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 !