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★

22. YFY spirit and a cold

Hullo, long time no write.

So i was in the YFU Japan arrival orientation as a returnee for five sleepless days and just came home late in the evening of the 24th, that's the reason for not having updated lately. At the very moment i feel like a shit: my head hurts and throat is full of crap >,<" i ate some medicines yesterday so the fever is gone luckily---!!

So time to spend some time at home and cure this i think. Tho tomorrow i have no choice but to leave the house at least for some grocery shopping. Minus sides of living alone i guess.

Anywayzzz, it always gives me spirits to go on after having took part to a yfu orientation!! The energy, the hunger of life, the tension, the high hopes and excitement that you can feel in every movement of the students makes me try harder, to live deeper and to appreciate every single thing i have. It makes me more positive and gives strength to keep on going and trying the impossible. Sounds surreal but that's how i feel for weeks after an orientation session!! And there you have your own little spotlight and can raise your self-esteem as you get to stand in front of all the ppl and know you are the specialist in what you talk about and know that every word you say is important for those ppl to hear and that they really do listen to what you have to say!!

Plus the international atmosphere, interesting returnees that have the exchange experience of their own and can speak several languages *ww* makes me wanna travel and see everything and and and aaaaaa<3 makes me be more positive.

This time it also was nice to see how capable of speaking i actually am!! I got like hundreds of praises of my japanese skills, heard i have 'no accent' and speak 'like a native' from many many times from dozens of returnees/yfu staff/area reps, and of course i know it's not the truth and i have fucking much to learn but it's still nice to hear tho!! Every night we had a quite official meeting and i hadn't the slightest problem to catch up on the topics (  ´,`)~<3

But it makes me sad that once i'll be back in finland this all will vanish again for a while :/ and i cant write kanji anymore even if i could read them --__--"

There were some returnees that had been in my arrival orientation three years ago too, there were such a great ppl and some of which i really, really do look up to. I hate keigo (the the the hmmm... official and polite language you use when you talk to ppl you dont know/sempais etc) when there is no real respect behind it and when the person you talk to is only a year or two older than you and basically in the same kind of life situation, but to some of the ppl in the orientation i would use it even if it wasnt for the 'rules' and manners. I love the feeling you get when you manage to make a proper conversation with someone you respect, when you make a joke/good point etc and get good laughs for that, it just makes my day!! I wonder if someone would look up to me too. Those kind of moments are the ones that make me love doing substitutions in schools hehe

Anyway, when the camp was over and students on their ways to homes we had a little after party among some of us returnees where everyone were falling asleep in some point of the evening :__D we went to eat at first, then to a british pub i really fell in love with, and in the end to bowling and i really sucked XDD what happened to my once so great bowling skills?!? Before we even started drinking i was laughing at every single thing because of the tiredness, i mean i had slept for maybe a 20 hours during the last 5 days and ran from one place to another the whole week, had to use thinking skills and be social whole time etc. Tho the aarcs who were the 'bosses' this time slept even less, for like 2-3 hours a night >,<" japanese working morality is high. otsukaresama for all of us.

Hmmm i dont know what exactly should i tell about the camp so here some pics :D

The olympic center where it all took place. so nostalgic, this is the very place i first came to in japan, even the rooms we slept in this time were same and aaaa i still remember the frustration cuz we could see the tokyo's high buildings and lights from there but it was forbidden to sneak out... i guess if i hadnt been that young and naive enough to actually listen to those rules back then no-one would have noticed anything...

Rajio taisooooooo XD so the traditional japanese sports training :_D it was so funny hahahaha the faces of the students XD some of the returnees in the pic!

This this this^ i wanna taste every kitkat ever made ;_;<3

Japanese cultural lessons!

The last night we arranged this farewell party thing where every country had to presentate their own culture with a performance :D we made our own too, it was a surprise tho :D fashion show with a school uniform couple (me and andre[half german so that's why the non-japanese name]), otaku couple (ami-chan and shuutaroo hahahahaha he was like a real otaku lollll) and then yukata couple (yuumen and marei)! We all did some dance hahaha practising was so much fun, otakus danced the caramel dancen, the traditional japanese bon-odori and us two tsukematsukeru :__D

I have a video of us dancing it in our uniforms but last time i tried to uploaded a video here i heard there had been problems watching it so i guess i dont upload it then :/// here is the song tho, the part we danced starts 2:22 a little kawaii to this blog too

tsuuukematsuukematsukematsukeeeeeeee

Ami-chan with the programme

the whole group of exchange students! we took our own japan group picture too but not with my mobile so i dont have it yet D:

Team otaku XD soryy i just had to, hope it's okay? XD

the last morning's feelings of departure.

returnee derpy faces after staying awake for 5 days

some japanese tongue twisters! we tried to get off the nervousness of the students just before meeting the host families :D 

A hug between the family and the student ;_; we all were so moved by this moment, my face hurt after smiling too much and some were crying and aaaa. moving. It was in the same hall i first met my family too (  ´,`)

To the afterparties!! At saizeriya (a really cheap japanese family restaurant group) lol

This!!!!!! The atmosphere was wonderful and aaaa!!!! it was 3pm when we started drinking tho XDD but from 4pm on there was a happy hour and everything was so cheap :D

kampaiii

bowl bowl bowl

hahaha japanese super bowling speed?

I'm the one in the upper row, compare to marei's (the 3rd from up) score......

I had to upload this too!! Yesterday morning, i had stayed up until 6am way to cure your flu and lack of sleep and suddenly the sun was rising and it was really beautiful ;3

Too bad i didnt get the puris we took together, only the paper version and yeah i also lack the group photo :/ Well we decided to make hanami afterwards with YFU returnees will be so much fun :3 and we also made plans of everyone coming here and we'd just drink the whole night XD sounds fun for me~

Then i got this 11 facts challenge from cannibalcoast and at first i thought i'd put it in this post but since it's already this long it would be too much for one post i think! so tho i already wrote it i think i'll post it tomorrow lol i still have the post of suski's and elina's visit, the food diaries, and some other stuff i forgot to tell about my plans here to write! so look forward for them too~

And oh, i thought i should maybe update this blog a bit since i dont even have a proper profile tab... Well we'll see we'll see. today i'm just planning to die slowly and get bored here alone o/ you guys have a better day

21. Lately purchases and school pics from exchange times

Morninggg--!!

Today it's rainy and i really wouldnt like to go out but i'm gonna meet a friend and have a dinner later today, so before that i'll just stay in with my pasokon and drink hot chocolate~<3

I dont think i've posted any pics of the stuff i've bought since coming here so i tried to take pictures of everything, i have this feeling tho i might have forgotten something hmmm....

well here we go with the first one!! the jeans/leggins i already tried once on with suski and elina but decided not to buy them XD then in gazetto's live i saw this girl who had them on and they looked so hot i just had to go and buy them!! price was about 2800 yen so not bad at all~

love them so much, i must have been crazy for having thought not to buy them in the first place o.o"

tattadadaaaa....

Sorry for the background but i was too lazy for a re-take XD belts are one of my addictions (shoes, belts and jackets are L-O-V-E. also my jeans dont fit into my wardrobe anymore so i guess them too..) this too from 109, price 3000 yen >,<" but you can take the smaller chain off and use it by itself too wwwww

These two (the leggins and the blouse) i bought in Harajuku, both 390 yen XDD havent used them yet~

there's an iron wire inside the collar so you can change the positions and it will stay the way you want!! mind blowingggggg

From mind blowing we get to the next piece of clothing ;____;<3 isnt he fabulous??? I fell in love so badly but the price was TOO much (5000 yen yeah..) so i thought i should leave him there and i did, twice. first time i had it aside waiting for my decision, and after proving it on again i just had to leave it because of the prize D:: i was hart-broken and bought ice cream for comfort and we went to kiddy land to buy suski the enormous bunny soft toy, but on our way back i couldnt take it anymore and we hurried back to zenmall and i bought it 5 minutes before closing time XDD

The material is soft and hairy-ish and the buttons are white diamonds *w* this too has the iron wire inside!! i had  wanted this kind of shirt for years!!

These two I bought in a flea-market in koenji the couple of days before~ bought 525 yen so not bad!.

.........dont ask about this one XD i doubt i'll ever use  it but it was _so_cute_ and didnt cost much so i just had to take it with XDDD maybe i can give it as a present for a friend and blackmail them to use it all the time so i get to just look it XD sometimes i wonder if im mentally stable but yeah, next..

3300 yen, ichimarukyuu. i look forward for summer so i get to use them~ the shop where i bought them, CRYX, used to be my favourite in 2009 when i was in exchange ;3 even the bag i got them in was leopard couture XD no, i dont have obsession with neither leopard couture nor red colour..

These are from a small shoe shop near the koenji station! in sale for 3000 yen, normal price over 8000! satisfied hahahaa. i still want to change the shoelaces to another colour tho. 

Some accessories~ the circle-scarf from Harajuku, 500 yen, and the fake nerd glasses from 109 men's, 1050 yen! haha i sent some pics to home the other day and had the glasses on in some of the them, and my mom was like 'i love your glasses they fit you so well!!' XD so thanks mom~

these are from claire's shibuya shop, they had the sale and some accessories were 500 yen/ 5 pieces!!!

That's about it! Been here for exactly a month now btw!! So its kind of well done that i havent bought more clothes tho i've been shopping so many times XDD My friend Laura asked me for a favor, and i got the shirt finally (it was sold out so they ordered me one more) yesterday, so i think i can as well put the pics of it here!!

Ghost of Harlem doesnt ship overseas so im gonna be the shopping service!! actually i dont mind at all, even tho you dont shop for yourself it gives a great satisfaction to buy stuff and then carry them around, i believe you guys know what im talking about... i should start making business out of this!! I'd only need loads of popular shops that dont ship overseas and then ppl to want their stuff so i could just shop and shop and shop without losing any money haha! Maybe take ~5 euros as a price :D

They gave me a catalogue and calendar as a present!!

It's so hot! I think i'll keep it myself if you dont mind laura XD you can have the catalogue :D

Of course i've bought all the food etc stuff i need in daily life plus some cds but they are not very interesting XD Speaking of food, i decided to keep a 'food diary' for a week, take the pic of every  meal i have and then post it in here hahahaha<3 food is one of my greatest loves in life and since a pic of some okonomiyaki i posted on facebook got something like 30 likes i thought it interests ppl enough so just wait for it ::D this is the fourth day so 3 more days to go :----DD

Lately i've been kinda busy, today is the 3rd day i go to eat out, yesterday it was our former class, the day before the club (i was in mandolin-mandola-guitar club!) and today mizuki who couldnt come then :33 We also visited our school yesterday and the place had changed SO MUCH, the building is all new and aaa.....!!! I wouldnt even have known its the same place if i hadnt known D:::::

 

I dont have my old pics at the computer now, but this is from google, the old entrance and building (this doesnt show much, there is a round little garden in front of the entrance and it was really impressing), but this is the pic i took yesterday D:

it's like.... WTF?!? XD well i guess i just must be lucky i got to go to the old one, it was so pretty and old and great. and it has many great memories.

Even the parts that still remained from the old building are going to vanish soon :// tho we made a little trip there and explored the old parts :3

The campus was still like in the old good days, only the high school section had changed (the campus is huge so you cannot see it here, its in the far far far right corner, i remember so many mornings i ran this way while the bells rang, then into the building and up to the third floor, always late).

I found some old school pics from 3-2 years ago so here we go, for the old times XD

aww am i not cute?

christmas tree!

the class gave me farewell party :D

with club

wtf with my face.... XD after bunkasai!

with yuri--!

my hair is so white!!

with club again, mami, yuu, akanechan-sempai, me and mizuki!

long isnt it!!! and beautiful with the leaves (  ´,`)<3

with kei in nagasaki, we made the school trip there!

i look so small and innocent hahahaha cant take this XDD

with club!!! yeah exercising hard.

Oh my oh my. So long time passed already, it feels like 10 years, i've changed, ppl's changed, the SCHOOL is changed and now when i look those old pics and the memories come back it feels even much more than i used to think...!! OH GOD I JUST REALIZED IT WAS EXACTLY THIS DAY 3 YEARS AGO WE LANDED IN JAPAN! O.O 17th of march! feels more than 3 years XD

This is from yesterday~

Long post, hope you didnt get bored XD at least i had fun writing this :DDD well guess i should change the clothes since we're gonna meet in 2 hours and i'm still here wearing my pajamas..!! Enjoy your days~