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 !