This morning I woke up at noon. I guess I’m not over jetlag yet! After breakfast, or should I say lunch, Leena, Ema and I went to Mylly (pronounced Mooloo, aka the Mall) to buy Erkki his birthday present! I got him some scented candles for the sauna the day before so I just came along to sitesee! On the way home Leena drove me on yet another tour of Naantali. We visited all the new houses! They are all so colorful; there are wooden ones and stone. It is not like New Mexico in a sense that all the houses [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday was my first real day of school. I am taking Biology, English (to help out) Music, Math, and Art. Art is definitly my favorite class so far. the teacher barely speaks english but she gesticulates a bunch pointing and nodding and waving her arms until i know whats going on. today we used bailing wire to create a person. the assignment was to add an element of ourselves into our creation. it was a windy day today and i was longing to fly a kite so i made my figure flying a kite! (pics!!!) we also made a list of [View Full Entry]

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i started school today! it was crazy. everyone dresses SO different. and they are all the same style its wierd. the guys wear long jeans but they roll them up to their knees. then the guys that play ice hockey tuck them into their socks. all the girls dress up for school. its very eruopean. i didnt really experience any finnish classes today because everyone was getting their schedules, but i start tomorrow! i did however have to introduce myself to the whole student body. that was ummm...fun? lol. well now everyone knows me! i met with my rotary counsler yesterday [View Full Entry]

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Pictures are worth a thousand words. [View Full Entry]

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hey all! im here at my host parents house in Naantali! the first day i got here i went on a boat ride to a couple islands with my host parents, went swimming in the sea and dived off the dock near my house, and went out to eat dinner at a finnish resturaunt at the harbor. i really like naantali. it is so pretty and green. my house is only a 2 min walk from the dock where i can swim...even though is it really really cold water :) i got used to it really quickly! my room is on [View Full Entry]

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A usual day at language camp! 7:30 Wake Up 8:15 Breakfast 8:45 Morning Lecture (going over the schedule of that day, and wake up dances!!!) 9:15 Classroom Learning- there were around 25 students in each classroom. we were split up first into groups of 25 based on what language we speak, my group was 24 americans and 1 canadian! then in each classroom there were four big tables. each table had a Finnish tutor (Finn our age) sitting there to help us. we were then each assigned a tutor, so we were with that tutor and our group of around 4 [View Full Entry]

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hey im writing again woo hoo! so its silent time. aka time to sleep but im still up. the usual. eating gummies and talking with my roommate sarah. shes from canada! wicked. so today we started language camp. last night was basically just getting over jetlag. aka sleeping. but Lane (sweet texan I met on the plane) and I stayed up the latest out of all the Americans here because we wanted to meet the rest of the kids on the busses from the airport (brazillians, swiss, germans, and so many more!) and to experience the usual late night snack of [View Full Entry]

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im here. its crazy. i am the most tired i have EVER been but its already 6pm here and its only like 9am in NM so if i fell asleep now it would mess up the whole jetlag stuff. so im staying up. crazy I know. I am NOT functioning regularly I am just walking in a daze. I cant believe im here. so i think i ate raindeer tonight. were not exactly sure. it was some kind of meat but egh it wasn't very good. but we also ate plain boiled potatos, peeled. the salad was really good though! [View Full Entry]

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