niin suuri, hän on

laulakaa niin suuri hän on
pian kaikki nähdä saa
niin suuri hän on.

how great is our god
sing with me how great is our god
and all will sing
how great is our god

we sang that in church today :] yep, I went. I wanted to see what the sunday services were like and they were so much like home, it felt so right. They offer english translation as well, so it makes it so much better because I know what they're talking about. I'mreally excited to be back in church finally, and I plan on going as often as I can. I asked Annina to go with me, and she gladly accepted, so I'm hoping she'll go with me as well, I think it's a really good opportunity for both of us :) Yesterday my family had Petra's family over for desserts and coffee, I made orange soda floats, everyone seemed to like them. Petra, Pinja, Maria, Panu [Petra's older brother, he's maybe 4 months younger than me] and I played flashlight hide and go seek. I was really bad at it....but it was fun (: And today there was a huge snowstorm, there's like 5 inches of snow outside and its still coming down ! It's this crazy wind snow stuff, its really think and light and fluffy [terrible for snowballs or igloos, but really nice to walk in] and sometimes if the wind gets trapped it makes like snow tornadoes ! Crazy :P Um, I attempted to video some of it, but its reallllly dark and I don't think you can see anything, but you can certainly try: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOhLaLApOHM. Tomorrow I have school and choir practice in the morning. Same with Tuesday, I also have finnish lessons and chill night. Wednesday I have finnish lessons and school, of course. Thursday [thanksgiving in the U.S., but not in Finland] I have a rotary meeting at which the exchange student from last year who went to the states is going to be speaking, and then after that is Youth Group. And on Friday I have finnish lessons and then that evening I'm baking dinner for my host family as a farewell dinner/thanksgiving. I'm making enchiladas, Juuso begged me :), and I'm gunna see if I can make a pumpkin pie as well as brownies (: I thought a lot about my senior year today, and I'm kind of scared that I'm gunna forget how to study and pass tests and do homework next year, so I went and took all of the practice questions for the SAT online. I did alright with reading and writing, but I am terrible at math....I'm gunna have to work on that. And then on friday I leave at 2 am for Lapland [northern finland, in the arctic circle !]. It's a ten hour bus trip, but a lot of my friends from language camp are on my bus, so it should be fun :] We're there for five days, and when I get back I go to the Viertola's ! I'm sad to leave the Sainpalo's, but also excited to move in with the Viertola's. Maria and I went Ice Skating this morning, it was quite fun, although I'm really not very good, but thats okay, she just laughs at me :] Okei, well, goodnight!