Blogs from Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland, Europe - page 28

Construction continues... Europe » Finland » Helsinki By jessie_eliciaMay 7th 2007Jessie SmithOk ok, so many requests for pictures of the construction... here are a few. We are almost done the first half. The truck will move it on Wednesday and we will start the second half. Next Tuesday we will have both halves ready to go and be on our way to Turku! It's going a lot more smoothly than anticipated and I keep waiting for something to go wrong. It's light until after 9pm so we're working in three shifts... morning, afternoon, and evening. This way there are always 6 people working at a time. Hopefully next time I write we will have a finished produc... read more

So this was a pretty exciting week for me. We finally got to the construction stage in our design-build project at school. We got the lumber delivered and spent thursday and friday cutting the 2x2 lumber to length. I've been working a lot to get the drawings done so haven't been out much in the past couple weeks. We get more wood delivered on Wednesday so we can continue cutting and start building. We should be done construction by the 16th so that could be my next post. Cross your fingers that everything goes smoothly for us! Here are also some pictures from a bonfire we had at school a couple weekends ago. We were on campus at the edge of the sea. I brought marshmallows and David brought chocolate and cinnamon crackers (no graham ... read more

Hellooo out there! Sorry for the delay in posting but I've been busy busy with my friends from Canada who came to visit. It was so awesome for them to come from all corners of Europe to help me celebrate my birthday. Morgan came from Switzerland after his semester finished before returning to Canada. Kristine was (is) on Easter holidays from school in England, and Richard was on Easter break from work in Ireland. I don't have too many pictures, I was too busy doing school work, organizing events, and having fun. The four of us squeezed into my tiny room at night, wall to wall like sardines for three nights. It's a good thing we all get along so well. The first day they were here we went to my campus for a quick ... read more

Moro! Piti avata tämmönen nyt sitten uutta matkaa varten! Eli Guatemalaan olen lähdössä, Flores nimiseen kaupunkiin. Flores on pienenpieni kaupunki Lago Petèn Itzà -järven keskellä! Se sijaitsee Petènin alueella keskellä pohjois-Guatemalaa. Lähden sinne koulun kautta työharjoitteluun pariksi kuukaudeksi. Lähellä sijaitsee Tikalin maya-rauniot, jotka on yhdet suurimmista ja hienoimmista Guatemalassa. Työskentelen Floresissa Cafe Arqueologico Yax-hassa (www.cafeyaxha.com). Autan siellä kahvila/ravintolassa ja autan myös retkien järjestämisessä läheisille maya-alueille! Kaikki alkaa olla jo kunnossa, pari viikkoa vielä lähtöön! Tavaroita ei ole vielä sentään pakattu.. ;) Jos joku tuttu sattuu lukemaan tätä joka tarvitsisi kalustettua yksiöö vuokralle Pohjois-Haagasta pariksi kuukaudeksi, niin yhteys vaan muhun! :) Palaan asiaan vielä ennen lähtöä!... read more

Hey everyone... This note's going to be short because I have to get up early in the morning to fly to Dublin. I'll spend the night there at Richard's house and the two of us will leave the next morning for Portugal! School has been very busy. I took a few hours last weekend to go to the Korkeasaari zoo and the Ateneum art museum. Other than that I have been working at school. The Zoo was really nice. It's on an island outside Helsinki and looks more like a farm than a zoo. It has all the same animals as regular zoos, but it was kind of wierd to see the lions and tigers and camels out in the snow. This zoo is also the location of the lookout tower built by the Wood Studio ... read more