:) Today was another non school day for me and my still sick host mom, shes getting better though. I spent part of the day packing a bag for my week stay at Sirpa's house. Yesterday night I rode the bus home with my 14 year old host sister Nuppe, shes so funny and adorable, I think we'll get along really well :D She said that during this next week we might stay a night at her older sister, Milli's house, maybe go to Helsinki, and maybe see a movie or something. My host family leaves tomorrow morning for Lapland, Raija's been doing laundry day and night, packnig and re packing, its kind of hillarious. Yesterday was crazy busy, but really good. I had finnish lessons in the morning and we were assigned a group project where we have to research and make a presentation about a Finnish Celebrity, and at some point go downtown to the Compass and interview finnish people [in finnish!] about this celebrity. I'm working with Franzika [fran-che-s-ka] and we're researching a finnish drummer who's had a really hard life, Remu Aaltonen. He tried out for the EuroVision contest this year, hes really old now, and it was horrible. But apparently he was good when he was young. So that'll be interesting. Then I met up with one of the Rotary members, a globally known youth psychologist, Lea Pulkkinen, and we had a really good meeting where I really got to express my concerns about Rotary and what it stands for, etc. But she really understood me, so it was really nice. Then I saw chet for maybe 15 minutes and headed down to the Rotary meeting just in time for a delicious dinner of mashed potatoes and reindeer meat :D Mmmm, so good. After the meeting I went up to the church and went to youth group which was really really good, again. The speakers were two missionaries about to leave to live in South Asia and the explained all about why they were going and how they got involved and it was really cool and eye opening. It took me awhile before I even realized that being here is sort of my own little mission project, and I talked with one of the ladies afterwards about it and she prayed with me and we talked about everything, from being scared to seeing miracles, it was so cool.
Tonight I leave to Sirpa's, Harri brought me a bike today, so I don't have to walk so far to the bus :D And when spring comes its really nice to bike around the islands and such :] I'll take lots of pictures this week and try and blog when I can ! I finally got the professional photo that Annina and I took at the dance, its really cute, so I'll uplaod it here :D
Adios!
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