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Transcript of Vol 17 Issue 14
NO 14
THIS ISSUE
Happy New Year
NEW YEAR PARTYFOR EVERYBODY
Student Parties
THE FACEBEHIND AMARILLO
Profile
OLGANAYANOVA
STUDENT MAGAZINE
KYMENLAAKSO UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES | 16.01.15 | Vol. 17
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INSIDER ISSN 1457–1587Copyright © Insider 2015
Editor in chief: Hugh Clack
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EDITORIAL
I hope you had a Merry Christmas,
and A Happy New Year to everyone!
Now when we have finally gotten
those tight jeans on after well eaten
Christmas, we are more than ready
to fire up the spring. Our team has
worked hard also on the holidays
to make sure that you can get good
vibes from the magazine to this cold
winter weather. Like in every issue,
we bring you all the events nearby, a
new recipe and interesting articles.
Insider’s mission for this semester
is to bring Kouvola and everything
here closer to the students - shops,
restaurants and cafeterias. To see
who is behind them, give faces to the
logos.The New Year gave us also challenges.
One left for an exchange and one went back
to home university. That means that our team
is working even harder and that we might
get some interesting exchange views besides
Carlow’s. By the way, the new exchange stu-
dents have arrived. Czech Republic, Russia,
France, Estonia, Germany, Greece. More than
twenty-five students from all over the world are
now trying to get used to Finland, Kouvola and
the University.Kouvola happened to appeal to
previous exchange students and a few of them
who were supposed to go back decided to stay
one more semester. So you may see people
wandering around without direction, mostly on
Mondays but some of them might just need a
bit of help and friendliness in English. Wande-
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Riia
ring happens a few times in a month
also after Wednesdays. Yes, fresh-
men party again! This time theme
is Video Games. So in one week we
will see loads of different characters
taking over the city centre. This su-
rely is not the only party organized
by Kupla, so keep your eyes open
and mind even more so. Summari-
zed, whether you had some promises
for this year or not, everyone should
at least promise to take the best of
this semester and why not of the
whole year. Some rumours have told
that three years as a student after all
goes pretty fast and those should be
spiced by good laughs.
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EXCHANGE VIEW
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I am back in Carlow and I‘m ready for my second semester as an
exchange student. To be completely honest, coming back wasn’t
easy at all.
I spent my Christmas holiday with my family back in Finland. There
wasn‘t that much communication in English, even if Pieksämäki is
such a multicultural metropolis, so when I came back to Ireland, the
language was kind of a shocker. It took some time to get a hold on
English again. This meant that during first few days I was just smi-
ling and nodding to everything.
This time I knew what was waiting for me, which made packing
surprisingly more difficult. There was more stress to pack the candies
that you don‘t get here, some Finnish bread and chewing gum with
xylitol. Also you needed to think what you won‘t be needing here,
keeping in mind that you also need to bring all of the stuff back to
Finland in May. In September I was just randomly packing stuff I
thought I wouldn’t get here in Ireland.
The hardest part of coming back was knowing that half of the stu-
dents from the last semester are not coming back. You actually need
to feel an effort to get to know new people and I think it is harder
now that you‘re not new anymore. Every group has strong clicks as
everyone knows almost everyone.
However, many great people are still here, Ireland is still looking
green and beautiful and even the schools seems to be still interes-
ting. I think it is quite normal to feel down in the beginning, because
you usually feel a bit blue when you need to get back to work or
school anyway. It is just very important to remind yourself why you
chose to do whatever you do.
I still have four months left to travel in Ireland, meet new people and
eat many full Irish breakfasts. These are some of the things why I
came to Ireland and it is good to keep them in mind and enjoy the
upcoming semester.
Text&Photos: Karoliina Niemi
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PROFILE:OLGA NAYANOVA
Text & Photo: Diana KamaletdinovaHave you ever dreamed of making money from your hobby?
Olga Nayanova, the former Kyamk student, managed to
prove that by applying professional skills to a favorite hob-
by it is possible to create a very successful business. With a
degree in design and a passion for dances, Olga developed
the brand of her new dance school ImpressDance.
Why have you decided to open a dance school?
It was quite an adventurous decision. While still studying
at KyAMK almost by accident I started a dancesport career,
it was when I transferred back to Saint Petersburg in order
to practice more frequently. That was when I discovered
that there was a problem with finding appropriate and
well equipped dance halls in the city. At that moment we,
almost by chance, found a great location where it seemed
possible to open a dance studio. So this is how a decision
to open a modern dance school came to life. I also always
dreamed about building up my own business, so it seemed
to me a lucky chance to combine my life aspirations, to test
skills and knowledge gained through education and to do
something I truly like and care about.
Was an education at Kyamk helpful in your venture?
Of course, it was, and, I need to say, in many ways. Not
only did I manage to apply skills in design field, creating
the brand ImpressDance from zero, developing its values,
mission and visual elements, but I also used quite a lot
knowledge gained at business courses, writing skills (th-
rough my work at Insider), organizational skills (through
international tutoring activities), etc.
What are your future plans?
My future plans are to continue my dance career, develop
the dance club into a strong business that would be reco-
gnized well by society, come up with new ideas and ways
of their realization, get an MBA and some further education
in design field; and, of course, to continue living an adven-
turous life full of work, excitement, people and emotions.
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Unlike Christmas, New Year‘s is much more
noisy celebration for whole Finland.
There is an impressive variety of parties. You
can organize a small party with family or a
noisy celebration with friends and countless
amounts of alcohol, unless, of course, you
are over 18 years old. Restaurants and urban
areas as well are happy to see everyone who
wants to celebrate New Year. Mandatory part
of the celebration - hundreds of fireworks
that do not give a chance to the night to be
dark in any part of this wonderful country.
This new year in Finland wasn‘t exception!
Despite the stereotypes, Finns are people who re-
ally know how to have fun, even when it‘s January.
Celebration of New Year in Finland may be an
unusual experience in your life. You risk to stop
thinking cliche and find out that people can be
not „shy“ here.
New Year in Russia is the most important public
holiday. It usually celebrated with family but the-
re are also a lot of events happening in the cities
during this significant night. It always accom-
panied with tons of alcohol, dozens of fireworks
in the night sky, noise, tangerines and Olivier
salad on the table ( the most important part!).
Streets in big cities decorated magical-
ly beautiful, that is the first reason why you
should spend at least one New Year in Russia.
NEW YEAR PARTY
FOR EVERYBODY
During the whole week before NY people are
like bees, everybody is running and buying
presents for kids, parents, grandparents, fri-
ends, friends of friends, kids of friends, parents
of friends,cats, friends‘ dogs, colleagues, bos-
ses, teachers and it this list can be a lot longer,
this feature can be considered as a Russian
tradition for New Year, everybody is receiving
many presents. They usually are put under
the decorated fir tree, as on Catholic Christ-
mas, every family has a tree in their home.
Besides this, inalienable part of celebration is
president‘s speech, which he gives five minutes
before January 1. Everybody make a wish when
the main clocks of the country beat 12, they wri-
te their desires on a paper, burn it with candle,
throw ashes in the glass of champagne and
drink it with a hope that all these wishes fulfill.
Estonian New Year has its own features. Consi-
dered that a person who can eat twelve meals
during New Year‘s Eve will have a lot of dif-
ferent through the whole year. It also means
that he is as strong as seven men and he will
probably have big problems with stomach:).
In other things, Estonians have the same joyous
holiday as the rest of the world partying with
a family or friends everywhere the want too,
giving presents and enjoying wonderfully de-
corated cities.
Text&Photos: Iuliia Pogorelova, Alexandra Ivchenkova
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THE FACE BEHIND AMARILLO
Text: Riia Järvinen, Alena Kiianichenko, Photos: Mattea NäveriYellow sign at the city centre may remind us about summer,
endless nights and a little bit of holidays in the south but the door
below it gives us a good fun on the weekends. Amarillo has the
same mission as Insider. Both of us are planning to fire up the
coldness, give energy for studying and waiting that the summer
and four month holiday begins again.
Head of Amarillo, Raisa Hyppänen has worked for 10 years in
Kouvola’s Amarillo. With that experience it’s not a surprise that
Amarillo has their regular clients for lunch or dinner every day, and
queuing outside when the nightclub opens. Main point for this
restaurant in this small city is to give a face to the chain company
which generally brings stone-faced image to the people’s minds.
When talked with Raisa, I could not help noticing how important
the customer service is for her. Starting from Facebook to door
opening when the customer leaves, she wants to make sure that
the customer has had a good lunch, dinner or night. She has wor-
ked in the restaurant business for many years, in different places
and everything she has learned is still in good memory. Only thing
which she cannot have an influence on, is cashier and that it can
work slowly during a busy night. She asks for understanding from
the customers and makes sure that every crew member entertains
people hanging on the other side of the counter.
Generally Amarillo has from one to four special nights a month.
This January they have three and on February special nights inclu-
de at least “Penkkarit (bench pressing fest)” and Kasmir, a Finnish
artist who sings the famous “Vadelmavene (Raspberry-boat)”.
Raisa promises that this spring will offer more events than the
autumn.
Some of you have noticed that the mobile loyalty card no longer
exists so Amarillo has given students some privileges. Offers in
the menu of course, but also -50% from the entrance fee (except
special nights) on Fridays and Saturdays. All you need to do is to
show the SAMOK student card. From opiskelijankymenlaakso.fi
you can find more information.
Alena went to talk to Kupla and found out more about student
parties and Amarillo in an interview with Aleksi Utriainen.
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If you are a student at Kymmenlaakso
University of Applied Sciences, you pro-
bably heard of the Amarillo restaurant.
Moreover, having not so many bars to go
out in Kouvola, you may not only have
heard but also visited this place where
you more or less forget about this harsh
Finnish reality and have the opportunity
to teleport into completely different wor-
ld, full of insanely expensive alcohol and
loud music.
Life is a celebration and, being students,
we celebrate something almost every
week because everyone needs to relax
and have fun. Amarillo - what a pleasurab-
le word for those who are sick and tired of
silence which is constantly in the air in the
place where we spend our precious stu-
dent years. We’ve seen enough and we’ve
had enough, but what about those who
make parties and, apparently, hate ever-
ything connected with “fun” as we call it?
In order to make a good party, strong organiza-
tion is required. Who stands behind the whole
process of organizing? A member of Kupla –
Aleksi Utriainen was kind to answer a couple
of my questions regarding party organization
issues. Maybe you’ll learn something that you
never knew!
So, Kupla usually organizes different stu-
dent events in Amarillo, why so?
We arrange events in different places. Not only
in Amarillo. Next time we arrange freshmen
party on January 21st in club Touba.
Does this bar have special bonuses for those
who arrange?
We get no special bonuses from any bar. We
usually make new contracts about student
parties with bar management. Sometimes
contracts includes a few events.
Does it take much time to organize the aver-
age party in this bar?
Well it depends on what kind of party we
arrange. Usually there are about four of
us working in one party. We make pos-
ters & overall patches ourselves. That
takes some time. But in a few days we
can have a party I think.
Ok, how do you think, does Amarillo
stands out from other bars in Kouvola
and in which way?
I think that Amarillo is just a night club
as the other ones also. I don‘t think that
Amarillo is any different than other night
clubs in Kouvola.
So, according to Aleksi, Amarillo is just
another place where students may hang
out and get drunk. Some enjoy this bar,
others stay indifferent. Anyways, stay
tuned and enjoy every moment of your
student life, a big part of which is time
spent in bars and clubs in Kouvola.
WE WANT YOU!
The Insider Magazine is looking for new mem-
bers who want to join working with us next
semester on a weekly base. In particular we
are searching for writers and layouters to sup-
port our team. As a writer you can volunteer
to write as many articles as you want and the
layout staff will build the magazine in InDe-
sign. You don‘t have to be very experienced
in either field. If you like to write or work with
InDesign you are at the right place!
You will also get:
1. A bunch of credits for your work.
2. Free coffee in our awesome Insider room.
3. Free entrance to our partners cinemas.
4. Your face in a magazine that goes to Helsinki!
For further informations ask Hugh Clack!
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MOVIE REVIEW CINEMA
16.01.2015.-22.01.2015.
STUDIO 123
Kymenlaaksonkatu 1
45700 Kuusankoski
05 3792082
www.studio123.fi
Australian Opera:MADAMA
BUTTERFLY|(S)|23€
Thu 19:00, Sat 12:00 |2h40min
PADDINGTON|(7)|9€
Suomenkielinen Sat,Sun 15:00, Tue-Thu
17:00, Original Fri-Mon 17:00|1h35min
VARES-SHERIFFI|(16)|10€
Fri-Thu 19:00, Thu 19:30|1h30min
EILA,RAMPE JA LIKKA|(7)|10€
every evening 17:30|1h34min
FRANK|(12)|10€
Fri-Wed 19:30 |1h35min
MR.TURNER|(12)|10€
Sat,Sun 14:30 |2h30min
MADAGASCARIN PINGVIINIT|(7)|9€
2D suomenkielinen Fri,Sat,Wed,Thu
17:30|1h32min
PRIDE|(7)|10€
Sun-Tue 17:15|2h
`BIRDMAN|(12)|10€
Fri 19:20, Sat,Sun 15:15,Wed,Thu 19:20|2h
HOBITTI-Viiden armeijan taistelu|(12)|10€
Sat-Tue 19:20|2h24min
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Long expected and greately wanted, the last Hobbit finally came to the cinemas to give us the
ending of the grand adventure story of Bilbo Baggins.
This third movie starts off exactly where the second one ended. The dragon is out, killing people
and destroying the town and the dwarves are out for their mountain, gold and the arkenstone.
It is both less and more exciting than the previous ones. Filled with all kinds of things that
don‘t really belong there(if you‘re a book fan), but still keeping it relatively interesting, the
story moved along a little bit too slowly and focused on too many things and tried to explain
everything all at once.
The most amazing part of the entire thing,is the dragon, deadly and beautiful, flying in all its
glory...and then falling in all its glory. And,naturally, the giant battle scene. If there is something
that Peter Jackson knows how to do, its battle scenes. Both exciting and scary, they keep you
on the very edge of your seat and keeps you wanting more.
Bilbo is back at Bag End, lives moves on. For all you Hobbit/LOTR fans out there, are we happy
that its over?
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES(2014) / Director: Peter Jackson / Genre:
Adventure|Fantasy / Starring: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman / Rating:
Mattea
INSIDE INFO
KOUVOLA
16.01. Goom Pre Tour 2015 @ Amarillo
Starting 23.00
Amarillo Kouvola / Kauppalankatu 13
16.01. Basketball: Kouvot – Tapiolan Honka
Starting 18.30
Mansikka-ahon liikuntahalli/ Huovinhongantie 1
Tickets: from 12€ students
17.01 Floor ball: Sudet – HuKu
Starting. 15.30
Mansikka-ahon liikuntahalli/ Huovihongantie 1
Tickets: 4€
21.01. Ice Hockey: KooKoo vs. KeuPa HT
Starting 18.30
Kouvolan jäähalli / Topinkuja 1, Kouvola
Tickets 2 with student card for 12€
STUDENT MAGAZINE
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21.01. FRESHMEN PARTY
Starting 17.00
Bar Q and club Touba/ Salpausselänkatu 27
23.01. Basketball: Kouvot – Bisons
Starting 18.30
Mansikka-ahon halli/ Huovihongantie 1
23.01. Punk Rock X-mas vol. 3
Starting 23.00
House of Rock/ Kouvolankatu 28
Tickets: 8€/10€
HELSINKI
17.01. St Petersburg Festival Ballet
Finlandia-house
more info: www.livenation.fi