Aika menee ihan liian nopeesti eteenpäin...Tässä ihan pieni ihminen hämmentyy! Toisaalta toivon et se menee nopeesti ja odotan jo kauheella innolla kesää ja kaikkea, mutta sitten taas toisaalta toivoo, että olis joku keino, jolla voisi hidastaa tai jopa pysäyttääkin aikaa joskus!
"Joko jännittää? Onkos espanjaa jo opeteltu paljon? Kuinka sä uskallat? Niin missäs Argentiina taas olikaan? Milloin sä lähdet?jne." Kysymyksiä, joita kuulee niin usein, kun ihmiset saa tietää mun lähdöstä. Varsinkin tuota ekaa ihmiset jaksaa hokea. Ja mä yleensä vastaan, että ei mua, ainakaa paljon. Ainakaan vielä. Ei se tunnu todelliselta. Vielä. Ehkä sitten lentokentällä. Väännän sen vitsiksi. Mutta jos ihan rehellisiä ollaan, niin oikeesti mua jännittää. Ja paljon. Ei aina. Koko kevään mulla on ollut käynnissä semmoinen tunnemyllerrys. Välillä on päiviä, jolloin suunnittelen ja haaveilen ja odotan ihan älyttömän malttamattomana ja innokkaana ens vuotta. Oon niin onnellinen, että mulla on tää tilaisuus ja toivoisin jo että se vuosi alkais jo. Ja näin mä sen aika monelle selitän, jos ne kysyy että miltä musta tuntuu. Usein jätän mainitsemasta ne toiset päivät. Ne itkupotkuhämmennyspaniikkihetket. Sillä joskus mulle tulee sellaisia kohtauksia, että itkettää ja pelottaa ja miettii, että MITÄ IHMETTÄ SÄ LIKKA OIKEIN MEINAAT?! että en mä pysty, en uskalla, en voi, en halua... Mietityttää, että mistä kukkapenkistä mä oikein kaivan sen kaiken rohkeuden, jota mä tarvin. Miten mä osaan olla tarpeeksi ulospäinsuuntautunu, fiksu, positiivinen, rohkee, itsenäinen, aktiivinen ja kaikkee muuta, mitä multa odotetaan?! Ja miten mä pystyn jättämään mun läheiset ihmiset? Yleensä pieni vollotus, pala suklaakakkua tai kenties juttelu jonkuin mun kullan tai toisen vaihtariksi lähtevän kanssa on aika hyviä lääkkeitä tälläsiin kohtauksiin, eikä ne kestä kauan. Pian tulee taas se innostus. Ja yleensä oon sitä mieltä et oon tehny oikeian valinnan ja ratkaisun. Yleensä.
Mutta mistä sen oikeestaan voi tietää, että mikä valinta on oikee tai väärä? Mun elämä muuttuu tästä vuodesta varmasti. Mut muuttuuko se hyvään vai huonoon suuntaan? Vaikeeta sanoa tässä vaiheessa, mutta just nyt mulla on hyvä tunne, (ikuisena optimisitina!) että jotain hyvää siitä tulee :)
Mun rakas siskoni ja äiti on tehny jonkin verran pinssejä mulle. Rotary vaihtarit vaihtaa keskenään oman maansa pinssejä ja kerää niitä sellaseen rotary takkiin. Tarvin niitä TOOOSI paljon. Nää mun pinssit on oikeestaan aika hienoja. Niitä vaan pitäis tehdä vielä paljon lisää. Ehkä mä järjestän jotkut pinssinväsäämisjuhlat joku päivä ;D Muita valmisteluja tässä on ollu mm. Suomi-esitelmän tekemistä...Tai olis pitäny olla, en oo sitä kauheesti tehnyt ja nyt alkaa siitä kehittyä pieni paniikki. Mun pitää siis pitää semmonen Suomesta kertova esitelmä englanniksi seuraavassa vaihtarikoulutuksessa 5.5. Mutta ehkä se menee hyvin...Tuliaisia isäntä perheille pitäis ruveta ettimään, ja käyntikortteja tilata. Heti kun saan tiedot siiitä minne nyt oon muuttamassa. Joka päivä tarkistan sähköpostin ja toivon että nyt olsi tullu tiedot isäntäperheestä ja kaupungista. Vielä ei oo tullu, muuta kuin että Patagoniaan ollaan menossa! http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonia tuosta kartasta kun katotte, nii huomaatte varmaan, että aika laaja alue vielä...:D
Mutta juu, en nyt kovin ahkera kirjottelija oo vielä ollut, mutta sitten kun oikeesti pääsen tuonne maailman toiselle puolelle nii sitten (jos on aikaa ja netti käytössä!) toivon mukaan tulee enemmän ja useemmin juttua! Ja toivonmukaan jotain vähän mielenkiintoisempiaki juttuja..:D
sunnuntai 24. huhtikuuta 2011
keskiviikko 9. helmikuuta 2011
Argentina, baby!!! ;)
Joo heips vaan kaikki!!! En oo nyt tänne blogiin kirjotellu, kun tosiaan Amerikasta kotiuduin jo aikaa sitten ja tämän oli tarkotus aluksi olla vain sen matkan ajan pidettävä blogi. Sain sen oikein opettajalta tehtäväksi, ja siitä syystä kirjottelin loistavalla enkun taidoillani :D Mutta nyt tuli sellanen olo että minäpä haluan kirjottaa tänne ihan muuten vaan ja vieläpä ihan omalla äidinkielelläni!!! Ja kun näitä loistavia ajatuksia tuntuu löytyvän niinkin paljon että äiti tänään mulle tokaisi että " Älä sitten vaa ikinä rupee stand up -koomikoksi!" Oli vissiin niin älykkäitä juttuja...Mutta yritän nyt elvyttää tätä blogiani näillä EIstandupkomiikkajutuilla... Katsotaan nyt mitä siitäkin tulee :D
Ja hei, matka aiheessa pysytään, tavallaan ainakin! Nimittäin nyt kevään aikana rupean valmistautumaan pikku hiljaa Argentiinaa varten! Sillä jokin aika sitten sain tiedon että tuolla Atlantin toisella puolella odotteleekin uusi kotini! Ainakin siis vuoden ajan! Rotarien kautta olen lähdössä vaihtariksi ja täytyy sanoa että päätös tuli vähän yllättäen ja puskista ja silleen, mutta tähän mennessä aika hyvältä päätökseltä se on tuntunut!!! Odotan ihan älyttömän innoissani ja jännittyneenä että saisin tietoa alueesta ja isäntäperheestä, mutta ne tiedot tuleepi vasta keväämmällä. Eli ei tässä oikein muu auta tässä vaiheessa, kuin yrittää päntätä tuota españolia päähän...Helpommin sanottu kuin tehty! :P Nytkin espanjan kappale papattelee tuolla taustalla epätoivoisesti, mutta luulen että aika heikosti ymmärrän argentiinalaisia syksyllä...Kaikesta tästä opiskelusta huolimatta, sillä en ole kauaa kerinnyt kieltä opiskella, oikein toinen kurssi vasta menossa lukiossa! Mutta hiljaa hyvä tulee! Ja paikanpäällä sitä varmaan ihan vahingossa tulee opittua! ;D
Kävin myös tuossa eilen tyhjäämässä Jurvan suunnattoman kirjaston hyllyt kaikesta mahdollisesta Argentiinasta kertovasta kirjallisuudesta! Aion nyt ainakin ottaa tämän tosissani! :D Mukaan kyllä tarttui kirjaston hyllyiltä muutama nuottikirjakin, jos tulisi välillä soitettua pianolla jotain muutakin kuin noita samoja kappaleita koko ajan! Varsinkin kun suunnitelmissa olisi ns. soittaa varastoon ennen ensi vuotta, kun ei oikein voi olettaa että mun isäntäperheellä olis oma flyygeli mua odottamassa :P
Muutenkin yritän koko ajan ottaa tavallaan kaikesta kaiken irti. Tai tavallaan painaa kaikki Suomen ihanat asiat mieleen! Oon aivan innoissani nauttinu näistä lumisista keleistä! Oikeesti, vaikka valitankin aina välillä...:D Pulkkamäki varsinkin on erittäin kypsää ja sopivaa ja suomalaista ajanvietettä! Suosittelen lämpimästi kaikille!
No nyt tästä ekasta in Finnish kirjotuksesta tulikin niin sekava että onnittelen kaikkia, jotka tännekin asti selvisivät hengissä! Voisin yrittää luvata että seuraavissa (jos niitä tulee :D) teksteissä on enemmän päätä ja häntää tai edes toista niistä!!! Kiitos ja hyviä öitä :)
Ja hei, matka aiheessa pysytään, tavallaan ainakin! Nimittäin nyt kevään aikana rupean valmistautumaan pikku hiljaa Argentiinaa varten! Sillä jokin aika sitten sain tiedon että tuolla Atlantin toisella puolella odotteleekin uusi kotini! Ainakin siis vuoden ajan! Rotarien kautta olen lähdössä vaihtariksi ja täytyy sanoa että päätös tuli vähän yllättäen ja puskista ja silleen, mutta tähän mennessä aika hyvältä päätökseltä se on tuntunut!!! Odotan ihan älyttömän innoissani ja jännittyneenä että saisin tietoa alueesta ja isäntäperheestä, mutta ne tiedot tuleepi vasta keväämmällä. Eli ei tässä oikein muu auta tässä vaiheessa, kuin yrittää päntätä tuota españolia päähän...Helpommin sanottu kuin tehty! :P Nytkin espanjan kappale papattelee tuolla taustalla epätoivoisesti, mutta luulen että aika heikosti ymmärrän argentiinalaisia syksyllä...Kaikesta tästä opiskelusta huolimatta, sillä en ole kauaa kerinnyt kieltä opiskella, oikein toinen kurssi vasta menossa lukiossa! Mutta hiljaa hyvä tulee! Ja paikanpäällä sitä varmaan ihan vahingossa tulee opittua! ;D
Kävin myös tuossa eilen tyhjäämässä Jurvan suunnattoman kirjaston hyllyt kaikesta mahdollisesta Argentiinasta kertovasta kirjallisuudesta! Aion nyt ainakin ottaa tämän tosissani! :D Mukaan kyllä tarttui kirjaston hyllyiltä muutama nuottikirjakin, jos tulisi välillä soitettua pianolla jotain muutakin kuin noita samoja kappaleita koko ajan! Varsinkin kun suunnitelmissa olisi ns. soittaa varastoon ennen ensi vuotta, kun ei oikein voi olettaa että mun isäntäperheellä olis oma flyygeli mua odottamassa :P
Muutenkin yritän koko ajan ottaa tavallaan kaikesta kaiken irti. Tai tavallaan painaa kaikki Suomen ihanat asiat mieleen! Oon aivan innoissani nauttinu näistä lumisista keleistä! Oikeesti, vaikka valitankin aina välillä...:D Pulkkamäki varsinkin on erittäin kypsää ja sopivaa ja suomalaista ajanvietettä! Suosittelen lämpimästi kaikille!
No nyt tästä ekasta in Finnish kirjotuksesta tulikin niin sekava että onnittelen kaikkia, jotka tännekin asti selvisivät hengissä! Voisin yrittää luvata että seuraavissa (jos niitä tulee :D) teksteissä on enemmän päätä ja häntää tai edes toista niistä!!! Kiitos ja hyviä öitä :)
torstai 21. lokakuuta 2010
Canadiens say "eh" :D
Yesterday we drove to Orillia, Canada to meet some of our relatives. They were really nice people and let us stay in their house the night! It has been really great that we haven't just been like tourists in hotels and stuff! We have got a chance to see rea people's homes and life and things like that!!! i reallly love that! That is how you can really learn!!! For example i learned what are really good chips with some dip and really great French toast!!! :D Haha, always food... And i really noticed that the Canadien people do say "eh" a lot!!!! That is funny! And also i have noticed that people are more like out-going or open or i don't know, like they talk more than we finns!!! And maybe thay think that we are weird quiet people who are either stupid or unpolite!!! That is why i have tried to talk and smile a lot!!! And you know, i really can talk much when i want, now i just have to do it in English!! But that is fun and i really think that it is much easier to me now open my mouth and actually say something, than it used to be!!!
And today morning we had to keep going to Toronto. It is always sad to say good bye...And again in a car!!! we have been driving a lot in this trip!!! But it is okay, i can sleep in a car or try to take pictures ( my camera is ALMOST full now, i think i only have something like 60 pics left...) or something!!! There is at least room for everything! :D
We stopped to eat in a...guess...HAMBURGER place!!! There really isn't anything but junk food near the highways!!! And if you are driving there and you get hungry you either suffer or eat the junk food!!! :D I honestly won't eat any food like that when i come home! Period.
I haven't seen Toronto much today, we just satyed at our hotel but i think it is a big city too!!! Smaller than Chicago, but still... We are going to spend tomorrow the whole day in Toronto and then in the night, about 9:15 our flight leaves and we start our short short short night!!! You know, the flight takes about 6 hours but because of the time difference we will be in Reykjavik at about 7 a.m so we kind of loose part of our night!!! So i guess that means i have to sleep well tonight!!! :D
And today morning we had to keep going to Toronto. It is always sad to say good bye...And again in a car!!! we have been driving a lot in this trip!!! But it is okay, i can sleep in a car or try to take pictures ( my camera is ALMOST full now, i think i only have something like 60 pics left...) or something!!! There is at least room for everything! :D
We stopped to eat in a...guess...HAMBURGER place!!! There really isn't anything but junk food near the highways!!! And if you are driving there and you get hungry you either suffer or eat the junk food!!! :D I honestly won't eat any food like that when i come home! Period.
I haven't seen Toronto much today, we just satyed at our hotel but i think it is a big city too!!! Smaller than Chicago, but still... We are going to spend tomorrow the whole day in Toronto and then in the night, about 9:15 our flight leaves and we start our short short short night!!! You know, the flight takes about 6 hours but because of the time difference we will be in Reykjavik at about 7 a.m so we kind of loose part of our night!!! So i guess that means i have to sleep well tonight!!! :D
tiistai 19. lokakuuta 2010
Niagara Falls
Okay, now i am here in Canada! we came across the border yesterday and stayed 2 nights close to the Niagara falls! They were amazing!!! You could hear them from far away and when you went close enough it felt like it was raining!!!! They were so beautiful!!! :) And we got to go by a helicopter!!!! it was a really small one and it flew over the Falls! i was first so scared!!! But also excited!! and it was wonderful!! i have never been in a helicopter before, and who knows, maybe i won't get a cahnce for that again!!!! It was... i can't even say it with words but i am sure you can imagine!!! AMAZING! My dad and sister and brother also went into a some kind of cave BEHIND the Falls...I couldn't go, I am too scared of a tiny places!!! :D
Before the Falls we drove through Buffalo...It was a city that well, wasn't so pretty...Ugly old buildings, poor people...not fun...
And we also went to a Native Americans area. But we didn't see anything like teepees ( I don't know how to spell this...but i mean their tents) or anything lik that!! Just normal people, well, maybe a bit more poor people than the "normal" ones...It wasn't so great...We only went to a place called Smokin Joes to eat and then went to a store where they sold Indian things. I hope the native americans got the money!
Only couple of days left!!! On Friday we will fly to Reykjavik. Now we are in a small town and soon we will drive to Toronto. These weeks have gone by so quickly!!!
Before the Falls we drove through Buffalo...It was a city that well, wasn't so pretty...Ugly old buildings, poor people...not fun...
And we also went to a Native Americans area. But we didn't see anything like teepees ( I don't know how to spell this...but i mean their tents) or anything lik that!! Just normal people, well, maybe a bit more poor people than the "normal" ones...It wasn't so great...We only went to a place called Smokin Joes to eat and then went to a store where they sold Indian things. I hope the native americans got the money!
Only couple of days left!!! On Friday we will fly to Reykjavik. Now we are in a small town and soon we will drive to Toronto. These weeks have gone by so quickly!!!
torstai 14. lokakuuta 2010
Amish
Yesterday and today i have had an exciting time!!! At least because I love history!!! And different cultures and so on! We are now in Ohio and the place where we stay is really close to a big Amish area. Do you know what the Amish people are? Here is a link to wikipedia, but i didn't really read it, so i don't know is it really good...( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish ). But anyway, shortly they are Christian but they have their own rules and things, for example they dress up like old fashioned clothes and even live like that without cars or electricity or anything!!! And there they were, people driving buggies or carriages with horses there next to the cars! We spent a whole day there, shopping and just looking around! It was so fun and weird to drive past an Amish school where were little girls in dresses and and bonnets like in that tv show called Little house on the prairie! It really felt like i was in a movie or something, it just didn't feel real. Or that i had suddenly jumped in a time machine or something!!! I learned a lot of their life and bought some candy and took pictures! I had a fun day! And you could see horses and cows everywhere and some men harvesting with horses! It is so strange that there are people living like really modern life with all kinds of machines and electric appliances and right next to it there are people living such a simple life!!! I think that is amazing!
keskiviikko 13. lokakuuta 2010
Back to school XD
Yesterday was really exciting day!!! (I mean Tuesday). But let me start from Monday. We drove from Chicago to Wisconsin. Well, first we got lost in the not so good area of Chicago, but in the end we started going toward Slinger, WI. WE were going to have a dinner with Miretta (an exchange student from my home town in Finland) and her host family there. First we couldn't find it either, but finally, a little bit late, we arrived! The family was SO nice!!! And the meal was in the American way really big and delicious! :D Lots of food! In the night we had a fire outside also and it was really fun! And i loved to get totalk with Miretta too, I hadn't seen her for a while!!! Then my family left to a little Bed and Breakfast that was in a small town near Miretta's host family's home and i stayed the night there!!! Because, in the morning...Well, in the morning i was really excited!!!! Really!! I got to go to school with Miretta!!! :D
Her host mom took us there early in the morning, around half past seven i think...The school was bigger than my own school in Jurva! There were about 1,000 students in this high school and well, miretta also thought it was big but her host family said it was small in here! But when i saw it i was like WOW, this school is HUGE!!!! And then i got even more nervous than i used to be...:D We had to go to get me a small name tag which said that i was a visitor and it had my name on it of course. Miretta had to sign in or something. I didn't really get that thing, but it was something like that when you come to school you have to sign in and when you leave it you have to sign out and if you leave in the middle of the day you have to write why you go and everything....
First we had study hall, which means in our school that you don't have to do anything or you can just go to a store or something...But here..We had to sit in the lunch room, only three students in each tables (there were room for 8 people, but no!!!) and we had to be really quiet and there was a teacher in there watching us!!! It was weird!! And Miretta told me that you are NOT allowed to go even outside of the school, even to the front doors without permission! :D
When the bell rang we had to almost run because the break was only 4 minutes and there were so many people going to classrooms or somewhere in the corridors!!! Miretta had physics next. They had a test which seemed really hard ( the teacher gave me one of them too, just to look at it though :D) !!! It was fun that there was classical music coming from the cd player in the classroom WHILE they were doing the test and the teacher gave everybody candy!!! I am just saying, but it was a fun thing...krohm...get candy when you have a test...:D
Okay, then we had something like art history and we watched some old paintings. The teacher was really nice and it was really surprising how the students actually were listening the teacher (in every class i was with!! really!!). And then we had something like sociology. They had a test in that too but it wasn't so bad i think...there were only those a, b, c questions, those that you just have to pick one of them! And i think many of the tests are like that! I just sat there and watched! :D Ammm, then we had psychology...and guess what!! They had a test in that too!!! :D The teacher gave me the book they have and i just read it a bit...Wow, the books are so big and thick and heavy!!!! Poor Miretta!!! :D
We went to the cafeteria or canteen or whatever for lunch! We ate only muffins and some kind of chocolate rice bars and juice because we were going to go to have lunch with the rotary club. Miretta has their meeting every Tuesday where she tells them about her week and this time she took me with her. But in the school canteen there were so many choices, tacos, pizza, salads, fruits, yoghurt, muffins, rice, chocolate, juice, milk etc. etc. :D And just like in the movies there was the table for the "nerds" , the guys who play football, the "cool" people, the "normal" people and so on...:D We sat withe Miretta's friends in the "normal" area.
The rotary meeting was, well interesting. There was good food but they sang some songs i didn't know and talked about something i really didn't understand, but it was still an experience!
After that we hurried back to school and had the most interesting lesson! At least i thought it was the best lesson! First the teacher told everyone who i was and people started asking do i speak english and everything! :D It was kind of fun..and then it was so interesting to listen when they talked about homosexuals, racism, genders and all kinds of that things! It was like English Communication so everyone talked and it was really well, as i said interesting class!
And then we had German class but it wasn't anything special. And that was it! Now i have to go, but i just say that i would have love to go for many other days to that school again too!!! :D I had so much fun, it was so different and all the people were so nice and it was great to see Miretta again!!! :)
Her host mom took us there early in the morning, around half past seven i think...The school was bigger than my own school in Jurva! There were about 1,000 students in this high school and well, miretta also thought it was big but her host family said it was small in here! But when i saw it i was like WOW, this school is HUGE!!!! And then i got even more nervous than i used to be...:D We had to go to get me a small name tag which said that i was a visitor and it had my name on it of course. Miretta had to sign in or something. I didn't really get that thing, but it was something like that when you come to school you have to sign in and when you leave it you have to sign out and if you leave in the middle of the day you have to write why you go and everything....
First we had study hall, which means in our school that you don't have to do anything or you can just go to a store or something...But here..We had to sit in the lunch room, only three students in each tables (there were room for 8 people, but no!!!) and we had to be really quiet and there was a teacher in there watching us!!! It was weird!! And Miretta told me that you are NOT allowed to go even outside of the school, even to the front doors without permission! :D
When the bell rang we had to almost run because the break was only 4 minutes and there were so many people going to classrooms or somewhere in the corridors!!! Miretta had physics next. They had a test which seemed really hard ( the teacher gave me one of them too, just to look at it though :D) !!! It was fun that there was classical music coming from the cd player in the classroom WHILE they were doing the test and the teacher gave everybody candy!!! I am just saying, but it was a fun thing...krohm...get candy when you have a test...:D
Okay, then we had something like art history and we watched some old paintings. The teacher was really nice and it was really surprising how the students actually were listening the teacher (in every class i was with!! really!!). And then we had something like sociology. They had a test in that too but it wasn't so bad i think...there were only those a, b, c questions, those that you just have to pick one of them! And i think many of the tests are like that! I just sat there and watched! :D Ammm, then we had psychology...and guess what!! They had a test in that too!!! :D The teacher gave me the book they have and i just read it a bit...Wow, the books are so big and thick and heavy!!!! Poor Miretta!!! :D
We went to the cafeteria or canteen or whatever for lunch! We ate only muffins and some kind of chocolate rice bars and juice because we were going to go to have lunch with the rotary club. Miretta has their meeting every Tuesday where she tells them about her week and this time she took me with her. But in the school canteen there were so many choices, tacos, pizza, salads, fruits, yoghurt, muffins, rice, chocolate, juice, milk etc. etc. :D And just like in the movies there was the table for the "nerds" , the guys who play football, the "cool" people, the "normal" people and so on...:D We sat withe Miretta's friends in the "normal" area.
The rotary meeting was, well interesting. There was good food but they sang some songs i didn't know and talked about something i really didn't understand, but it was still an experience!
After that we hurried back to school and had the most interesting lesson! At least i thought it was the best lesson! First the teacher told everyone who i was and people started asking do i speak english and everything! :D It was kind of fun..and then it was so interesting to listen when they talked about homosexuals, racism, genders and all kinds of that things! It was like English Communication so everyone talked and it was really well, as i said interesting class!
And then we had German class but it wasn't anything special. And that was it! Now i have to go, but i just say that i would have love to go for many other days to that school again too!!! :D I had so much fun, it was so different and all the people were so nice and it was great to see Miretta again!!! :)
sunnuntai 10. lokakuuta 2010
Opposites in the city - makes you excited and sad!
On Saturday morning we went to a hairdresser to get our hair done for the wedding! The person who did our hair was...really interesting!!! Oh no, not in the bad way, he was really nice and sweet and good at his work, it was just...well, just think about those gay hairdresser/stylist or that kind of men in the movies and tv programmes - and you will know what i mean!!! It was so funny!!! And actually the whole Friday night and Saturday it felt like I really was in some movie because the city is so AMAZING!!! When i saw the skyscrepers, all those high buildings from the road still far away from the city it felt like a dream!!! I have never seen that kind of place!!! Only in movies!!! In the Friday night we went up to the John Hanckok Center's Observatory! I can tell you, it is really high!!! And we went all the way to the top and the view from there was brethtaking!!! Unbelievebly beautiful!!! The sun was just going down and we could see the lake and all the lights and other buildings in the city! :)
Okay, back to the Saturday...I walked in the Water Tower Place wich is a huge shopping mall with my penpal Abbey! And in the evening the wedding started! It was a really nice place called West Loop Studio and there came a lot of people!!! And, if it can be possible, they were even louder and happier than american people are usually!! I guess alcohol had something to do with it...:D It was really fun idea that they had the party first and then in the midnight the ceremony!! I had a great time there and i really got to speak english with abbey and it was good!!! My mother was the maitron of honor so after the ceremony we still had to stay there and help cleaning a bit.
The weather here is really really warm, hot actually!!! And i don't have any summer clothes with me! I just couldn't think in Finland that it could be so hot in here! :D This is a big city and we have seen so different people and everything!!! There are limousines, luxory hotels, all those expensive stores, cabs driving everywhere, police cars, people protesting against something with signs like " Skip Halloween!" or " Abortion kills babies!" , reastaurants and cafes, women on really high heels, horse carriages (believe or not!!! there are lots of them in Chicago), and lots of other great and amazing things! But then on the other side you can see lots of homeless people, families trying to sleep in a park under a tree, a man looking for something to eat from the trash, people sitting on the street with peaces of paper that say " I am homeless and need food..." and so on... That makes me sad! But that is the way the big cities are I suppose! And to add still something to my long list, today was a big marathon here in Chicago, so a lot of runners!! :D Many roads were closed because of the marathon and there were even more people in the downtown today!!! With all those balloons and signs and everything.
Today we went to Jenni and Jim's home for lunch! For the last time we helped with cooking and everything. There were many of the people that were there in the wedding. When we left there it was kind of strange because we have spent so much time in there and with those wonderful people! I am really going to miss them! Jenni's parents I am goign to see soon because we will go to Ohio to visit them. We are their Finland's "grandchildren"! :D It has been really wonderful to get to see real peoples life and home and everything instead of just beeing a tourist somewhere! It has been amazing! And it will continue because tomorrow we are going to drive to Wisconsin to Slinger to visit Finland's exchange student Miretta! her host family invited us and on tuesday i will get to go to high school with Miretta!!! I am so excited! :)
Now I will go to bed and listen to the noices of the city. It is really not those sounds you hear in my home town! :D
Okay, back to the Saturday...I walked in the Water Tower Place wich is a huge shopping mall with my penpal Abbey! And in the evening the wedding started! It was a really nice place called West Loop Studio and there came a lot of people!!! And, if it can be possible, they were even louder and happier than american people are usually!! I guess alcohol had something to do with it...:D It was really fun idea that they had the party first and then in the midnight the ceremony!! I had a great time there and i really got to speak english with abbey and it was good!!! My mother was the maitron of honor so after the ceremony we still had to stay there and help cleaning a bit.
The weather here is really really warm, hot actually!!! And i don't have any summer clothes with me! I just couldn't think in Finland that it could be so hot in here! :D This is a big city and we have seen so different people and everything!!! There are limousines, luxory hotels, all those expensive stores, cabs driving everywhere, police cars, people protesting against something with signs like " Skip Halloween!" or " Abortion kills babies!" , reastaurants and cafes, women on really high heels, horse carriages (believe or not!!! there are lots of them in Chicago), and lots of other great and amazing things! But then on the other side you can see lots of homeless people, families trying to sleep in a park under a tree, a man looking for something to eat from the trash, people sitting on the street with peaces of paper that say " I am homeless and need food..." and so on... That makes me sad! But that is the way the big cities are I suppose! And to add still something to my long list, today was a big marathon here in Chicago, so a lot of runners!! :D Many roads were closed because of the marathon and there were even more people in the downtown today!!! With all those balloons and signs and everything.
Today we went to Jenni and Jim's home for lunch! For the last time we helped with cooking and everything. There were many of the people that were there in the wedding. When we left there it was kind of strange because we have spent so much time in there and with those wonderful people! I am really going to miss them! Jenni's parents I am goign to see soon because we will go to Ohio to visit them. We are their Finland's "grandchildren"! :D It has been really wonderful to get to see real peoples life and home and everything instead of just beeing a tourist somewhere! It has been amazing! And it will continue because tomorrow we are going to drive to Wisconsin to Slinger to visit Finland's exchange student Miretta! her host family invited us and on tuesday i will get to go to high school with Miretta!!! I am so excited! :)
Now I will go to bed and listen to the noices of the city. It is really not those sounds you hear in my home town! :D
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