It has been such a long time!!!
I can not believe how long it has been since I last posted on my blog!! I apologize to all my friends and family, especially as I have not sent any emails since I last posted either!
I have done so much, but at the same time it feels as if I have hardly done anything at all. Looking back its crazy as my last post was in Lahti at the ski games. So much has happened since then that I should have updated immediately. I will try and give a rough sketch and remedy that.
Okay, so everything is rather sketchy now but I went to Lapland with a bunch of the students from the university. We went extremely north. Way beyond the Arctic Circle and had a great time cross-country skiing, snow showing, building quinsies and lots of other things. Me and my friend Vincent even slept outside in the quincy. I have pictures:
After that we got back to Tampere, took a test for International Trade Law then Julie, Vincent (my two french classmates) and I took off for Riga, Latvia via Ryanair. It was a great little trip. We wandered around the city, had some bread and cheese, took a lot of pictures. Vincent went and shot guns in an old Soviet bunker. It was super sketchy. They just handed us ear protection and guns. oh back in the USSR.
After Riga I had a long long week of work at school then boom it was off to Amsterdam (it was my month of travel). My friend Claudia and her friend Adrian went. We first went to Stockholm where we stayed with a friend of a friend of Adrian's. She was very nice, and as they all are Spanish i got to listen to them and improve myself a bit. We had a very stressful time making our flight as we missed the bus. So we had to get a ride from friends of Adrian who he hadnt seen for 4 years that we were having coffee with. It was super nice of them. Brussels was beautiful and lots of fun. I saw the old city, the EU and met up with my friend Becca and had coffee. Then we went to Amsterdam. That was just great. the city is beautiful. The canals and the houses were just gorgeous. So we spent a good two days just wandering around. Then back to Brussels. Adrian studies there so we were able to stay at his flat and he showed us around. We then just got the train to Luxembourg and then caught the bus to Frankfurt Hahn and it was back to Finland.
That was my last major trip. Since then I have just been working on my courses and trying to enjoy the time with my friends. We did go down to Helsinki for Eurovision. That was just crazy. the crowd was immense.
We are on those steps! And this was during the day when it was empty. At night when it actually started and we could see the contest on the video screens in Senaatitori there were about 25 000 people!!! It was great fun. And we were able to catch the bus back.
I leave Finland in a couple of days. It is rather bitter-sweet. I have had a wonderful time here but I am ready to move on. I will go travel for a couple months and am going to go see a bunch of friends. They will show me where they are from and all the great things Europe has to offer so I am excited about that. It will also be nice to go home and see the family.
But its strange as time has gone by fast. It seems both like a dream and as if it was yesterday when I said goodbye to people at the Ranch. And now after seeing a lot of the world and meeting a lot of new people everything seems to be a blur.
I have done so much, but at the same time it feels as if I have hardly done anything at all. Looking back its crazy as my last post was in Lahti at the ski games. So much has happened since then that I should have updated immediately. I will try and give a rough sketch and remedy that.
Okay, so everything is rather sketchy now but I went to Lapland with a bunch of the students from the university. We went extremely north. Way beyond the Arctic Circle and had a great time cross-country skiing, snow showing, building quinsies and lots of other things. Me and my friend Vincent even slept outside in the quincy. I have pictures:
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| Lapland |
After that we got back to Tampere, took a test for International Trade Law then Julie, Vincent (my two french classmates) and I took off for Riga, Latvia via Ryanair. It was a great little trip. We wandered around the city, had some bread and cheese, took a lot of pictures. Vincent went and shot guns in an old Soviet bunker. It was super sketchy. They just handed us ear protection and guns. oh back in the USSR.
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| Riga |
After Riga I had a long long week of work at school then boom it was off to Amsterdam (it was my month of travel). My friend Claudia and her friend Adrian went. We first went to Stockholm where we stayed with a friend of a friend of Adrian's. She was very nice, and as they all are Spanish i got to listen to them and improve myself a bit. We had a very stressful time making our flight as we missed the bus. So we had to get a ride from friends of Adrian who he hadnt seen for 4 years that we were having coffee with. It was super nice of them. Brussels was beautiful and lots of fun. I saw the old city, the EU and met up with my friend Becca and had coffee. Then we went to Amsterdam. That was just great. the city is beautiful. The canals and the houses were just gorgeous. So we spent a good two days just wandering around. Then back to Brussels. Adrian studies there so we were able to stay at his flat and he showed us around. We then just got the train to Luxembourg and then caught the bus to Frankfurt Hahn and it was back to Finland.
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| Brussels and Amsterdam |
That was my last major trip. Since then I have just been working on my courses and trying to enjoy the time with my friends. We did go down to Helsinki for Eurovision. That was just crazy. the crowd was immense.
We are on those steps! And this was during the day when it was empty. At night when it actually started and we could see the contest on the video screens in Senaatitori there were about 25 000 people!!! It was great fun. And we were able to catch the bus back.
I leave Finland in a couple of days. It is rather bitter-sweet. I have had a wonderful time here but I am ready to move on. I will go travel for a couple months and am going to go see a bunch of friends. They will show me where they are from and all the great things Europe has to offer so I am excited about that. It will also be nice to go home and see the family.
But its strange as time has gone by fast. It seems both like a dream and as if it was yesterday when I said goodbye to people at the Ranch. And now after seeing a lot of the world and meeting a lot of new people everything seems to be a blur.
posted by Jesse A at 2:35 PM
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