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