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Hyvaa Yota ! Ma olen Jocelyn.

I'm in Finland! Finally. I don't even know where to start. My trip so far has been wonderful. I missed all but the last day and a half of language camp because Jessica and I missed our flight from Germany to Helsinki by twenty five minutes. We got to stay in the Munich airport of Munich, Germany for eight hours. And I soon realized that when you can't speak German, you get no respect. When we finally got to Helsinki, we had to stay the night in the airport hotel which, by the way, had a shower that flooded our hotel room! The first day of Language camp was kind of confusing, I had missed a lottttt. But my table group soon became my closest friends....plus Bailey. We hung out for the next fifty something hours together, it was a blast. My roommate Caitlyn was really sweet and Nathan was hillarious. Bailey didn't leave my side so I was grateful for her. I learned all my colors and numbers and a few odd phrases. I really hope I pick up this language quickly, I want to so badly. The food was usually good, sometimes not. Anna, my host mom, picked me up from language camp today. She's so sweet, I can talk to her really easily. Harri, my host dad, works with speech therapy so he'll be a huge help in teaching me to roll my r's, cause I stink at it. Juuso hasn't spoken to me directly yet, but I think he'll come around. Maria is really adorable but she doesn't speak english so we just smile at eachother and laugh at the same things. She put the pictures I sent them on her door! It's so cute. Lauri, oh boy. Well, he can speak english, let's leave it at that ;] I start school on Monday, maanantai. I'm sort of nervous. I tried the sauna tonight, it was hot and sticky, but it wasn't too bad I guess. I'm working on being quieter, it is true that Finns don't talk. But they are so active! There are people riding bikes everywhere! It's so insane, even the old people. My family doesn't go to church regularly, but it's right across the street, so I still should be able to attend. I'm going to Lauri and Juuso's ice hockey games tomorrow, that should be fun. We had chicken curry burritos for dinner tonight, they were goooood :]

until next time, hei hei !