Viikko Kaksikymmentäyhdeksän

Warning, I'm feeling really lazy right now, so this probably will be a very short blog even though a ton of things actually happened this week! But I'll give ya the general low down:

maanantai:
School after a busy weekend, wasn't as bad as you would think. I had lots of energy even though I probably was really tired. Messing around in study hall, ya know, the norm. On the bus home a saw a very interesting hair do! It was a guy, with his whole head shaven, but a long haired, rectangle patch in the back. The upper half of the patch was in the form of a long dread lock, the lower half was just hair, but he had it bundled up into a bun and tied using the dread lock. I would never have thought of this hairdo myself, and after figuring it out I wondered why he wasn't wearing a hat in almost negative 30 C!

tiistai:
I got up early today! That's cause my parents and brother Jaker were coming! Flying into Helsinki around 10:30 and I was going to met them, so bus to Tampere, train to Helsinki, bus to the airport. I had found a video on Youtube about transportation from the Airport to the Trainstation, It said you could take the Finn Air bus, the 615, or the 61. I planned on taking the 615 bus, but couldn't find it. I now know that I was looking on the wrong side of the station. But I just jumped on the Finn air bus, paid a bit more money, but getting to the airport just in time to meet them. AWESOME!!! We then got to navigate back to my town, rest, we all were beat, them a bit more than I because they had left 7:00pm the day before Finland time, and we got to the place we would stay around 2:00pm so... Then the rotary meeting. Again AWESOME!!!

keskiviikko:
After taking our time getting up I took them out to show them around the town. The two centers, the church, local shops, the kirpputori, the big old tree, well we couldn't actually find the tree... Then out to lunch, Kebabs! I had them once before, and this one reminded me that I need to get them more often! Big though, we only ordered two and a pizza for all four of us and we took a lot home with us in a box. Later that night we all, my real family and my host family went to the sauna club, the one with the hole in the frosen lake, and smoke sauna. They all did it, the girls went in the lake 4 times, and the boys one-upped us at the last minute and went 5 times. It wasnt a compitition though!

torstai:
Took Jake to school. For english class. And lunch. In english class we had a listening test, in that room that reminds me of NASA's headquarters. The test was all in English and Jake took it too. He thinks he failed, but we'll see when I get it back, I got a few wrong I know, but what ever, it's a hard test, and my English is getting weak : P <-- good and bad thing. Then lunch, Jake liked the fact that it was free, well it is great. There were a lot of 3rd graders there, even thought technically, they are done with the schooling part of this school, we all just joked that they got hungry so they came in. Then to the Munkilja for donuts, and Mom and Dad picked us up to go to Tampere. I took them to all the spots I could think of, got lost a couple times, hit up the free bathrooms in the places I could think of that had free bathrooms. Then met up with my host family to go to a hockey game. Tappara vs. Blues. Blues won 3-1, although it was tied at 1-1 for a really long time. And this game seemed much louder and the players a lot fisstier, they kept trying to fight each other, and really that's what hockey is truely about : P

perjantai:
Nothing really special happened today... NOT it was my birthday so pretty much the best, even though I kept forgetting that it was my birthday and random people kept reminding me. I made a short apperence at school, they sang and fed me cake (the best) then I brought in my family cause my mom wanted a picture of all of us. Then we left, went back to the sauna club to take pictures in the day light. There was a man there that answered any and ever question we could think of. Then back home, had pea soup and small minow like fish that had been fried for lunch. Dad spent a couple hours with the owner of the place we were staying learning about their boiler system and general farm stuff. Then we headed off to my next family's house for a visit. They showed us around, really cool place! They have a robot that milks the cow without someone having to touch the cow! Neat! Then to my last host family. <3

lauantai:
Up and out to the market in the center of town, had musta makkara to buy since the people in Tampere had been on vacation. Then we went to Ikaalinen to drive on the ice road, surprisingly I remebered where it was. Mom wasn't so happy about driving on it, but we lived, It actually wasn't that different from the normal roads here because they don't plow all the snow and ice off them, so pretty much the same thing. We also saw some odd activity going on on the lake, so we investigated. Turns out they were having a horse race on the ice, horse and buggy... coolio! But wouldn't the horses slip... Then back home, nobody hated the musta makkara! Then to Roosa's soccer game, she won, and after the game we saw that they were going to play Finnish baseball, so we stuck behind to figure it out... I think we understand it now... Then a big feast and very late night!

sunnuntai:
Up early, breakfast and left by 9:30 to get to Helsinki by 12, found a hotel and headed into the center. Road the T3 for a tour of the city, then walked to certain destinations, like the big white church, the president's castle, the other church, and various other places. For dinner we had Thai, yummy! Then hopped on the bus back to our car we had left at the airport, and back to the hotel. Card games for a while then turned in kinda early cause we had a 5:00am early morning tomorow cause their plane back home would leave 7:30. It was awesome having them here, the time just flew by, but then again, that seems to be a common occurence in this entire trip!