Planning, Finnish Debate, Book store coffee house?- home.

Since it is exam week, I have it off. I use this time for planning. Regaining my engery. Exploring and learning.

I found a coffee house and set up shop to plan the Suomi Tour. Planned for late june 2015- early july

friends. gotta love those fins. some of the best right here

I met up with my Fins after to go and watch one of their debates. I am going to be honest, I understood very little. But thats not the point. I supported my friends in the states, I will support these guys. They are so true.

 

after we all went for food. yas.

 

So inbetween there was a thing where they had to go back and do some prep work. I had a few hours till I would meet up with them later. I went exploring.

 

I found a gem

My top Place in helsinki

It is a coffee house, secondhad bookstore, academia hangout. It is filled wiht people from around the world. I sat around discussing politics and ideas over a glass of russian tea. It feels like home. I have been back many times. They have live music or poetry or accoridan shows there all the time. Art and pool playing if you want. Under the little front room is a catacom of other little rooms which offer worlds for me.

 

 

Something newly learned from exchange year was screamed at me

 

Be Curious.

Rafi Weekend

Rafi is from the most beautiful part of Chili. And she is a beautiful person as well. She came and spent Fazer weekend. We hung out with everyone in town and she even cooked chilian food for us! It was very yummy.

 

the gang

On one day we went sledding and went and looked at horses!

 

 

Life for this second part of the year has turned in an only upward direction.

I really am in love with life its self.

If you take exchange students to a chocolate factory...

Fazer

The Finnish Equivalent to Herseys

Room where you can eat all the chocolate you want

 

 

Start the day. Have the Hat, have the Canadian

We had to take the metro there. A whole section of exchange students. There was music of course. Thank you latianos

take a moment to appericiate Bradley's creepiness

Willy wonka

ruis liepä mies. minun mies



at the beginning when we were really hungry

after when we feel ill

 

52 Exchange students. One Chocolate Factory.

Tampere Traditions

on the road again

The New Exchange students have arrived and it is tradition to travel up to Tampere on their day off of camp. We had our, and that is where I met my oldies (my heart aches for them to come back) So any way we go. I catch the cheap bus, early Morning, with my good friend Juan. He's from spain. He's a good kid. Ya know when you meet a person and they just want to do good in life and do good things, that's him.

 

So we catch the two hour bus north.

this was sent to the 120 exchange student group page. thanks juan. you could tell I was sleepy

it is a really beautiful country

 We went and met up with Katherine.
her title: Queen of Tampere
Title thing( I am mother of Finland) Its a pretty cool Exchange culture we have here.

 She is one of my best friends here and well in total. She is a sister to me. She actually just got accepted to study in London next year! Guess who is traveling to london next year?!

first this is first. Coffee and planning of the day. Get everyone together.

 

We explored the city for a few hours till their bus rolled in.

hello to the family

 

Be confused By the hat. I can't explain it becuase you're 85% not an exchange student. Just it's important

 

The rest of the day was spent together. Telling stories of our year to the newbies. We helped them get things they needed like hats and gloves. They brought us candies from Austraila. Minties!

 

We caught the bus home. I was in bed by midnight. Pretty Exchausedted and chilled. But it was all worth it.

 

The new ones are going to do good here.

 

 

One thing which I remember about our oldies, was that they told us the 6 months flew by. We told the same to our.