Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

12/06/2012

Independence Day - Finland 95 years

Happy Independence Day, Finland! In 5 years it's gonna be a big party ;)



Sorry about not posting for a while. I just haven't felt like writing. I've also been a bit busy. Last week I had three shifts at work which is more than usually as I have normally worked one or two shifts per week during these months. I've also been busy with final reports as all the projects are coming to their end these weeks. I've already had two presentations - one to go (next Tuesday). One report was returned last week, two to go (I'm going to return one today as soon as I've checked it through - 40/58 pages checked now edit woooo it's ready!! finally!!). And also one portfolio which can't be finished just yet as I have to include our event in it and the date for the event is Friday December 14th. So no, I can't rest quite yet.


And by the way. Winter has come to Finland. Totally. Yesterday it was -18 degrees at lowest and I only see snow when I look outside. Last Friday we had a terrible snow storm, the traffic was stuck and nothing worked. Yay winter. Not.

Today I'm going to get my aunt's dog to my place as she's going to London for a few days. I'm a bit scared as I've never taken care of a dog... :D I'm not such a dog person, and if she pees on my floor.................. f*ck. I'm going to return her back home on Sat before work. Tomorrow we are having a pre-Christmas party with my school friends, the plans include going to bowling and then to one's place. But unluckily I can't stay for long as I have the dog and I'm going to work on Sat.



By the way, I've been thinking about starting to write in Finnish. I guess I would have more to give and I don't even believe that so many of my exchange friends read this blog so it would be easier for me. I have to think about it.

Maybe I still continue the challenge I started. Maybe it's only fair to put two days in a row as I haven't updated in such a long time. So next..

Day 08 – What’s inside of your bag?

I’m not gonna take a picture of it right now but I can tell, because it’s almost always the same things in there. At school, I have a bigger bag, where I have my mini laptop and its charger, a notebook, a pencil case (usually) or just some pens, my calendar, a mobile charger, a lip balm, my mobile phone, my wallet, keys, a travel card, a bag of chewing gum and nowadays a hand cream. I’m a special woman because I don’t usually drag any make up with me (and sometimes I regret that..).

When I’m not at school but somewhere else, I usually have a smaller bag, where I have my mobile, keys, my wallet, a travel card, my calendar and a bag of chewing gum and.. that’s about it. Usually there’s also a package of salt liquorice, just in case >:)

When I go out, I have a tiny little bag where I have only the essentials; my mobile, some money / Visa Electron, a travel card, only the two keys I need to get home and some make up stuff. I always have a problem with those tiny bags because my stuff never fit into them properly. I’m always afraid that something will fall off.



Day 09 – Where would you like to travel?

God this is a hard one; I have too many destinations I would like to go. Well. At least I want to go to London and Paris, well because they’re classic. Everyone should visit those places at some point of their life. Then I want to go to Ireland. I don’t know what’s so interesting and tempting about that country, but I’ve done some presentations about Ireland and I’ve been wanting to go there for a long time now. Then, I would like to go to New York. Classic. But the flight frightens me. Also California has been on my list after I got addicted to the TV-series O.C.

Talking about some European cities, I would like to go to Nice (France) and Prague (Czech Republic) and Warsaw (Poland, to see several exhange friends :-)). Then, I have one obsession I have to experience - Madrid. I went around Spain during last spring but I never went to the capital?! So I have to get there. Aaaaaaaa how did I almost forget my probably number one destination – Rome!! That is the place I’ve been wanting to visit for longer than any other of the places. Considering Italy, Milan could also be nice.

Well well. I’ve never been so interested in going to Asian countries or African countries. Australia or New Zealand could be cool but I think I’m never gonna get there because of the flight that is longer than eternity. But I should never say never.


prepared to go out to freeze!

PS. My internship starts on January 14th  :-) Happy me!

10/26/2012

1/19/2012

ten little, but wonderful, things


we had a snow storm today here in Finland.. and this was just the morning, it went on the whole day!
Now that packing is almost done, I'm trying to relax a bit while J is cooking for us. I've been feeling quite complicated and confused, and I'm having very mixed and conflicting feelings. That's why I decided to do the task that I found from a blog that I'm following; so I have go here and pick ten little things that please me the most and that I find worth appreciating. While going those things through, I realized that one little thing really can make you feel better or cheer you up, at least a bit. Actually I went those through yesterday evening and I found many (a lot more than ten!) of them agreeable but I still try to pick just ten of them. Okay, here we go..

#1, this one isn't a surprise to anyone who knows me :-D
#2, I just yesterday told J I'm doing this :-)




#3, the main reason why I liked maths, the feeling of getting a completely correct solution!
#4, :----)
#5, for a change, usually I'm in a bad mood, just because...
#6, I never wear jeans etc if I'm home alone. sweatpants <3
#7, just because. this one made me miss one particular friend that I've known since we were kids.
#8, I just realized a few days ago that I enjoy this one, when J does it and at a hairdresser's!
#9, especially in the spring when the real hot weathers aren't there yet.
#10, at that moment I can feel that person really cares about me.

1/09/2012

winterrrr is here!


Okay, now you can forget what I've said about not having snow here in southern Finland because...





It's winter in here!

I wouldn't be anywhere near this happy if I had to cope with all the snow and coldness for several months, but now that I'm leaving in two weeks it feels kind of nice to have a little period of real winter too. Even though it haven't been colder than -10 degrees, I've been freezing out there! But two weeks - I can deal with it ;-) In Valencia it isn't extremely warm at the moment, but compared to Finnish temperatures I'm sure it's gonna be warm enough for me. And it just gets warmer along the spring :-)

11 days left!



12/21/2011

snow!!

Just yesterday I wrote here that I don't think that we are going to have a white Christmas here in Finland - and what happened last night..? When I woke up today i saw something white outside! SNOW! Not much but enough to cheer up our supposed-to-be-black-Christmas. And there are still a few days before Christmas Eve so maybe we still get some more? I'm not sure if I mentioned it yesterday, but personally I don't like snow that much - I just don't want to have completely black Christmas.

I went to shopping today as I had time to spend. I bought myself a Christmas present - Canon Ixus 115HS Digital Camera! Yay! Now I can take some pictures in Spain too :) I also bought a BIG traveling bag because there are only about 4 weeks left in Finland - I should soon start thinking about packing. So now I have a new camera and a new suitcase - I'm happy!

Eventually, here you can see some Christmas mood from my home: