finally i did it!

(written on Thursday, just pictures added today)

Okay, here we go... finally!

So, on Saturday 14th (almost two weeks ago.. woops) we got in a car with 4 friends of mine and headed towards a rented cottage situated in MeriTeijo, quite near to Salo. It took less than 2 hours to drive there. My friend and her friend had rented the cottage for a little cottage party! They both had invited their own friends so eventually there were quite many of us. Luckily it was a two-storey cottage so we didn't run out of room. There was also a terrace, three (?) bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a sauna, a hot-tub (:D), two bathrooms and... well that's about it! and the sea was very near so the craziest ones were able to go for a swim (why just the craziest ones? sea water here.... COLD). a few photos:

living room, isn't it a bit risky to put white carpet and white sofas there? :D

going to the beach! the journey back to the cottage wasn't so nice - uphill all the way

we had a grill and we grilled sausages and meat and corn!

drinking game with hunks-cards!

So we had a nice Saturday night there, I love my friends! On Sunday we all had a small hangover so we stopped in a pizzeria-restaurant in Salo to have some hangover-fastfood to deal with it. Then we came home.

Last week was quite tough for me when it comes to working. I had only one day off, Friday. On Friday, as I told in my previous (short) post, 4 friends of mine had their farewell party. Three of them are going to Peru for exchange and one is going to Spain to do an internship (I may be a bit jealous..). This fall will be strange for me as my best school mates are not there! :( I will miss you guys! Well I couldn't party much then because I had to go to work on Saturday morning but at least I was able to participate. It was great to see all the people, some of whom I haven't seen after my own farewell party.

I was at work on Saturday and Sunday, but on Sunday after work I took a bus to Helsinki where I met J and then we took a train to Hämeenlinna, to our summer cottage. You see I'm trying to catch every chance to go and "relax" in the countryside.. We spent a few days there and on Tuesday we came back. The weather wasn't good at all, but well, at least we got some things-to-do-at-the-summer-cottage done; we went to sauna, we went fishing, we took a countryside walk and saw lambs! It wasn't as relaxing as I had hoped but I'm still happy we went there instead of sitting here at home and just waiting for the next working shift.

fishing! all the foreigners, welcome to our lovely, sunny summer!

i caught a shellfish??

we saw lambs! there was also an angry rooster that kept on crowing..

countryside (what a sunny summer, right?)

So we came back on Tuesday and in the same evening I went to the stable with my friend and the horse girl inside me was very content! I was there with her also a week before, and my I can tell you that my desire for riding lessons has just strengthened...

Now I'm having four working days in a row and on Saturday I have an intention to go to another summer cottage after work. Our plans still haven't clarified totally but I hope everything goes as planned and I would be able to be there from Sat to Tuesday with my relatives that I haven't seen since Christmas! Then I have four working days in a row again, one day off, three days of work and then we are off to Oulu with J!

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I'm trying to get some motivation back so that I would get something done with this blog. maybe one day.... last two weeks have been busy, I've been working quite a lot. Last weekend we drove to a cottage village in MeriTeijo to have a cottage party! This week I've been at work 6 days out of 7. On Friday my friends had a farewell party :( Three of them are going to Peru for exchange and one is going to Spain to do an internship. Good luck to you all, I will miss you! Today after work I will take a bus, go to Helsinki and take a train to Hämeenlinna with J. I have two days off, so I wanna catch the chance to spend those days in the countryside. Now I'm off to work, adios!

my camera cable is here again!

J brought my camera cable from his home yesterday, so I can add pictures again, yay!

So it's been a week since I got my apartment back and it already feels like home again. Actually it feels a bit like I hadn't even been away at all!

Last weekend I spent my time fixing my home and decoration and so on. On Saturday we visited my friend's boyfriend's housewarming party and we had planned to go on to a bar afterwards but then our plans got messy and the night turned out to be quite calm after all. On Sunday it was time for the exciting EURO'12-final; Spain - Italy, and about that I've already written in my previous posts :-)

But as i promised, here are some pictures from my home. My home is small, so there aren't many options for organizing the big furniture, but little details make it always more personal! As you can see, I love putting cards on the walls. I would love to put even more of them but I think it would look a bit messy then... I also had to hang my flags on the wall, of course!

Barcelona cards above my writing table

NYC-wall! I've never been there but I love the poster, and the cards I've got from my friend:-)

more cards.. that's the black&white-cards' wall

 flags and a few more cards above my bed. I kind of prefer sleeping with my head on the other side, but in this way I can watch the TV from my bed...

Spanish flag and the cards from Valencia, Andalucia and Ibiza

haha I had to put the picture of me with FCB-trophy there with my nail polishes... that's the shelf above my TV.

On Monday I got a call from my job interviewer, she offered me some shifts for the next three weeks in a nice cafeteria. I accepted the offer and now I'm back at work!

On Tuesday we went to do some shopping with J. After that J went home (he had a night shift once again) and I went to sauna in the evening, sooo relaxing :-)

The view from my building's front door

On Wednesday I had my first training shift in the café. I had to wake up at 5.30am and I was exhausted after the shift. But I liked the place and I hope that everything goes well there.

On Thursday J came here almost straight from his night shift and we just hung around. The weather was good so we went to buy some ice cream (liquorice ice cream <3) and after that we went to a nearby meadow to enjoy the sun and the summer.

On Friday morning I got a call from work; they needed me to do the evening shift because some people had got sick. I had planned to go to the stable with my friend (to see ponies!!) but I had to cancel that.. I felt so bad about that because I really would have wanted to go there! But some other day then. The evening at work seemed very long, I don't know why. It wasn't even a long shift.

On Saturday I had my second training shift and the day went much faster than the previous evening. In the evening I just took it easy as my back hurt again.

Yesterday I had a day off and I spent it doing the laundry, doing the dishes and hoovering... what's wrong with me?! But in the evening we went to the movies with J to see the Dictator. It was, well... okay :D haha.

Today I have no special plans. J is still sleeping but I couldn't let myself sleep too much because otherwise I couldn't go to bed early tonight and I have to do that because tomorrow I have to wake up at 5.30 again, for work.

Kamppi

CAMPEONES!

Aaaaaand the best team won!! Gooooo SPAIN! they are the first ones who have won the EURO tournament two times in a row, without even mentioning the fact that they also won the World Cup between these two EURO tournaments, so, I guess there's no doubt which country is the dominating football country nowadays. Champions!! It just feels weird that the matches are now over. I waited for the tournament for so long and now it's over. Now I just have to start waiting for the World Cup (2014). But all I can say now;

¡VIVA ESPAÑA!

Fernando Torres & his kids = cutest thing ever!

All the pictures from weheartit.com

 What else what else. On Monday, nothing special. On Tuesday, shopping with J! I needed straight black pants for work and after all I found two of them and also new jeans.. And I was supposed to save some money...... I have to work my ass off so that I can compensate at least some of my shoppings.

Today was my first day at work after half a year. I got a job offer on Monday and I accepted it, it covers at least next two weeks, and if everything goes well and everyone is happy, I may continue working there also after that. This kind of long-term working period in a same place wasn't what I supposed when I applied for a job in a "labor renting company" because they usually offer just some individual shifts in different places (=their customer companies to whom they "deliver workers") when extra labor is needed. But better for me, of course I prefer this situation! Today and Saturday are my training days so that I would learn all the basic things I need to know; next week I'm gonna work 5 days; the week after that I will have 6 working days... That's a lot! But I liked the place, it's a cafeteria in a shopping center and I'm working there as a cafeteria waitress. There are many products offered; different coffees, teas, cold drinks, smoothies, alcohol products, sandwiches, paninis, foccaccias, pies, salads, cakes, croissants + other bakery goods, ice creams, ... I don't even know the whole selection yet. The distance from my home is not too bad and the other workers seemed nice. So I got a positive impression, but this was just the first day.

The negative thing is that I'm not in a good condition and the job is quite physical as I have to stand all the time and carry quite heavy trays of dishes, so my back hurts now! I also had to wake up at 5.30 this morning (I didn't sleep much because I kept on waking up as I was stressed whether I wake up on time or not) so I was quite exhausted after the shift. But now I can relax these two days before my next shifts. And I can't complain, I got a job very quickly (wouldn't have believed) and the field is just what I was hoping for. And somehow I like working again! Just a few days before I got this job offer I asked J what I'm gonna do these two months before I start studying again - and now I have my answer. Of course I want to relax too and enjoy the summer, and that's why I hope the weeks after the next two weeks won't be this full. I also want to have some free time. For example, we bought tickets to Oulu with J yesterday (we are going there at the beginning of August) so at least then I'm gonna be off from work for 5 days. And we also have a few other plans, in addition to the fact that I still want to go to the countryside!

And btw, yesterday I started to write about my apartment that I got back last Friday. I've got almost everything now organized here and I also took a few pictures. But when I started writing I realized that I can't get the pictures to my computer because the camera-computer cable is at J's. So I will write about it later then, with pictures.

But now I'm exhausted (it's 1.40am, why am I still here?!). Tomorrow's weather is supposed to be beautiful so we try to make up something nice to do with J. We have to enjoy these (rare) sunny&warm days as we finally have at least a few of them here in Finland. So, good night, enjoy your summer days!

UEFA EURO 2012 FINAL

¡VAMOS ESPAÑA!