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!