Day 12

Today was a different day. School kind of sucked. I made a few friends over the last few days, but SURPRISE, none of them are in any of my classes. My first class was French so at least I somewhat knew what was going on. I can understand a lot more french than finnish. I felt pretty good after that class, and then I had spare with Roosa and we walked downtown with her friend Anni. I felt even better after this and then I had lunch with Roosa and her friends (mind you, lunch is free. doesnt mean that it is a super fantastic good meal..... it wasnt that bad though). After this, I went to geography which was a disaster. My teacher didnt know that I was an exchange student or that I was even in his class. I wasn't on the class list. He just kept talking to me in Finnish and when I tried to explain myself in English, he didn't comprehend. This caused my stress level to rise, and then the only other 2 girls in my class started laughing at me. That made it worse. They continued to look at me and snicker until the teacher made them help me. I had no clue what was going on, everything was in finnish and the teachers writing was horrible so not only did I not know what it said, I couldn't even read most of it. When the girls finally helped me, they tried a little to speak english but not very much. They did most of the work and I sat there and pretended I knew what we were doing. In reality, I had no idea.... The class passed pretty slowly, very slowly actually. But the teacher kept leaving so we could kind of just do whatever we wanted. By the time the class finally ended, I was just ready to get out of the building. The only good thing about school so far is that my counsellor speaks perfect english, and the school schedule is the exact same as IDCI's. 8:10-2:25.
After school, I just relaxed for a few hours until dinner. After dinner, Minna went out with her friend and I stayed here. I decided to go to the beach and sit and take pictures and just think. A lot of Finns think in the sauna but im not sure. The sauna and the beach are completely different for me. In the sauna, I think about the things I'm worrying about, I overthink them kind of just making it worse. (but it puts me to sleep)... Out by the lake, all my problems just disappear and my mind wanders to wherever it wants to go. I love to go sit by the water alone and relax. It's the place where I'm most comfortable.
I wasn't there very long when Minna texted me and asked if I wanted to go hang out with her, Meri, and Henriikka. I went and we ended up meeting up with Markus, Jonne, Joona, and Sallamari too. We went swimming in the lake and I jumped off of the 3m diving board. It was scary as crap but I survived. My feet and ears hurt though. Feet hurt from hitting the water so hard and Ears hurt from the pressure at the bottom of the lake. If people think the lake is cold, try jumping from that high and going so deep. Its much colder down there. This made the day better. Now, I'm ready for bed. I am so tired lately. AHHHH. Jet lag is finally catching up to me.


Goodnight :)