start of a new week

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My weekend consisted of nothing so special. On Friday I came home from work at 8pm and went back there 7.30am on Saturday. I had a looong day and after that I still stayed at the shopping center because I met N, my friend who is going to Peru for exchange. They're leaving on Wednesday so this was the last time I saw her :( This fall is going to be weird at school without them but I hope they will have a wonderful exchange experience there. I wish them so much luck with everything!

one morning when I was going to work at 7.30am

Yesterday (Sunday) I didn't feel good at all at first, but when the feeling got better I went to visit another shopping center. I bought two towels (so that J doesn't have to use the pink one anymore..), a floor dyer tool (which can also be used to wipe out the dust, useful, I don't have to hoover so often anymore!), a movie (Hangover II, haven't seen :D), shorts and one top. I think that quite well in less than two hours (and I was supposed to save money...). I still went to a grocery store before going home. A bit later J came here, we ate pizza and watched Angels and Demons. I had read the book and also seen the movie before but J hadn't.

one evening when I was leaving from work:D

Now it's 9.40 on Monday morning, I should get ready now because I have to leave for work in less than an hour. I have a long day ahead of me. Tomorrow I'm going to a hairdresser, finally! Then I have an evening shift. On Wednesday I have a long morning shift, then I only have to pack up for our Oulu-trip. Our flight leaves at 13.45 on Thursday.

Finnish summer weather......

Have a great week, bye!

Mother's Day

First of all, happy Mother's Day to all the mothers - your "job" may be the most important in the world, don't forget that :-) And that's why you're more than allowed to enjoy this day, this is only for you!

According to the Internet, the water is around +17 degrees, and yes, I went there and it WAS warm!

For me, this day hasn't been special in any way. I thought I would spend all the weekend on the beach, and yes, I was there yesterday, but as I - surprise surprise - managed to get my nose sunburned (it hurts!), I didn't go there today because I seriously couldn't expose my face (mainly nose) to the sun anymore.. So now I'm just waiting for the lovely moment when my skin starts to peel off from my nose.. f*ck. So today, just cleaning and school work for me (at least that was the intention, now that I think about it I feel like I haven't got anything done).

the temperature was over +30 degrees. No wonder why the beach was filled with people!

I also saw CLOUDS when I left. Haven't seen them in a while.

A few facts have hit me quite hard lately. The first one is that there are two weeks of actual school left. Yay for that, but also booooo for that because it means that there are many tasks and projects to be finished. Stress! After these two weeks, it's time for exams (I already feel the anxiety and the whole new level of stress coming).

Another fact is that UEFA EURO 2012 is getting closer, day by day (26 days left)! I've already spotted some fan stuff in the stores, such as Spanish flags, caps, horns, scarfs, bags.. I haven't yet decided which items I will buy ;-) Luckily I'll have almost all of my exams before the opening kick off so then I can fully concentrate on the matches! Unfortunately I'm not staying here long enough to witness the victory of Spain, but I'm sure I can celebrate it in Finland too :-)

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The third fact is that my return to Finland is also getting closer, day by day. I don't know what to think about it. Okay, I can't even tell you how much I wait to see all the people I'm missing so much, but at the same time I'm distressed because I don't feel that I'm ready to leave quite yet. Am I gonna be ready in five weeks? I don't know, but then it's time to go. Ready or not. That's confusing.. Five weeks?

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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

Just a short post, i don't feel like writing right now.

Friday: school (just one question; what the fuck?! i didn't get almost anything the teacher explained, something about internal and external equilibrium and macroeconomic policies... never gonna pass that course!!), sleeping ("just a quick nap" -> 3 hours..), and in the evening we were at Ewelina's place, eating birthday pizza (made by her, as she had her birthday this week!) and playing drinking game! Maybe not the best idea to play drinking game with wine.. woops! Later we went to SuperClub, it was crowded, almost too many people there! But we had fun, at least I enjoyed!

Saturday: I had come home about 5am from the club and had gone to bed after 6am. Still, I woke up at 10.30 and I wasn't tired anymore... right. But otherwise, the hangover wasn't so bad, could have been much worse. just a headache and it was gone after one Burana :-) In the afternoon we went to the beach but it was so windy that I didn't stay there for long. I had a problem with the sand and my contact lenses, I can say it didn't feel comfortable! And the tiredness also came along the day, but there were some fireworks, music and so much noise outside in the evening & night that I couldn't sleep.. Well, during the main celebration period of Las Fallas (from next Thursday 'til Monday) it's gonna be like that all the time, like a war going on. Well, I'll be in Barcelona then - at least I can sleep there, here it would be impossible!

Today, nothing special. just school work and so on. And btw, three days to go! On Wednesday afternoon I'll be off to Barcelona, can't wait!! God how much i miss salt liquorice.... and of course my sister too :-)

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!

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