New Years

Well this was fun.

Like always I went to Heidi's place first and waited for her to get ready, like normal. We sat around talking and dirnking waiting then we went to Antti's place, like normal. we just sat around there to, talking and playing card games and listening to music. Heidi, Maria and I ended up walking down the road to Heidi's friends place at 11.30 but ended up walking back to Antti's place at like 12.30 because it wasn't very interesting there. So we just went back to Antti's place and listened to music and sat around talking.

heres some photo's


Me and Heidi
Playing a drinking game on Antti's floor.
Heidi and Tommi drinking.
Tommi and Tommi being silly.

Flying Over Savonlinna

EXCITING

So my host dad works at the little airport here in Savonlinna and has his own plane. So a few days after christmas, we didn't have anything to do so he took me flying over savonlinna. It was sooooooooooo amazing. Everything was covered in snow. Oh and mum I took a picture of my school for you when we were playing haha.

here are some pictures....

The plane we flew around in.
The City

The main bridge in Savonlinna

Olavinlinna Castle. cool right??? haha

The building, second to the end near the water, is my school, Paviljonki.

It was so much fun. We flew around for about an hour.

Moving and Christmas

Moving

Ok, so some of you might not know this but I am now in my third host family. Long long story but now I am with a really awesome host family.

So I moved to this family the saturday before christmas. It's a mum and a dad who have two daughters but they are 26 and 30 so they don't live at home anymore. I have met both of the daughters and the whole family is very nice and easy to talk to.

Christmas

Well christmas was quite different this year, one because I had just moved to a new family and two, because we celebrated it on the 24th not the 25th. The youngest daughter lives in Tampere which is more or less in the middle of finland so she arrived home on the same day as me moving in and the other daughter lives in a little near by town. She has 4 dogs. 1 dalmation and 3 other ones which i cant remember the name but they are huge. So it was my host mum, my host dad, my two host sisters, my host sister's partner and me. We had like normal food to what we have in New Zealand like ham, potatoes and carrots but then there was also swede and liver :S all the

vegetables were made mashed, seperately. the potato, swede and carrot was nice but the liver, i didnt dare touch.

We had dinner and then we opened our present. My host parents and host sisters got me presents, which I wasn't expecting but I didn't have presents for my host sisters, only my host parents.

It was really nice and heres a couple of pictures.