Viikko Seitsemäntoista

maanantai:
No school again! Man I'm getting too used to this! I watched the season finale of Finnish Big Brother. Eetu didn't win, he was the one I wanted to win... oh well. Then I hung around until 3ish when I had to go to the bus stop to go to my lesson in Ylöjärvi. The bus was full again so I had to smush in with my horn and some people. Oh well. I took my time getting to my teachers house. Waited in the park/playground thing next to his house and discovered that they had turned the once soccer feild into a ice feild! It was rough ice but I'm sure they weren't done with it yet. My lesson went really well. And after I was picked up by my host parents who had been out. The whole ride back we watched the thermeter in the car at one point it was -25 degrees! At our house it was a bit warmer, -21.5, but still!

tiistai:
Today I caught the bus in the morning because Sanni and I were going to Tampere later that day! Sanni had a test in the morning so I walked to Anssi's work to return the house key. It was cool to see him again. Then I wandered SMarket then headed back. We waited for lunch, cause why pass up a free lunch? Then caught the 11:30 bus to Tampere. We were on a mission! HARRY POTTER!!! We got there with tons of time to spare, the movie was at 2.30 and Sanni had pre ordered the tickets and seats so we would definatly get good seats. It's weird, here, they have exact seat numbers on each ticket so you have to sit in that seat. It was so weird to walk into movie theater looking at your ticket and trying to find the right seat! That just dosen't happen where I'm from. Anyway we couldn't help but notice that everyone in the line waiting for the Harry Potter movie was speaking english! (Well including us sorta) Some had a british accents, other's were maybe other exchange students, but they must have been with a different program cause I didn't know them from Rotary. The movie was really good! I didn't realize a couple times I was full out screaming cause some parts were so startling! After the movie we did some more "shopping" It's in quotes cause I don't think either of us bought anything... Then we ate at RAX, a pizza buffet, the closets to American pizza I've gotten my whole trip, but still different. And we ate a lot! Then waddled to the bus station and headed home.

keskiviikko:
Today I was on a mission to go to the Kirputorri! It was about a 5 kilometer walk (50mins) I started off coldish, but by the end I was soooo hot! And I had missed the kirputorri and it's many wonderful treasures! I bought the ski coat I had my eye on for a while, before it was 20€ but today it was 15€! And I needed it for Lapland! Then I headed back, my friends from school Iina and her boyfriend past me, stopped and asked if I wanted a ride. Okay! The rest of the day I chilled, then went to band practice, concert next Wednesday!

torstai:
So back to school today. Roosa and I took the bus that comes 20mins earlier because it is less crowded and we get to sit together. I wasn't feeling the best, but wanted to stay in school so badly because today we started the Vanhojan Tanssi practices (sorta similar to American prom but they actually learn the dances beforehand, Waltzs and fancy dances like that) My partner is my friend Emma since my other partner backed out on my last minute. But what ever. I'm dancing the guy part cause I am taller and offered. Dancing was so much fun, I'm not even sure what kind of dances we did but nothing like I've ever done before! After that class it hit me again that I was feeling pretty sick so I asked Juho to pick me up, he did then stopped at the pharmacy to get head cold medicine. Then I just chilled the rest of the day trying to get better, I can't be sick! I'm going to Lapland tomorow!!!


perjantai:
So I didn't go to school today either cause I needed to get better, it worked cause by mid to late day I was feeling better. The bus was picking me up at SMarket around 9:00 so after dinner and packing we headed off. It felt like the first time in Kindergarten getting on the bus... I wasn't sure who would be there, only knew that 5 am next morning my friend Janet from Nebraska would be getting on, then 11 am we would finally arrive! But I got on, sat down and quickly made friends with the girls around me, two girls from Mexico and a Rotex (as Finn who has been on exchange before) she had been to Brazil. Then we made some pit stops, I talked to even more people. SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT!!! We ALL have something/many things in common so it was really easy to talk. I also discovered some really cool people who live really close to me! So I'm thinking we'll be hanging out at some point. I think I got some sleep on that bus. I crawled the floor, a trick anybody who has been on any long bus trick before has learn, and got maybe a couple hours.

lauantai:
Days get so confusing when you don't sleep that long and you aren't in your own bed! 5am and Janet got on the bus! So crazy I haven't seen her in so long! She looks so different, one cause she dyed her hair, and two (like everyone else) we are all now super pail! We ended up just laughing for hours until we fell somewhat asleep. 10 we were pretty north and the sun was trying to come out but we kept running away from it heading even more north! Soon it caught up to us and the at 11 we arrived. We all jumped out of the bus and quickly gave hugs to all the other exchange students who had arrived on earlier buses. It was awesome to see everyone!!! Then the mad rush to get our luggage and rooms. There were 3 to a room and it was sorted by bus, then home contry, then alphabetically. I was gonna say random, but it really wasnt. Then greeting the last bus to arrive, lunch and getting ready to go skiing. We finally got to the hill... That was kinda disappointing... But we suited up. The snow was pretty icy, there was really only one run down it, and it was super cold. Needless to say we only lasted a little while before heading in to warm up and wait for the buses to bring us back. Then it was a late night of hanging out and talking.

sunnuntai:
Woke up, breakfast and chilling with random people. Then a bus trip back to the slopes to let people who wanted to ski that day off. I stayed on and we went back to the resort to learn the fine art of ice carving! First a trip through the igloo, that was super cool! Then they lead us to small collums of snow that they made, gave us a bunch of randoms tools and put us to work. My group made a penguin. We named him Isosolies. Then we took a bunch of pictures with Isosolies and then had lunch outside on reindeer pelts. My group didn't last too long out there and soon went to the couches in the lobby of the resort, I think they hated us there! Well I think I would hate a bunch of wound up teenagers in my resort too! Then we went up to the TV room and just chilled and talked for hours. They broke out the ginger bread house they made last night and we ate it! YUMMY!!! Sauna was warm but I and the people I was hanging out with, didn't really feel like bothering. Later, after dinner they took us to a near by school where the kids of the school put on a show with dancing and music. Then each of our countries did something special. My favorite part of the night was just dancing. That and after they brought us outside these two local boys light balls on sting on fire and did a sorta dance with them. That was cool. Then on the ride home they told us that someone has been diagnosed with Mono... It was one of my room mates... great. But there is no way I'm getting sick so I'm not even gonna worry about it. The rest of my Lap land adventure soon. My favorite day was Monday so stay tuned! : P