29. Holiday in Finland

So yeah we had the reading week last week, and that meant I packed my bags and headed back home for a few days. Had a great time and met so many ppl, but also had some time to sleep yey. I didnt only eat a lot, but the food was pretty unhealthy too... well well. Now im suffering with no money for a while, so maybe it was just a good thing to get some fat around my bones. I also imported bread and karjalanpiirakka and cheese and chocolate and mannapuuro (a kind of porridge), domino-cookies etc heheee :DD

So about the things i did!!

The plane landed around midnight so the first day that really counts was thursday. I went to Suski's, we just hanged out and ate, then took the dogs out (omg i typed it as 'gods' and only noticed before posting XD) :33 Ruska was the thing i'd missed the most, but she didnt seem that happy to see me D::: well she came there and was like "ooooo someone came, give me love~" but then just went back to bed ;; felt my heart break. Well she was lovely anyway. Then watched a movie with my little brother (who's not that little anymore o.o has bigger shoes than i do, oh my.. what happened??) at night, i heard he had been waiting for me like the most and wanted me to watch all his new movies with him~ sweeet.

Thee forest was pretty dead already

my babyyyy

isnt she a cutie ;; always sitting this way i wonder if she knows its not a proper way oh baby.

...she only came into my room cuz i had food there tho... still loving you.

Then I just drove and drove and drove and drove and DROVE (and made some essential purchases like tooth paste). aaaa i love driving. it just.. alsjdlsaj<33

Friday was a buuusy day. My friends Anna and Veera moved in together (wish u guys luck~) so we went to help them with that. Hahaha the last tenant before them had painted the walls absolutely horrible :___D i've never seen anything even near of that: the living room was the same blue as moomin house, the corridor right next to it bright red, the kitchen bright yellow and one of the other rooms plum violet. They just started to paint them when we left, so im sure it will look great soon, apart from the colours the place was really nice!

Thennn, straight after that we met with our high school team at Salla's and played Rappakalja for a few hours XD one just can not to love the game, try it if u havent already~ Then i picked kukka up and we went back home to eat and then left for Oona's birthday parties. The theme was pajama party, so the atmosphere was just relaxed and great, hell a lot of food again, and nearly all the high school friends i still hadnt met were there too. Cuz of the theme i didnt bother to use any make-up and just went in the boxer shorts i'd received as a 17th b-day present from Meli during my exchange :D and a hoodie my sister gave me, she bought it when she visited me in tokyo this spring but didnt really use it :33 thankyouuuuuuuuuu.

a part of oonas gift, made by kukka (not sure if this's still a work in process, might be)

we bought this box (its so cool inside and there are many mini-sections for jewellery) and then put various stuff like sweets and earrings etc inside the different sections~ wanna have one of these too!

sorry i only have food pictures but assuming everyone loves them.. here you are :D

omnom.

On saturday we were supposed to go to Valtsu, the biggest (i suppose?) second-hand market in Helsinki, but it was a national holiday and at least the basic shops like food markets were closed, so we didnt want to risk it. So we slept long, then went to rent some movies at night~ I saw the SAW for the first time, and it was brilliant :oo though the scene where adam goes to check out his apartment during the power cut and finds the masked man in his closet still haunts me... D:::::

Actually we had made some plans before, about hanging out with some friends at night but i think everyone just got lazy and no-one contacted anybody, so it turned into a movie night then :D there's no limit for my laziness, srsly.. and on sunday there was this traditional tea party at salla's i really wanted to go to, but we missed that cause we didnt wake up...........

For the whole weekend the fog was amazing *www* you really couldnt see a thing!! driving was scary and even ruska got scared during the walk and didnt wanna move on :oo it was a spooky moment, there was some strange noise but u couldnt see anyone and the fact that it was pyhäinpäivä (the night when you recall all the ppl who passed away) made it even spookier XDD oh well.

first it was like this when we were walking...

..but later that night O.O"

it seems like photos without proper focusing but the fog was just so thick

Well im back in Kingston again, and have now decided to try and work fucking hard from this moment on! It's been working actually, i've done school stuff every day for a couple of hours :DD so proud of myself!!

Ohhh, i joined sky diving society before this autumn, and this weekend im gonna jump finally!!! :DD cant wait cant wait!! wish me luck i might need that

enjoy ur days★

28. Visitors and travelling (+fucking many pictures)

Hullo, can't believe it's November already!!

Once again, I've been buuuusy (well most of the time, at least XD). I had Kukka visiting me for two whole weeks, so the time I wasn't in school I had better things to do than being on computer :D even once it's this way heha. Most of the days we just sat in my flat doing nothing much (I got her hooked in Supernatural so we watched like two seasons of that), ate a looooooot, and I had rehearsals basically every day last week, so the nights went for those.

This week, however, we're having an 'Enrichment Week' at Uni, which means no lectures yeyy. So I do actually have something to blog about~ On Saturday we made this school trip to Oxford, a simple one-day bus trip for our Understanding Britain course. Then on Monday we went to London, did some shopping and visited AQUARIUM *ww* This was first time for me, like ever ever ever, in a proper aquarium (strange i never visited one in jpn o.o"), so i reaaally was looking forward to it!!

And then the next day, yesterday it is, we went to Camden Town for some more shopping, and at night to the London Dungeons! So something halloweenish~

Tho we went shopping in the central london, it actually became clear the best place to shop was..... tyndyndyyyyyy.... in kingston, right next to the uni :_D it was much less ppl there and no such a rush that we had in london. The shops were all in the same area and we have quite a big selection of different stores there, so from this day on i might prefer buying my stuff there..!! If you visit london it definitely is worth checking.

Then, after having done some morning shopping this morning, we headed back home and started packing for this night's flight. Meaning, I'm BACK IN FINLAND NOW! 

It feels just amazing to be back. It's strange, i've never been one of those who become homesick or prefer home country to living abroad, but this time i'm just really glad to be back for these few days. Or maybe living abroad makes me appreciate things here more, dunno. I'll be back on Sunday already, so now I just make the best of these 3,5 days i'll have here! Most of my hours are already booked, so i'll get to meet many friends and do a lot of things :3 more about that later.

Now, for it's late already, i'll just post here some random photos from last weeks with some words written under them. Hope you guys like, here we gooo!

Souvenirs from finland ;;<3

A breakfast at kingston mmm

going ooout

Our bad ass hotel on the first weekend, the five star place next to St. Paul's church B)

Oh yeah.

I wish i could live like this every day....

Going out for a drink with Elina&Mikko, who were visiting london at the same time~

Rndm idyllic midnight in london pic

omnomnom this was great<3 tho it was raining so much we had to walk in wet shoes even the next day

hahaha the lunch of the following day :_D see the contrast? in candem you can eat various foods like chinese, mexican, jpnese, pizza etc nearly free, lets say 3 pounds for meal.

One just have to love these!!

Candem.

More omnoms.

Mmmmmm. some of our own cookings.

Oxfordddd (god it's a horrible pic, i just added it without looking probably so now here you are..)

Kukka being a tourist

The city was soooo beautiful, i'd go and live there any day. Seriously. 

The wind was fucking cold tho >,< we, transforming into grannies in order to survive.

Our not-so-great guide.

Aa i fell in love with this one!

It was this scenery everywhere in the city. amazing.

The university we visited. It seems to be the home for the students too o.o" just.. wow.

They said the building had influenced harry potter movies, and yeah, it was like the same..!

Felt like being in the movie!!!

The Great Hall.

Great Tourists.

Aaah i wanna study there ;; see they had a wedding!

One bad ass clock.

Kit Kat milkshake ;;<3

Back in London.

Here something British for u.

Mmmmmmm.

Disney store at oxford street!!

Kukka bought me a cool simba cup :DD cant open it before christmas tho

A RAY!!! aaah i just love these creatures!! The highlight of the day without a doubt! It just kept coming to me~

Outside the aquariummm.

omnom breakfast at home.

The dungeons. The place was SO COOL! not that scary, nothing like the scaring-the-crap-out-of-you-hospital-thing in fujikyu, but it was just a great deal of fun! The actors, the music and the props, everything was great! Highly recommend.

Being a tourist.

A cool building for suski, thought you'd like it!

Omnomnom crepe at Candem.

WE FOUND SOME NIKUMAN IN CANDEM ;; I WAS LIKE SADJHLSDJLKSJ THEY SELL NIKUMAN AAA. but it wasnt tasty at all D:: still, a warm memory for that and a small moment of appreciation to nikumans.

Candem. So far, it's the coolest place i've been to in london.

Picadilly tourist pic.

Airport foooood tonight.

Yeah, that's it then. The last one's my Finnish room the way it was when i entered. It's kinda strange to be here again o.o" strange but great.

I'll be back once i've returned to london and tell how this turned out to be!! Oh, and have a great halloween u all!