happy name day veikko :]

yes, finland has name days. its like a birthday for your name. its pretty cool. Today was veikko and a few others that I don't remember, but I have a friend named Veikko, so happy name day to him ! This day was a nice relaxing no stress friday, I always enjoy those. I didn't have school until 1, and it was only one class, history of religion. I don't really mind the class, yet, but it does get a little annoying not understanding a thing the teacher says minus a few words here and there. But maybe with time I'll start to get the hang of it. My host mom made us pizza tonight, it was good. Although, finnish pizza is SO different than American pizza. They don't have like, certain pizza's with different toppings, they kind of just put alllll the toppings on one pizza. Pepperoni, cheese, olives, onions. garlic. tuna, pineapple, chicken, shrimp, salami, ham, etc. [yes. i did say tuna. yes, i did say shrimp.] But Raija knows that Alvar and I don't really care all that much for the all in one type pizza, so she made a ham, salami, pineapple, and cheese pizza for us and a pepperoni, tuna, shrimp, olives, and cheese pizza for her and Arvo. Arttu hates his mom's pizzas so he opts for a frozen microwaveable pizza ! Go him. After dinner I went for a walk with my new friend Julia who lives down the street and happens to be in my art class ! We stopped by Raija's friend Virpi's house so that Raija could go walking with her and so I could see their adorable dogs Tilta and Tilli. Tilta is a newfoundland and only 6 months old, and tilli is a mix of some springer something and is 7 or something. On our way out, Virpi asked if I wanted to take the dogs with me ! I of course said yes, they are the cutest things ever, so Julia and I took them on a nice walk around the island ! It was super fun and after dropping them off back home I went over to Julia's house. She has two younger brothers 13 and 11 who seemed quite nice and said "hi" to me, meaning they spoke englishhhh. Julia and I sat in her room and played with her cat, looked at some pictures, and just talked about different things for a while and then I walked back home :) So yeah, it was a nice day. Tomorrow I'm going to Piia's 19th birthday ! We're eating some yummy food at her house around 3 and then at 5 we're going rockwall climbing ! I'm very excited :D Anddddd on sunday I'm going to see Australia with Julia maybe ! So it should be a fun filled weekend, hope yours is as well !