random stuff + nervousness!

(written yesterday, I just didn't get it published)

Just to avoid school work (French oral exam tomorrow - I'm gonna die), I came to tell some random things. Just to ramble something.

Firstly, it's weird how Spanish (and some other foreigners too) find it sooooo weird that I live on my own in Finland. For them it just doesn't make sense that I'm only 20 years old and I live alone. I always have to explain that no, I don't mean I have an own room, and no, I don't mean that I live in a student dormitory / residence because of school, and no, I don't mean that I share an apartment with my friends - I seriously mean that I live on my own, in my own (rental) apartment, only me living there. Usually that's enough of explaining, then they just look at me a bit weirdly. They can't see why people move out of their parents' apartments so early. One day I had this conversation going on again, with a Spanish guy. In addition to these basic questions and explanations, he asked "but who cleans up there?" and "but who cooks?" :D He just couldn't imagine that I would do also that kind of things by myself. hahah the astonishment on his face when I was like "ehhh... me?". And when it came to the fact that I also have a job and I also work along with the studying, that was far too much for him to handle :D "what! why!!"

So yes, foreigners, just to clarify that at least in Finland (a) it's quite common to live on your own at the age of 20, (b) if you live in your own apartment, you cook and clean up by yourself (no housekeepers or personal chefs, at least if you're not rich & lazy :D), (c) we do have domestic education at school (during the junior high school - basic education about housekeeping skills and knowledge, including cooking), (d) almost every student (at least at the university / academic level) is working along with the studies, just to earn some money for living (even though we also get some student allowance, of course).

Another thing I wanted to tell about is HOW IRRITATING IT IS THAT SOME TV PROGRAMS FINISH THEIR SEASONS WITH TERRIBLE HAPPENINGS AND THE WATCHERS ARE TORTURED TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT SEASON THAT IT NOT COMING OUT IN A WHILE. I'm sure that many of you agree with me on this one. And in this case, I'm talking about Grey's Anatomy - they have made it too many times. I shouldn't watch season final episodes before the next season has already started because I can't handle the waiting. On Friday I watched the season 8 final (that came out in the U.S. on Thursday, in Finland it's gonna come out in a month or so) and _they_did_it_again_. I warn you, be prepared if you're a GA watcher and you think you've already seen it all during the 8 seasons. You haven't. And now there are too many months to wait.......

 (written today)
As you can see, I was quite bored with the school stuff yesterday. I went out for a while just to clear my mind. I went to "Jardin de Ayora", a little park I had passed by a few times when cycling to a shopping center - every time I passed it I thought that I have to go there one day, so yesterday I did it. There were a lot of older people spending their Sunday :) The sun was shining when I went there - but just out of nowhere, the sky looked like this:

So I decided to go back home. The thunderstorm came but it took only 20 minutes or so, and then the weather was sunny again. wtf :D Later I got so stressed about everything that I though I was gonna blow up.

 
Today I've been just nervous because of the French oral exam. And I still am, I can't concentrate on anything right now. Me and my partner's exam is at 7pm, and we'll meet at the university at 6pm, so soon I have to get going..! Please, fingers crossed that everything goes well. I will probably come and update something after the exam - if I'm capable to do that and not too angry or disappointed etc because of not passing..... I will pass it! I WILL!

edit 19.45: WELL PASSED! i'm soooo relieved!!

5 days to go!

How could I pass the next 5 days as quickly as possible? As I have no specific plans (and all the places are closed..) I feel so bored and the days feel like lasting forever. Well, at least I got something done today (finally) - I got my root growth covered. Now I'm blond again! (okay I've been blond all the time but it didn't feel that way with the terrible root growth)

So, now I can't say anything else but: 5 DAYS, PLEASE GO BY FAST! otherwise i will get bored to death. thanks.
next Tuesday - destination: MALAGA!

 

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Sunday - my favorite!!

or NOT. Fiiiiiinally this long Sunday is coming to its end. If you think about it, it should have passed a bit faster than usually as the time went an hour forward today but noooooo. It didn't feel like that at all.

My weekend has included a lot of stomach aches and being pissed off for no reason. Yesterday I actually started to write a post but it's still unfinished (I will publish it when it's done, it's not about one actual day or anything so it doesn't matter if I don't get it done right now). Well yesterday I did a lot of laundry, cleaned up a bit and went to try my Valenbisi-card that I got on Friday. It was so nice to go cycling after a long time! People that passed by probably considered me as a retard or something because I had that foolish grin on my face as I realized how useful the whole bike system is. Now I can get everywhere so easily and quickly! I went to a shopping center that I hadn't visited before and it was nice. Have to go there again some day. I went around a bit and found a few shirts and two pairs of earrings. Then I drove back and came home after visiting Mercadona. So, nothing so special.

Today (i_hate_sundays.com), even less special. Stomach aches again, long shower, school stuff and I visited the only store that's open just because I just wanted to do something. The weather was better than good and now it's proved - it's officially summer, because I went out wearing just shorts, two tops and my favorite shoes (for the first time here) and I didn't feel cold (and I'm a person who's always feeling cold). The fact that I was able to wear my favorite shoes (in the pictures) cheered me up a bit. Later we had a Skype date with J.

So, this weekend has been quite boring but I must say that I wouldn't even have been able to do anything special - there were a few times when I almost passed out because of the pain in my stomach. So maybe it was just good to take it easy. A new week of school work ahead of me, and I have to say that I hope that the next two weeks will pass by as quickly as possible because then I'll see J (15 days left!!). We are both flying to Malaga on April 10th (Tuesday). I just can't wait anymore..........

weekend

My weekend with the flu: school work, handkerchieves, sniffling, Pepsi, food, Californication, lollipops, nails, the Body Shop's Coconut products, frustration, sadness, happiness, laundry, Cosmopolitan (Spanish!!).

On Friday I had the morning classes (i HATE 8.30 classes, especially as I don't have any other classes that day, feels so useless to wake up so early just for those classes). I felt terrible (I think I had fever), it felt like I could pass out at any moment. I did a lot of school work that day and still didn't get those notes done (a powerpoint -presentation of 43 pages..). I also visited Mercadona and in the evening some Finnish people came to our place. I would have enjoyed the company a lot more if I hadn't felt so weak and tired. Even though I felt like that, I couldn't sleep until 2.30 or so. Blah.

Spanish economy ... <3

On Saturday I felt even worse. Everytime I wanted to get up from the bed I felt like fainting. Luckily the kitchen and the bathroom are right next to my room. I gathered energy for quite a many hours by eating and watching Californication (one season in one day .. nicely done!) and finally I got up and ready to go to Mercadona (I was about to run out of Pepsi.. and I also wanted something goood). Just a quick visit and then back to home, but I still guess it was good to have even a little bit of fresh air. Then I just continued with Californication.

On Sunday, today, I've been feeling a bit better. Okay I'm sniffling all the time but at least I don't feel like fainting anymore. I have still taken it easy, watching (surprise surprise) Californication and so on. I visited one store (the only one open on Sunday) to get more Pepsi (yea i know.. too addicted) and some chocolate. And I have to say that I actually liked the weather today even though it was very cloudy - still +24 degrees! Cloudy days are rare in here, so I've started to appreciate them more. And on sunny days, I always feel obligated to go out even if there wasn't anything special to do. Today, I didn't feel obligated to go there but I went because I wanted. Got it? I don't mean that I wouldn't like the fact that the sun is often shining but I just appreciate different types of weather in a different way now.

During these quite boring days I've had particularly much time to think about everything. Even too much time, I'd say. My thoughts could also be described as homesickness. Well it hasn't been as bad as during the first weeks here, but the point is that as I've been feeling weak and lonely, I've missed someone to take care of me and to be near me. I've missed my family, my friends and - especially - J. People I love. My own apartment. Someone to hug me. Or to just be near to me. As I said to J one day, I can't wait to see my sister - well of course because I miss her - but also because I just want to get a proper hug! Without even mentioning how much I'm waiting for seeing J himself..! After all, I'm quite physical person and I need the closeness. I knew it before, but not until now I realize how much I need that. M (sister), promise me you hug me tightly then (in 10 days we'll be there, in Barcelona)!

PS. There's one more thing I miss a lot..........

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From weheartit.com; "down to earth"

Don't take that in a wrong way, I don't drink much, but the fact that ciders are not popular (or good..) here (and I don't drink beer) makes me miss my favorite cider a lot!!

Valentine's day + updating

"Life is Beautiful" // weheartit.com

I hope you all have had a chance to spend this day, Valentine's Day, near to your friends and the people you care about. For me, Valentine's day has never been a special day and I've never celebrated it in any special way. Maybe I've always taken it for granted that I have friends and other important people around me all the time. But today, it hasn't been like that.

"Cinderella in the Making | BELEZA" // weheartit.com

How many times have I heard people wishing happy Valentine's day today? Well, many times. Okay I've also done the same, but on Facebook. Not directly, face-to-face. To anyone. I've given zero hugs, zero kisses. I've got zero hugs, zero kisses. I'm too far away from my friends to hug them or kiss them, or even to wish them happy valentine's day face-to-face. Realizing that made me miss Finland quite a lot. It made me miss my friends, family and relatives even more. It made me miss J even more (how is that possible?). Even though Valentine's Day isn't such a big happening in Finland (compared to the UK, for instance) and it mainly emphasizes friendships, it has still felt a bit wrong that we couldn't spend our first Valentine's together with J. After all, it's called Valentine's day and well, it would have been so wonderful to do something a little bit special with my own Valentine.

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Okay, enough about Valentine's day.

I guess I haven't told about last weekend yet. Last Friday I had the morning classes of Spanish economy and nothing else. I was sitting there with one Finnish girl (from my home university too) and one Polish girl and we ended up talking about all these weird Spanish habits, like not going out (to a bar/nightclub) until 1 or 2am (why so late?!). Weird rhythm for all of us, but we decided that that night was the night we were gonna make it.

Well I got home before 11am and the time went sooooo slowly.

I took a nap.

I took a shower.

I ate.

I went to Mercadona (local market, like S-market or K-market in Finland).

And still - time didn't go any faster. I had a good mood about going out that night and I didn't wanna lose it. It just felt so frustrating that I was supposed to wait so many hours before even thinking about getting ready or going out.

Later I invited some people to our house for pre-drinks and so on, and eventually we were just hanging out and drinking here; me, Ksenia, three other Finns and one Italian girl. It was fun! We left the house after 1am (so late, I would have been ready to go a lot earlier) and headed to Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (<- link) to a nightclub called MYA. The night was fun, a lot of dancing etc. but I kind of lost my party mood at some point because of one incident (not gonna discuss it now). Eventually we took a taxi and came home at 4.30am or something like that. But the club was great!

My hangover wasn't bad on Saturday but I was just tired as I didn't sleep well that night (or should I say "that morning"). Well I'm not gonna even start to write about Sunday because you already know my opinion about Sundays. boring boring boring.

Yesterday I had the classes-i-love-the-most - French. But it wasn't that terrible because I met a girl from Ireland there. We can speak English there and help each other - speaking French is not the only way to survive anymore. My spring became many times easier and more comfortable! Thank god, you can't imagine how relieved I am. The teacher cancelled Tuesday's French classes (what a pity...) so I only had Marketing classes today. That's it.

And a small update: next week we are going to the Andalucia-trip! We are gonna see four cities: Jaén, Granada (two nights there), Sevilla (two nights there) and Cordoba. The trip lasts from Wednesday (or the night between Tuesday and Wednesday) 'til Sunday. Yay!

"tigers" // weheartit.com

"madmguillotine" // weheartit.com

"Placa de España" // weheartit.com

"Dying of cute" // weheartit.com

Materialism - happiness?

Sunday. All the places are closed in here. The sky is cloudy (at the exact moment I wrote that it started to rain..). It's not warm outside. Boring day. I've never been a fan of Sundays, but in Finland at least some places are open. And in Finland Sunday was a good day to go to work. But here.. nothing.

So, as I'm bored and there isn't even school work I could do, I'm entertaining myself with my camera. It has been a good friend of mine here in Spain and absolutely one of the best things I've purchased lately (okay not so lately, I bought it before Christmas but you know what I mean).

Sometimes it just feels that materialism means happiness, and that's how I've felt today. Now I'm gonna introduce some stuff that I like or that can be found on my table. I didn't take pictures of some self-evident things - like Pepsi Max (here: Pepsi Light), MacBook, or my mobile + Angry Birds - as they are too obvious. Here we go. (Btw, it's not raining anymore.)

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1. Nomination (a composable bracelet) - my precious

I feel weird without it. The only piece of jewelry that I wear everyday.

My special pieces: "Little My" from the Moomins -  Love - the row of figures with red "diamonds" and a four-leaf clover with clear "diamonds" (from J :-))

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2. Different nail polishes

Those of you who know me in real life and have visited my Finnish home, know that I'm a nail polish addict. I left the majority of my nail polishes (there are more than twenty different ones) at home but I also took a few with me. And I've already bought a few new ones..

Kiko - top coat, Lumene - silver, the Body Shop - sparkling pink, Lumene - matte pink, Kiko - sparkling red, Maybelline - matte red, OPI - sparkling dark blue, Mavala - black oyster

the ones I chose to use today :-)

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3. The Body Shop products

I had quite a many of these at home but I took just a few with me. Luckily I found the Body Shop store here too. My latest favorite scent is Coconut / Noix de Coco.

these two I bought just yesterday

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4. Make up products

I put on some make up every day. In my opinion I don't use that much make up, except for the special occasions when I use a little more (and maybe in a different way).

the products I normally use everyday

Eye make up products for special situations (the eye shadow palette I bought just yesterday so I haven't tried it yet)

Usually I use just lip balm but if  want something more, I use lip gloss. I never use lipstick.

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5. Earrings (and some other pieces of jewelry)

love love love. I really don't need so many pairs of them but I just like buying them. Well at least there's a variety to choose from :-D

my favorites at the moment

and the box of other jewelry

inside the box

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6. Perfumes

These are the only ones that I took with me from Finland:

Carolina Herrera - 212 Sexy, and the little ones: Lancôme - Miracle, Lancôme - Hypnôse

 I left two absolute favorites at home: Calvin Klein - Euphoria for Women (I was afraid of breaking it during the flights as I didn't have any suitable box for it) and Diesel - Fuel for Life (it was almost empty). I would like to buy a new perfume from here but I haven't yet decided which one it's gonna be. Suggestions?

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7. Litterature

I suck at reading but  you can still find a few books on my table. It's been many years since I've finished one whole book but yesterday I began to read one and I think it's interesting enough for me to read it 'til the end!

Kira Poutanen - Rakkautta au lait (this is the one I began to read yesterday)

right.... looks interesting, don't you think?! that's the challenge I told you about. tough times ahead!

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After all, this post wasn't as quick to do as I first thought! Well, at least this boring day has gone a bit faster as I've had something to do. But there are still many boring hours left.. blah.