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It's been a whileee. I'm totally fine, I do hope you weren't worried. I've just been crazy busy, and to tell you the truth kind of forgot about my blog...sorry ! I'm trying to immerse myself, in doing so, I sort of let this slip. So the past week was swell, we finished up our second "period" in school and this week is test week. I don't really have any tests to take, so I basically have this week off...Most people say that I'm lucky, but I don't really like it, sitting at home with nothing to do but watch pointless tv or surf the net. So sometimes I just go to school anyways and sit at a table and play card games for a couple of hours :] So last monday I had my first dress appoointment with Raila [i think...] and she seems really sweet and really good at what she does. So I'm confident my dress will turn out wonderfully. We just went over the basic design, took measurements [oh boy !], and then scheduled my next appointment for the 20th of November. Tuesday I skipped school and went instead to talk to 6 different 6th grade classes at Maria's school. They were much easier to talk to then the 3rd graders because they understood a lot more. I brought in my magazines, my passport, some american money, and some pins that I had left over from language camp. They seemed to enjoy it and some of them were brave enough to ask me questions ! So that was fun. On thursday I attened the Rotary meeting, only this time it was our 50th Anniversary celebration of the club. So we had it at the local community hall thats really exquisite and old. We got there around 5 45, and as I walked in I soon realized I was compltely underdressed and boy did I feel stupid. I had no idea it was such a big event...whoops. I didn't really have anyone to talk to, I didn't know anyone there, so I hung out by the coat racks until Martti [my youth exchange officer] came in. Once he did we were told by the president that we needed to wait for a bit while the dinner tables were being set up. So we stood around talking and toasting champagne. After about an hour we were finally able to go inside. We sat down and I got to sit across the table from my Principal, Jorma, at my school. He's a former president of my Rotary club :] They started off with one 45 minute message from our President, all in finnish of course. Then we had our starters, some salad and potatoes. After we were done we were entertained by a finnish soprano singer. She was really good :) After she was done we were then entertained by the cities choral group, they were also quite good. When they left we then listened to another 45 minute speech from someone important I presume...When he was done we had our main course of Lamb, potatoes, and bread. Afterwards they served seconds ! But I'm pretty sure lamb is not my food of choice...so I just kept drinking water, talking to myself in my head. When our dishes had been cleared we then listened to two back to back 50 minute speeches from the President of all of Rotary in Finland, and then some man who was probably important as well. After these speeches we had this interesting side snack thing, thronberry sauce on spongey cake....not bad, not great. After that the President of my club presented ribbons to three men, although I'm not sure why...I asked Martti, but I didn't really understand what he was saying. So afterwards we had dessert, some type of cake, and coffee and chatted for about an hour. I didn't really take part in the chatting, there isn't much to talk about when they don't speak english so well...When Martti finally said it was time to leave it was 11 30 at night. It was the longest 6 hours of my entire life I believe...but I survived ! So that was my thursday. The weekend wasn't bad, I played badminton with Harri Maria and Juuso on saturday ! It was really quite fun, Juuso and I dominated :] OH ! IT SNOWED ! on saturday ! Nothing stuck, but it snowed the whole day. And now its sunny...this weather is bi-polar. So yeah, that was basically my whole weekend I think. I got to talk to my parents and brothers on sunday and then on Monday and Tuesday I took my english tests. I think I did okay...haha. They were fun :) And now today I have finnish lessons that I need to get going for. Sorry for the delay in posting, I am very fine, just busy. Thanks for reading :D