nelkytnelja - 44

It is indeed thursday evening, and yes, I am aware of the fact that I have not blogged in four days. My blogs might actually become fewer and farther inbetween I'm sad to say. But I can still recap the last four days for you, so here goes ! Monday. Let me think, what did I do monday. Hm, well I went to school, nothing to exciting happened there, I played cards in the hallway with Barbara, the Italian exchange student. After school I went with Anna and Maria over to Maija's house for Ennas', the little baby that we went to the zoo with, first birthday ! It was really cute, Enna is a really adorable baby, so she was fun to play with. And Maija is really sweet, so shes nice to talk to :] I think that might have been all that was exciting on monday...sorry for the lack of details. We ate some rather delicious pulla [poo-la] that Anna had made that morning, its a very traditional finnish sweet bread, and it usually has cinnamon inside it and sugar on top, its really tasty. I'll learn the recipe and make it for you when I get back ! Okay so tuesday. I only had english that day, and it was the first class. But there was an extrafriendly wasp in our english class, and yes, I was freaking out. I hate bees, but so do a lot of other people, so I wasn't the only one ! After english I came home for a bit because I didn't have another class until finnish lessons at two. I watched some TV, made some leftovers for lunch, and took a shower. Then I headed back downtown and went to finnish lessons :] We did the basic stuff, just learning different parts of speech and grammer rules and what not, nothing too special. Afterwards I walked on over to the Mormon church for chill night :] At first it was just Annina, Jason, Stewie [the new guy, his real name is Derek, but his last name is Stewart. And I call him Stewie because Annina first told me that Stewart was his first name. and yeah, that was pointless, but you get the idea !]. So we just talked about different things and about the fact that our school celebration had 15 articles over the course of the week written about it in various newspapers and magazines, and guess what ! Annina and I were in one ! I'm getting a copy of it on saturday, so I'll mail it to my parents and hopefully they'll show it around :] We didn't get to talk to any reporters, but we're in the picture ! And then there's an article with my friend Sam in it, I'll send that as well. So ask them to see it if you'd like to. So, after talking about how popular we were in Jyväskylä two other girls showed up and we made popcorn ! It was really dry, and not very salty, but it wasn't tooooo bad. And it was "USA" popcorn ? I dunno. After a while Mike and Maiju showed up and we all decided to play badminton ! We sort of had a tournament going on, but it kind of died after a while. Annina and I didn't do half bad ;] I went home around 6 30, ate some delicious tacos, I think I showered again, and then I went to bed. Moving on. I have a late start on Wednesdays, so that was nice. I went to school around 9 30 so that I could chat with people during our break before having psychology. Psychology was fun, we talked about heredity and genes and what not, interesting stuff. Afterwards we had lunch, which looked terrible but didn't taste too bad. It was some sort of fish soup I guess...I dunno, but we had this really good sort of "sour rye bread" stuff that was amazing ! And I found out we had it at home too ! Crazy. After lunch Annina and I both had a break so we were gunna head downtown, just to walk around. On our way out we ran into Piia ! So she came down with us as well :] She just got back from a one week trip in Italy, visiting her boyfriend. [he's finnish, he just moved to italy ? or something like that...] So she told us all about her trip and the wonderfulness of it all, and she brought us back Italian chocolate ! She's so sweeeet. After a while they both had to return to their classes and I set off for finnish lessons ! They were in the tiny rooms again, but it was fun all the same. I didn't do anything that evening, except go for a bike ride, and other random things around the house, so theres not too much to tell about I don't think. So let's talk about today ! I had psychology and english this morning, fun classes :] And I have fallen in love with our coffee vending machine at school. It's 60 cents for an 8 oz cup, and you can get all sorts of different kinds although most people tend to get a cappuchino :] But it is utterly satisfying, and piping hot ! I came home and founndddd MAIL ! I love getting post, its so...surprising :] It was a nice letter from Sonna Keatley, thank you so much, anddd Mikey's new CD. I listened to it over and over and over again, it is really quite amazing. If you didn't know already, Mikey Moore, one of my great friends back home, recently put out his first CD called "its all for you" and is in stores now. Go. Buy. It. It also has a really pretty cover design :] I got kind of bored just sitting around the empty house, so I hopped on my bike and went over to a little island that Petra and I found a few weeks ago. It's probably 2 km from my house, and is really cute. I brought my laptop [to listen to music] and my bible and a notebook. I sat right next to the water against a nice big tree and just blasted good songs while reading parts from Ruth, Jeremiah, and Luke. It was really nice, I felt like a storybook. I was there for about an hour before I got too cold from the wind, so I packed up and started home. On the way I saw some swans so I stopped to take some pictures, they were gorgeous. I hung out with Maria for a bit when I got home, she got her school pictures back today, they're so cute ! I'll try and send one to you, mom and dad. Around 4 I was still antsy to go do something so I thought I'd just take a little bike ride up to the store and back, but when I got to the store I felt like going a bit further and eventually made my way around the whole lake ! I got lost a few times, I took a couple of wrong turns, but I eventually found my way around :] Its probably about 11 km in all, and it was so much fun. I was singing my little heart out, just belting out different parts of different songs, sometimes just "la la la"-ing, but I was having a blast. And it acutally is a lot harder to sing and ride than if you were just riding, so I think I got a pretty good workout :] I came home, took a reallllly hot shower, and proceded to post this blog. I'm sure there is more to tell, but dinner awaits ! I'm not sure when I will post again, maybe this weekend, maybe next week. Our school has sort of a "fall break" and we have from this saturday until the monday of the following week off. So 10 days of no school :] I've made some plans, I'll make sure to take some pictures, have a nice weekend !

nelkytkolme - 43

soooo, its sunday night ! Let's travel back to friday :] Mm, well friday I woke up around 8 and decided that I wanted to ride my bike to school that day. It wasn't really raining, just kind of drizzling, so I didn't think it would be bad. Boy was I wrong. I was completely drenched head to toe when I finally got to school, I mean, my shirt was dry because I was wearing my rain coat, but my jeans were soakeedddd. But oh well, there were a lot of other wet kids as well, so I didn't feel too out of the loop. I didn't have any classes that morning, just finnish lessons at the university, but I wanted to tell Annina and Anu about the whole prom thing, hence the reason I went to school ! So we talked for a bit and then back out into the rain I went to ride my bike over to the University. We were in the studio today, a listening comprehension lab. We get to talk a lot on these days, so they're fun :] After lessons I hopped on my bike and tried to go to an ATM to get some money out to pay for my phone bill, but a strange message popped up in finnish, I think it meant something like "this ATM is temporarily out of money" or something....so no luck. I then proceded to make the trek back home. My house is about 12 km from my school, so it's kind of a long ride, plus the way home has more up hills, so it takes a little longer. Luckily this time I wasn't riding into the rain, so my face didn't get as cold. Although, as soon as I walked in the door I took a nice hot shower and then ate some lunch. The rest of the day was spent watching TV, cleaning my room, and other various small tasks. At 5 55 I took the bus downtown and walked over to Paviljonki for our last rehearsal before the big show on saturday. We just did run throughs of how everything was going to go and then did sort of a dress rehearsal, but all in all it was fun. It ended at about 9 15 so I went home after that and crashed because we had to be at Paviljonki again at 8 the next morning. Moving on to saturday. Well the morning started off okay, I was up and ready on time, ate some breakfast, and then left to catch the 7 30 bus. I stood at the bus stop for about ten minutes before finally re checking the bus schedule to make sure I wasn't wrong. Aha, and then I realized that bus only comes once an hour on saturdays, instead of 6 times in the hour on weekdays. So the bus I was waiting for had already come at 7 20, and the next one wasn't until 8 20. So I called Anna, waking her up :/, and asked if she'd give me a ride downtown...she did and said it was totally fine and everything, but I still felt so stupid. Anyways, so she drives me downtown, and I thought that I had expressed that I wanted to get dropped off at Paviljonki, but I guess not, because she drove me right to my school, which is about a mile from it....I didn't have the heart to tell her I didn't want to be there, so I just said thanks, waited for her to drive away, and then half ran/half walked to Paviljonki. I was only 5 minutes late when I got there, so that was good. But when I walked in, I walked in to find probably, oh, 15 people. Yeah, apparently I didn't really need to be there until 11 30 that morning, the early practices were for the play people and the dancers, not me...so I got to sit and watch do overs and do overs again and again. But I entertained myself with a deck of playing cards and played solitaire repeatedly :] It wasn't too bad actually, I got to talk to different people on their breaks. The entire event was supposed to start at 2 so around 1 30 we took our seats. The people running the show overbooked, so some of us actors. including me, had to sit on the stairs next to the seats, at first it was alright, but mannn did it hurt after awhile. Anyways, so when the whole thing started there were more than 1600 people in the audience. This event was for the celebration of Lyseo's [my school] 150th birthday, so there were lots of important people there, as well as most of my student body. It started off with some speeches from some of these important people, including the prime minister, Matti something. The president was supposed to be there, but she canceled and sent her speech to someone to be read. The speeches were boring, because they were in finnish, but then the Jyväskylän Symphony got to play, and some women sang, and then there was a tango ! That was fun to watch. And then there were more speeches, and then the play ! It was a scene from a very popular play in Finland, and in it there is a bear, and then these hunters who kill the bear, and they sing ! Annina was "snow" in the play, but her and her castmates were really pretty in all there white flowy outfits. And Joonas was the head hunter guy, so that was really cool to watch. After the play there was some more singing and more speeches, and then finally it was my turn ! The point of what I was a part of was that there were 150 [actually it was only 100, but we wanted 150] students who went down to the stage and then we did this time travel sort of thing where we acted out Lyseo over the years. The school started out as an all boys school and then the girls came and yeah, I don't really know how to explain it, but maybe when I get the video it'll make more sense. But it was super fun, and I was in the front, so you might be able to see me ! :] Anyways, so after the thing ended we all hung around and kind of cleaned up and such and then we all said our goodbyes and went home. It was so much fun, I am so glad I took part in it. The people who were a part of it recieve the video [once its made] for free, and its of the whole entire production ! And then today, well I didn't really do much in the morning, although I finished letters to the Wilson family and to Janelle Lea, so they'll be in the mail tomorrow ! If you want me to write you, write meee :] And thennnn, I went ice skating ! With my friend Kirsi from school, her family is hosting the exchange student from Italy, so we three went to the skating rink :) I wore Anna's skates, which felt like they fit just fine when I tried them on last night, but oh boy, they were probably 4 sizes too small. But I didn't do half bad, and Barbara [the girl from italy] and I never fell ! So that was a big accomplishment. After about 2 hours of skating they took me home and I showered, ate, and watched part of Camp Rock ! And now I'm going to get ready for tomorrow and what not, have a niceeee day !

:D

Thursday evening - My presentation went swell !


and thennnnn....



I got asked to the prommmm :D :D :D :D :D :D

nelkytkaks - 42

I know, I know, I haven't posted in a while...it's been crazy :] So let's start with sunday. I woke up around 9 and showered so that I was fresh and clean. Piia and Annina were coming over around 2 to play soccer ! Piia can drive so she drove herself and Annina over to the soccer pitch and I went down to greet them. They came over to the house, and I showed them around and introduced them to the family. We went back down to the soccer pitch for about an hour, just kicking the ball around and what not, it was quite fun. Then we came back to the house and had some fruit pie and ice cream, deliiiicious :] Then we looked through my pictures from home, and I showed them my powerpoint and what not, so they got to see Silverdale and all my friends. Piia left around 3 30 and then Annina left around 4, but it was a lot of fun. At 4 15 Anna, Maria and I went to the ice hockey hall to see Lauris game, we were a bit late, but we got to see the last half. They lost, 7-3 :/ But it was fun to watch. And then at 6 Anna, Maria and I went to the swimming hall for her swimming lessons. I swam the whole time this week, 45 minutes straight of 50 m laps. Woo, that was nice :] Maria and I went over to the wave pool/kid pool for 20 minutes once her lessons were done so that was fun. And then we had 20 minutes of sauna before getting dressed. I went to bed almost as soon as I got home, I was so tired. Okay, so monday. I went to school at 10 and tried finding my classes, I had english first, it was actually kind of fun :] And then our school had this um, celebration type thing ? All 600 of us walked downtown, passing our school mates who were being human statues, down to the compass which is the center of our shopping malls. We all circled around the compass, basically blocking any one from going through, and listened to some speeches and poems given by students and teachers. They were about our school and such I think, and then we had another, smaller, fashion show. And then we had fire breathers ! They were two seniors from our school, and one of them wasn't very good, but the other one was amazing ! Except he burnt his hair...Annina and I were on TV ! I really want to see if I can find it online and show you all, we didn't say anything, they just filmed us being fans. But it was cool :] When we got back to school I went to find my psychology class, but the class I walked into was the finnish psychology class, and I want the english IB course, so I walked all throughout the building looking for them, but no such luck. So after awhile I gave up and came home. I did some reading, finished my finnish homework, and then watched the movie Taxi with Juuso. That is one funny movie, we were dyinggg. Okay, so now to tuesday! I had english class at the beginning of the day again, we worked on synonyms, which basically just turned into me giving answers :] Tuesday was deemed the day we act like we were in the 1800's. Everyone was supposed to dress in old fashioned or dark clothing and in class we weren't allowed to talk, and we had to stand up to answer and wait for permission to sit down again. We even had to stand outside during our break, it was absolutely freezing ! The food was kind of gross, lingenberry porridge, it was really thick and goopy, I wasn't the only one who didn't like it...Chet and I both had about two hours to spare before finnish lessons so we walked to the library and looked at some books. I didn't get any, but I'm probably going back, because I need things to read. After about an hour in the library we decided to hit some used book stores, there are tons of them here ! I didn't find anything worth buying, but some of the books were interesting. When it was close to 2 we headed over to the University for our Finnish lessons. I guess I didn't miss much last week, so I didn't have anything to catch up on, so that was nice. We didn't necesarily learn anything new, we just re-visited things we had already gone over because we were ending unit one this week. After finnish lessons I came home and around 5 Petra called and asked if I wanted to go for a bike ride ! So off we went, just riding around. We stopped at a little park with tire swings near my house, and swung ! After about 15 minutes this man came over and started talking to us. He was talking about how a swing works and what not, but he kept talking, for 30 minutes ! He had something wrong, like a mental illness or something, so we didn't want to just walk away and be rude, so we just sat there, Petra did all the talking. Near the end of our conversation his phone rang, he said it was his mom. So Petra and I then told him that we had to leave. He asked me something but I told him [in finnish!] that I spoke english and all of the sudden he started reciting John 3:16. So that was quite the adventure, after that we just rode around the lake and such, quite nice :] On to wednesday! I was supposed to have psychology at 10 that morning, but when I got there, I again couldn't find the class so I went to find my counselor and ask her about it. She had class however, so I had to wait outside for a long time. Around lunchtime I went and sat with Saana and a few of her friends and we played cards :] I don't know what the game was called, in finnish or in english, but it was fun, and I won a round ! After that we had this assembly thing in the gym hall, it was packkkked. Wednesday was the official 150th birthday of Lyseo, so it was a big deal. The assembly was hosted by Annina and Joonas, so that was cool to watch. There were poem readers, and different people talking about the school and other things, it wasn't half bad for being all in Finnish actually. I had to leave early though to get to Finnish lessons. They were in this computer classroom, so we spent the whole class, surfing the net on finnish sites ! I worked with the Irish guy Mark, he's really cool, and his accent, amazing :] Uh, after that I rushed to bus so I could get home. That night we had Gaala at the school, basically a school dance ! With live bands :] Any excuse to get dressed up is fine with me, I love wearing dresses. It started at 6 30, and was actually really fun. It started off with toasts of apple cider to the school, and then we played this conga line/hugging game, to the song of BINGO. You know, "there was a farmer who had a dog and bingo was his name-o. B-I-N-G-O." But in finnish it translates into some black cat sitting on a windowsill named bingo....but anyways, so get in a conga line and start moving as you sing the song, then when you start spelling bingo, you shake hands with the person opposite you, going down the line until you reach the letter O and then you hug ! It was really interesting, but fun :D Then we just walked around, occasionally dancing to some songs, and what not. In the middle of it I went out to check my phone and text Anna when I would be home, only to find out it wasn't there! I thought maybe someone stole it, but my bus card and money were still there, so it didn't really make sense. I checked all around outside in case I dropped it, but I couldn't find it. Annina told the girls running the buffet table we were looknig for it, but they hadn't seen it either. We tried calling it but no one answered...After about 45 minutes Annina got a call from my phone ! So we answered and this girl said that she found it, so we found her and I got my phone back :] Gaala ended around 10 30, so I caught the 10 45 bus home and went straight to bed. And now, today. Well, it's not over yet, but I'll let you in on what's happened so far. I left for school at 7, and had psychology first thing. I finally found the right classroom ! It was nice to be back in there, I like that class. After psychology, Chet and I had english class, fun fun! They had a little word test today, but it was translating finnish to english, so Chet and I were excused from it. Afterwards we did more finnish to english translating, but this time I actually could make out some of the sentences, yay :] I think I'll actually learn quite a bit from this class. Lunch was horrid today, I don't know of one person that liked it. The only good thing were the potatoes, but it went along with this creamy oatmeal textured sauce, and a hunk of COLD white fish. Not too appetizing...the milk was good :] After english was over, I was done for the day, so I came home and showered, and worked on my speech for my Rotary presentation, tonight ! It starts at 4 30, wish me luck ! So anyways, that's been my thursday so far, sorry for the long wait of posts, its been crazy ! I'll try to be more on top of it from now on, have a splendid thursday :D

nelkytyks - 41

Okay, so, the past few days have been sort of crazy, so I'll try and sum them up as best I can. So friday morning I didn't go to school because Anna took Maria and I on a trip with the church that she works for. We also picked up a family friend of theirs, Maija [probably 21 or so], and her baby Enna [1], so that was fun. We drove to her church in Muurame, probably a twenty minute drive from here, and just kind of hung around while Anna helped out and got things organized. Around 10 three buses showed up and everyone piled in. There were probably close to 100 people there, mostly moms with their kids. The bus ride was about an hour and a half, full of screaming babies and crying toddlers, but it was fun :] We were on our way to ähteri, a finnish zoo ! We walked around and saw so many different animals, all native to Finland, it was really cool. We saw reindeer and elk, deer, and a wolverine ! I also got to see swans, and beavers, and all sorts of animals :] I took a lottt of pictures, I'll post a few at the end. After we saw the animals we went back to the picnic tables and ate some lunch and then around 3 30 we headed back to the buses and headed home. I slept pretty much the whole ride home :] I don't know how, the babies were now tired and cranky, so the screaming was worse, but somehow I managed to sleep though it. When we got back we waited for about a half an hour for Anna to helpclean up and then we drove Maija and Enna home. Anna was supposed to be worknig a kiosk at the hockey game that night, so we dropped Maria off at Sonja and Mia's house and then headed to the hockey hall. After visiting three different kiosks, Anna said that they didn't need her help afterall. I was planning on meeting up with Annina and Piia that night, so I didn't want to go home just to turn around and come back again, so I stayed around and watched part of the game with Juuso. It was really cool, they had blaring music, and cowbells ! I didn't get any pictures, but I'll make sure I do sometime before I leave. I walked downtown to meet annina around 7 or so and waited for her to get out of play practice at the school. When she came out I also ran into Joonas ! He's one of Piia's friends and I've only talked to him on facebook, so this time I acutally said hi :] So he walked and talked with Annina and I down to the bus station and then we all got on the same bus, I was going over to Annina's house for a bit, Joonas lives sort of near her I guess. So that was a lot of fun, he's really nice...;D Aha, so anyways, Annina and I walked to her house, it was really cute, and I met her 11 year old brother. He's apparently really good at english, but he was too shy to say anything to me...darn. After awhile Annina and I left her house and headed for Piia's, who was cooking us dinner that night :] Piia lives quite close, just over an overpass from Annina's house. When we got there my jaw dropped. She lives in this tiny little house, but it's so pretty ! She's an only child, so they don't need a big house, but her house was so pretty inside and out. When we got inside we noticed that she had put candles on the table and set out food in neat little dishes, it was so cute ! We ate delicious chicken soft tacos, they were so yummy :] After we were done eating and talking we took a walk outside and stargazed for a bit, we found the big and little dippers and a lot of airplanes. We went inside and watched different TV shows, ate some salted peanuts, and Piia made us the most delicious green tea I've ever had. We watched the finnish Idols, ahhahhaha, and some other random TV shows, and then around 11 30 Piia's dad drove me home. He didn't speak any english, so the car ride was quiet, but I was able to tell him enough so he knew where I lived. And that was friday ! And then yesterday. Um, I woke up around 9, had some breakfast and then Mia came over with Nana [naw-naw](her mom) and Anna and her went for a run. The boys all left for hockey practice or games, so I was babysitting. The girls and I went outside and played this jumping game, I don't know how to explain it, but someone picks a number, then the other people run and jump/leap that many times to try and get the farthest. Then the person who picked the number does the same thing only one time less than the others. Then they try and tag one of the others, if they do than they have to run back to the starting point before being tagged, if they can't reach it, then they're it again ! It was fun, kind of weird. Then I showered and watched Grease ! At 2 the girls and I went to see a movie, Nana drove us down there and we saw WALL-E, but it was dubbed over in Finnish. It wasn't bad though, theres not much talking until the end of it anyways, and it's a really cute movie, so it was fun. And then I met up with Annina again because Jason told us there was a big thing happening at the Mormon church that evening, and that althoguh we're not Mormon, we would have a chance to meet the new guy filling in for Casey. So we went shopping for a bit, and then walked over to the church. It was packeeed with kids. Apparently it was their "super saturday" or something, and finnish mormon kids from all over the country get together and just do different things through out the day in some city, and then have a dance at the end of the day, this time just happened to be in Jyväskylä. The new guy is named Terry, he seems nice, and he's funny, so that was cool. We just kind of stood in the big gym, talking and what not with our normal chill night group, everyone else was either dancing or standing as well. The funny thing about Finns is that no matter the speed of the song, they're always doing a waltz type dance. One of the boys asked me to dance, so that was fun, kind of awkward at first, but not too bad. We just talked about the normal typical things, why I was here, how long, what my hobbies were, etc. Then we had a live band perform, it was one of the past missionaries, Daniel, and some other guys. They weren't too bad acutally, I took a little video, so I might put that up. The dance ended at 8 30, after Jason sang "Can you feel the love tonight?" and "Beauty and the Beast", and all the kids got on their buses and went home. I got home around 9 30, watched Step Up, and then went to sleep. And now its sunday morning, and I think I'm gunna go shower :] Have a nice weekend !


A Fallow Deer
An elk :]
And this is for Jordan, a Buffalo !

This is baby Enna, she was so cute !

And loved to make sounds :]
A Reindeer !
A wolverine !
And this one's for mom, its an otter ! and it's waving to you :]
This is the band, Daniel is the lead singer, playing the acoustic.

neljakymmenta - 40

Sorry for the no-post last night, the past 48 hours were kind of chaotic. I woke up yesterday, went to the bathroom, and then went into the kitchen to get something, but before getting it, I passed out ! Maria was the only one home, and when I woke up she was just kind of standing there and laughing at me, she told Anna later that she though I was sleeping on the kitchen floor. I'm not sure what happened, I didn't go to school though, Anna took me to the little health center near our house around 4 in the afternoon. They ran routine tests, blood pressure, eye exams, etc. Some of them felt as though I was trying to pass a sobreity test ! What fun. Then they wanted to check my heart [making sure I didn't have epilepsy] so I had those little round sticky things put all over me and then hooked up to wires :] It was quite the adventure, espescially because they spoke finnish...but the cardiologist said I was fine. Although I have a golf ball sized knot on the back of my head that hurts, meaning that I hit either the chair or the table when I fell, but other than that I'm perfectly okay. Anyways, so that was yesterday and today was really short. I had art in the morning, which I have with Anu ! So that was great, plus its only like an 8 person class, so its nice and quiet. After art I would have had english but there was a meeting for the "150" people, school celebration thing, so I went to that. We basically just talked about what to wear, went over some basic "dramatic effects" and other little details. I then went home, and for the first time ever, had the house to myself. It wasn't actually that great, I just watched some TV, drew a little, wrote a little in my journal, things like that. Maria was the first one home, so we took a little trip to K-Market, and I bought a little gift for my family. I'll send it tomorrow ;D We had soccer practice at 6, I just rode my bike around while the girls played. At one point I was just standing next to the goal, the girls were having a water break when Matleena, one of the girls on the team, came up and pulled my shorts down ! So there I was standing in my underwear, in front of the entire team plus maybe 10 other onlookers. Thatttt was embarrassing, I quickly pulled my shorts back up, and proceeded to chase Matleena around. I'm sure it was really hillarious to see, it wasn't as embarrassing as I would've imagined, but still...being pantsed is no fun...Anyhow, I'm going to webcam my daddy, I might not post for the next couple of days, they're going to be quite busy :] I'll be sure to take pictures !

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So this morning began kind of oddly. I got to school at 7 45 and headed to the art classroom, there were a lot of people hanging around, but the door to the art room was locked, so I just sat on the steps. At 8 or so, the teachers of the surrounding classrooms showed up and all of the kids sitting near me all went inside. So there I was, sitting by myself, and I think it was then that I realized something was wrong. The Italian exchange girl showed up about a minute later, and Chet about two minutes after that. It seems that the exchagne students missed a memo...We went and found our counselor, Marjatta, who found out that the art class was canceled...She showed us to an english class that we could take, but when we walked in there weren't any seats. Marjatta said that we could go find other chairs, but we were already too embarrassed to ever walk in again so she showed us to a different english class. This time there were a few seats, so now I'm taking an english class ! I think we're just there to help out and such, I think it'll be fun though :] Afterwards I had a four hour break so I went home for a bit. I watched a movie, listened to some music, and ate some lunch before heading back downtown. I had a spanish class that started at 1 25, so I headed there. The teacher never showed up, and I had to leave at 1 50 for my finnish lessons, so it was pretty much a pointless class for that day. Finnish lessons were pretty fun, we played a verb conjugation game, I was Zorro ! Afterwards I walked over to the Mormon church, without Annina this time, she had choir practice. Tonight, however, was Casey's last chill night in Jyväskylä :/ He's being transfered to Helsinki tomorrow, so we had a party for him tonight. HOME MADE ROOT BEER FLOATS ! Finns don't drink root beer, it isn't sold here, so it was really nice, and tasty ! :] It was a lot of fun, although kind of sad, but Jasons still here, so chill nights will still happen. After I got home I had some dinner, watched some TV, took a shower, and watched The Simpsons with Maria. And now I'm watching Harriet the Spy, ah, I missed this movie, I used to want to be her when I was little, her life was so cool. Anyways, so now I'm going to sleeeep, have a nice night !

I'd like now to inform you of a terrible happening today, a school shooting in a town about two hours from my town. The man was in his early twenties and ended up killing 11 people, and then himself. It's all over the news here, a lot of people are affected by it. Theres an exchange student living in this city, Kauhajoki, but he's fine, so that's good. You can read about it online, I'm not sure if it's hit international news yet. Anyways, so that's whats going on over here, keep me posted about back home.