Thank You

I would just like to say thank you to everyone who has kept intouch with me while I have been here. It really helped at times. See you all soon I guess :D

Mid-Summer Festival

This weekend was like mid-summer festival thing. It about how the sun never goes down here anymore.

It was fun. We went to the kiosk at the bridge and watched the bon-fire. We then went down to this hall thing where they had this dance thing on. I found out i cant dance for the life of me.

Then we went back to Heidi's parents place where we played rock band 2 till 4 in the morning.


Heidi and Her friend
Niko, Tommi, Tomi and Seppi standing with the bon-fire
Heidi and Tomi dancin
The drums for Rock Band 2
Heidi's friend who passed out like two seconds after arrving back to Heidi's parents place

Tampere Again and Särkänniemi

Last weekend i went to Tampere again and I took my friend Christa with me.

We went to an amusement park called Särkänniemi. It was so much fun and soooo much better then Rainbows End.

We hung out there all day and we even got a see a dolphin show.

Then when we left the park, we went to this restaurant which is made up like an american diner. It was so cool.

Me and Christa driving bumper cars
Dolphins
Dolphins with rings on their noses
Cans of Coke i've never seen before. I had the Cherry one cause i wanted to taste it as i will neve rprobably taste it again.

Caitlin In Savonlinna

Caitlin is another exchange student in Finland from New Zealand. She came and stayed for four days with me and while she was here, we went flying over Savonlinna. It was so much fun. But i think Savonlinna looked way better from above during winter as you saw in one of the other blogs


Caitlin and the plane
Caitlin wearing head-gear
Olavinlinna castle. It has a cover over it as they have set the castle up for the annual Opera Festival which happens ever summer in Savonlinna

The City <3

Helsinki

I went to Helsinki with my friend Christa and her school. It was a school trip but i was allowed to go with. We went to these two museums.

One was a Walt Disney museum and was all about the different movies disney had made and it was actually quite interesting. im just glad they had things written on the walls about the movies as the quide was speaking in Finnish.

We then went to a museum about finnish history. It was quite interesting as well. We didnt have a guide on this one but it interestin just to look at the artwork.

We then got to go shopping and looking around the city.

My birthday and other friends birthdays

So i had my 19th birthday here. it was fun. i had Heidi, Antti, Tommi, Christa, Rita, Taru and Tuulia at my host parents house and we just hung out listening to music and playing drinking games. It was fun. Then the ones who were old enough, Heidi, Antti, Tommi, Tuulia and I, all went into the city and hung out at The Rocks.
Leaving the bar with the sun coming up.


Then on the 30th of april, it was my friend taru's birthday and it was also this thing called vappu. I was hanging out with Rita and her friends thats night. it was quite fun Taru cutting her "Barbie" cake

Me and Rita walking through the city on Vappu with our free Ballons


The week after my birthday, it was my friend Antti's birthday and we pretty much did the same thing like at my birthday except we were at his place and we went to a different bar. Antti with Rita's sunglasses on.

Then a week later, it was Christa's birthday and Rita and I went and spent the day hanging out with her playing clue....i won twice :P. Her birthday was also mother's day.

Sweden

Over easter in Finland, I went to sweden with my host mother and my two host sisters. We went there on a cruise ship type boat. It was really fun. Sweden was so warm compared to Finland.

here's some pictures





It says welcome to Sweden if you can't read it.