my last night

at the sainpalo's :/ I leave tonight at 1 a.m. for Lapland ! Its a ten hour bus ride, and all the exchange students in Finland will be there, so I get to see all my old friends from language camp :] We're there for five days at a place called Muonio if you want to look it up on the map. Its really far north, in the arctic circle :O I'm gunna attempt skiing, although I don't know how good I'll be at that....wish me luck ! I'm getting back on wednesday, but I don't know if I'll have internet connection up there, so I might not be in touch with anyone until Thursday day...This past week was really nice, I went to Youth Group again last night, it was realllllly good. There was this band there and they played these wicked long songs, but they were really cool, so I'm really liking it there. I missed my bus afterwards though, so I had to sit outside [remember, its like -2 degrees celcius outside, which is like 23 ? degrees farenheit [spelling ?] for a half hour until the next bus came. And this whole week I've had choir practice everyday, and then today we sang in the assembly for the first sunday or advent :] It was really cool, and we walked in holding candles and all the lights were out, and yeah, it was pretty awesome. Sometime in december we'll be performing downtown at the christmas celebration, singing both finnish and swedish songs ! I've got the swedish song down pat now, it's pretty exciting. Right now, literally, I'm making brownies [well, i'm trying, i'm not sure if they're going to turn out or not....:/] and then later on today I'll make enchiladas ! We're having sort of a day late mexican thanksgiving going away party ! Anna's brothers' family and her parents are coming over, and then later on we're having, yet again, their favorite american dessert, Fanta Floats which they have now been deemed :] So that should be fun. I had my oral exam in Finnish lessons today, Chet and I had to talk with each other in finnish for two minutes. Our script was pretty good I guess, we didn't want to just do the basics, so we worked on including some new stuff as well, and it went alright. I shipped out my family's christmas box on wednesday, along with a little package for my favorite non-related family, I'll write letters sometime next week, so they should be in [most of] your hands before christmas ! Anyways, the brownies smell good, I think I'll take them out, have a nice weekend !