http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/MacKenzie H/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from MacKenzie H en-us Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:40:31 BST Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:40:31 BST I've finally gotten around to writing this entry. Now that I'm sick and all I have plenty of time. So on Tuesday April 8 I made the 5 hour train journey to Helsinki. I got there and met Mom at the train station. It took me awhile to find her being by the big brown doors is not very descriptive when there are about 12 sets of big brown doors. She was very happy to see me and of course I was http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-275852.html Hey everyone. Wow it's really been awhile. Sorry I guess I've just been busy. It's really hard to find time to write in here these days. Between school basketball and hanging out with my friends I feel like I'm always busy. Anyway here it goes. On March 11th I went to the theater and saw a really cool show. It was called Kvinna p halvtid PartTime Woman. It was what is known as physical http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-268954.html So I guess it's been a while since I've updated. Sorry I've been busy. And sorry that there are no pictures this time but I just got kind of lazy. So anyway where was I.....The weekend after I last wrote was incredibly tiring. On Friday February 15th was the ldstes Dans at my school. This is a tradition in every high school in Finland to celebrate that the third years are leaving school an http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-254655.html So the last couple weeks have been really great. I've been super busy. I feel like I always have something going on Anyway to begin where I last left off......On Friday February 1st I went to see a rock concert with some of my friends. We saw the band Kent. They are from Sweden and they are very very famous in Scandinavia. However they sing in Swedish so outside of Scandinavia no one really http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-245588.html New family. New year. New school term. Everything is starting again.Hey everyone sorry it's taken me so long to update again. I've moved to my new host family and I can't use my own computer here so it's hard to find the time to update my blog. So where to start On Thursday January 3rd I moved to my new host family. They are a husband and wife who are in their sixties and all their children http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-239578.html Hey everyone. It's been awhile since I updated sorry. I just got busy with my birthday weekend and then school and then with every day that passed it became more and more that I had to write about. So I'm finally doing it now. I'll try not to write a novel.So I last left you after my trip to Lapland. After I returned I basically had the whole rest of the week off because that Wednesday the 5t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-231963.html So I just got back from the Rotary Lapland tour and I'm ready to tell you all about itHowever I'm going to start from the last time I updated. So on Monday I was absolutely exhausted and I practically slept through my first class. I went to my Finnish class with Christine but again there was no one there. We were both really pissed because that was the second time in a row that had happened. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Lapland/blog-225372.html Hey everyone It's been a couple of weeks since my last entry so here it goesI believe I left you all at November 4th. So on Monday November 5th I only had my Finnish class since my normal school was having test week. I hadn't told you all this but during my test week my family and I had been planning to go to their winter cabin in Lapland to go skiing for a week. However since it hadn't snow http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-221288.html Since it's been about 3 weeks since I last updated this entry is going to be kind of long. Sorry.So on Monday the 15th the day after I got back from Oulu I woke up at 750 which is the time that my bus comes. Well crap So I had to get ready really fast and take the next bus which comes at 825. I got to school and there was only about 15 minutes left in my first class so I just sat with some http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-214681.html So if any of you remember me mentioning this in my other blogs on the Saturday and Sunday after I returned from my school trip I was supposed to go to an Inbound camp in Oulu Finland. So here's some stuff about that weekend. So on Saturday morning after my 1 hour of sleep I woke up at 500 AM. I ate a big breakfast and packed some snacks for the train. I didn't want to have to buy food at t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Northern-Ostrobothnia/Oulu/blog-212492.html So I already started this blog once but then about halfway through I accidentally clicked off the page and everything was deleted. So let's try it again.On Thursday morning we woke up and it was time to set off on the looooooonnng journey back to Berlin. On our way out of Poland we stopped at a mall for lunch. There was a supermarket there so some of my friends and I went and bought a bunch of http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-212009.html So I have just gotten back from my school trip and I am ready to tell you all about it. I'm breaking it up into two entries since there is so much to write about and so many pictures. So where to startOn Monday I woke up at 600 so early I ate breakfast and made sure that I had everything that I needed for my trip. Then at 640 we left for the airport for my 750 plane. The airport in Vaasa i http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Krakow/blog-211459.html Hey everyone Wow it's already October and I've officially been in Finland for over two months. Isn't that crazy It's been about a week since I last updated and I want to be sure to update before I leave for Germany and Poland. So what's been going onWell on Monday I woke up at 700 and it was pitch black outside. I thought It can't really be 700 it's not usually this dark. It really wa http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-208593.html Hey everyone I promised I would update after my weekend in Helsinki. So here it is.First I have to start off on Thursday night in Vaasa. I went to the University of Vaasa with one of the Rotary members and her family. They were having a sort of open house thing to kick off the new year. It was pretty fun. But the best part was that I got to see my first real live reindeer As part of the event http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Uusimaa/Helsinki/blog-207017.html So I decided I need to write another entry before I go to EspooHelsinkiVantaa this weekend. Sorry the entries have been a little more spaced out lately. I guess I've just been a bit too busy to be writing all the time. Anyway where did I leave off So last Saturday the 15th I didn't really do anything. The next week was test week so all my friends were busy studying for their tests. And all http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-205109.html Sorry I haven't written in awhile. I guess I've just been busy.Anyway so where to start I believe I last left you on the 1st so on Sunday the 2nd I went to my friend Emilia's soccer game. It was in Sundom the small part of Vaasa where I live so I was able to ride my bike there. In America 40 degrees and rainy would be car weather but in Finland it is bikeriding weather. The game was good http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-202136.html I can't believe it's been a whole week since I last updated. Time has been flying. It seems like I've barely rolled out of bed on Monday morning and the next thing I know it's Friday afternoon. I can't believe I've almost been in Finland a month. That's right a whole month It will be official on Wednesday. Anyway I have lots of interesting stuff to tell you all so I better get down to itI bel http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-197896.html So it seems like it has been forever since I last wrote an entry. Quite a bit has happened. On Saturday Jani my host brother and I went to Power Park which is an amusement park in Alahm. Well I say it's an amusement park but it's not really like the ones in America. It was very small and it only had 2 real roller coasters. The rest were just like fair rides. So we spent a few hours there http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-195148.html Hey everyone http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Ostrobothnia/Vaasa/blog-193304.html Hey everyone I meant to start this blog before I left but I guess I procrastinated a little too much. So now I'm in Finland The plane rides were very long. I flew from Detroit to Amsterdam which was almost 8 hours and then I flew from Amsterdam to Helsinki which was about 3 hours. I got to Helsinki yesterday at about 500 PM and I was incredibly jetlagged. They took us all on a bus from the a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Finland/Pirkanmaa/Karkku/blog-188275.html