It has the most metal bands per capita of any country of the world, with 53.5 bands per 100,000 people. The second and third place country are Finland's neighbors, Norway and Sweden. Finland even has a dinosaur metal band for children called Hevisaurus. Because of all of this, I have been listening to a lot of metal music lately. Even though I do not understand the lyrics, I have really liked it.
Oulu's hockey team, Kärpät, is historically the best team in Finland and currently sits at number one in the Finnish Hockey League standings. On Wednesday, there was a game between them and Tappara, the team currently in second place. Kärpät won 2-0
Oulu has a local library with many, many books, though most of them are in Finnish. They do have one small section for books in English, and I picked out Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell so I have started reading that. I have also just started my first class, "Survival Finnish," a class all about the Finnish language. Because of that class, I have been reading some very basic texts in Finnish.
The University of Oulu has a sports hall that's open everyday and has different time slots for games. This week I went to the sports hall five times and played futsal (a version of football), volleyball and basketball.
