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Published: October 4th 2014
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So my first week back after ten days home has been so busy and now i'm on route back to Wales. I'm knackered. Like falling asleep standing up kind of tired.
It was so amazing to be back in Hameenlinna on Friday, i wish i could cut myself in two somedays so i could spend as much time with Nan as i can and to enjoy everything out in Finland, even though she's adamant that i'm to finish my time there, which either way i'll definitely do for her 😊. When i got into Sairio the spanish amigos had written a song, we caught up on all the news from the ten days and chilled. The plan was to go out that night but i passed out by 9.30 from all the travelling, i wish it was just a case of jumping on the plane in cardiff and getting here instead of the trek to gatwick, then the wait in the airport, then the bus and trek home to Sairio.
The saturday we went back to Helsinki, Marlose, Tasha, Mortiz, Kirsten and i. We wanted to see the cathedrals and go to the amusement park before it shuts for the
winter, the cathedrals were stunning, some were a bit bare inside but they were lovely all the same. When we wombled over to linnanmaki amusement park it was soooo much fun, its like Helsinkis' version of Alton Towers. There was a huge ride called the Kingi its 246 feet high and it literally spun you up to the top and dropped you... i felt like my brain fell out on the way down.. and lets be honest theres not much of one in there! The weathers definitely starting to turn at the moment, some mornings it is -1 to -3... bloody baltic!! Riding a bike up and down these hills with thermals, two jumpers, walking boots and anything else i can possibly fit on me is a nightmare when you get to uni, there's no point me doing my hair or my make up because the time i get to uni i look like i've been dragged though a bush.
While i was away i left my bike at the bus station, (for ten days and no one stole the wheels, can you Welshys believe it?!) So on sunday i had to walk the 2.5 miles down to get
the bloody thing, lucky its a nice walk or i would have had serious issues with bob the bike. We went to the lake to attempt to swim... it was sooooo cold, ill happily stay in the water for hours but it was too cold. We had a little picnic on the jetty and rode back home, i cant even describe what the ride like back to the house is like, on the way its great fun, all down hill and bumps... on the way back... its like the steepest thing ever and your slipping on the gravel too which makes it ten times difficult. I'll admit though that from the first time i was dying every time we do it gets a tiny bit easier.. even if i am pushing the bloody thing ha!
Monday morning i was back in uni with the second year fashion class.. they're doing a project on upcycling old menswear work trousers... I loveeee upcycling so im in my element, in the afternoon was painting.. now anyone who knows me either from foundation or in general that i am in no way any form of picaso.. give me a pot of ink and
i'm landed, paint.. its just a no go..I'll never ever forget Bob the paint lecturer in Carmarthen just coming up to me saying, "peoples creativity comes out in different ways, yours is definitely not through painting..." He was right. The poor girl looked like a cave woman or something, in the end i just gave up all hope 12-3.30 of painting was quite enough. It's a good thing i already have the credits for this year and am just there for the experience.
Tuesday we went to a place called Forrsa, Tex Vex which is where people donate clothes and they get remade into new materials or new garments. Plus the clothes were SOO cheap i picked up a vintage skirt for a present for 18C !!! A friend bought a leather mac and a mat thing for €4.. Who needs Primarni!? I got to ride home the nice way from Emmas too, around the lake it was so pretty because the weather was turning 😊.
Wednesday was a bloody whirlwind... i had live project workshop, which is the project about the fashion show and i was out of the loop anyway cause of the time
off let alone the fact that its easier for the girls to explain what they need to in finnish and they're amazing at relaying it to me in English but yesterday i couldn't concentrate to even try and decipher words out of the conversation so it drained my brain. Then we had our first finnish lessons, i was actually really looking forward to it, i'm useless at learning a language from a book or a class so being around finnish all the time and picking words up from my finnish friends really helps to know how the words are pronounced and stuff. My mum called me in the middle though and said i should look at flights to come home as the news at home wasn't great. So after that i was pretty useless and just wanted to go back to Sairio. I know i say it all the time, but i really am lucky to live with such lovely people, they're all so loving and caring and you're never short of having loads of people to hug or offer to chat or take your mind of something, like last night we rode down to the lake to watch the
sunset, they're just FAAAB 😊.
So right now i've been up since half two Finland time, i've ridden 2.5 miles, been on a bus for an hour and twenty minutes, sat in the bloody airport since 5.25 and now i'm 11,582 miles in the air waiting to get off the plane to get on two trains to get home. But it'll be so worth it to see Nans and while im on the subject of Nan i want to rant because she may not be angry that she's poorly but i am because I still don't understand that in 2014 how there is no cure for this horrible disease, we have watches that can be sat navs, cars that can drive themselves, children can use ipads, iphones at just over one years old and yet we're still loosing people we love from this horrible disease. I know so many people who have been hurt by Cancer and it still seems that most people, "catch it too late." i just don't understand how they can do all these wonderful things with technology and we cant find a device or a test that can trace cancer immediately
or soon enough to be able to save these people. It makes me feel useless because i take for granted that i'm using wifi on a plane but while people are making these gadgets there are still people dying of this disease because it just lays there inside someone and only rears it stupid horrible head when its too late.
So if any of my Cardiff friends or anyone that has a free night in Cardiff on the 11th october and a spare five pound can help too. Unlike most charities a 100% of the money raised by SUTC goes to collaborative cancer research programmes. I hope im home to do this and hope that other people will think about it too!
Rant over! see you in a while Finland!
xxx
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