back to every day life

When you return from a big trip like Lapland. You are thrown for a loop. How do you go from being with 130 kids which understand you completely to back to every day life? The trains, the school, the language. (New host family speaks only finnish to me, I am improving greatly)

Well you manage. That's how we do it. We find a way.

it was time to pack. I fit my life into 3 boxes, a suit case, and three bags. I came with one suit case. Where did this all come from!?!

catching the bus to finnish lessons and saw the sun 

Daniel and I went to see the Christmas lights all over Helsinki.

We also all met  up and said good bye to Juanpa- our friend from Ecudor. He has college to attend

My last dinner at my host families house. My all time favorite finnish foods and my true love- glögi. No body was talking about the move but it sat heavy in the air.

Friday, Luis and I ended up at graduation. Don't ask us how. but we were singing and are just as confused as you are.

gifts from my host sister. I was holding it together so hard.

The move went well. The family is so kind to me and at the moment I am finding my footing once again. It is good to be pushed from your confort zone. It helps you grow. 

The first day with the family, we went to a graduation party in a very fancy garden. Also it was Independence day! We watched the ball on TV.

Sunday, Daniel and I went Christmas shopping. He is a good friend. A friend which you know will be in your life for a long time. We had coffee.  Coffee and Friends. It's a good life. 

Christmas is everywhere. The store fronts are so lovely to look at. 

So life is back to the insaness as before. I am tying this at school waiting for the time when I go to the Rotary Restaurant and play the piano before the meeting starts. Back to the constant of inconsistency. 

The adventures which lead to an underground circus

Thursday rolled around and in the evenign was a Rotary Concert which I was to attend. It was for my club(woo they are the best.) I was picked up from the Train Station and we drove the the cutest little church in the world. It was a quaint, old, stone church in the middle of this hospital area. It was so precious. When we walked in there was 8 boys playing the chello. You could feel the music in the floor boards.

 Friday I didnt have school. Or at least I am pretty sure I didn't have school... it's exam week. So I met up with Daniel and we went to have coffee and see the new Sibelius Exhibition. It was a lovely afternoon.

Funny story about going home. I didn't really go home on the right bus. I mean of course I thought it was the right bus. But after a few turns in a direction which isn't home and the bus just stopping and no one else on it- It started to be a little bit fishy. I called my äiti and explained how lost I was again. Then! Emma (american lady from Finnish night classes) turned around and smiled. At that moment I knew I was saved. She assisted me in finding the right bus and making it home.

my savior

Right when I made it home it was off to another adventure. I feel asleep in the car so I was hella disorientaed when we stopped in parking gragae and everyone just started walking. Somehting whcih I learned this year, is if you dont know what is going on- stick close to the people which look like they do.

This led to the underground "circus"
Hannali and Lionell gave us these tickets
It was the best peformace I have ever in my life been to
Better than circus Olay
Talvisirkus

the fam

 It had this dream theme and it was so well put together. I wish I could explain better. It was a small condense theater- but tall. And they used all the space.When you walked in it smelled like pulla and glögi. Both which I had. Also I had coffee. But what's new.

On the way back to the car, Sade and me had a hudge snowball war. This night has made the list for some of the best nights here. 

It was an actual dream that peformace. It made you feel like you were in a dream.