happy wednesday :)

indeed it was ! But lets talk aboutttt yesterday ! So I went to school around 9, had a very nice art lesson with Barbara again, stole an apple from the lunch room and thennnn went home ! I spent the rest of the day making christmas cards for all my friends, it was quite fun. Later that evening Raija's brother and his wife came over for coffee and desserts. His name was Petri, so I called him Uncle Pete :) They spoke english very well, but I tried out my finnish a few times as well. We ate some delicious food, chatted, and then they went home. So todayyyy [actually, this was wednesday, and today is friday, but whatever.] I went with Arvo in the morning to pick up my christmas package from the um, package place ? :) We got there and the man handed me my package and as I was walking out I noticed that I was leaving a trail of coffee as I walked. I assumed that one of the packages my mom sent me had opened, so it was sort of interesting. When I got home and out of the car, there was this little pile of coffee grounds on the seat, but at least our car smells yummy now ! :D I got home, opened my package to find a zilllllion bags of coffee, one which had opened a bit :] My yearbook, anninas christmas gift, some enchilada sauce and chiles, flossssss !, a present !, anddddddddddd JIFPEANUTBUTTER. mmm, I opened it and just stood in the kitchen breathing in its heavenly scent that hadn't touched my nose since last summmer. It is so delicious<3 Anyways, then I proceeded for the next two and a half hours to bake chocolate chip cookies ! I ended up making 127....hahah. But everyone loved them, and I gave them out to my friends for christmas. That evening I took the bus downtown and then another one up to Palokka and visited the Sainpalos ! Anna and Lauri weren't at home :/ But juuso, Maria, and Harri were. We ate some ice cream, chatttted for a bit, and then Juuso and Maria and I played this um penguin game that was reallycool. Juuso had to leave for a dance at his school, and Harri was going to an ice hockey game, so Maria and I had the house to ourselves ! We played the finnish version of Taboo, it was hard but quite helpful and we had lots of fun. And then we watched numerous videos of Anna Abreu, Anna Puusijärvi, and Koop Arponen, the finnish Idols winners. Haha, it was really cool :D And then Thursday ! I went to school for a meeting with my counselor lady at 12, had some glogi, a finnish christmas drink usually alcoholic, but not this time, it tastes like hot apple cider and its so gooood. I picked out my classes for next period, I'm taking Art [ahaha of course] Psychology, the Dance class that prepares us for the dances we have to do at Prom [waltz, tango, jenkka, uumpa (i dunno how to spell that one...)], and a religion class with Annina in finnish ! Fun fun. And then I start finnish lessons again, so that will also take up some of my time :D After that I had 7 hours to kill before youth group, but its pointless to go home cause it takes an hour to do so....So I hung out in the art room for like 5 hours, in the middle Annina and I went downtown, bought some lunch, and just sat and talked for a while. Then at 6 30 I walked up to the church for our christmas party at youthgroup. The church was so pretty ! Everyone was all dressed up [I wore a dress as wellll] and there were pretty lights and candles everywhere. And then we had an amazingggg worship session, it was so so good. We played a few games, learned some scottish/irish dance, etc. But it was so much fun. I didn't get home until pushing midnight though...but oh well :D And then today ! I've just been sitting around enjoying my day off of school :) Merrrrry Christmas !