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The weekend, the weekend, the wonderful weekend. We went to the train station around 9 on friday evening to pick up Maija, Jaako's daughter who turned 17 not too long ago. And oh my gosh, she was wonderful. She's a lottt like me in so many ways, speaks perfect english, and even spanish ! She was so much fun to hang out with, and helped bridge the awkwardness between me, juuso, and lauri. We jumped on the trampoline until midnight just talking about our lives. She's lived in Brighton, England for a year and also in Spain for three. It all sounds so amazing, I'm so jealous. But she too is jealous that I've been able to grow up in the states which is apparently the dream of all little girls in Europe. Juuso, Maija, and I played different cards games until two am and then went to bed. In the morning we woke up, watched some cartoons, jumped on the trampoline, trampoliini in finnish, and kind of sat around for a bit. Anna suggested we go swimming at the local pool which sounded fun, so off we went ! But it was closed, so we drove to one a little farther away, towards Murame. We got in, Anna paid for everything! Ah, she's so generous. Swimming was a lot of fun, we played water tag, hippa in finnish, and just swam for about an hour and a half. Then we went to the pool sauna, it wasn't as hot as the one we had in Tampere, but a little hotter than the one here. This lady in the shower started yelling, well repremanding I guess, Maija and I for wearing our suits in the showers. She first told us in finnish, but Maija kind of just ignored her. But then she turned to me and said in english "I'm not sure if you know our customs here, but we don't shower with our suits on, you aren't allowed to swim." I just said something like "uh, okay!" And then we went and got dressed. It was funny though, Maija kept apologizing for her. We took the bus back to dowtown Jyväskylä where we picked up movie tickets that we had previously ordered online. When you buy your movie tickets here, you have to pick your seats! It's so crazy, we went to go see Get Smart at 8 that night with Lauri and Juuso. It had Finnish subtitles, but was in english, so that was nice. The theatre was inside the shopping center, on the third floor. Everything you bought was self serve, the drinks, COKE SLUSHIES!, and popcorn. It was really cool. The theatre itself is just like ours, the seats are kind of arranged like the Pouslbo theatre, where the seats are all on different levels. Apparently this was a really small theatre compared to the ones in Helsinki, but it was about the same size as the small theatre in Silverdale. The movie was good, at first I was sitting between Maija and Juuso, but then this HUGE guy sat right in front of Juuso so that his head was covering the subtitles. Juuso was so angry so I kept telling him I would switch with him because I didn't need to read the subtitles. He kept refusing, but finally he gave up. So now I was behind the huge guy, who had the most annoying but hillarious laugh ever. His head took up the entire bottom right corner of the screen! But I've already seen the movie, so that's alright. We went to bed around 11 that night, we were all really tired. I woke up around eight this morning, it was nice to sleep in again. Petra had her confirmation today, but we skipped the church part, because it's boring and just went to the afterparty. Maija didn't know we were going to this so she didn't bring anything to wear. But I saved the day and let her wear my farewell party dress while I wore my homecoming dress, we looked nice :] The party itself was boring and everyone was so quiet. But Maija and I just hid downstairs and talked while we sent Maria and Pinja to get us food. When we were doing toasts, where I experienced my first glass of wine which was grapefruity and delicious tasting, I stood next to this old man who is the first person I have met who snores while he's awake ! Goodness it was annoying, and so hard not to laugh, espescially when Maija noticed it too. But the food was delicious which is always nice. Sadly Maija had to catch a 4 30 train back to Espoo, which is near Helsinki. So we said our goodbyes and off she went. On the way home Anna told me that we are almost positively taking a cruise next weekend to Sweden ! I'm so stoked ! We would leave friday around noon and arrive in Helsinki around 3, and the cruise ship leaves around 5 that evening. And then we would go to Sweden ! And I think we get back on Sunday evening. Goodness, I am so excited for this. We are going with Maija's family, so I'll get to hang with her again :] Anyways, I'm waiting for Juuso to get home so that I can ask him if he has a non-flat soccer ball because the soccer pitch is empty right now. I'm hoping he says yes ! I shall post tomorrow after my long day at school...moika!