maanantai:
Baaaa, school again... somehow I got up in time. In music we talked about the 'prepared piano' where you put random objects on the strings of the piano, and it sounds really cool! Fish sticks for lunch... "Pidätkö kalasta tikut?" Isn't as funny as "Do you like fishsticks?" but I tried... In english there were presentations on Victoria Beckhem, (posh spice) I then realized I couln't remeber all the spice girls... I'm a failed 90's child... but it turns out I do know them all, I just thought I was getting Ginger, the movie star from Gilligan's Island, mixed up with the spice girls... but there is a ginger spice. Then a presentation on Justin Beiber. Woooo..... Dance class! we now know how to dance all the dances with only a few mistakes and awkward moments. Soon we will be ready to go! After school some quick dinner and then right to the bus stop for my lesson. I don't understand, with no fail, every time I have my horn on a bus it's pretty much full! But it was my favorite bus driver!!! Both ways, there and back! When I got home, I made Rice Crispy Treats because I'm bringing them to the rotary meeting tomorow... If I can handel resisting them for a day...
tiistai:
English class, there were presentations on the Simpsons, Samuel L. Jackson, and Mr. Bean. I really need to see more Mr. Beans, I've only seen one actually movie, but then him in Rat Race, Love that movie! Study hall, and Henriikka and I headed to the center. She had a doctors appointment, and I was bored. We didn't want to, but we had to go back for history... blahhhh On the bus home, when it was time for my stop I tried to press the button... But it wasn't working... I had a quick moment of panic, like, 'oh man I'm gonna be stuck on this bus forever!' Then I started running around the bus pressing all the buttons I could find. Finally one of them beeped the driver, we had maybe 300 feet till the bus stop, so she could have stopped for me, but she didn't. I got to walk... I have realized the metric system has messed me up and it's hard to convert stuff to our system, so a quarter kilometer... i'm not sure, and it's not even that important. I got to walk. Home, and I got ready for the rotary meeting, Rice crispy's cut and boxed. And I'm off! I love the meetings! This meeting we had a presenter about making a water pipe that gose all the way to Nokia, so we can share water with them. I think because a couple years ago they had a really bad water contamination disaster and many people died. Now their water is really cloronated, and maybe if this tube went in, they wouldn't have to cloronate it anymore. But that's just my guess for only half understanding what was going on. And they really liked my rice crispy treat! People were grabing some to bring home! Score! And they have all the things to make them here... I guess they just don't.
keskiviikko:
Today I went to Tampere to met my other exchange student friend Ashleigh, She lives right now outside of Kouvola, And she's from the US, West New York actually! We were talking how we have probably passed each other somewhere, highway, ect. But to actually met we had to come to Finland. My bus was suposed to get to the train station half and hour before she got there, so when I got there and she wasn't, I kinda freaked out a little... I first sat in the obvious loby for a little while. I found other exchange students! Lots of hugs, and laughs, I got some cell numbers so we could met up later, and went back to wait for Ashleigh. I then walked all around, thinking maybe there was another loby that she could be waiting in. Nope. And we probably should have traded cell phone numbers... Then I just sat and wait at the lobby, I decided I had the time her train came wrong. She finally came! HUGS!!! I just I had the time right, her train had broken, cause today was really cold, and she had to switch and stuff, hence the delay. We found a place to lock her bags up, then explored the city. I took her to the Kaupa halli (store hall) and introduced her to Musta makkara. we shared a link, it was actually really long. And when I say shared, I mean that she had a bite, and I ended up eatting the rest, she dosent like that texture. But it was really good sausage! And we spoke in Finnish a lot that day, It was fun to speak with someone on a similar level as you, I think she is better at speaking and understanding than me, but similar level : P. Then meeting up with the others, and around 4:00 the new exchange students from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and I met a girl from Argantina, It was her birthday. We only got glimses of some of the newbies, they wanted to explore on their own, and I understand that! But running into some around was a lot of fun. Teaching them some things that they don't tell you at the language camp. : P Ashleigh and I had McDonalds, and then for the first time in my history of being in Finland, I used a pay toilet... well Ashleigh and I shared the same pay, she went in first, then me. But the lights had turned off for my turn, luckily I have a flash light on my phone so, let there be light! Then we realized our bus would be leaving soon so we scrambled to get to the bus stop in time. We made it! Then home, We slept in the TV room, I don't think we slept too much... Just spent pretty much the whole night talking. It was awesome!
torstai:
Up, and to school, with Ashleigh, I hadn't told any teachers she was coming, because it was kinda last minute that we decided that we would go to school. We dropped her stuff at my locker, then I showed her around Hämeenkyrö, well as much as you can by foot. She said it was such a long way to the center, and then not much happening there, unlike her town. Which, I guess explains why she says she dosn't go to school a lot. Location. I guess she travels a lot too, I need to travel, I've been her over 5 months and havent missed more than two full days of school. That is unexceptable! We went to English class, presentations on South Park, and a little known actor, I forgot his name, Then I brought Ashleigh to the bus stop because her train was leaving at 1:07, So sad to say goodbye, but we decided that soon I'll be visiting her and we can compare schools! I'm excited! Dance class, then Sewing class, I got darts and gathers done on my dress, and sewed up the sides... when I got home I realized I wasn't suposed to sew up the sides because I for got to put the zipper in... woops. When I finally got home I was just so tired, from going all yesterday, and then getting little sleep. I just fell asleep on the couch.
perjantai:
Today, not much happened... Last block of the day I had study hall, so I visited a few stores. As I was leaving the school there were some 3rd graders (seniors) in the parking lot, they had a sled-type-thing, tied to the back of one kid's car and were driving around and around. Oh the fun you can have with snow and cars... I miss my car. I was the third graders last friday so they were all dressed funny and going finnish crazy... a new term coined by the exchange students of finland. Then waited for the bus home at the SMarket spot. I had a long time to wait, and my bus was 20ish minute late. So I made up a game you can play at Finnish bus stops. You smile at the people in the cars going by and watch their reactions. 2 out of 5 people don't see you, 1 out of 5 people stare at you, and the last 2 out of 5 people do double takes and look really confused. It was soooo funny! The bus actually stopped for my stop this time. Good. Roosa and I made a snow fort! I was planing on sleeping in it, but it's cold outside. Then I skyped with mom and dad! <3<3<3
lauantai:
It's getting lighter! I can tell because I can't sleep in to late anymore, I was up before 10 (a much improved time since christmas break when I could easliy sleep to 12) Not too proud of it, but it's the truth. Landry day! Also do your history essay day! And so on. Roosa had soccer training in the city, and Susanna and Juha went gorcery shopping, I stayed home to try and finnish my history (well, start and finnish it) I have gotten so lazy with school work, all exchange students have i hear, I think of it as, I'm getting all my lazyness out this year, so next year in college I will be ready to work! Roosa and I made our fort even bigger! Made pizza for dinner,sauna, and watched Potous, a finnish comedy series... so funny!
sunnuntai:
Worked more on my history essay, I started enjoying the process of researching. The essay is on international relations of a country of your choice (I chose Finland) from 1990-2010, So it's reasently current event stuff. I realized that I had no idea of what was happening in the 1990's and early 2000 probably because I was little, and nothing outside my little bubble of Castleton, interested me. Well, and plus this was about things Finland was involved in. I learned that in 2003 Yugoslavia became two different countries, there gose my dream of vacationing in Yugoslavia...
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Viikko Kaksikymmentänelja
maanantai:
Lunch today was scalloped potatoes... first of them since I got here, I just figured Finland didn't have them because I hadn't seen/eatten them yet. Oh this Finland, always keeps ya guessing! In English class, the kids have started giving their 15 minute presentation on a culture thing in an English speaking country, Sanni and Laura did their presentation on the band Good Charlotte, I'm excited to see everyone's presentation because... well it's just interesting! Then I found out that if I take this one tourism in the world class, we will be taking a 3 day trip to Riga, Latvia. So of course I got the paper with the information about it, most of my friends are planning to go! Awesome! Looks like I'll make it to Latvia after all (since it origanally was suposed to be the country I spent my exchange year in) Dance class, we almost know (and can do) all the dances, It's really cool seeing everything come together!
tiistai:
Today I got the okay from Rotary to go on the Riga trip. YEAH!!! I'm so excited! In English class they presented on Disney, that was really cool to hear about, and they showed a clip from Steam Boat Willy, which I realized I have never seen the whole thing before, well that needs to change! It's on my list. Today for lunch was fish soup... my least favorite, I just took a little, the good thing about fish soup day is that there is always really good bread to go with it, so I ate that. After lunch I had study hall, so did my friend Henriikka, so we went to SMarket, then she went to the Library, and I went on my mission to see Anssi, my last host father, It was great to see him again! I miss that family a lot! I told him about my parents, and brother coming, so we made a plan that I bring them over sometime for coffee. I'm so excited!!! Then I met Henriikka at the Library, we read magazines, until we were forced, by time, to head back to school... even though we both would have rathered to stay. History, still no movie... Caught the bus home. Today Juha took Roosa and I to a hockey game in Tampere!!! It was Tappara vs. Ilves. I wasnt sure who we were rooting for so I decided I'd root for the Ilves because they had yellow in their jersey, Tappara was orange and blue, and had these really bad cheerleaders... so that was my reasoning for the Ilves. Ilves score the frist goal. I got the feeling that the one lady to the right of me was a Tappara fan so I didn't cheer to loud for the Ilves, and Roosa and Juha were quite to. Until Tappara scored their first point, then I realize that I was rooting for the wronge team and switched, traitor, I know, but It's good that I did switch because Tappara won! 3-2. Hockey games here are much quieter! The last one I went to was quiet too, but I thought that was because it wasn't major league. This was, and it was still pretty quiet. Another thing that I thought was really cool. From my seat I could here Finnish, English (and not from me) and Swedish (or German or French) not really great at detecting the difference of those, but I'm pretty sure Swedish. But just the people around me! Really neat, back home you might get English and Spanish... but that's only sometimes! It was snowing on our way home. It seems to snow at least once a day now. So pretty.
keskiviikko:
In study hall Reetta taught me a new game, on graph paper. Like the game dots, where you try to finnish a square, but intead you each had a symbol (x and o) and you took turns trying to get 5 of them in a row, (like tick-tack-toe) I didn't get the tricks to getting the 5 at first, but by the end I had, and I almost caught up, the game ended at 27, 24 I think, me losing, but it was fun! Musta makkara for lunch again!!! It's been so long since I had it last! Yummy. Meeting about the Riga trip! We are taking a plane from Tampere to Riga, then staying at a hotel there, we visit a museum and some other places, but it looks like we get a good deal of 'Oma aika' own time we just have to have at least one buddy always! I'm excited!!! I started a gym class at the end of the day with all my friends, we played volley ball, (our team was losing pretty badly) then we went to the weight room for the rest of the block to work on our rock hard abs! The term 'liha sika' came up a lot, it means the same as muscle man but straight traslates into 'muscle pig' fun fact. Then Puhallica, I went straight from school, Susanna dropped my horn off and I walked. I got there a bit early so dropped my horn at the place and walked to a grocery store (very close one) and got a roll of cookies and a carton of milk. Yum you bet cha I dunked them cookies!!! You better believe it! Puhallica was good, new music with really great parts for me.
torstai:
Lots of presentations in English today... Jane Austin, Sex in the City, and Hugh Lauri (from House) I had no idea that Hugh was actually British, and has a British accent and everything!!! Ya learn something new... Then last class of the day was sewing class! I finnished cutting out the fabric for my dress, luckily the teacher helpped. It didn't even cross my mind that I would have to treat the fabric differently since there is a pattern on it... crisis avoided! I can't wait to put it together and wear it! It's fairly simple, four parts that have to be sewn together = my dress, batta-bing, batta-boom. Emailed my travel agent the 3 dates for going home. It's really weird to have to think that far ahead. It's seems like all of my friends birthdays are in early-middle July, so I'm staying till the last one is over, also that's when the second part of the Harry Potter and something, something, is coming into theaters, and since Sanni and I saw the first part of that moive, we decided we need to see the second part together too. So then I'll be home. Weird.
perjantai:
We now know all the dances!!! And I can do them all only with a few mess ups. I need to start practice with my heels, I've decided to wear my kinda tall, but old heels, I've had a lot of practice wearing them and they are farly easy to walk in so. IT'S FRIDAY!!! During lunch the 3rd graders (like the seniors of the school) brought out these two big arm/claw things. The other panting is of our English teacher, as a werewolf... so those were really funny, I'm not quite sure what they are exactly for, but since the 3rd graders will soon be leaving the school to study for their graduation tests on their own, something will happen soon I guess. After school we all walked to Reetta's house for a movie night. Theme... American Pie movies... not so excited about that, but hanging out with everyone was so much fun. Reetta had also made a type of mini pigs in a blanket! They were different, but still, it's the concept! Reetta also has two cats, I made fast friends with them! I miss kitty's so much! They are deffinatly the best! So after enduring 3 different American Pie movies, we all headed home. Roosa was sleeping over at her friends house, so the three of us hung out, and watched the Dudsons in America. This time they were attacking aliens in New Mexico, actually really entertaining!
lauantai:
Sleep! It's so good! Hung out most of the day, got some stuff I needed to done... of course not everything (that's just the way weekends work, you get the time to do everything that you need to, but you never do get it all done.) For dinner we went to New York Resturant in Tampere. It's funny, Josh asked if there are American themed resturant, and there deffinatly are! And with my last host family we went to Manhattan one time for dinner (another New York themed resturant) Of course they are New York City themed, cause practically no one knows there is anything else to NY, but still, It's really cool. And I had the New York burger! REALLY YUMMY!!! It had bacon and coleslaw on it, I think the first time I've had bacon since I got here, I see it in the stores, but no one uses it... I think I was eating bacon almost every other day before I left... hehe. And coleslaw too, but I haven't seen that in the stores. There is cabbage thou... maybe I'll make some for myself at some point. Anyway really yummy burger! Then we bought lottary tickets because the lottary was at the highest it been 7 million €, none of us won... sadness. But maybe thatäs for the best because who knows how your life would change if you won... maybe for the better, but I hear that a lot of the time it's for the worse. Then we watched Putous, the Finnish comedy show, with Munamies, google him, he is adorable, a full grown man stuffed inside a giant white hoody, with white gloves and slippers and hat on, and he is squatting so he looks so small and adorable, and he uses a really high voice somehow... that's got to be hard. But he is so cute and everybody loves him!
sunnuntai:
Sleep again, last night I decide also that it was time I saw the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, since that song had been stuck in my head all day, I was a lot different than I thought it would be, but really good. Then today I finnaly got around to watching Saving Private Ryan, so sad, so good, Private Ryan is good lookin' (when he is young, but then he get's old... silver fox... jk) I also saw on TV a history program about the Russian Royal family and their exicution... which made me think, that I don't remember what happened in the movie Anastasia, since I watched it when I was so young. So I watched that after going skating with Roosa, we didn't last long because the ice was so bad, I think because of the snow, then rain, It killed the ice, sad. And then the weekend was over, sad again. But it's always nice to get back to school... somehow.
Lunch today was scalloped potatoes... first of them since I got here, I just figured Finland didn't have them because I hadn't seen/eatten them yet. Oh this Finland, always keeps ya guessing! In English class, the kids have started giving their 15 minute presentation on a culture thing in an English speaking country, Sanni and Laura did their presentation on the band Good Charlotte, I'm excited to see everyone's presentation because... well it's just interesting! Then I found out that if I take this one tourism in the world class, we will be taking a 3 day trip to Riga, Latvia. So of course I got the paper with the information about it, most of my friends are planning to go! Awesome! Looks like I'll make it to Latvia after all (since it origanally was suposed to be the country I spent my exchange year in) Dance class, we almost know (and can do) all the dances, It's really cool seeing everything come together!
tiistai:
Today I got the okay from Rotary to go on the Riga trip. YEAH!!! I'm so excited! In English class they presented on Disney, that was really cool to hear about, and they showed a clip from Steam Boat Willy, which I realized I have never seen the whole thing before, well that needs to change! It's on my list. Today for lunch was fish soup... my least favorite, I just took a little, the good thing about fish soup day is that there is always really good bread to go with it, so I ate that. After lunch I had study hall, so did my friend Henriikka, so we went to SMarket, then she went to the Library, and I went on my mission to see Anssi, my last host father, It was great to see him again! I miss that family a lot! I told him about my parents, and brother coming, so we made a plan that I bring them over sometime for coffee. I'm so excited!!! Then I met Henriikka at the Library, we read magazines, until we were forced, by time, to head back to school... even though we both would have rathered to stay. History, still no movie... Caught the bus home. Today Juha took Roosa and I to a hockey game in Tampere!!! It was Tappara vs. Ilves. I wasnt sure who we were rooting for so I decided I'd root for the Ilves because they had yellow in their jersey, Tappara was orange and blue, and had these really bad cheerleaders... so that was my reasoning for the Ilves. Ilves score the frist goal. I got the feeling that the one lady to the right of me was a Tappara fan so I didn't cheer to loud for the Ilves, and Roosa and Juha were quite to. Until Tappara scored their first point, then I realize that I was rooting for the wronge team and switched, traitor, I know, but It's good that I did switch because Tappara won! 3-2. Hockey games here are much quieter! The last one I went to was quiet too, but I thought that was because it wasn't major league. This was, and it was still pretty quiet. Another thing that I thought was really cool. From my seat I could here Finnish, English (and not from me) and Swedish (or German or French) not really great at detecting the difference of those, but I'm pretty sure Swedish. But just the people around me! Really neat, back home you might get English and Spanish... but that's only sometimes! It was snowing on our way home. It seems to snow at least once a day now. So pretty.
keskiviikko:
In study hall Reetta taught me a new game, on graph paper. Like the game dots, where you try to finnish a square, but intead you each had a symbol (x and o) and you took turns trying to get 5 of them in a row, (like tick-tack-toe) I didn't get the tricks to getting the 5 at first, but by the end I had, and I almost caught up, the game ended at 27, 24 I think, me losing, but it was fun! Musta makkara for lunch again!!! It's been so long since I had it last! Yummy. Meeting about the Riga trip! We are taking a plane from Tampere to Riga, then staying at a hotel there, we visit a museum and some other places, but it looks like we get a good deal of 'Oma aika' own time we just have to have at least one buddy always! I'm excited!!! I started a gym class at the end of the day with all my friends, we played volley ball, (our team was losing pretty badly) then we went to the weight room for the rest of the block to work on our rock hard abs! The term 'liha sika' came up a lot, it means the same as muscle man but straight traslates into 'muscle pig' fun fact. Then Puhallica, I went straight from school, Susanna dropped my horn off and I walked. I got there a bit early so dropped my horn at the place and walked to a grocery store (very close one) and got a roll of cookies and a carton of milk. Yum you bet cha I dunked them cookies!!! You better believe it! Puhallica was good, new music with really great parts for me.
torstai:
Lots of presentations in English today... Jane Austin, Sex in the City, and Hugh Lauri (from House) I had no idea that Hugh was actually British, and has a British accent and everything!!! Ya learn something new... Then last class of the day was sewing class! I finnished cutting out the fabric for my dress, luckily the teacher helpped. It didn't even cross my mind that I would have to treat the fabric differently since there is a pattern on it... crisis avoided! I can't wait to put it together and wear it! It's fairly simple, four parts that have to be sewn together = my dress, batta-bing, batta-boom. Emailed my travel agent the 3 dates for going home. It's really weird to have to think that far ahead. It's seems like all of my friends birthdays are in early-middle July, so I'm staying till the last one is over, also that's when the second part of the Harry Potter and something, something, is coming into theaters, and since Sanni and I saw the first part of that moive, we decided we need to see the second part together too. So then I'll be home. Weird.
perjantai:
We now know all the dances!!! And I can do them all only with a few mess ups. I need to start practice with my heels, I've decided to wear my kinda tall, but old heels, I've had a lot of practice wearing them and they are farly easy to walk in so. IT'S FRIDAY!!! During lunch the 3rd graders (like the seniors of the school) brought out these two big arm/claw things. The other panting is of our English teacher, as a werewolf... so those were really funny, I'm not quite sure what they are exactly for, but since the 3rd graders will soon be leaving the school to study for their graduation tests on their own, something will happen soon I guess. After school we all walked to Reetta's house for a movie night. Theme... American Pie movies... not so excited about that, but hanging out with everyone was so much fun. Reetta had also made a type of mini pigs in a blanket! They were different, but still, it's the concept! Reetta also has two cats, I made fast friends with them! I miss kitty's so much! They are deffinatly the best! So after enduring 3 different American Pie movies, we all headed home. Roosa was sleeping over at her friends house, so the three of us hung out, and watched the Dudsons in America. This time they were attacking aliens in New Mexico, actually really entertaining!
lauantai:
Sleep! It's so good! Hung out most of the day, got some stuff I needed to done... of course not everything (that's just the way weekends work, you get the time to do everything that you need to, but you never do get it all done.) For dinner we went to New York Resturant in Tampere. It's funny, Josh asked if there are American themed resturant, and there deffinatly are! And with my last host family we went to Manhattan one time for dinner (another New York themed resturant) Of course they are New York City themed, cause practically no one knows there is anything else to NY, but still, It's really cool. And I had the New York burger! REALLY YUMMY!!! It had bacon and coleslaw on it, I think the first time I've had bacon since I got here, I see it in the stores, but no one uses it... I think I was eating bacon almost every other day before I left... hehe. And coleslaw too, but I haven't seen that in the stores. There is cabbage thou... maybe I'll make some for myself at some point. Anyway really yummy burger! Then we bought lottary tickets because the lottary was at the highest it been 7 million €, none of us won... sadness. But maybe thatäs for the best because who knows how your life would change if you won... maybe for the better, but I hear that a lot of the time it's for the worse. Then we watched Putous, the Finnish comedy show, with Munamies, google him, he is adorable, a full grown man stuffed inside a giant white hoody, with white gloves and slippers and hat on, and he is squatting so he looks so small and adorable, and he uses a really high voice somehow... that's got to be hard. But he is so cute and everybody loves him!
sunnuntai:
Sleep again, last night I decide also that it was time I saw the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, since that song had been stuck in my head all day, I was a lot different than I thought it would be, but really good. Then today I finnaly got around to watching Saving Private Ryan, so sad, so good, Private Ryan is good lookin' (when he is young, but then he get's old... silver fox... jk) I also saw on TV a history program about the Russian Royal family and their exicution... which made me think, that I don't remember what happened in the movie Anastasia, since I watched it when I was so young. So I watched that after going skating with Roosa, we didn't last long because the ice was so bad, I think because of the snow, then rain, It killed the ice, sad. And then the weekend was over, sad again. But it's always nice to get back to school... somehow.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Viikko Kaksikymmentäkolme
(just a cautionary pre-note, after writing this, I realized that there is a lot of rambling going on)
ENJOY!
maanantai:
Another whirlwind Monday. School started again... Bitter sweet. Studying, playing cards, the word of the day in Psycology class was "selfefficiency" it's a hard word, they kept asking me to saying it so they could learn how, but the 'ficiency' part is very un-natrual in a Finn's mouth, they got really close though! Dance course! We now know 5 out of the 6 dances that we will be performing, so that's really exciting. Stright from school home for dinner then the bus stop to Ylöjärvi for my lesson. Ismo was good, one of the funniest things he ever did, he said,"Music is like a painting, you must paint on the paper" then he took his hand from his bell, and like he had a paint brush and the bell was the palet of paint... It might be a 'you had to be there' moment, but it really was hilarious! Then waited for the bus home again, these buses just keep getting later and later, probably because of the snow and all... but still.
tiistai:
In study hall today we went to the library and then SMarket. I found this liter bottle with "Pure Apple Juice, 100% pure apples directly from the source" on it... I thought, that sounds a lot like apple cider... So I bought it... the full liter was gone very soon because it was! Yeah I found apple cider, it was pasturised for sure, but better than nothing... Later that day I talked to Shelby, and then watched Mulan in Finnish from the internet! I love Mulan, and I did understand most of what they were saying, It probably helps that I could quote that movie, but still! But the whole time I was just laughing because why would a Chinese person be speaking Finnish... but then it hit me, a Chinese person probably wouldn't be speaking English either...
keskiviikko:
Two study halls in the morning... usually I would go out on the town, but I wasn't feeling like cold so I just hung out inside, worked on reading my book, the second study hall some of my friends were in so we played cards. I wonder where cards originate from... Did they come from one place and just spread, because they must be an extremly old thing. Yeah they must have started in one place then spread, because there is no way that all the people could have choosen the same suites, and 13 numbers, and all ended up the same! But that made me wonder how the majority of number systems are the same... We all call them different names, but they are all the same symbols, (except for a few) how did that happen? We joked that somebody just sent an e-mail out to all the different lands with 1= o, 2= o o, 3= o o o, ect... That's definatly how it happened. I walked to the Kirputori after school, found an adorable scarf and hat set that were soft yellow and sky blue 3€ and I had to have them, they were too cute. I got home and put them in my winter close bin, then I realised that I have a problem... how did i end up with so many scarfs? I didn't even come with any! But they are just too fun... Dinner, than off to Puhalica band!
torstai:
Yesterday in History we started the movie Saving Privet Ryan, I'm pretty sure she said that we would continue watching it today... So I came to school all ready to watch the movie, but when I got to class, there was no movie at all... sad.com/boringclass. I think that as an American I should have seen that movie already, but I just haven't, so if we don't finnish it in class, I'll watch it someother time. After dance course, we all traveled to the Munkijla (a small bakery across the road from the school) It's actually called like 'moisin leivon....' I'm not really sure cause everyone just calls it the munkijla. They have the best dunuts!!! yummy yummy! Next I had study hall so while everyone was headed back to class (haha) I headed to Tokmanni, the KSupermarket, then on the way back I stopped at this place I had never been to before, Hintakaari, It looked like a Truevalue to me so I had just never bothered to check it out. Well that was a mistake! Yeah I was right that it was Truevalue like (in one part) but in the other part there was just a bunch of random stuff that all fit together in no way what-so-ever, it was merchandise paradise/chaos, it was wonderful. The last class of the day (it's more like after school) club-like, is a textile course, we can sew and knit, and do stuff like that. It was our first class, and it will happen for the rest of the year, the teacher said we could basically do what ever we wanted, so I decided I'd make my Vanhojen Dance dress, I had the style in mind, and had my eye on some fabric I had seen at the Kirpputori, so why not? I sketched it out and the teacher pointed me to the right magazine for the patern and I found the perfect one! Score, double score, triple score (tomorow)
perjantai:
Friday! Score!!! My last block of the day (not including the after-school-class block) I had studyhall (It may sound like I have a lot of study halls because I'm always talking about them, but I really don't, well I have more than some students, but less than others definatly! It's just nothing exciting or worth mentioning usually happens in classes so you get to hear about my adventures in studyhall. Anyway. I had a plan, busses leave the school at 2:30ish, it was 1:15 now. I would walk to the kirpputori to pick up that fabric for my dress, check out the Hintakaari store over there (yup there are two of them) then be at the bus stop near the kirpputori to catch my bus as it passes, probably around 2:40ish. Good plan. As I walked to the kirpputori I lost track of time because I was playing hearts on my iPod, so it took me a bit longer to get there than usuall because I wasnt bored, although it seemed like it was a shorter time, you know how that gose. Anyway I checked out the other Hintakaari, it wasn't as cool as the one I'd been to yesterday, but still pretty neat. There were mopos and scooters and motorized bycicles for sale. And a little sauna for around 1,000€ I'm not sure if that's a good deal or not, I havent bought many saunas. Then the kirpputorri, I circled for a while making sure there wasnt another fabric I liked better, I should have know I wouldn't find one. So I paid and left around 2:45... woops I think I missed the bus. It would be a 15minute walk to where the bus would pick me up probably. But I walked anyway if I missed it, it would be a 50minute walk or so. I got in sight of the highway where the bus would be coming from, still about a 8 minute walk from the bus stop, and my bus came and went. Oh well. I wasn't even upset at all, I was just so happy about the fabric, and I really wasn't cold at all, sort of excited to be able to say " Yeah I walked home from school, all 9 kilometers" haha yeah but ½ a kilometer from the house is a pretty sizable hill... at that point I wasn't as happy but still, I did it! Later that night we watched Dudesons in America... similar to Jack Ass, but these crazy stunts actually had some sort of plot, so it wasn't just pure madness. Still a lot of madness though. SLEEP, no school tomorow!
lauantai:
We went in to pick up Roosa from Tampere in the afternoon, and looked through a book store, I found a Finnish cookbook that was on sale for 10€, it is authentic finnish food so I bought it so I can make food finnish food when I'm back home. I went up to pay and surprise there was a thrity percent discount! yeah!!!! haha Then we went grocery shopping, at my least favorite store 'Prisma' It's my least favorite because it's shoppingcarts don't have that bar where you can rest your foot... evil... Then just hanging out for the rest of the day, Sauna, watched The Princess and the Frog, on Fin-Tv.com (where I watched Mulan in Finnish) I was thinking it would be in Finnish too because all little kid movies are dubbed, but it just had subtitles... I think probably because the cajun accents where a main part of the movie. Or maybe they just haven't gotten around to it yet. I wonder how they would make the finnish language have a cajun accent...
sunnuntai:
Watched the movie Bolt, that was in Finnish... it was okay, I might have missed a few things, but I understood that basics of what was going on, and what they were going to do. Then we all got bundeled up, but not to much, to go cross country skiing. It was a different place this time, a bigger place, with a lot of people. You skiied and skiied and suddenly a cabin pops up and you can get something to drink and eat, we got hot cocoa and dunuts. Then you ski back. It was nice. On the way back I was going down this medium, small hill, and at the bottom the tracks, that your skis go in, the snow wasnt packed or something so I ended up face planting, epicially! I was all spreadover the track, taking up almost both ways. Luckily there was only one man around, behind me, but going the same direction, so when he found a way around me, he took it and continued on... It's weird because there was another time I fell, and people obviously saw, but they didn't say anything. It was kind of nice, because the embarassment wasn't confermed... if that makes any sence. I could pretend that no one saw it, because no one reacted like they did. I'm sure they would say something and help if I was hurt, but, no problem, no reaction. We skyped with Sonja that night, and I skyped with my parents too... It felt like it had been forever since I last talked to them. School tomorow.... ugh, I like school, but I don't like having to wake up early... blachk!
ENJOY!
maanantai:
Another whirlwind Monday. School started again... Bitter sweet. Studying, playing cards, the word of the day in Psycology class was "selfefficiency" it's a hard word, they kept asking me to saying it so they could learn how, but the 'ficiency' part is very un-natrual in a Finn's mouth, they got really close though! Dance course! We now know 5 out of the 6 dances that we will be performing, so that's really exciting. Stright from school home for dinner then the bus stop to Ylöjärvi for my lesson. Ismo was good, one of the funniest things he ever did, he said,"Music is like a painting, you must paint on the paper" then he took his hand from his bell, and like he had a paint brush and the bell was the palet of paint... It might be a 'you had to be there' moment, but it really was hilarious! Then waited for the bus home again, these buses just keep getting later and later, probably because of the snow and all... but still.
tiistai:
In study hall today we went to the library and then SMarket. I found this liter bottle with "Pure Apple Juice, 100% pure apples directly from the source" on it... I thought, that sounds a lot like apple cider... So I bought it... the full liter was gone very soon because it was! Yeah I found apple cider, it was pasturised for sure, but better than nothing... Later that day I talked to Shelby, and then watched Mulan in Finnish from the internet! I love Mulan, and I did understand most of what they were saying, It probably helps that I could quote that movie, but still! But the whole time I was just laughing because why would a Chinese person be speaking Finnish... but then it hit me, a Chinese person probably wouldn't be speaking English either...
keskiviikko:
Two study halls in the morning... usually I would go out on the town, but I wasn't feeling like cold so I just hung out inside, worked on reading my book, the second study hall some of my friends were in so we played cards. I wonder where cards originate from... Did they come from one place and just spread, because they must be an extremly old thing. Yeah they must have started in one place then spread, because there is no way that all the people could have choosen the same suites, and 13 numbers, and all ended up the same! But that made me wonder how the majority of number systems are the same... We all call them different names, but they are all the same symbols, (except for a few) how did that happen? We joked that somebody just sent an e-mail out to all the different lands with 1= o, 2= o o, 3= o o o, ect... That's definatly how it happened. I walked to the Kirputori after school, found an adorable scarf and hat set that were soft yellow and sky blue 3€ and I had to have them, they were too cute. I got home and put them in my winter close bin, then I realised that I have a problem... how did i end up with so many scarfs? I didn't even come with any! But they are just too fun... Dinner, than off to Puhalica band!
torstai:
Yesterday in History we started the movie Saving Privet Ryan, I'm pretty sure she said that we would continue watching it today... So I came to school all ready to watch the movie, but when I got to class, there was no movie at all... sad.com/boringclass. I think that as an American I should have seen that movie already, but I just haven't, so if we don't finnish it in class, I'll watch it someother time. After dance course, we all traveled to the Munkijla (a small bakery across the road from the school) It's actually called like 'moisin leivon....' I'm not really sure cause everyone just calls it the munkijla. They have the best dunuts!!! yummy yummy! Next I had study hall so while everyone was headed back to class (haha) I headed to Tokmanni, the KSupermarket, then on the way back I stopped at this place I had never been to before, Hintakaari, It looked like a Truevalue to me so I had just never bothered to check it out. Well that was a mistake! Yeah I was right that it was Truevalue like (in one part) but in the other part there was just a bunch of random stuff that all fit together in no way what-so-ever, it was merchandise paradise/chaos, it was wonderful. The last class of the day (it's more like after school) club-like, is a textile course, we can sew and knit, and do stuff like that. It was our first class, and it will happen for the rest of the year, the teacher said we could basically do what ever we wanted, so I decided I'd make my Vanhojen Dance dress, I had the style in mind, and had my eye on some fabric I had seen at the Kirpputori, so why not? I sketched it out and the teacher pointed me to the right magazine for the patern and I found the perfect one! Score, double score, triple score (tomorow)
perjantai:
Friday! Score!!! My last block of the day (not including the after-school-class block) I had studyhall (It may sound like I have a lot of study halls because I'm always talking about them, but I really don't, well I have more than some students, but less than others definatly! It's just nothing exciting or worth mentioning usually happens in classes so you get to hear about my adventures in studyhall. Anyway. I had a plan, busses leave the school at 2:30ish, it was 1:15 now. I would walk to the kirpputori to pick up that fabric for my dress, check out the Hintakaari store over there (yup there are two of them) then be at the bus stop near the kirpputori to catch my bus as it passes, probably around 2:40ish. Good plan. As I walked to the kirpputori I lost track of time because I was playing hearts on my iPod, so it took me a bit longer to get there than usuall because I wasnt bored, although it seemed like it was a shorter time, you know how that gose. Anyway I checked out the other Hintakaari, it wasn't as cool as the one I'd been to yesterday, but still pretty neat. There were mopos and scooters and motorized bycicles for sale. And a little sauna for around 1,000€ I'm not sure if that's a good deal or not, I havent bought many saunas. Then the kirpputorri, I circled for a while making sure there wasnt another fabric I liked better, I should have know I wouldn't find one. So I paid and left around 2:45... woops I think I missed the bus. It would be a 15minute walk to where the bus would pick me up probably. But I walked anyway if I missed it, it would be a 50minute walk or so. I got in sight of the highway where the bus would be coming from, still about a 8 minute walk from the bus stop, and my bus came and went. Oh well. I wasn't even upset at all, I was just so happy about the fabric, and I really wasn't cold at all, sort of excited to be able to say " Yeah I walked home from school, all 9 kilometers" haha yeah but ½ a kilometer from the house is a pretty sizable hill... at that point I wasn't as happy but still, I did it! Later that night we watched Dudesons in America... similar to Jack Ass, but these crazy stunts actually had some sort of plot, so it wasn't just pure madness. Still a lot of madness though. SLEEP, no school tomorow!
lauantai:
We went in to pick up Roosa from Tampere in the afternoon, and looked through a book store, I found a Finnish cookbook that was on sale for 10€, it is authentic finnish food so I bought it so I can make food finnish food when I'm back home. I went up to pay and surprise there was a thrity percent discount! yeah!!!! haha Then we went grocery shopping, at my least favorite store 'Prisma' It's my least favorite because it's shoppingcarts don't have that bar where you can rest your foot... evil... Then just hanging out for the rest of the day, Sauna, watched The Princess and the Frog, on Fin-Tv.com (where I watched Mulan in Finnish) I was thinking it would be in Finnish too because all little kid movies are dubbed, but it just had subtitles... I think probably because the cajun accents where a main part of the movie. Or maybe they just haven't gotten around to it yet. I wonder how they would make the finnish language have a cajun accent...
sunnuntai:
Watched the movie Bolt, that was in Finnish... it was okay, I might have missed a few things, but I understood that basics of what was going on, and what they were going to do. Then we all got bundeled up, but not to much, to go cross country skiing. It was a different place this time, a bigger place, with a lot of people. You skiied and skiied and suddenly a cabin pops up and you can get something to drink and eat, we got hot cocoa and dunuts. Then you ski back. It was nice. On the way back I was going down this medium, small hill, and at the bottom the tracks, that your skis go in, the snow wasnt packed or something so I ended up face planting, epicially! I was all spreadover the track, taking up almost both ways. Luckily there was only one man around, behind me, but going the same direction, so when he found a way around me, he took it and continued on... It's weird because there was another time I fell, and people obviously saw, but they didn't say anything. It was kind of nice, because the embarassment wasn't confermed... if that makes any sence. I could pretend that no one saw it, because no one reacted like they did. I'm sure they would say something and help if I was hurt, but, no problem, no reaction. We skyped with Sonja that night, and I skyped with my parents too... It felt like it had been forever since I last talked to them. School tomorow.... ugh, I like school, but I don't like having to wake up early... blachk!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Viikko Kaksikymmentäkaksi
maanantai:
So on monday... well for one, I'm just realizing that I thought Monday was Tuesday... Tuesday was Wednesday... finally on Wednesday I figured out that it wasn't Thursday, but actually Wednesday... I'm not gonna tell you this, but what made this whole thing really sad, was once I figured out something was wronge, it took me over an hour to figure out that my days were messed up. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Monday. A pretty lazy day. Juha took Roosa and I to the school down the road where they have iced down a parking lot, or soccer feild and made an ice rink. I might have mentioned this before, but I'm not sure so here it is again. I think it's really neat! Just hose it down, wait a bit, then skate! Brilliant!
tiistai:
Today I found the Amazing Race episode that takes place in Helsinki-Tampere-Ylöjärvi, so basically right around where I live. It's season 10 leg 9 if I'm remebering right. It was cool because I recognised the Train station in Tampere! But I didn't recognise anthing really in Ylöjärvi... Later that day we went to Juha's parents for coffee and cake, yum! (Oh and I thought it was wednesday)
keskiviikko:
Today is the day I realized it isn't Thursday! It gave me a new outlook on life, like I gained a day so I need to do something awesome with it! So I slept! So maybe not the best use of my new outlook... but I enjoyed it! Then later we went to watch Roosa's soccer practice. It was in this sports complex, everything was happening there! There were a bunch of soccer feilds and teams practicing inside an indoor track with polevolt, and long jump, and everything, then at the end football players showed up! ha I'm not sure why I thought this was funny... but I did.
torstai:
Not too much today. Skating with Roosa and her friend (at the same place) we played a version of ice hockey. And I worked on a snow tunnel/fort in one of the snow banks. It was looking pretty good! Then skyped with Josh!!! And baked cookies, yum.
perjantai:
Today we went to the store to buy candy. Yeah! I also found some of those tin horse-shoe things that you melt on new years, So I bought those so we can do them next year too! Then movies, and the tree was taken down today. Christmas has come and gone... school soon : /
lauantai:
Today was a really exciting day! I set my alarm for 10:38 because I figure I should start eazing myself back into a decent time to get up... Not so much a happy thing... After breakfast I got bundeled up for my first time cross country skiing... then dressed down because I guess you get really hot skiing because it uses pretty much all you muscles so... don't dress too warm. It was way different than any of the other skiing I've done... Have I done all the types of skiing now? Water on 2, water on 1, down hill, cross country... well there are two types of cross country, classic and skating, we did classic... so if you want to get technical I still have skating cross country to do unless I'm forgetting something else. Anyway 5 kilometers of skiing and I was pretty much dead, not sore yet, but I knew it was coming! Next on my to-do list today was go to Markku's 50th birthday party! Markku is my Rotary counselor. It was such a big party with so many people to met and amazing food, and a really good acapella group!!! My future host parents were at the party too, so I sat with them and had a great time! When I got home I found my that my mom was lost on facebook, trying to figure out how to see my pictures, so I talked her through it, and we skyped. Cards with Roosa before bed, long day!
sunnuntai:
So the plan was to get up at 9ish today so I could have a chance at getting up around 7 tomorow... that didn't happen for some reason... haha. Sour day... the last days of vacations are always sad, and it seemed even sadder because for some reason it is like plus 3 degrees outside, so the snow is melty, and it's raining sort of, and all the snow that was stuck on the trees and looked so pretty, is now gone revealing grose brownish black dingyness... Sad. We hung out mostly, went to find a winter jacket and snow pants for Roosa... I'm not sure if we did... I don't think we did. Later Juha and Roosa went ice skating, but my first time skiing soreness was killing, so I just hung out... School tomorow.
So on monday... well for one, I'm just realizing that I thought Monday was Tuesday... Tuesday was Wednesday... finally on Wednesday I figured out that it wasn't Thursday, but actually Wednesday... I'm not gonna tell you this, but what made this whole thing really sad, was once I figured out something was wronge, it took me over an hour to figure out that my days were messed up. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Monday. A pretty lazy day. Juha took Roosa and I to the school down the road where they have iced down a parking lot, or soccer feild and made an ice rink. I might have mentioned this before, but I'm not sure so here it is again. I think it's really neat! Just hose it down, wait a bit, then skate! Brilliant!
tiistai:
Today I found the Amazing Race episode that takes place in Helsinki-Tampere-Ylöjärvi, so basically right around where I live. It's season 10 leg 9 if I'm remebering right. It was cool because I recognised the Train station in Tampere! But I didn't recognise anthing really in Ylöjärvi... Later that day we went to Juha's parents for coffee and cake, yum! (Oh and I thought it was wednesday)
keskiviikko:
Today is the day I realized it isn't Thursday! It gave me a new outlook on life, like I gained a day so I need to do something awesome with it! So I slept! So maybe not the best use of my new outlook... but I enjoyed it! Then later we went to watch Roosa's soccer practice. It was in this sports complex, everything was happening there! There were a bunch of soccer feilds and teams practicing inside an indoor track with polevolt, and long jump, and everything, then at the end football players showed up! ha I'm not sure why I thought this was funny... but I did.
torstai:
Not too much today. Skating with Roosa and her friend (at the same place) we played a version of ice hockey. And I worked on a snow tunnel/fort in one of the snow banks. It was looking pretty good! Then skyped with Josh!!! And baked cookies, yum.
perjantai:
Today we went to the store to buy candy. Yeah! I also found some of those tin horse-shoe things that you melt on new years, So I bought those so we can do them next year too! Then movies, and the tree was taken down today. Christmas has come and gone... school soon : /
lauantai:
Today was a really exciting day! I set my alarm for 10:38 because I figure I should start eazing myself back into a decent time to get up... Not so much a happy thing... After breakfast I got bundeled up for my first time cross country skiing... then dressed down because I guess you get really hot skiing because it uses pretty much all you muscles so... don't dress too warm. It was way different than any of the other skiing I've done... Have I done all the types of skiing now? Water on 2, water on 1, down hill, cross country... well there are two types of cross country, classic and skating, we did classic... so if you want to get technical I still have skating cross country to do unless I'm forgetting something else. Anyway 5 kilometers of skiing and I was pretty much dead, not sore yet, but I knew it was coming! Next on my to-do list today was go to Markku's 50th birthday party! Markku is my Rotary counselor. It was such a big party with so many people to met and amazing food, and a really good acapella group!!! My future host parents were at the party too, so I sat with them and had a great time! When I got home I found my that my mom was lost on facebook, trying to figure out how to see my pictures, so I talked her through it, and we skyped. Cards with Roosa before bed, long day!
sunnuntai:
So the plan was to get up at 9ish today so I could have a chance at getting up around 7 tomorow... that didn't happen for some reason... haha. Sour day... the last days of vacations are always sad, and it seemed even sadder because for some reason it is like plus 3 degrees outside, so the snow is melty, and it's raining sort of, and all the snow that was stuck on the trees and looked so pretty, is now gone revealing grose brownish black dingyness... Sad. We hung out mostly, went to find a winter jacket and snow pants for Roosa... I'm not sure if we did... I don't think we did. Later Juha and Roosa went ice skating, but my first time skiing soreness was killing, so I just hung out... School tomorow.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Viikko Kaksikymmentäyksi
maanatai:
Today was a day to just relax! It was so nice to just be. I also got started on eating the billons of pounds of chocolate that I got for Christmas... Wow that's a lot of chocolate!!! But it's all really good, so that's good... Oh and I skyped with SHELBY!!! haha I guess they got a lot of snow in New York. Nice.
tiistai:
Today while Juha and Susanna dropped one of the cars off for inspection, they dropped me off at a kirpputori I had never been to before. It was a red cross organized kirpputori. A lot different from the one here! Instead of a bunch of different booths keeping each person's stuff separate, all the stuff was organized like a real store. It was a lot easier to find things... but I do like the other way a bit better... It's more like a treasure hunt if it's not all organized. I got a really pretty scarf, and another book... I keep buying these books, later to realized I can't read and get bored with it cause I'm not really sure whats going on... But the kirpputori was great!
keskiviikko:
Another relaxing day. Walked the dogs... ate chocolate... Made pizza! I made it American style, with the toppings ontop of the cheese. It was a mushroom and pepperoni pizza, and actually really good! Oh and extra cheese! I tried to stuff the crust like Pizza Hut dose it, but it didn't work to well... But my family really liked it! Here the popular things to put on pizza is ham and pinapple, then the cheese on top. That's good too, but I'm not sure pizza is pizza without pepperoni or extra cheese. : P
torstai:
Today was a Tampere day. Took the bus with Roosa. Once we got there she showed me where one of the kirpputoris was, it was similar to the on in my town, but most of the prices were a lot higher, that's probably cause the city people have nicer clothes... That's just a theory. Then Roosa went with her friend and I toured the shops finding all the great after Christmas sales. It was super busy in some stores... some I just ended up walking right out of cause there wasn't any room for me. Great day though, and I also found Cocoa Puffs at the Lidl! Yummy
perjantai:
New Years Eve!!! Today was great! around 6 some of the family's friends came over and we had tacos for dinner. Then movies and Roosa, Pauli (the friend's son) and I set fire crackers off. My favorite type was this one was 'Perhonen' (butterfly) you light it, then set on the ground an it spins and spins, and then starts to fly around for a little while... sooooo cool!!! Then around 12 we all went outside again for the real fire works! They were so big! and so close! Everyone in Finland were setting them off too cause in every direction, all you could here were them going off. But ours were the best! Then back inside to toast for the new years. Then, my favorite part, was they light the fire place, and once that gets warm enough, they have these horseshoe-shaped pieces of tin that you melt in the fireplace in this ladel. Then once it's all melted, you quickly dump it into a bucket of water (or if you're outside the snow) and then you look at it and predict what the next year is going to bring! So cool! Mine showed that money and adventure is coming my way SCORE! : P Then we played card games and stayed up super late!!! I think it's the latest I've ever stayed up!
lauantai:
Well... not too much to say about this day... I ended up finally getting to bed around 7 in the morning... Then was too tired to do much else when I woke up around 12, breakfast, back to bed, card games, bed again. SLEEP!
sunnuntai:
And today I woke up early! Probably because I slept so much yesterday. It was such a great New Years, I really liked the tin figure part! Now I only have one more week of break till I'm back to school, It's weird that soon things will be "back to normal" But I'm pretty sure in New York they have to start school tomorow... hehe I plan on sleeping in! : P
Today was a day to just relax! It was so nice to just be. I also got started on eating the billons of pounds of chocolate that I got for Christmas... Wow that's a lot of chocolate!!! But it's all really good, so that's good... Oh and I skyped with SHELBY!!! haha I guess they got a lot of snow in New York. Nice.
tiistai:
Today while Juha and Susanna dropped one of the cars off for inspection, they dropped me off at a kirpputori I had never been to before. It was a red cross organized kirpputori. A lot different from the one here! Instead of a bunch of different booths keeping each person's stuff separate, all the stuff was organized like a real store. It was a lot easier to find things... but I do like the other way a bit better... It's more like a treasure hunt if it's not all organized. I got a really pretty scarf, and another book... I keep buying these books, later to realized I can't read and get bored with it cause I'm not really sure whats going on... But the kirpputori was great!
keskiviikko:
Another relaxing day. Walked the dogs... ate chocolate... Made pizza! I made it American style, with the toppings ontop of the cheese. It was a mushroom and pepperoni pizza, and actually really good! Oh and extra cheese! I tried to stuff the crust like Pizza Hut dose it, but it didn't work to well... But my family really liked it! Here the popular things to put on pizza is ham and pinapple, then the cheese on top. That's good too, but I'm not sure pizza is pizza without pepperoni or extra cheese. : P
torstai:
Today was a Tampere day. Took the bus with Roosa. Once we got there she showed me where one of the kirpputoris was, it was similar to the on in my town, but most of the prices were a lot higher, that's probably cause the city people have nicer clothes... That's just a theory. Then Roosa went with her friend and I toured the shops finding all the great after Christmas sales. It was super busy in some stores... some I just ended up walking right out of cause there wasn't any room for me. Great day though, and I also found Cocoa Puffs at the Lidl! Yummy
perjantai:
New Years Eve!!! Today was great! around 6 some of the family's friends came over and we had tacos for dinner. Then movies and Roosa, Pauli (the friend's son) and I set fire crackers off. My favorite type was this one was 'Perhonen' (butterfly) you light it, then set on the ground an it spins and spins, and then starts to fly around for a little while... sooooo cool!!! Then around 12 we all went outside again for the real fire works! They were so big! and so close! Everyone in Finland were setting them off too cause in every direction, all you could here were them going off. But ours were the best! Then back inside to toast for the new years. Then, my favorite part, was they light the fire place, and once that gets warm enough, they have these horseshoe-shaped pieces of tin that you melt in the fireplace in this ladel. Then once it's all melted, you quickly dump it into a bucket of water (or if you're outside the snow) and then you look at it and predict what the next year is going to bring! So cool! Mine showed that money and adventure is coming my way SCORE! : P Then we played card games and stayed up super late!!! I think it's the latest I've ever stayed up!
lauantai:
Well... not too much to say about this day... I ended up finally getting to bed around 7 in the morning... Then was too tired to do much else when I woke up around 12, breakfast, back to bed, card games, bed again. SLEEP!
sunnuntai:
And today I woke up early! Probably because I slept so much yesterday. It was such a great New Years, I really liked the tin figure part! Now I only have one more week of break till I'm back to school, It's weird that soon things will be "back to normal" But I'm pretty sure in New York they have to start school tomorow... hehe I plan on sleeping in! : P
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