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Nothing special to write. I'm having a flu - thanks to the lovely fact that it's colder inside the house than outside <3... that's just so wrong!

Yesterday - welcome meeting at the university. got my timetable. Mondays - just 2 hours of school in the evening, Tuesdays-Thursdays - 2 hours in the "morning" and 2 hours in the evening, Fridays - just 2 hours in the morning. not too hard, except for the French course that I'm so not going to pass as my head is already messed up because of English and especially Spanish. talking to J via Skype for almost 2 hours.

Today - my voice was gone. I had to escape the coldness (inside the house) by going out. so i went for shopping. I skipped the library tour as i felt terrible when i came back from the shopping session. fever - i guess not, but my voice is weak and my throat is killing me. talking to J via Skype over an hour with my lovely voice.

That's all for now. I'm a bit upset because of this damn flu and stuff. Tomorrow I have to feel better as it's time for Valencia CF - FC Barcelona.

J, I wish you were here now. Miss you, a lot.

one warm day in Valencia

can you spot Tarzan there?

!Hola a todos!

This day went quite quickly and well. I left the house about 12.30 and my first goal was to find the university, all by myself. Apparently I'm not so bad in navigating after all - I just walked straight to the university, i didn't even have to stop to think about the direction. So i didn't face any problems until i got to the university. i was supposed to go to the international relations office and i knew where it was, but i didn't find an elevator or the stairs.. fail. Finally i found the stairs and got upstairs where the office is located. there were other students waiting outside the office and i thought i was supposed to wait too because they were there before me. well luckily a woman came there and asked if everyone of us was waiting to meet *name (i don't remember which it was)* and i wasn't, so she asked me to come in another office. there i just filled in a paper and got the information about next Monday's welcome meeting and some tourist information brochures. i also tried to change the order of my names there but they asked me to come back in a month, because the change would have messed up all the registration systems or something..

after visiting office i just spent over an hour sitting at the campus and tanning. okay i don't know if i can call it tanning but it was so warm that i was almost sleeping at the bench and I'm sure i got a little bit of tanning, at least i want to believe so! Then some guy came there to ask if i study there and where i was from. we spent a while talking about stuff and he said that he would like to improve his English skills as his native language was Spanish. here it's quite usual to meet some people as "doing tandem": you can teach and help someone to speak some language and the other one can help you with some other language. for me it's better than fine, because he can show me the city and i also get used to speak English (now it's quite weird; even though i can speak it, I'm not used to speak it) when i speak with him a lot and maybe he can also teach me some Spanish. good deal :-)
 

Later we went to a shopping center with Ksenia, two Russian girls and a Russian guy. we went to McDonald's (they serve beer in McDonald's here?!), and to Carrefour and a few other stores to do some shopping. I bought for example shampoos, Pepsi max <3 (you can't get it just anywhere here), towels, notebook, etc. And another red pants from Zara! It wasn't until after 8.30pm when we came back to the house. Then we cleaned up a bit very quickly as one guy came to check the apartment (there will be a free room as Ksenia moves away).

Okay I guess that was enough for today. Almost all the time on the move so now it's quite nice to just lie on the couch.

PS. Today I've heard more Russian language than ever before in my life :-D

valencia!!

 so it's VALENCIA on the 20th of January 2012 then!

i bought my flight about an hour ago, finally. ive been talking a lot about buying it but i just haven't done it. until today! happy happy happy! so im gonna leave on the 20th of January (Friday) in the afternoon from Helsinki-Vantaa airport (Finland) towards Spain. First im gonna fly to Barcelona (<3) and then from Barcelona to Valencia, and i will be there at 00.25 or something.

Then i have ten days to "make myself home" (as if it happened that fast..) before the school begins. Luckily i have one person from our school there already (she's gonna stay there also for the spring) so i guess i wont be totally alone during the first days there :) and there are two other girls coming to Valencia from our school for the spring too!

im excited now! im so looking forward to leaving, but first i should get my courses registered and some papers sent there too. i already decided the courses once and sent the papers there but now i have to do it again.... well, quite a many persons have said to me that it's anything but easy with the course registering and stuff when going there... well i just have to go and talk with our school's coordinator and try to get these issues solved as soon as possible.

enough for now,

¡adios!

motivation?

heeeello.

i havent been blogging because i have a huge motivation problem with EVERYTHING. if motivation can be bought somewhere, please tell me.

i started studying again about a month ago and im already pissed off with my studies. every other week i work in our school's "restaurant" (as a part of studies, without being paid...) and those days aren't always easy. the other weeks we have theory lessons and i have those even more than working in that restaurant. i cant concentrate. im not too interested in the things we go through, and even though i would be, i get depressed of all the work we have to do for our courses. at this moment my motivation is all gone and i would quit my studies if i could. the only thing that keeps my going, or should i say studying, is that there are not soooo many months any more till i go to spain for exchange. i would be so ready to go already!!

me working at school.... "good times" NOT?

on september i had quite a lot going on. i moved - again - but now im happy with where i live. i dont know how ill be able to leave this apartment when i go to spain... im also one year older now. i turned 20 about a week ago (an age crisis!) and i celebrated that with my friends last weekend.

two years ago, as i turned 18, we were in barcelona with my friend. "good times" YES!!

one thing that makes me at least a bit happier is that i started riding again. Riding has always been the only hobby that i like and it has been 11 years now since i started it. i hadnt ridden a horse for half an year but last week i had my first riding lesson again. happyface! and today was another lesson. it makes me forget all the stress etc and makes me feel better - i can feel it.

me and the pony i rented an year ago :)

whooaa i got this updated. maybe one day ill find my motivation again and update this more often. lets see about that..