Week 24 & 25 & 26

30 january - 19 february

So, prepare for a looong post xD

Sunday the 30th of January I made a little walk to the center, bringing in empty bottles xD Apart from that I didn't do much

Monday I had Music-English (Got a 8 and a 9 back for the book test and vocab test!)-Spanish and an hour of nothing. In the evening I went skiing with Alex again, had a lot of fun.

Tuesday the 1st of February the test week started, but I didn't have a test so I spent some time in front of the TV, in front of the laptop, playing guitar, etc..

Wednesday was the English test, wasn't very hard. The teacher told me that I could fill in the Dutch translations for the words, I was a bit worried about the fact that I couldn't remember some Dutch words anymore x'D In the evening I had my Finnish class, was okay again.

Thursday I didn't have a test, so I went to Alex's place, and then skiing with Alex. The weather was quite shitty, but we had fun anyway.

Friday I had my math test, and after that I went to Alex again. We didn't go skiing because of the weather this time, but it was nice to hang out there a bit. Around 3 Kim came to Nummela as well and we spent some more time with her.

Saturday was a quite normal day again, a bit computer, a bit guitar, etc..

Sunday the 6th I made a walk again, made a loooot of pictures, because the weather was beautiful and I walked a new route.

On Monday I had to clean up my room a bit, didn't take too much time actually :P Then another walk. Preparing for Lapland a bit :)

Tuesday I first had my Spanish test, wasn't that hard only my vocab kind of dissapeared x'D

After that Jenny came over here so we hung around a bit and made some music.

----LAPLAND----

Okay, Wednesday I first had school but after that it was putting my stuff in a bag and on to the train in Helsinki. The train ride was long, I think that, due to delayed trains, we spent about 14 hours in the train X_X Spent most of the time in the train part with all the other AFS people, but I did get about 2 hours of sleep in my bedbunk xD

On Thursday we arrived in Rovaniemi around 12.00, and then we went with the bus to a museum about Sami people, Lapland, Greenland and Rovaniemi. It was nice but everyone was so tired x'D After that to the store and then on to the cottages, still quite a busride.

Friday we went to the Amethyst mines, first we heard some stories and then we went into the mines to search stones ourselves, I got some nice stones, this is the best one:

And then we had to walk back to the bus for a bit, it was beautiful!

Saturday we went to the slopes, I went snowboarding and it went quite nice actually. Spent the whole morning doing that, untill I made a beautiful faceplant just before lunch at the end of the skilift, messing up my knee xD I went down but it didn't really work for I couldn't break or turn anymore =') So we were brought back up hill with the snowscooter to go for lunch! Tried skiing but that didn't work either so I went back to the cottages with the lunch bus. And hell I'm glad I did! I saw a reindeer walking around there, just 5 meters away from me! It was so beautiful and cute :3

Sunday we went to the slopes again, skied for a good while, my knees were quite okay but my muscles were on fire xD It was a lot of fun tho, the slopes are beautiful and I found the perfect slope for me there xD

It was cold, as you might be able to see x)

In the evening we had the miss Lapland show, where we had to dress up the guys as girls and then choose the best one :P It was great fun, and I do have some pictures but I'm not gonna post them here, I'm sure you can find good pictures on facebook tho, there are plenty of people with good cameras.

Monday we went skiing again, but it was so cold and the big skilift wasn't operating so it was quite boring as well. We went back with the lunchbus and hung around a bit. I played chess, and I'm terrible at it. But it was fun. In the evening we saw the Northern Lights! It was so beautiful, really really cold, but fantastic!!

I didn't sleep much that night, about one and a half hour, on the sofa.

Tuesday was the last day already, we packed everything and got it in the bus, and then went to Santa's Village! It was great, everything is very very expensive tho. I got the picture with Santa Claus!

We went in groups so it'd go faster and probably be cheaper.

After Santa's Village it was on to the Reindeer Farm, where we could go a round on the reindeer sledge! It was great fun, but incredibly cold xD

After that back to the train station in Rovaniemi, at 18.00 the train I was on left, and it was delayed again so once more 14 hours on a train. I slept more this time, since I fell asleep while talking at some point I went to my bedbunk quite on time and fell asleep almost instantly, to wake up in Helsinki and stress out because I had to get out :P

When I got home I ate a bit and then slept the rest of the day.

----END OF LAPLAND----

Thursday I went to school to see the ABI's (3rd years) leave and throw candy, it was fun, they were all dressed up and went to their old schools in the back of trucks. Later that day we brought Anniina to the bus to go to her St. Petersburg trip.

Friday again to school, I didn't have any classes but I hung around with Alex a bit and then went to watch the Vanhojen Tanssit, where the 2nd years dance to celebrate that they are now the oldest of the school (As far as I understand it at least :P) It was fantastic to see, everyone was dressed up great and all the girls had beautiful dresses and got their hair done and everything! They didn't have enough guys tho it seemed xD

And then yesterday another lazy day, watched some sport, talked with my host parents in Finnish a bit (!) and spent some time at the laptop. Anniina came back from her St. Petersburg trip.

Music, for 3 weeks so 3 vids =')

First: Pink with Raise your glass

Second, Sum 41 with Pieces

And 3rd, Hurts with Stay

See you all in 2 weeks! Sorry for the looong post :P

And mom, I made photos! Good huh :P

'Anouk