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Someone who has knowledge of Russian or Chinese could arrange a language course complete with lectures and assignments for the people in the train. Knowing some practical phrases or words in Chinese wouldn't hurt in Shanghai :)

We could (should!) document the journey and all its workshops and activities through film, sound recording, animation, writing, etc. We can share the results in Shanghai and Finland, and maybe even use it to garner support for future trips!

One example of a small and cool sauna by aalto students can be found from the basement of Design Factory. We are going to manufacture the version 2.0 during this spring. Should we take it with us in case that Shangai don't have enough saunas for 100 Finns? :)

-putte (http://www.saunasavu.com)

Let's have a one-day-break somewhere in Siperia to have a look at local university and meet students there.

A fun way to spend time. Think Cluedo, but on a train and with real people!

Let's create a workshop where every entrepreneurially interested participants can gather. Let's see what skills and talents people have and see if we can put up a company and already start to work on it!

One week without any sports? no way! Train trip is a great possibility to learn new things. Standing on hands, breakdance moves, standing on other person's shoulders... Anything that can be done in a small place as a train car.

or at least at one evening. This could be a good opportunity to merge Teekkari, HSE and Design-party culture...

There are many small villages on route of transsiberian railways. We should stop at interesting sights and cities to get to know places we couldn't ever stop at or see in our lifes.

We could even go to see places that transsiberian railways dont stop itself! First tourists ever in some cities and landscapes!

Try to get like a really, really long miniature train (longtrain is long) and install it to move through the entire train!

In siberia and china it may be hard to get vegetarian food. if there is no vegetarian food, the vegetarians can't join the trip :/...

The idea of taking train through asia is very ecological! we should also serve excellent russian, east-asian and chinese vegetarian food on train, ask for funding from aalto and promote it as Aalto Eco Responsibility demonstration!

Maybe we could also ask for receipes of very tasty kipsari food and practice how to cook it on train! Vegetarian food tastes bad only when it is prepared bad!

All we need is a Printing Services Area! Tons of photos will be taken, thousands of memories will get stuck to everybody's brains forever, so why not put all these on paper together with our thoughts and feelings and build the biggest travel diary ever.

Let's have video projector and speakers and watch some famous Russian and Chinese movies

The train will be travelling through two of the most prominent culinary regions in the world, China and Russia. So why not arrange cooking classes? We could perhaps even stop and buy groceries at a local food market. How cool would that be? Making dim sums and borsch out of authentic materials.

What could be better than spending a week playing Kimble? Let's arrange our own Aalto train championships in board games. People would be split up in interdisciplinary teams to get to know each other. I took a quick check on Google, nobody hasn't yet had a world cup in Muumipeli for instance, let's be the first!

We definitely need our own TEDx. At least we should watch TED videos on the train.