Week 22 & 23

16 - 29 january

Soo, I'm here again :)

At the 16th I bought some new headphones (Skullcandy, they were priced down soooo much!) because my old ones are really falling apart xD Apart from that nothing too special.

Monday the 17th was a normal schoolday, music - English - Spanish. During English we had to write an essay, that I got back last week with an 85 :)

Tuesday was again quite normal, music - French - maths.

On Wednesday I started with English, then Spanish, then a jump hour, and then French. After school we went over to Alex's place, since she lives close to the Finnish classes right now. And then Finnish class.

Thursday the 20th was exactly 5 months since I got here! Halfway, pfew, time flies..

School, Spanish - maths - English.

Friday maths - French - music - choir. Nothing too special. We're working on Memory from the Cat's musical :)

Saturday was a nice weekend-day, so I didn't do too much :P

On Sunday I went to Pietari's place to practise 3 songs. They asked me if I want to sing on their EP :D It was a lot of fun, and after the test week we'll practise more.

Last monday school again. Music - English - Spanish. During English we had to make the book-test, it wasn't that hard but it was a lot to write!

Tuesday I had music - French - maths - nothing - choir. In the jump hour I went to the music store with Juho and Kim and bought some in-ears for practising (Drums are loud xD)

On Wednesday English - Spanish - jump hour - French. After that again to Alex's place, and then we went to eat some pizza and then on to Finnish class.

Thursday Spanish - maths - English - some sort of presentation from the 3rd years. It was fun, as far as I understood xD

Friday I went skiing after school! It was a lot of fun, and it went really good :) I hope I can go skiing with Alex a few more times before the Lapland trip :P

And then yesterday I didn't do much special again. TV, computer, guitar, piano..

So, music for today :)

First, 9 Crimes by Damien Rice, it's a beautiful song!

And then, Racoon with Close Your Eyes, again a great song:

And then a bit of advertising for a friend who just made a new youtube channel and needs more subscribers xD

And just because the first vid she put on there is really good

Be back in 2 weeks!

'Anouk

Week 20 & 21

2 - 15 january

So, here I am again :D

At january 2nd we went to Forssa to watch the horse races, it was nice but quite damn cold xD We were there basically the whole day, so that's about it.

At the 3rd I didn't really do anything interesting, just enjoying my holiday. The same goes for the 4th, the 5th and the 6th, actually. On the 5th I made a little walk, but for the rest nothing interesting either.

Friday the 7th, on the other hand, I went to Helsinki with Essi and Tuuli, it was great! We went to see The Social Network (Facebook movie) in the cinema, I found Once by Nightwish (Now my NW CD collection is complete!) and also Unia and Ecliptica by Sonata Arctica :D And ofcourse we just walked around a bit and checked out some stores, had some food, etc..

On saturday the 8th another lazy day, just some TV and computer. In the evening we watched a James Bond movie :)

The 9th was the last day of the holiday, didn't do much interesting.

So, monday school started again, I had music, English and Spanish. It was nice to see everyone again and stuff and the classes were okay. On tuesday I had music, then I had a jump hour with Alex and Juho, which we spent in the music room just jamming a bit :D Then I had maths, and then another free hour. After school I had choir. Also I wanted to go skiing with Alex but I couldn't go so yeah..

Wednesday I had English-Spanish-jump hour-French and then Alex and I spent a lot of time in Nummela before Finnish class, it was quite okay and we promised the bench in K market that we'll meet again xD

Thursday I had Spanish-maths-English-hour waiting-home. Nothing special, I hope I can go to the Metal Expo in Helsinki at february 19th with some friends from school. After school mainly computer and TV, in the evening I watched Mentalist, first time since almost 5 months! :D

Friday was a very good day, I didn't have to start untill 12.15, with French. We have to write an essay, very hard. Then I had music, and after that I had choir. We're probably going to do Memory from the Cat's musical!

And yesterday was again a lazy day, spent quite some time in the living room, and there's a new horse at the stables :)

So, music for this weeks:

First, Thaurorod with Warrior's Heart

(Notice the fancy coloured guitars :D)

And second, a trailer for a hilarious movie that I watched on my computer yesterday, "Vampires Suck", a Twilight parody.

Really, watch it xD

See you all in 2 weeks :D

'Anouk

Week 18 & 19

Let's start with wishing all of you all the best for 2011, and I hope you had a wonderful time around Christmas and New Year's eve!

Soo, I decided to update only once every 2 weeks, because it's starting to get more normal and there aren't a 1000 things to tell every week anymore :P

19 december 2010 - 1 january 2011

So, sunday the 19th we went to the church in the evening to sing Christmas songs, it was nice and interesting, I think about half of the songs were Finnish versions of songs I know, and the other half completely new.

Monday the 20th was exactly 4 months since I arrived here! Time flies. First school, last lessons before the holiday, and after school I bought the Christmas presents. Chocolate for everyone, and for Anniina the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time DVD, for Seppo a Keeping up Appearences DVD and for Tuula a little sign with a picture of a cat and in Finnish "The more people I meet, the more I like my cat" or something like that.

On tuesday the 21st we went to school to get our grades for the 2nd period, I have a 6+ for German!! And a 4 for maths, again, but I expected that :P The teacher wrote above it "I know you'd do better in Dutch :(" and I think it's cool that he did that.

Also we sang with the choir, it was fun, but it didn't go very great.. Everyone was nervous so most had quite some trouble singing :P But it was nice, and next time better :)

So, wednesday the 22nd my holiday started! Didn't do much special, only we went cross-country skiing, it was nice.

Thursday was not very special either, but I made a nice walk to the center to bring in empty bottles.

Friday the 24th we baked cookies, then put up the Christmas tree, and at 16.00 we went to the graveyard to light candles. At 17.00 Markus and Outi came over and we had Christmas dinner, and then we opened the presents. I got a bathrobe, 2 pairs of mittens, 2 boxes of chocolate, hair-towel and slippers for after showering, a mug with Santa Claus, salmiakki mix and a pair of socks that Anniina made! Great day.

Saturday, didn't really notice it was Christmas, but it was a good day. Same goes for sunday, only we went cross-country skiing too that day.

At monday we went to check out Vihti Ski, nice place. Apart from that nothing special. Also at tuesday I didn't do much, we went to the stables and the store, and that's about it.

When I woke up at wednesday Anniina told me "Don't eat breakfast, we're going to the pizzaria". Good way to start the day, pizza!

Thursday started off normal, and in the evening I went SNOWBOARDING 8D It's fantastic, very very hard tho, especially standing up :P I still have some muscle pain in my shoulders from it now, but it was great. Can't wait till next time. Markus teaches me.

And then December 31st, last day of 2010.. A bit strange, the year went so fast and it brought me very good things, many fantastic new friends, a new home, Finland, so many new experiences and I learned so much!

In the evening we went to Helsinki to watch a little concert with 2 big Finnish singers, and at 12 professional fireworks, it was great!

And yesterday we went to Nummela, Anniina, Tuula and Seppo went cross-country skiing and I went to check if the stores were open, still had a lot of muscle pain :P Apart from that nothing special.

So, music for this update!

First, Shalott by Emily Autumn. The lyrics are also in the video, it's a wonderful song!

Second, Hero by Skillet. I just heard it for the first time this week, but it's a really nice song!

See you all next time!

'Anouk