its almost christmas timeeeee.

two more days ! I'm so very excited :D This weekend was a blastttt. On saturday my family and I went over to the neighbors for his 53rd birthday, had some delicious food and just chatted and held the little 8 month old baby who was the cutest thing ever. His name was Eero and his sister, 2 or 3 years old, was hm. I actually don't remember her name...It meant "Lily of the Valley" though, and she was really cute as well. So that was fun. Then later that evening Sanelma [Arttu's girlfriend] and her parents came over. They didn't speak english to me, so it was a veryyyy long 3 hours of just sitting there not understanding. Raija tried to get them to speak, but they wouldn't. But oh well. Then on Sunday Annina and I met up and went out to lunch and planned out my trip to Helsinki [the capital city of finland] next week. We also got to look through my yearbook which she was really excited about, so that was fun. We ate at a place called Amarillo and it was delicious<3 Then my host parents picked me up and we drove over to another family's house, the same family that visited our house like two weeks ago. They had a really cute poodle, and their daughter Vera turned out to be really nice. She is almost 17, and at first it was really awkward trying to think of what to talk about, but after a while we had lots of fun and what not. Today I met up with Maria downtown for a promised and long awaited shopping trip. We went to almost every shop in Jyväskylä and had MAC donalds for lunch, courtesy of her father :] We found her a cute top that was on sale, woooo, and had lots of fun. I spoke finnish the whole day and it felt niceeee. Tomorrow I think is a nice free day and then on wednesday its.......CHRISTMAS ! woooo:] Yes, finns celebrate it on the 24th...But I'm really excited for it. There are probably 8 packages under the tree right now, more than half of which are for me, from the sainpalo's and Pastor Jim and Sonna, and my family. So I'm kind of confused if this family does the whole "giving presents" thing...maybe its a last minute sort of thing...I dunno :D Wishing you a very merry christmas and a wonderful new year ! Hyvää Joulua !