Day 04 + update

Day 04 – Your idea of the perfect first date 

Depends on how well I know the other person. But let’s expect I know him somehow, we have met before and talked but never just the two of us.

Well, I may be a bit old-fashioned but I consider going to the movies as a good date. Some people say that it’s boring because you can’t communicate with each other then, but I don’t see it that way. There’s the time before the movie – and after the movie. It’s just good that there’s some time to just be with each other, without talking, but still doing something together. There, it’s possible to hold each other’s hand without a reason and there, you can have your first (or second or whatever) kiss without the awkward silence after it – there you’re supposed to be quiet. It’s dark in there but you can still see each other if you want.

Well a perfect first date would also include a flower, but it depends how well the date knows you (if he doesn’t almost at all, he probably buys a flower you don’t even like). Going to a good restaurant is also good, but sometimes it’s hard to decide the place if you don’t know which kind of restaurant or food the other one likes.

But yes, I’m quite classic with the dating issues – movie is good as a first date. After that, when you know each other better, you can come up with something specific or different.

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I also want to update what's going on.Well I've been at work today and yesterday, today was more like Monday because everything seemed to go... not well. But this weekend I've realized how nice work colleagues I have, how well I've got adjusted to my job and that I wouldn't want to totally leave that job even though I would start an internship in the spring. But that depends on the place of the internship, I'll figure out what to do when I know more..

I'm also a bit nervous considering the upcoming week. Tomorrow we are gonna interview one professional marketer in a famous advertisement office to get a review of our project... It's exciting to go and visit the place but I'm afraid they're gonna sneer at our project and consider it pathetic :D but tomorrow is not as bad as Tuesday, when I'm going to have an internship interview...! I'm more than nervous..How can I convince them that I'm worth being recruited? Well, wish me luck. On Wed we're going to have another interview with another group and so on. The whole week is full of school stuff. And on Sat I'm going to work.

Have a nice week!  

5 weeks?

This week has been a bit weird. I've been feeling weird even though I haven't done anything so special. On Sunday I was at work; a nice day because there were enough of us. Otherwise this week has consisted of school stuff, as the only day at work is going to be tomorrow (a looooong day). I've had only one morning at school (yesterday, the last lesson of one course, yay), otherwise just afternoons. Weird. From this week forward I have free Wednesdays, that's weird too, as I'm used to having school every day from Mon to Fri. As I said, everything's weird. My feelings have also been weird, I don't know why.

One day I realized that I have only 5 weeks of school left. On one hand it feels relieving but on the other hand I got so stressed - every project must be finished by then? I'm supposed to have an internship contract by then (if I want to start at the beginning of January)? I'm supposed to know how I'm gonna go on with my job by then?? waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa STRESS!

Problem nr 1: My projects aren't even nearly ready.
Problem nr 2: I don't have an internship. I've sent applications but haven't got any sure answer yet.
Problem nr 3: I can't make the decision about continuing my job if I don't know about the internship.

I just hope that
a) my groups would DO THEIR JOB with the projects, because those projects are a bit too wide to do by myself...
b) One marketing manager would answer to me that it would be possible to do my internship at their company.
c) I would get the internship thing solved soon so that I would know what to say to my boss about continuing my contract.

So, 5 weeks? After all, nothing relieving about that.. Now I can't concentrate on writing anymore! Have to go to the school and try to get something done with one big project. If anyone of my group even turns up...

I wish!

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one year

Yesterday was our 1-year anniversary with J. No gifts, it was decided, but I got a flower! It was the first time during this relationship... :D (a bit more often would be nice, just a hint...haha)

It's not often that we go to eat in a restaurant, so that's how we decided to celebrate the anniversary. There were many options but after all we turned to the Chinese restaurant which is always a good choice. The food was good and we rolled away from the restaurant as we were so full.

The last time I updated was almost a week ago, when we had the season's first snow. It didn't last long but the temperatures have stayed quite low so I guess we'll have more of it soon. On Friday we had a halloween party with some friends (and some people I didn't know before). I dressed up as a witch and my dark make up was made by a friend. First we were in one's place but then we went on to the Club Aussie Bar (in Kaisaniemi, Helsinki) where they had a good halloween party already going on. People mainly had some halloween costumes but there were also some boring ones, haha.

On Sunday I was at work and we had a rush the whole day long. I was quite exhausted when I got home. On Monday I had a long day doing school stuff, as we first had an interview with one company's sales manager, then I met a group from another course, and then I still had a lecture that lasted 'til 6pm. On Tuesday I was at school & at work, and yesterday I already told about. Today I first met one group in order to make a safety plan (of 22 pages..) for the event we are organizing. Then we had a guided tour in Paasitorni & hotel Scandic Paasi (in Hakaniemi, Helsinki), it was quite interesting and I got a business card from the marketing manager - in order to ask for possible internship possibilities. It would be so interesting to get a chance for the internship as a marketing assistant in a big company like that (consisting of hotel, restaurant, congress and event business)!

So no, I still can't say my life would be too boring, so much stuff to do. And it doesn't seem to calm down. I'm stressing about a few projects 'cause I want to get them well done, as well as about the internship thing. I have counted on the fact that I would get an internship from January onwards, but what if I don't?? I have asked from 5 places now, three of them are still open so I haven't heard from them yet, but two already answered that it's not possible. I'm still going to contact the Paasitorni's marketing manager and I'm also waiting for our school to start looking for marketing interns for the spring. I need to get an internship for the spring... But it's not easy as I know what I want and I'm quite demanding (I don't want to go to a hotel or a restaurant as many of the students from my degree; and I want to be paid for the internship - many of them are not paid). Well, let's see, I just wish I would get a positive answer soon, or at least a possibility to be interviewed!

Now I'm gonna finish with one portfolio. Wish me luck with the internship places! Bye :-)

this is waiting for me for the event we are organizing ;)

exams & goodbyes + random stuff

...and heat. But now I seriously don't wanna complain about that because in two weeks, I have to adjust to huge temperature difference. So, I need to seize the last times of this heat before going to Finland (= to freeze..).

These two weeks have been more or less confusing and mixed. I have been quite stressed... okay, stressed as h*ll. that's why it's so weird now that I don't actually have almost anything to stress about. The situation is unfamiliar :D Well I still have one exam left, English for business, but there's not much to study for it. Of course I'm also a bit nervous about passing my exams or not - waiting for the results - but there's nothing I can do but wait. So let's wait.

the last day of studying for Spanish economy... well, no-one can say that i haven't tried!

Tuesday was a weird day. I've told you about the Spanish economy course, the one that was far too difficult for me because I don't have the basic economic knowledge for that. I've been afraid of that exam for this whole spring and Tuesday was the day. Seriously, on Monday evening and Tuesday morning before the exam, i was so nervous. so so so nervous.. but I did my best in the exam and if it's not enough, at least I can honestly say that I tried my best and I did everything I could. But the feeling after the exam? Empty. I didn't know how to feel, what to do or what to think. The thing I had been nervous about for many many weeks was over. that was so weird! I came home and I didn't know what to do because I didn't have anything to study or write notes about. I just sit in my room, staring at my computer and thinking "what should i do?". Then, I packed my stuff, put on some sun spray and took a bike to the beach. Ahh how relaxing is was, just to lie on the beach and not stressing about any exams. The water was warm and the waves were high. That's what I call freedom.

And Tuesday evening was about the second word in the heading - goodbyes. It was the last night in Valencia for one of my friends. At 10pm I met some friends and we headed towards the beach with drinks and some snacks. It was a bit windy on the beach but it didn't matter - we had so much fun. I was tired (because I hadn't been able to sleep well the previous night due to the exam) but I still just wanted to stay there, to seize the last moments with some of the best persons I've got to know during the spring. Well I still have time to see most of them - but those were the last moments I could spend with the one who was leaving. She was actually the first person I got to know better at the beginning of the spring. She was the first foreign person in Valencia that I could call "a friend". Along the spring she has been in the Spanish economy classes with me, witnessing my frustration and helping me. That night I tried not to think about the fact that I seriously don't know when I'm gonna see her again. But when we were walking home after 3am and it was the time to say goodbyes, it was hard to avoid thinking about that. I honestly hate goodbyes, especially if the situation is such that you can't be sure about the next time you see each other. Thank god we have all the facebooks and systems nowadays so we're able to keep in touch... And I will definitely go to Poland one day, it's not so far away from Finland!

hahah the most exciting swing ive ever tried!

as you can see, formulas are coming to the town!

After Tuesday, these two days have been more or less the same. I've been lying (= almost sleeping) on the beach, swimming in the warm sea, enjoying the sun, not-enjoying a young boy who - well - "harassed" me and well. just relaxing!

Yesterday I sent a job application and today they called me to set up an interview, for the next week after I go back to Finland. I'm quite happy! So, if they're content with me, I will most likely get some working shifts already in July. And the firm is a "labor-renting-firm" that delivers workers to their customer companies. And for workers that means that they offer them shifts in various firms (my field would be hotels, restaurants and events - mainly catering and waitressing) and then the workers can either accept to do the shift or turn down the offer. I decided to send an application to that firm because of the flexibility and variability of the shifts and the fact that I'm able to decide myself how much I want to work and which kind of shifts I want to take. And that kind of job is also quite easy to combine with the studies. So, I hope that the interview goes well!

University campus

Tomorrow is a big day as it's finally time for UEFA EURO 2012 TOURNAMENT! I've bee waiting for it for a long time so I'm excited about the fact that the day is finally here!

VAMOS ESPAÑA!

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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!!

freezing-times are over!

...should have guessed that Spanish winter can't beat a Finnish girl!

Today, after a week of dealing with the coldness inside the house, I took a metro to Nou d'Octubre, almost other side of the city, and walked to Carrefour, a big hypermarket near to Bioparc. My intention was to find a heater (as we have only one in the apartment - and four persons needing it). Well I found some heaters (radiator in Spanish) that were quite big (how can you take one of those back home without a car?!), but then I found my love - el calefactor, a heater that keeps blowing warm air! it wasn't big, it is easy to carry and not too expensive. In addition, it is more efficient than the "radiators" comparing the watt amounts, so of course I took it with me <3

here it is!

bye bye coldness! but - as you can guess - my getting-rid-of-the-coldness -shopping wasn't just the "calefactor".. may I introduce ...

a proper, warm blanket!

So now I'm quite sure the freezing-times are over :-) Happy happy happy!

Yesterday was my first day of school here. In the morning we started Marketing -course and it sounded ok and quite interesting based on the introduction. At least I think that it's gonna be useful for me. The course consists of both theoretical lectures and practical classes and it includes also a team project - and of course written exams at the end of the spring.

today, on my way to Carrefour.

Yesterday evening I had a class of the course English for Business (that I skipped on Wednesday because of the match). Well... all the other students were Spanish (or at least I think so because of their pronunciation..) and the teacher too. A few times I just couldn't figure out what she said because she pronounced and spoke so incorrectly. In Finland, we have quite qualified English teachers that at least speak correctly and articulate well. Well, this teacher tried to articulate clearly and quite slowly (and she also repeated almost everything in Spanish?!) so that the students would understand, but her slow articulation just highlighted her incorrect speaking and mistakes.. Well, I guess this concludes the level of the course: as a homework, we are supposed to read and practice how to express opinions and how to agree or disagree with someone. hard, don't you think?! I'm studying the same things here in the university that were taught to me when I was about 12 years old.. well at least I'm gonna earn some easy credits from here :-D

Today I woke up really early as I had morning classes of Spanish economy. It was a bit boring, but today we just went through the introduction of the course so maybe it turns out to be more interesting when we go on. The only problem is that our book for the course is in Spanish. The lecturer's explanation for that was something like "Well, there are no good books in English about the subject so we are gonna use the Spanish one. Who's not a native Spanish speaker? Okay, less than 10. You just have to deal with it." So let's see about that... My biggest challenge for this spring: go through the book "Lecciones de economía española" and try to understand at least something. Right...

 

That's enough for now, bye!