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sunnuntai, tammikuuta 16, 2005
wellwell
well well, naughty me has not been updating for a week. doesn't really break the record i set. 1 month. hah. that one was really solid. post is gonna be kinda long, and also rushed so pls do not mind if there are any slips in language =)
days left till i touch down at changi airport : 16
as ppl have prolly guessed, i have been busy. yep. i left off on sunday. the day my cuzzies left. prolly will never see them again, but well. it was fun while it lasted. and i'll have many fond memories of them.
monday. was a really bad day. did not head to school and also was very down. no pt talking abt that so yea.
tuesday. went to school for history. got a project AGAIN. the Finnish Diet in 1863. we got like the last topic since the class at Imatra was allowed to pick subjects first. and Nadja chose the Civil War topic without realising that Imatra had already chosen it. so we ended up with that horrible topic. and we have to present it tomorrow. and publish it in Venla on wednesday. sickening.
wednesday. free day. whoopee. i went to the ear doctor, who told me that i have tinnitus. hah, well. nothing that can be done abt that. really nice doctor he was, a friend of isoäiti and säsä. ( isi, se oli se sama lääkäri kuka vei sinua sairalaan kun sinä tuli yks Joulu Aatona kotiin kun olit siel armeijassa) had weird equiptment and was kind of funny when i was going through all the tests. haha. aft that i went home and a guest came over. some Irkka that used to take care of isi. she was nice. brought tulips too. really pretty ones.
thursday. went to school for english and history. antti (thats my history teacher, and we call the teachers by names, if you don't know) was not around and had pasted a post-it on the door of the classroom. Pre IB class go to the computer lab. the sch is separated into 2 buildings. my class is in the 'old building' and the lab is in the 'new building'. so yes, i had to trudge my way down there. 2 hrs of doing nothing, basically everyone was fooling arnd with the computers and doing quizzes and stuff like that. sat with Kati and managed to get some research done. in the same grp as Nadja, Sini and Kati. so i jotted down the sites and then we just basically chatted and stuff like that. then we went to the 'old building' for english. didn't really do much, we started english earlier. did some exercises and stuff like that. then Anne ( thats my English teacher) said that she needed ppl to help out to make coffee and tea on tuesday for some IB function. i volunteered along with Elina, Salla and one other girl. i forgot who she is. then i just headed home and spent the rest of the day indoors.
friday. went to school for english. Anne was not around she had to go for some funtion in some other school. as usual, the class clown, Mikko Mäkelä, aka Duke of Mikkonistan came and started to fool around. acted like Anne and whatnot. heh, was in stitches. then Anne finally came and we just wen't through some exercises again. went home and slacked.
the week was a lil boring. hah, don't matter. had a superb weekend. yesterday (Saturday) i went over to Suvi Lemetyinen's hse aft going to town. we went to the Wolkoff's Museum. the museum is actually a house that was preserved from long long ago, when my Great Grandmother (mamma) worked there as a young girl around my age. in fact, its older than that. truly a very pretty house. the Wolkoffs were ppl who threw nothing away, even their toothbrushes were kept neatly aside. i don't know, it must have been really terrible a clean. and all the things were so small. ppl must have been really small then. saw quaint old items, and clothes. also saw the old fashioned kitchen and cellar. went into Anne Wolkoff's workroom where my grandfather once learnt German. the kitchen was the most interesting place, as well as the dining room. then after that rushed to the kauppahalli to get some stuff.
Suvi came over to fetch me since Juuso was in town for a hair cut. his hair didn't actually look cut. it looked long. like he likes it. haha. then we went over to her hse. brought my gear along and changed at her hse. called Essi, Suvi's neighbour who is my age, to go ice skating. she's apparently at my school. funny that i have never seen her around. anyways, our plans were foiled. we walked to the place which was some 2 km away frm her hse, only to find that they were 'icing' the area. that means that they were putting water onto the ice to make it thicker, and since some of the previous ice had melted away due to the warm temperatures. and the worse thing was that the ice was not flat. so we had to just cancel and walk back.
left the skates outside the garage and went for a walk. juuso had made a 'maja' out of twigs and stuff. real cool. i also saw suvi's cuzzie's son. around 5 years old, running around. so cute. really. with the cheeks red and all frm the cold. we then just cooked some pasta and then played monopoly. chatted abit with suvi's mom and dad. really nice ppl. then essi came over to join us for monopoly while the rest went for sauna. totally exhausted by the time i came back. but was a really cool day.
today i woke up at around 10? i don't remember, but i was in a rush to get ready and all. had to pack gear. säsä then drove us to vehkataipale, where the old house is. went to visit leena and markku at the old hse. it was a lovely visit. walked around the lawn and toured the house. everything looked so familiar, felt so much like home. kind of sad when i left. thank gdness i took many pics. after that Markku setä (Qvist) came to pick us up to go to their kesä mökki. its this summer cottage whatchamacallit. since no one had been there in ages to heat the cottage up ( its used in summer only, btw) it was cold. the trip to the cottage was kind of funny too, we were squashed like sardines in the car. ok, i wasn't since i was in the front passenger seat, but isoäiti, meri, suvi and also their mother were squashed in the back. tuuli did not come along.
we finally arrived and we got out of the car. one of the girl's friends, hermani was there, he saw us frm the road and came to the cottage door. weird thing abt the cottage was that it was colder inside the cottage than outside the cottage. haha. i told you it was cold. i went inside and put on more clothes and some extremely humongous boots and went out to the beach. get this, i walked on water. haha. no really, i was walking on frozen water. walked some time with meri and the rest. suvi and hermani went to fetch a watchamacallit, i didn't really hear what they said. isoäiti was afraid that the ice would crack. heh. the ice was making weird sounds cos it really was cracking, but there was no need to worry since it was thick ice so we just continued walking.
hermani and suvi then arrived with the watchamacallit. i tell you, i've never been that surprised in my life. the whatchamacallit was a SNOWMOBILE. *takes a deep breath* so. suvi was on it, and hermani told me to hop on. and yep, i was scared out of my skin. really, i did not think that it would be interesting to take a ride, but i just did. was squashed (since a snowmobile is meant for 2) in between hermani, who was driving, and suvi, who was in the back.and i held onto suvi's legs for my dear life. really. when we first moved off the speed was ok, but as soon as we were away frm the elders, he started speeding terribly. and yes, i did scream, and i'm not ashamed to say that i did.
it felt as if it lasted ages. then FINALLY we got back. terrified. and he still told me that it was more fun to him only if it was going 3 times faster. höh. meri then had a go while the rest of us went back to the mökki. we chatted alot when meri came back. laughed and giggled and stuff. i must say i am really glad a met them. =) then we had some juice and chatted some more, and the 4 of us ( hermani, meri, suvi and i) went outside for a walk. we played some and also chatted some. then it was time to go home.
don't really have much more to update, but i must say the weekend really made up for the boring week. especially today with meri and suvi. nite nite to all, and will update more often so that the posts aren't as long as this one. till then, tata.
marlz
1/16/2005 04:34:00 ip.