rules for easy living

rule number one: don't wear nike dunks [grandma, its a type of shoe now in fashion] when everything, and i mean everything, is slippery.
rule number two: don't walk quickly while wearing dunks when its slippery.
rule number three: don't look up while walking quickly while wearing dunks when its slippery.

following these three simple rules will save you from falling not once, not twice, not three times, but four and suffering from intense humiliation because when falling not the first, second, nor third, but the fourth time you slide into some poor innocent bystander and bring him down to the watery street as well.

Yes, if you haven't already guessed, this was my day. What, do I need to wear a reflectors vest, flashing lights, and hold a sign reading "Caution: standing in close proximity may result in a lot of pain, or even death." ?

Bah. It was terrible. And then I was in wet jeans for the rest of the day >: But my whole day wasn't terrible, when I was inside, where it wasn't slippery, my classes were really fun. I had art with Barbara this morning and it was probably the best art class I've ever had, we couldn't stop laughing ! But she leaves in two weeks to go home, back to Italy, for good :/ I'm so sad ! After art I had psychology, meh. not too fantastic, but not completely pointless either. And then I had dance ! :D Its so much fun, even though I'm not the greatestttt dancer ever, Joonas is super good, and super fun to be with, so I'm having a good time :] Then I had to run [okay, not really because I had learned my lesson (finally) that I should just walk slowly] over to the University for my first Finnish 2 lesson. My class is small, onlya bout 10 people compared the the 25 or so in the first course...but I like the teacher a lot and the girl sitting next to me was nice. After finnish I went back downtown [I walk SO much here, I don't know how I'll survive when I get back home...guess I'll be walking ! hey, less gas money right ? except, finland doesn't have hills....so that could be a problem...] and caught a bus up to Palokka to go try on my dress, which wasn't finished :[ But it was super pretty and fit just right and is so perfect and has a huge but not too huge (hm...rusetti...thats the finnish word, but I can't think of what it is in english...not a ribbon, but you know. um. like. A BOW ! aha wow.] on the back, its so princessy :D The lady making it for me doesn't speak any english, so I told her "en tieda kuinka tanssia, mutta mulla on ihana pari ja nyt ihana mekko !" = "I don't know how to dance, but I have a great partner and now a lovely dress !" She smiled :) And then I went over to the Sainpalos and visited them ! Harri was the only one home when I got there, Maria was at girl scouts and Anna at work, Juuso at ice hockey of course. And Lauri was in his room. So I talked with Harri for a bit and then Lauri came in [he lives in a bedroom in the garage] and at first he walked in without his shirt and I was like "hiiii :D" and then he said "oh..." and turned right around, back to his room, and came back with a shirt :] It was so cute. So I talked with him for a bit and we watched a reallly old episode of The Hills on MTV and then Maria came home ! She showed me all of her new Bratz that she got for Christmas and then we played a board game until her mom came home. We chatted for a bit and then Anna drove me to the bus station and I got on the bus to go home. An hour later I walked in the door, almost dead from walking home because the roads are so so so slippery, luckily, I didn't fall...And yeah. My day was really good and really bad ! wooooo.