oh wow

it has been quite a long time ! I'm sorry....I've been wicked busy this past week, let me tell you all about it :) Starting with last Tuesday, after I blogged. I went on an 8 km, 5 miles, run with Mimmi which was really nice....not. Aha, I haven't ran in forever and I was dead by the end of it. But still, I did it ! Wednesday was the start of me getting sick, but I still went to school and it wasn't too bad, just stuffy nose and stuff. Thursday I had planned to go visit the Viertolas but I left schoool after the first class cause I was dying of not being able to breathe. So I went home and slept out on our covered porch because the fresh air helped me breathe. It was freezing though so I had two blankets and laid out on a bed of folding chairs...so comfy. :) I didn't go to school on friday, I only had one class anyways, and I was still sick. Friday night, around 9, Mimmi Sirpa and I left with Milli (my other sister who lives on her own across town, shes 19) to Tampere to stay at Papa's cottage. We got to the cottage around 12 30 or so and I went straight to bed with 7 pillows so I was practically sitting upright...so fun ! Then on saturday we went into the actually city of Tampere, met up with Sirpa's Godson Samu, hes 24 or something and was bald but had a huge beard ! He was cool though, and spoke really well english. We went to a tower much like the Space Needle only less cool and then we went to the Muumin Museum, Muumi is a famous finnish storybook character that originally started in swedish and now is in buckets of different languages. You should look it up :) Afterwards we went to a small town called Nokia, yes, where the phone company comes from :D, and went to this hugeeeee hotel pool water park thing which was super super fun. We sat in the sauna for about an hour before swimming and it cleared up all of my head and nose which was so nice. We went to Finnish Sauna, the kind where you throw water on hot rocks to make it hotter. And we went to Turkish Sauna which is a bunch of room temperature steam but really good for your skin. And then we went to Roman Sauna which is filled with white steam and the room is divided in half, one side for women the other for men, which was a little awkward, hahaha. But it felt really good. Then we went swimming ! Water slides, tunnels, lazy rivers, you name it. There was also this tunnel that led to an outside pool which is really nice in summer. But this was winter, but we went out there and then Mimmi and I ran out of the pool and onto the ice covered ground and laid on it for a minute and then ran back to the pool, it was exhilerating ! The hour long trip back to Tampere was really bad as I couldn't breathe which was no fun and I had to keep asking Sirpa to pull over so I could step out of the car and get fresh air, haha. But yeah. We came back on Sunday night and then we had to go watch Nuppe's soccer scrimmage which was outside and it was snowing and cold and freezing and miserable....but whatever. Then on monday I worked crazy hard on my Remu Aaltonen presentation with Franziska and then I came home. Yesterday I worked crazy hard on thinkng up themes for the yearbook, which was fun, but time consuming. I got one theme done now I'm working on a few more...I met up with Raija at 2 30 for coffee which was really nice, I miss her. Then that evening Mimmi and I went on a 11 km, 6.8 miles, run which was really nice because the sun was shining. But yeah, I was dead....again. She is tiny and a super fast runner, so sometimes I have to tell her to just run on without me and then come back for me,because I'm much slower than her...but she says she doesn't mind :) Which is nice. Today I was supposed to go running with Annina and Piia to train with them for a marathon that we're running in June, but I still have a nasty cough and it seems to get worse when I run. Plus I only had one class today becaus all of my psychology classmates are in France so I would have had to wait four or five hours until theywere done with school. So we're going on saturday and then they're both coming to stay the night at my house ! :) Also in the morning of saturday I'm going swimming with Mimmi maybe, so that should be fun. On thursday I'm going to visit the Sainpalos after school and then to youth group at night. Friday I have no school because of them being in france, so yay, three day weekend for me ! :) Right now my host mom is in a different town for work until thursday so Milli and her boyfriend are staying with us (and their evil cats >:O I hate cats. most of the time...) And that is that, I promise to blog more often now, sorry for the delay !