1. I had my first Finnish dream last night. It was super weird because it involved people who go to IDCI speaking Finnish in my Finnish school. It was really confusing. But cool at the same time!!!
2. It is currently 8:42 am and it is PITCH BLACK outside.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
day 100-110
again, it has been a while since I have written on here.
Life gets busier and busier as the days go on.
I am now settled into my new host family. I actually like them a lot. It is very loud and busy, which prevents me from getting homesick. I am never even left alone to think too much. There is always someone home that I can talk to.
Now my day is a little bit different.
My alarm goes off at 5:45 am, and I get out of bed at 6. I get ready and eat breakfast and we leave the house at 6:50. We stop to give water to the horses and then continue to drive the 3km to the bus stop. We catch the bus in the pitch black around 7:00. Usually it is so dark that the bus can't even see us with its bright headlights on so we have to wear reflective clothing and move around so they know we aren't just some reflective sign or something. Its about a 40 minute bus ride to school, with all the stops. I usually get to school around 7:40, which I like so I have time to sit and relax before all the noisy people get there.
Update from whats going on in school.
Nothing really has changed. Exams start this friday and I only have one exam so basically I get a week off of school. This is what my next 3 weeks look like..
Monday Nov 19 normal school
Tues Nov 20 normal school
Wed Nov 21 normal school
Thurs Nov 22 normal school
Fri Nov 23 no exam
Mon Nov 26 no exam
Tues Nov 27 no exam
Wed Nov 28 no exam
Thurs Nov 29 no exam
Fri Nov 30 english exam
Mon Nov 3 lapland
Tues Nov 4 lapland
Wed Nov 5 school in morning, assembly in afternoon
Thurs Nov 6 Finnish Indepedence Day, no school
Fri Nov 7 Continuation of Indepedence Day, no school
So basically I can get really caught up on my sleep :)
I might go to school some days because I have to do this huge project for my counsellor about Intercultural Learning and it is pretty long but should be easy. Also I might just come to school to see my friends since it will be so long until I see them hahaha.
Mutta joo,
I am very happy in this family and things are pretty busy right now. I went to Kotka this weekend and had a sleepover with most of the other exchange students in my district. We baked like 100 gingerbread cookies and decorate them but then nobody wanted to eat them.
When I got home, guess what my family had been making all day.... Ginger bread cookies. hahahaha
The weather here hasn't been that great. It has been rainy and sitting around 3 or 4 degrees for like the last week. Kind of sucks. But at least its not freezing cold yet.
Im not sure what else to write about..
Oh today is my host sisters birthday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELENA, or ONNEA HELENA. :)
Life gets busier and busier as the days go on.
I am now settled into my new host family. I actually like them a lot. It is very loud and busy, which prevents me from getting homesick. I am never even left alone to think too much. There is always someone home that I can talk to.
Now my day is a little bit different.
My alarm goes off at 5:45 am, and I get out of bed at 6. I get ready and eat breakfast and we leave the house at 6:50. We stop to give water to the horses and then continue to drive the 3km to the bus stop. We catch the bus in the pitch black around 7:00. Usually it is so dark that the bus can't even see us with its bright headlights on so we have to wear reflective clothing and move around so they know we aren't just some reflective sign or something. Its about a 40 minute bus ride to school, with all the stops. I usually get to school around 7:40, which I like so I have time to sit and relax before all the noisy people get there.
Update from whats going on in school.
Nothing really has changed. Exams start this friday and I only have one exam so basically I get a week off of school. This is what my next 3 weeks look like..
Monday Nov 19 normal school
Tues Nov 20 normal school
Wed Nov 21 normal school
Thurs Nov 22 normal school
Fri Nov 23 no exam
Mon Nov 26 no exam
Tues Nov 27 no exam
Wed Nov 28 no exam
Thurs Nov 29 no exam
Fri Nov 30 english exam
Mon Nov 3 lapland
Tues Nov 4 lapland
Wed Nov 5 school in morning, assembly in afternoon
Thurs Nov 6 Finnish Indepedence Day, no school
Fri Nov 7 Continuation of Indepedence Day, no school
So basically I can get really caught up on my sleep :)
I might go to school some days because I have to do this huge project for my counsellor about Intercultural Learning and it is pretty long but should be easy. Also I might just come to school to see my friends since it will be so long until I see them hahaha.
Mutta joo,
I am very happy in this family and things are pretty busy right now. I went to Kotka this weekend and had a sleepover with most of the other exchange students in my district. We baked like 100 gingerbread cookies and decorate them but then nobody wanted to eat them.
When I got home, guess what my family had been making all day.... Ginger bread cookies. hahahaha
The weather here hasn't been that great. It has been rainy and sitting around 3 or 4 degrees for like the last week. Kind of sucks. But at least its not freezing cold yet.
Im not sure what else to write about..
Oh today is my host sisters birthday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELENA, or ONNEA HELENA. :)
Saturday, November 10, 2012
day 93-99
Okay first of all, I'm sorry it has taken me so long to write on here. I have had such a busy week. My life just keeps getting busier and busier and busier.
On Sunday, I went with Outi to visit my new host family. They live out in the country and it takes about 20 minutes drive down country roads to get there. As soon as we got there, I realized that they lived in a HUGE house. Seriously I almost got lost its so big.
It was really nice to meet my new host family. I found out that I would be moving on Friday so the rest of the week was filled with me packing.
I realized that I actually have a lot of stuff with me. It's not even that I have that many clothes, I just have a lot of STUFF. I have gifts for my host families and for my friends, books about Canada and never ending Canada paraphernalia. Along with my winter coat, winter boots and snowpants, it is fair to say I had about 5 bags. OOPS.
Last night (Friday) I moved to this new family. My new family is really great. I have my host mom, Leena, our au pair, Mailis, and 4 sisters, Helena (15), Leila (14), Annakaisa (10) and Maija (6). It is great to be here and I have already developed a good relationship with my sisters. It will be more of a challenge to live here for me which I think is good. All of my sisters can speak some english but I try to communicate mostly with Maija and Kaisa in Finnish, which is the challenge. I hope this will really improve my speaking. :)
My new home is about 20 minutes from the centre of Siilinjarvi so I have to take a bus to school. My bus card was 100 Euros for the month, so thank god Rotary will pay me back for this. Although the new house is so far away, I kind of like it out here, it is quiet all the time and I am really close to the lake. Literally my house is a waterfront property :)
Oh and yesterday, I started to write my beavertale, actually I finished writing my beavertale and just as I finished, my email deleted the whole thing!!! I freaked out, I actually almost cried at school hahaha. I had worked so hard on it and the whole thing was gone. I looked through my whole email and it never came back and then I gave up. Finally last night I was just like 'oh I am going to check my email on my ipod' AND IT WAS THERE. I freaked out and then emailed it to myself 7 times and then took screen captures of it on my ipod incase it disappeared again. I am so glad I got it back finally. :)
woooooooooooooo
life is good again.
On Sunday, I went with Outi to visit my new host family. They live out in the country and it takes about 20 minutes drive down country roads to get there. As soon as we got there, I realized that they lived in a HUGE house. Seriously I almost got lost its so big.
It was really nice to meet my new host family. I found out that I would be moving on Friday so the rest of the week was filled with me packing.
I realized that I actually have a lot of stuff with me. It's not even that I have that many clothes, I just have a lot of STUFF. I have gifts for my host families and for my friends, books about Canada and never ending Canada paraphernalia. Along with my winter coat, winter boots and snowpants, it is fair to say I had about 5 bags. OOPS.
Last night (Friday) I moved to this new family. My new family is really great. I have my host mom, Leena, our au pair, Mailis, and 4 sisters, Helena (15), Leila (14), Annakaisa (10) and Maija (6). It is great to be here and I have already developed a good relationship with my sisters. It will be more of a challenge to live here for me which I think is good. All of my sisters can speak some english but I try to communicate mostly with Maija and Kaisa in Finnish, which is the challenge. I hope this will really improve my speaking. :)
My new home is about 20 minutes from the centre of Siilinjarvi so I have to take a bus to school. My bus card was 100 Euros for the month, so thank god Rotary will pay me back for this. Although the new house is so far away, I kind of like it out here, it is quiet all the time and I am really close to the lake. Literally my house is a waterfront property :)
Oh and yesterday, I started to write my beavertale, actually I finished writing my beavertale and just as I finished, my email deleted the whole thing!!! I freaked out, I actually almost cried at school hahaha. I had worked so hard on it and the whole thing was gone. I looked through my whole email and it never came back and then I gave up. Finally last night I was just like 'oh I am going to check my email on my ipod' AND IT WAS THERE. I freaked out and then emailed it to myself 7 times and then took screen captures of it on my ipod incase it disappeared again. I am so glad I got it back finally. :)
woooooooooooooo
life is good again.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
update
writing every day is getting harder and harder as my life gets busier and busier and i have more and more friends to talk to.
Wow that was a lot of words duplicated.
Anyways,
I will try to write about once or twice a week but I have been so busy lately that I haven't written.
I will switch families tomorrow so I will write an update after that busyness is over :)
Wow that was a lot of words duplicated.
Anyways,
I will try to write about once or twice a week but I have been so busy lately that I haven't written.
I will switch families tomorrow so I will write an update after that busyness is over :)
Sunday, November 4, 2012
day 90, 91, 92,
okay so Thursday was so much fun!
Not having classes was kind of boring but I survived. At 12,00 we went bowling and it was fun too. Except!!! They have 10 pin bowling here and I have only ever 10 pin bowled like once in my life and I was maybe 7...? So, I had so much trouble and I really sucked and yes, it was just plain bad. And I broke my thumb nail really bad and it hurt. :(
But then, my friend Henri came and he saved the day because he bowls in like a league and then I won :)
After bowling, we ate Pulla at the restaurant in Fontanella and then Mara, Finja, Lookmou, Rebekka and I came to my house to watch a movie for our history class. It was stupid, hahahaha.
Friday was a normal school day, nothing very exciting. After school, Roosa and I walked to Old Fox for fries. It was cold so we sat in there for like an hour and a half. After that, we finally decided we should walk home. It was pouring rain and like 1 degree outside. It sucked. and its like a 45 minute walk to Roosa's house. We almost died. I think at one point it was actually hailing. Then we were frozen for like an hour when we finally got home.
Sanna came over that night and we both were going to sleepover at Roosa's house. We got all settled in and comfortable to watch a movie and were like half way through it when Henri called us. He was bored so he wanted us to come hang out with him. So we went, it was like 11 when we got there and we stayed until 12:30, good thing he lives close to Roosa.
We had fun and we got a lot closer telling secrets to eachother. I love those moments when you just bond with someone so easily, and then you instantly become so much closer.
I think we went to bed at 3 am that night, and then woke up at 9:30 the next day to go to the new mall. There was a new mall opening in Kuopio(well outside Kuopio but still) and we were going. We thought the mall opened at 11, but it actually opneed at 12 so we had to wait outside for a bit. There were cars and people everywhere. At about 12:30 after we had only been in a few shops, Emmi (another friend) called us. She couldn't even get into the mall because they wouldnt let any more cars in the parking lot. It sucked. But after that we met up with Henri, Peetu and Anssi who were also there shopping.
I just have to say, shopping with boys is HORRIBLE. They had no idea what they even wanted to buy, or where they wanted to go. We would walk into a store , they would look at 2 shirts and then they would want to leave. And we would freak out like 'YOU DIDN'T EVEN LOOK AROUND!!!!!' we were getting really frustrated. Thank god Peetu actually was trying things on. Eventually we just wanted to pick out clothes for them and make them buy them but they wouldn't let us.
They needed to eat lunch and had to wait in the 34928374928734 person Subway line. So we went shopping a bit more. After about 45 minutes, we were wondering where they were so we called them and they were STILL waiting in line. They all ate one and a half full subs. So 18 inches, or 45cm of sub! and THEN, they were like 'lets go get donuts'
I think my jaw actually dropped.
How does one stomach hold that much food?????????????
anyways,
yeah so Peetu drove us all home after that and Roosa and I went to Henri's (again). And his friend Eetu came over and we all were going to watch a scary movie but Eetu was scared ahhaha. So we all played this game that is like Taboo. It is NOT easy to play a word game in Finnish....... so basically I only explained the words that I understood. There weren't very many I knew, but it was still fun.
I think the most entertaining thing was that even though I didn't understand everything they were saying, I could tell when they were excited or frustrated. Although excited and frustrated both involved slapping the cards onto the table. hahahaha.
It was a good weekend :D
Not having classes was kind of boring but I survived. At 12,00 we went bowling and it was fun too. Except!!! They have 10 pin bowling here and I have only ever 10 pin bowled like once in my life and I was maybe 7...? So, I had so much trouble and I really sucked and yes, it was just plain bad. And I broke my thumb nail really bad and it hurt. :(
But then, my friend Henri came and he saved the day because he bowls in like a league and then I won :)
After bowling, we ate Pulla at the restaurant in Fontanella and then Mara, Finja, Lookmou, Rebekka and I came to my house to watch a movie for our history class. It was stupid, hahahaha.
Friday was a normal school day, nothing very exciting. After school, Roosa and I walked to Old Fox for fries. It was cold so we sat in there for like an hour and a half. After that, we finally decided we should walk home. It was pouring rain and like 1 degree outside. It sucked. and its like a 45 minute walk to Roosa's house. We almost died. I think at one point it was actually hailing. Then we were frozen for like an hour when we finally got home.
Sanna came over that night and we both were going to sleepover at Roosa's house. We got all settled in and comfortable to watch a movie and were like half way through it when Henri called us. He was bored so he wanted us to come hang out with him. So we went, it was like 11 when we got there and we stayed until 12:30, good thing he lives close to Roosa.
We had fun and we got a lot closer telling secrets to eachother. I love those moments when you just bond with someone so easily, and then you instantly become so much closer.
I think we went to bed at 3 am that night, and then woke up at 9:30 the next day to go to the new mall. There was a new mall opening in Kuopio(well outside Kuopio but still) and we were going. We thought the mall opened at 11, but it actually opneed at 12 so we had to wait outside for a bit. There were cars and people everywhere. At about 12:30 after we had only been in a few shops, Emmi (another friend) called us. She couldn't even get into the mall because they wouldnt let any more cars in the parking lot. It sucked. But after that we met up with Henri, Peetu and Anssi who were also there shopping.
I just have to say, shopping with boys is HORRIBLE. They had no idea what they even wanted to buy, or where they wanted to go. We would walk into a store , they would look at 2 shirts and then they would want to leave. And we would freak out like 'YOU DIDN'T EVEN LOOK AROUND!!!!!' we were getting really frustrated. Thank god Peetu actually was trying things on. Eventually we just wanted to pick out clothes for them and make them buy them but they wouldn't let us.
They needed to eat lunch and had to wait in the 34928374928734 person Subway line. So we went shopping a bit more. After about 45 minutes, we were wondering where they were so we called them and they were STILL waiting in line. They all ate one and a half full subs. So 18 inches, or 45cm of sub! and THEN, they were like 'lets go get donuts'
I think my jaw actually dropped.
How does one stomach hold that much food?????????????
anyways,
yeah so Peetu drove us all home after that and Roosa and I went to Henri's (again). And his friend Eetu came over and we all were going to watch a scary movie but Eetu was scared ahhaha. So we all played this game that is like Taboo. It is NOT easy to play a word game in Finnish....... so basically I only explained the words that I understood. There weren't very many I knew, but it was still fun.
I think the most entertaining thing was that even though I didn't understand everything they were saying, I could tell when they were excited or frustrated. Although excited and frustrated both involved slapping the cards onto the table. hahahaha.
It was a good weekend :D
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