So actually TONIGHT is the start of a VERY long week!!! :) We went to the Tuto ice hockey game tonight in Turku! Tuto is like the AAA team for TPS!!! My first ADULT hockey game!!! It was fun, and I was hyper the entire game, talking, dancing, singing...you know, the usual. I ate some yummy makkara and juice too!!! Then between the periods Maddie's synchro team performed!!! It was such a fun night, then when we left it was snowing HUGE flakes outside! When I walked outside I yelled "VOI IHANA" (oh wonderful), really loud, and I heard some guy [View Full Entry]

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So today I got a little tour of Turku and my new host dad's office while we wated for Matias' game to start! Matias plays soccer for the VG (Naantali) team! (also my German friend Eric also plays on their team!) So they had a game tonight, and we had a lot of fun watching them run back and forth and up and down the freezing field. I was dancing and moving uncontrollably (sp?) trying to stay warm!!!! Fun game! [View Full Entry]

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So, I don't really know if I mentioned this already, but at my last host family I decided to cook some American/New Mexican style breakfast every Sunday or so. It all started that day I had the finnish pancake fiasco! The next weekend I made american style pancakes, but then we also had a little problem, because my wonderful host aiti told me that the flour was baking powder, so I ended up adding two types of baking poweder, which made some very flat pancakes, but in the end we figured it out, and had a couple good ones! Hey, they [View Full Entry]

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So today was the day..... I tried the famous finnish BLOOD PANCAKES. made of what you ask? REINDEER BLOOD!!! YIPPIE! Thank goodness I am so open minded. It was funny having my entire host family around me with aprehensive gazes (and the camera) ready to laugh at my reaction!!!..................which to tell you the truth...was not bad at all...it was kind of like that food that you eat and enjoy until some one tells you its made of pig brains...then its all lost. [View Full Entry]

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Today we kiddies sat down and ate our gingerbread house showing the end of Christmas time! YUMMY!!!! (michelle, check out those yopuku! (pj's!!!)) [View Full Entry]

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Wonderful, loud, amazing, entertaining, considerate, NONQABA!!!! "and thats the last time youre going to hear the click" Non was one of our oldies (an oldie is an exchange student that came from the southern hemisphere so their exchange year was from January to January). She was fabulous to be around. She made us laugh with her funny stories about South African boys, and pine apples, and she's a great listener. She has the right advice for everything. Oh, and of course, she is groovy at braiding hair. :) She lived in Pori, Finland for her exchange year, and had some of [View Full Entry]

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So todays the day WE DIDDLE THE CUSTOMERS...(ok inside joke...mom? seany? haha alright) well today I spent the day packing. It was rather sad, seeing my side of the once oh so crowded room now so empty.... I wasnt homesick, I was nervous. Very. This really seemed like my frist move, because I dont know my new family really well (as I did when I moved into the Ailio's), and my new house is further away from the Ahti's! This was all crashing down on me as I re-searched the bathroom and picked up a couple lonely bobby pins. After all [View Full Entry]

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New years is HUGE in Finland!!!!!! So Marru's brother and his fiance were visiting from Jyvaskyla (spelling?) for new year! Marru's brother made us some sushi and we had it for our nighttime snack, wasabi and all! It was great, I hadnt had sushi in FOREVER, and it was really good! Then a couple hours and many pool games later (mostly...if not always me losing to Henkka) we drank some strawberry margaritas. Then Henkka and I left the adults to party it up, and walked down to the Hesburger where Anssi and his mother picked us up and drove us to [View Full Entry]

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Gingerbread. Chocolate. Ham. Glogi. Champane. Gingerbread. Chocolate. Silli. Ham. Gingerbread. HAM!!! Ok, so it IS FINALLY CHRISTMAS EVE IN FINLAND!!! I MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "and there was much rejoicing"!!!! Alright, so I have to admit, it was SO MUCH better then I could have ever imagined. I was incandescently happy the entire day! We woke up late, and dressed in our warm comfy clothes, to walk to the old town center. There, around the towering Christmas tree music played, and the towns people gathered. There were at least 200 people, crowed around. I spotted many peopl [View Full Entry]

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Today I layed around. haha...yes...well kind of ....it was a "resting day" says my host mother! :) Heini, Henkka and I went over to Mummi's and put together her tree and put the lights on it. I read many pages of the OFFICIAL SAT STUDY GUIDE. Henkka had some friends over, I watched Aladdin then talked with the family online! yay! for Merry Christmas Family TIME!!! :) oh yes, then I helped Henkka and Antti put up the tree, then later in the night Heini and I decorated it and then went to sauna. [View Full Entry]

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