On this week studying in the summer university of Kuopio finally started. Originally I joined into short-term studies to gain full financial aid for students. Of course I chose a subject that interests me most, and semiotics seem to be interesting after I read a short brief about it. However, after diving through an awful pile of bureocrazy I found out that I don't get enough points from it to get that governmental financial aid. It was too late, I was already subscribed to it.

Despite these financial problems, I have enjoyed studying this. I tried to read a book which is a one of compolsory books that is required to read for the course, many days before tuesday when the course started. I didn't get much out of it, because there was too many unexplained abstractions. Now when studies with a teacher have been on this week, I have begun to undestand the subject much more. I start to feel like some kind of mental keys are starting to form into my head, unlocking this cryptic knowledge. The key may not be finished yet and all doors are closed, but at least know I'm starting to understand what kind of doors I'm going try to open!

As I wrote in Finnish section, talking about semiotics isn't easy. Just like many other sciences and philosophies it contains an own collection of abstractions. To have a conversation about it basicly requires that those abstractions are at least little familiar. This reminded me about religions, where also "an own language" is often creating a bond between people in it. It helps them to stand out from mundane people. Even though this might sound more like psychology, this can also be seen as a semiotic problem. Mainly because almost everything can be researched by using semiotics.

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