Week 29 - 31

6 - 26 march

Okay, sorry it took me a little while, last sunday I was busy and then yesterday the internet was dead but now I'm here with a new update :)

On sunday the 6th I didn't do that much, took a little walk but that's about it.

Monday was a bit more productive. First German, then history class, and then 2 jump hours. After that English and then on to Vihti Ski with Alex. There was some slalom competition or so, it was pretty crowded. But the snow was good.

Tuesday I had German again, then a jump hour and after lunch psychology class. Lunch was pretty good :) With psychology we watched an interesting documentairy about the importance of language, and it was based on sign language. After school choir.

Wednesday first history, and after that I was done, but I hung around at school for a bit with different people, then get dinner with Alex before going to the Finnish course.

Thursday another pretty useful day, first psychology, then lunch, and then history. After school skiing again :)

On Friday first psychology, and then a jump hour and German. After school I didn't really do that much.

Saturday we went to Lahti to see cross country skiing and ski jumping. Cross country skiing wasn't that interesting but ski jumping was pretty cool to see. After the prices and stuff there was a fireworkshow, it was beautiful.

Sunday I took a little walk again, bought a present for Riku, and in the evening we went to the stables, for the rest I didn't do much.

Monday first German class, and then history. In the evening I went to Riku's birthday, it was nice and I met some new people.

Tuesday again German then a jump hour and then psychology. After school I went to watch the Ultimate Frisbee team before Choir started. Ended up choir didn't start, and they convinced me to play. It was fun.

Wednesday another long day, first history class, and then nothing 'til Finnish class. Just hanging around with some people and getting dinner, that's about it.

Thursday psychology class and history class, and then home already, watched some TV and stuff, nothing interesting.

Friday was a fun day, first psychology, then jump hour and after that German. After school I went to seurakuntatalo with some friends (It's like, the church hall. They hang out there on fridays on the youth evening), it's nice and a good place to meet new people!

Saturday was an average weekend day, made a walk, sat behind my laptop, made music, etc.. It was snowing pretty hard :)

Sunday was exactly 7 months since I got here! Alex, Tiina, Anna, Lotta, Milla and I made pulla, tasty little bread-ish-things that you eat with the coffee (Koffiebroodjes in Dutch). It was great fun and very tasty!

Monday again starting with German, after that history, and after lunch back home already. Dinner was great, pancakes! <3

Tuesday was a good day. First German ofcourse, then jump hour and psychology. After school I went to play Ultimate Frisbee again, this time prepared with my sporting clothes and all, it was great fun :)

Wednesday, of course, my muscles were on fire. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! Like, I didn't even know I have all of these muscles xD First hour I had history, and after that hanging around with random people until I went for dinner with Alex, and then to Finnish class. We got a ride from Anna who just got her drivers licence on that day!

Thursday still painful muscles, but when I went skiing with Alex and Riku after school it wasn't a problem (Better than walking, actually) The snow was fantastic and we had great fun. I made one very nice fall on the black slope, I guess that's what you get when you forget to break xD But it was great.

And then Friday again, first psychology, then jump hour and German, and then with Juho and Taija to Taija's house for a little while, before going to seurakuntatalo again. Had a good evening once more :)

And Saturday I was homealone for a little while, so I practised Pirates of the Caribean on the piano :)

Music for these weeks:

The Eldar, by Blind Guardian:

You Don't Know, by Milow

And last, Smooth Criminal by David Garrett

See you all next update :)

'Anouk

Week 27 - 28

20 february - 5 march

So, here I am again =)

Sunday the 20th was exactly 6 months since I got here! Time goes so incredibly fast, and it's only 4 months left (less, by now..)

Didn't do much that day, just enjoyed my free time :P

On Monday we left to Turku, and from there we went on a huge ship for a mini-cruise to Stockholm! It was AMAZING, I saw Antti Tuisku live, he's really good and the show was great! Also it was just great to go around the ship and see everything, the sea was frozen, incredible! I had never seen that before.

The next day we took a look at Stockholm from the upper deck of the ship, and then went for breakfast. The food on the ship was really good :) At some point we went to "Anskun Tanssikoulu", where Ansku, Antti's dancepartner in Dancing with the Stars, gave a dancing clinic. It was fun to see, and after that Antti and Ansku gave out autographs. They both signed my Finnish Flag :D

That was the last day of the cruise, and in the evening, after more exploring, we went back home.

On Wednesday I was pretty tired, but we went on a little cross-country ski trip and apart from that I played some guitar and sat around a bit.

Thursday I made a nice walk, the weather has been great. In the evening there were Idols and House on the TV, but the House episodes are a year behind here so I already new what happened :P It was nice to see tho :)

Friday another walk, and apart from that once more not much. Holidays are great :P

On Saturday I went on a walk once more, but I explored a bit and took a new route, it was very nice and the weather was great again!

Sunday went pretty much the same..

On Monday a new period in school started for me. It had started before the holiday already but I was in Lapland so yeah.. First German, then history, and then 2 jump hours before English in the last bar. It was a long day, but not bad. Exactly 4 months left in Finland.

Tuesday was another normal day, German-nothing-Psychology-nothing-choir. We were with 3 people at the choir, not much.. And we had to explain the sheet music to the music teacher.. Quite a sad case I think xD I also got a 8-9 back for English last period :D

Wednesday was another looong day, started out at 8 AM with history, followed by 3 jump hours, and then English. After school straight to Finnish class, and I was back at home around 7 PM

Thursday I had only 2 classes as well, psychology and history, but this time they were connected so I could go home after them. And then around 4 back to Nummela to go skiing with Alex. It was fun, did some small jumps :P Everything felt a bit slow after Lapland tho xD

Friday I had psychology and German, and after that again skiing with Alex. In the beginning the slopes were quite icy, but it got better when it also got a bit darker. In the daylight it's hard to see the ground, so some parts, especially with ice, can be quite scary xD You have no idea where the bumps are! O.o' At the end of the evening there was some heavy snowfall :D>

And then yesterday I went to Pietari's place, where we recorded my vocals for about one and a half song now, it was so much fun and it's just great to be working with music like this :D In the evening at home we watched a Bond movie :)

So, music for this weeks :P

First, Welcome to my Life by Sunrise Avenue, it's a beautiful song I think, and also the video is great!

And then, for the Dutchies, this brilliant sketch by de Vliegende Panters :D

See you all in 2 weeks!

'Anouk