Tuesday

Okay, so promising to blog more, im going to do just that. Today is Tuesday. On sunday I had Annina come over to help me prepare for my hugeee Finnish final exam that was yesterday. We went over verbs and sentence formation and all the stuff that I had learned in my course and then hung out and tuned the tuneless guitar. It only holds a tune for about five minutes, and then its off again >:O But we had fun. My host dad, Arvo, cooked a delicious meal for lunch, and then Annina and I walked to the bus [20 minutes.] and went to church ! I reallly like the church here, it reminds me so much of church back home, so it was really nice. We had communion with real bread and real wine, the bread was yummy, the wine, not so much. After church I came home, but thanks to my 45 minute bus ride and 20 minute walk I didn't end up getting home until 7 30. We then watched the Finnish Idols with Arttu [16 year old host brother] and his girlfriend Sanelma, shes really pretty :] On monday I had my very large very stressful finnish exam that went surprisingly alright, I find out tomorrow what my score was, hopefully a 5. [the scale is 1-5] And then today was just a normal school day, without any finnish lessons. It was short and sweet, although I had to be at school at 8 so I had to take the 7 o'clock bus downtown and then book it to the school. It snowed all day today, so now we have new snow ! Its quite pretty, and soft, and such :) Tomorrow I have choir practice after school, two more practices on thursday, and then we perform on "Lucia päivää" or Lucy Day on friday. We sing at the school celebration, and then move downtown to the town library. We're trying to find someone to film it, so you'll probably get to see it ! I'm really excited for it, and then on thursday night I have a Rotary dinner and my host families are invited ! So I get to see the Sainpalo's again, and I'm really excited for that. In finland they have things called name days, where they just pick a slew of names and dedicate it to one day of the year. So today was Anna's name day, so I texted her :) This weekend my family and I are going Christmas tree hunting ! Yay :D I'll take pictures so you can see this wonderfully exciting event. But nowww, my host brother and his girlfriend are here, so I'm gunna get out of their way ! Happy tuesday :)