héro              
• Canada                       A la limite du héro
• Europe de l’Ouest        Héro  
• Russie                        Unanimement un  héro
• Chine                          Unanimement un héro

The sauna is in Finland a habit. Indeed, there is almost everywhere. In our hall of residence, in the gymnasium to relax after the sport, in cottage etc...

I went to St Petersburg during the Russian business environment from 15 to 19 April.
We went there by bus, the trip takes 10 hours!

One of my courses is called Nordic Winter Activities and the goal is that the exchange students discover typical activities of Finland.
Tahko is a site located about 1 hour from Kuopio and we can practice full of activities.
There was in the program: snowshoeing, snowmobiling and sledding.

We begin with snowshoeing, it was the first time for me and I don't really apreciate. In fact it's really difficult to walk with snowshoeing because we sink into the snow. However we could admire very beautiful landscapes, everything was white with the snow.

The second activity was snowmobiling. I really apreciated this activity. In fact, we could drive the snowmobile and it was therefore a more lively and active 

Finally we made the sledge, the teacher knew the place and he had found a perfect run! So we had fun for about an hour.

We then returned by bus, very tired that day. I think it was one of the best day I spent in Finland!

Here is a picture of my university in Kuopio.

There is one other in the town called University of Easter Finland. You should know that Kuopio is the 8th largest city in Finland and is very student.
The University is located 15 minutes from my dorm bus.
There are many differences between French and Finnish universities. Indeed, for example every morning arriving at the university, Finnish deposit their coats on hangers that are everywhere. Some even ask their bags with their computers. I was very shocked because in France there were many flights as it never happens here. There are also computers available to students in the lobby are free service. I find it rather nice to leave your things safely (although I do not think I have the courage to leave my bag with everything in it one day, but my monteau do).
Regarding prices, it is also very different. Most courses are in fact not required, the teachers are almost never call and all courses are available to students on the internet. In addition, the use of tempsest weird because some courses are the same hours and the student must choose which course they want to participate each week.During the course, students can meet their réléphone go out without any explanation to the teacher, they may also arrive late without justification and the teacher often leaves us out in advance. The relationship between teachers and students is very different. These tutoies their teachers and do not raise their hand to speak.After a month of course, all this still shocks me. But I think it's pretty good although I think that this system would not work in France.