Best Western Hotel Silveria Vaasa

... her family's company and South Africa for a couple of weeks and then take off to Mozambique for a week to scubadive and hopefully make friends with a few whalesharks and manta rays. After that it's the Victoria Falls before heading further west to see the wonders of Namibia, Finland's country of special friendship. All in all the trip will take roughly 5 weeks and surely there are some great adventures and exciting moments to come!

Suvi

... or why, but it seems that I have found a country full of people just like me. Doing the exact same things that I enjoy doing, wearing clothes that I would wear, eating foods that I approve of. I can't even count the number of times I have seen people rollerblading to class... what the heck? I LOVE rollerblading. No one would ever rollerblade with me at home.

I started class on Tuesday. The deal is, students take only one class at a time. Classes ...

... of utter exhaustion. I met with an American girl (Christina) who took me out to fika, a coffee/tea/cake hang out, showed me around town, took me grocery shopping, and made me tilapia for dinner. It was great to be taken care of away from home!

Also got a chance to meet with my friend Lionel (from Congo) once again, who doesn't understand my hibernation habits and thinks my sleeping overload is a sign of ...

... foam! Despite my lack of pillow, I fell asleep very quickly. Also could be from the fact that I didn't sleep for 2 days straight. Either or.

Tomorrow I will go exploring, I want to actually see my university, haha. Everything here is SO green, it's seriously just a country full of trees with places cut out for roads and buildings. It's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I'll try to get some pictures of that.

For the weekend, Pauliina decided to take me up north to her parents' house near Kokkola. I was very intrigued by this because I've never met the rest of Pauliina's family before, and to see where she was raised and all that....kinda fun... :)

So, it turns out, Pauliina was raised in a really small town, in the cutest house on the face of the earth, that her dad built before she was born. I guess it was built ...

... n ja suosiolla siirrettiin lähtöaikaa, vaikka päivästä olikin tulossa pitkä. Hyvän aamupalan ja mustikoiden keräilyn jälkeen pääsimme lopulta jatkamaan matkaa. Oli oikein mukava mökkireissu kuitenkin kaiken kaikkiaan :)

Seuraava pysäkkimme ei sitten kaukana ollutkaan, kun kävimme Tomaksen fammun luona Pedersöressä. Söimme siellä lounasta ja saimme perunoita, porkkanoita, mansikoita ja vaikka mitä kasvimaan antimia ...

... Hällnäs, Bastuträsk, Jörn, Älvsbyn, Boden 2) Boden, Murjek, Narravaara, Gällivare, Fjällåsen, Kaitum, Sjisjka, Kiruna

Vaasaan on Nakkilasta noin kahden ja puolen tunnin matka ja se sujui aika nopeasti. Minä juttelin Arton ja emilian kanssa ja Mika jutteli enimmäkseen puhelimeen. Puolessavälissä matkaa Mika sai yllättävän puhelinsoiton Tero Kiviseltä. Asustelimme keväällä muutaman kuukauden Teron huvilalla Särkisalossa ja nyt Tero kyseli vieläkö meillä on Kuharannan avain olemassa. Kun avainasia oli selvitetty, niin ilmeni, että Tero oli ...

... a great girl and then i headed towardsthe great great party that took place for 5 days in kloden germany. a small village lost in the idilic life style of german countryside. i met there friends like marcus, martin, rrenate, cristina, ola, salvo,franc, jens, victoria,evald, ricky, and so many others, we made great workshops like baking bred, watching birds, cycling, drinking, cooking lithuanian food, transilvanyan accant workshop and the ...

... where places are so expensive, that many live at home even when they already finish schooling). Apart from all this, the countryside takes breaths away- over and over again. i mean, there are some parts when you could say: 'oh, this looks like home.', but in fact, all the green colour, all the lakes, flat land and tiny wooden houses...i mean, it's like walking into a fairytale. cannot wait to go up norther.