Häminliennä. A midevil town

Monday, a Alaskan, Italian, and me went and visited a Candaian two hours north.

This day started with a two hours sitting in a coffee house talking and laughing. Musuems! A stop at a comunity center where they let us pain a window and become Warriors.

Then we bought grocereries and had a pinic at the local Castle (photos to come later.)

 

I

 

 

 

Oh, hei, booking a ticket back.

Sunday was spent with paperwork and boardgames

 

 

It was snowy and I feel on top of life.

 

Untill I had to book the ticket home.

 

Now I am not telling the date I will comeback, I mean my family and my rotary knows. But I want to have at least a week to relax, ride my horse, sleep, and well just be before I have to get back to meeting everyone and juggling life again? You can get that right?

 

But it was hard to book the date back.

 

scary

 

I am not the person I was when I left.

I am not in the cloest way

 

 

It is scary and I can't explain how

 

just trust me when I say I am more terrfied going back than I was when leaving

 

WE KNOW HIM. Musikkitalo Edition

Two weeks ago, Vanessa and I were riding the train when this guy siting next to me kept glancing over at me. This kept up. I was getting frustrated. So I turned to him quickly and said in finnish

 

"What do you want. Who are you. What."

 

This made him stammer and exclaim that he was sorry. I introduced my self kindly and struck up a conversation with this young man. By the end of the conversation I found that he plays music and we were talking about the Music hall here in Helsinki. He told me he was playing there soon. How cool!? Right! I have this ticket from rotary to go see some shows there so why not go see this random guy peform. So I gave him my card and told him to email me.

 

he did.

turns out he was the head soloist for the 150th Siabilous Univeristy of Music Peformance

So kinda a big deal

 

long story short; I called a  famous guy out and got tickets to see his show

 

so we got dolled up and went. we  sent him a flower even

we had really good seats

the whole night was a blast. so silly how it all came to be

I love the spontanity of life. How we just go to one of the most fancy events Helsinki is holding this year. How we meet this man. How we send him a flower. How we eat mc.donals afterwards inheels and dresses.

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.