Merry X-mas!

So, a little Christmas update. I know it's kinda late but I couldn't find a good moment to record a vid earlier so yeah.

This is for the Dutchies:

So, yeah, here they appearently start celebrating Christmas on the 24th.. And the tree also goes up at the 24th (Instead of 2 weeks earlier or sth :P)

And for all of you:

Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta!

'Anouk

Week 16 & 17

5 - 18 december

A week late, but I'm back 8)

So, december 5th was in the Netherlands ofcourse Sinterklaas, but here they don't know it, so there was nothing special about the day.

December 6th was Finland's independence day, so no school and good food. In the evening there was this important ball or something with important Finnish people that I didn't recognize.

December 7th was a normal schoolday again. After school we had choir, it was fun but the music teacher seems to be getting more and more of a joke.

The 8th was a normal schoolday, nothing special really.

At the 9th we went to the police station after school to give them my birth certificate (Which they copied) and stuff so I'm legal here, and after that we bought me a new pair of jeans.

At friday the 10th I went to a party in the evening. Had a great time, made some new friends, etc.

In the weekend there was the AFS Midstay camp. It was so much fun. We talked a lot ofcourse, and we lied in the snow in the middle of the night to look at the stars! It was so pretty. Ofcourse I was very tired afterwards and it took me a few days to catch back on sleep xD

Last monday was a normal schoolday, started out with music, but we could leave after 15 minutes because the teacher was busy. (Why didn't he just stay away '-_-) Apart from that another normal day.

Tuesday was another normal day + choir, and so were wednesday and tuesday. Tuesday after school there was an extra choir repetition, there were exactly 4 people, and the teacher. But we sang a lot and it went well.

At friday we watched a movie during French (French spoken with Finnish subtitles, guess how much I understood xD), and in the long break there was a ham bingo. Didn't win anything, but it was nice :P

And then yesterday we went to Helsinki to do some shopping, I bought a new book, The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman, and I'm halfway the 500 pages now already :) It's great!

Music for today, 2 songs.

First, Jumala by Apulanta. Jumala is Finnish for God, and the song is great!

And second, a Christmas song in Finnish from the CD Raskaampaa Joulua.

Me Käymme Joulun Viettohon, sung by Tony Kakko.

Enjoy and see you all next week!

Oh, and Dutch-speaking people, don't forget to check the blog again this week, a little surprise for you might appear for Christmas ;)

'Anouk

Antti Tuisku's freestyle dance

So, here's the vid of one of the dances they did in the finals, the freestyle. In the beginning it shows from when they were practising, then the dance comes, and then they start talking in Finnish and giving points and stuff (Giving points come at 9.05, if you want to see)

'Anouk

Week 15

28 november - 4 december

And another week has ended :P Time flies

Last sunday I just had a very very lazy day. In the evening we watched the Tanssii Tähtien Kanssa finals, the Finnish Dancing with the Stars, Antti Tuisku won, and the dances were great! (I might link to a video of the finals later, but I can't find them now xD)

Monday was, well.. Empty. Went to school, that started late because in the morning there were still tests, so I would only have Spanish that day. I arrived at school to find out the Spanish teacher wasn't there '-_- So Juho, Rikku and I went to the music room and made some music, it was fun :)

Tuesday then I could start with the first lessons for this period. First music, then French, maths, an hour of waiting, and then choir. Nothing too special.
Wednesday was a normal schoolday, English, Spanish, jump hour, French. After school we went to K citymarket and there we found Alex and we had some pizza and waited for the Finnish class to start. It was, according to facebook, also Hug a Finn day, I found 11 Finns who agreed on getting a hug xD

Thursday was first Spanish, then English, maths, nothing, and the final repetitions for the presentation on friday with choir. Or at least, that was the planning. There were still about 3 people who didn't know the text (C'mmon, it was in Finnish and even I knew it without needing the paper!) and their melody, and it didn't sound good enough according to the principial so we couldn't perform. Shitty

Friday started with another normal schoolday again, I had maths and French, and then we were off school early because of the independence day celebration. I went to the store with my host mom to buy wintershoes and wintertrousers, and we looked at some christmas stuff, fun :)
In the evening there was a "pikkujoulu" party at one of Anniina's friends place. It's some kind of pre-christmas party and it's lots of fun!

And yesterday I took it easy again, spent quite some time behind the piano, trying to learn new songs, for the rest I didn't really do anything special.

Oh wel, and today is not over yet so that'll come next week :)

Some music for today: Racoon - Love you more. It might be an old song but I still love it :P


More next week :)

'Anouk