Tuesday-Monday

So my meeting with franziska went great, we worked for about an hour and a half, and almost got 7 complete sentences done ! [we’re doing a report on a finnish celebrity, in finnish of course. So we have to do research online, translate what we find so that we understand it, and then re translate it back into our own finnish sentences ! We’re doing a report on Remu Aaltonen, a famous rock musician whos now 61 and still trying to make music, its interesting.] But anyways, so that was fun. Except at first Franziska and I had a little mix up about what library we were both thinking of, she thought the university library, but I was thinking the main public library….whoops. I got home around 5 ish, maybe a bit earlier. Mimmi had her best friend Henna over, she stayed the night. Nuppe made dinner, a delicious fish masterpiece, and I made a beautiful salad :D We watched Private Practice and then Pirates of the Carribean, Nuppe and I also enjoyed a nice long game of rock paper scissors slap :P Our hands were beat red by the end….haha. The cats go home today, we also leave for Helsinki ! We’re staying with Sirpa’s sister who has a really cute dog :) yay ! And we’ll come back on Friday :D


So obviously, that was Tuesday ! Today is Monday, goodness gracious I have a lot of catching up to do….first off, I have pictures up on my flickr [www.flickr.com/ilovepaige345] that you can look at. So ! Our trip to Helsinki was really nice, Sirpa’s sister was great, she had three kids, Riina who was moving out on Friday to her boyfriends apartment, Lauri who’s a senior, and little um, shoot what was his name…I forget. Well he was fun anyways, ten years old and plays every sport imaginable. Mimmi, him, and I played Scrabble, finnish style, and I WON ! wooooo :D It felt really good to beat finnish kids at their own game….ahhah yeah. Anyways. We went to an Aquarium because the weather sucked, but it was really cool, they fed the sharks ! We also took a nice long trip to IKEA, Mimmi’s favourite shop, and then Nuppe, Mimmi, little boy, and I went shopping ! I bought a 2 euro hat ! Yesssss. On Friday morning we packed up and headed back home, I slept almost the whole ride :) Friday night Sirpa’s neice and nephew, Senni and Asse, came over to stay for the weekend. They were really sweet and fun, we played Imagine If, finnish style :D [I won again, I’m a pro at finnish board games ! hoorah !] Saturday we went to the pulkamaki [sledding hill?] and then to the swimming hall for a few hours and then out to Pizza Raxi for dinner ! Longggg day, but super fun. On Sunday we went to Nuppe’s soccer game, they won both of them, 2-1 the first and 1-0 the second. And then I made enchiladas ! I’m now famous for them and all my families are begging me to make them for them :D Sirpa’s dad, the one with the cottage came over on Sunday and then asked if I could come back with him to his cottage and cook for him every night, hehehe :] Then we headed over to Sirpa’s other daughters house, Milli, who is 19, and had coffee over there. [Sirpa has four daughters, Milli lives on her own, and Maija is in Canada as an exchange student] Then Sirpa took me home and I talked with Raija for a bit about their trip, she bought me a stuffed reindeer ! :D I started to pack all of my stuff, I’m pretty sure I’m moving this weekend, I’m really excited. Raija is sad, and I’m a bit sad to leave her too, I really like her, but I’m so excited to move in with the girls, we get on so well.

But yeah, today I went to school and then Chet and I went on a walk around the city, it was a bit chilly, but not too bad. Tomorrow I have finnish lessons and school and then I’m going to the Sainpalos to hang out with them for awhile and then Anna and I will go to the JYP Ice Hockey game and work in the kioski ! Yay :]

And thattttttt is all ! TTFN :P