Ciao Bella!

First week has gone fast! Much has been done and happened. Also the Christmas passed away already, and we didn’t totally find out Italian people traditional Christmas. We tried to ask that from everyone and we got millions of different answers.

But we got know that Italians celebrate the Christmas on 25^th of December, so we Finns are inpatient and start celebrating a day before than rest of the world (expect the Nordic countries)

on 24^th of December we had a Finnish Christmas dinner, well not so traditional, but at least we had it on the Christmas Eve. We had Christmas porridge at first and then pesto pasta… We didn’t get glögi for this Christmas, cause we had to throw them off at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport, we had too much over weight and we didn’t want to pay nearly 70€ of that.  And I got one Christmas present on this year, I didn’t expect it, but it was really nice to have. I got Italiano- Finlandese dictionary! : D And we have got so many laughs with it.. we have some common words, pronounced same way, but the spelling is just different.

            

25^th of December we didn’t do much during the day, just slept and watched sex and the city- series and moomins (: But on the evening we went to a opening of a new club, ‘Serendipity’

Soon I'm going to Rome, so probably I will take some photos and post them here later when I find some time and if we have internet connection!

Problems!

I started packing some days ago, but now I'm doing most of it. And I already got some problems. Airlines has that stupid weight limit for luggages, 23kg, in some airlines it's even less! I can't understand how people can go for a holiday without paying any fees of over weight!

My problem is + 5kg! I've took only the most important things and clothes I have to take, but still it's nearly impossible to close...
I need to pack my hand luggage so full as possible : D And if it's a bit over weight still, I really wish they wont take any fees of that. I have had luck with that twice when I have had over weight. Other times I've had lot of kilos to spend... Let's see what my luggage will say when I'm coming back to Finland.

I have to give few liters of glögi off. It's way too heavy, I just need to try survive with little less of glögi this Christmas / New year's Eve... But they're waiting me here, when I'm back here in January (:

For the staff of Ostello I made a Christmas card today. I went to tiimari to buy some card stuffs, but almost eveything was sold out, all the Christmas things. But then I found something and bought them also I used some papers which I found from home. But this is the card I was able to do today (:

I'm Coming Home!

Not so long anymore. Finally the day which I have been waiting for 4,5 months is here, 19th of December!
Soon Helsinki- Vantaa is calling, I've manage my luggage weight to 25,4kg. It's the best I can do, let's see if they won't make me to pay extra fees because of that.

Today I have been spending my last day in Finland (for next 3 weeks) watching movies and sleeping. I still need to clean up my room, so it won't look huge mess (: And I have to check I have packed all the things I need in Italy, cause now I there won't be time to send them for me, like last time I did.


Saturday, 17th of December
On this rainy day, our Italian students wanted to go for a visit to Suomenlinna. There was pretty horrible : D Cold and windy. Not the best time of the year go there, but they wanted to see this place, and they got... Also they wanted to get out of there pretty fast : D I have to admit, that I was pretty happy about that short visit. If they ever come back here in Summer, they can go there again (:

And after this 'lovely' trip to Suomenlinna I went back home and my friend came to pick me up to her place. We made cookies... Well I was sleeping on chairs when she was doing them : D I helped her with decorating them and eating them of course! ^^
Rest of the evening we spent laying on the bed and searching funny videos on youtube, watching tv and just talking everything. And after the midnight she brought me back home. I was suppose to stay there over the night, but I didn't wanna wake up early tomorrow, so I decided to come home to sleep on my own bed and no one won't wake me up before I wanna wake up (:

Piparitalkoot ja Glögiä

Our Saturday morning started well. We had to go to Finns with my friend. To make cookies with Italian and Estonian students. Well the person who was arranged this called us and said we have to handle this thing today, cause she's sick.
 Well we were there in a morning around 10.30am and we heated glögi for them. It came 11 o'clock when all the students was suppose to come, well there wasn't anyone. We decided to make few cookies for us first. The  cookies was suppose to be in a oven for 5 to 7 minutes. After 10 minutes, they wasn't ready yet, so we let them be there little longer. And now there came few Estonian students, they were looking for their tutor, the one who were arranged this ting. We told them that she's sick and won't be here today. They were really happy and left in a same second away. Now the cookies were in a oven for 30mins and still they were raw.... We checked them after an hour and still the same!! Now we little gave up and went to sit and talk on couch.
Now after another 30 mins my friend noticed that there was pretty familiar smell (to us :D) and we realized the cookies were burn!

Well we had 4 liters glögi to drink. And when my friend's mom came to pick us up we gave some for her too, but we still couldn't drink that all together.
I never seen cookies like this before : D We're just the best in the kitchen. To be honest, we should never be in the kitchen together :P
At least we had really fun and hilarious Saturday morning ;)

12 Giorni e arrivo in Italia!

Okei, now there won't be so much time for the departure! Just 12 days, and before that is happening so much everything, so time will fly! Tomorrow I'm going on one info event to Opteam. It's for new workers and I need to bring some papers there, so I can start working, but I'll start working on January when I have come back to Finland.

So for tomorrow my shopping list would look something like this;

- Brush for dishes
- glögi (traditional finnish Christmas drink)
- Christmas pie dough and plum marmalade
- Baking sheet
- porridge rice

We're trying to have all the possible stuffs to Italy from here and take from home, so we'd save a bit more money. But I wanna have a Christmas tree there, but I think I have to get it from Foligno. My mom told me to take one from here. Small one of course and plastic, but let's see what I'm gonna do. But I do want the tree!

Oh, and today I found out that we have an exam tomorrow. I didn't know anything about it, but maybe it doesn't matter so much, cause I wouldn't bother to study anyway. I'm lazy student, just sleeping at school and won't do anything at home (:

Bowling and Clubbing

Ny tulee postaus pikkuse aikasemmin, ennenko on ehtiny ees mitää tapahtuun, mutta anyway huomen ois tarkotus pitää hauskaa koulun jälkee ;)
Illalla mennää eka kavereitten ja Italialaisten kaa keilaamaa pariks tuntii ja siitä si jatketaa Stadii. Varmaa käyää jotai pient haukkaamassa siin josaki vaihees kuha vaa ollaa päästy keilaamasta poijes :) Ja si kierrellää pikkuse siel ympyrää. Ja joskus 10p.m- 11p.m ois tarkotus menn Onnelaa vähä tanssimaa! Mut en ny si tiiä muuttuuks suunitelmat joteki, ko juttelin tänää yhen Italialaisen kaa ja se sano et ne haluis käydä Baarikärpäses. No mut huomen si näkee mitä aijotaa tehä :)

Tiistain on itsenäisyyspäivä, eli melkei kaik paikat on kii, jote ollaa päätetty et mennää Karoliinan luokse viettään darrapäivää ja iltaa. Syyää tortilloja ja juuan limua ;D ja kai myö lämmitetää saunaki siin jossain vaihees :) Eikä saa myös unhohtaa linnan juhlia! (en koskaa ees kato niit, mut ny o pakko. Näytetää Italialaisille, et arvostellaa muitten asuja töllön toisen puolen =D )
Ny tul tähä samaa itsenäisyyspäivänki postaus, ko en varmaanka pääse/tuu kotia ennen keskiviikkoo, jote päätin ny rustata täs samal jotai. Pitäis olla nukkumas, mut nukkumatti ei oo viel tullu käymää tääl, jote tää istuu viel hereil :)

Chillin' at home

Siitä Helsinki tourista Italialaisille eilen.... ei menny iha niinko oltii ajateltu : D Ratikkaa hypättii ja si vietii niitä vähä etiäpäi sillä, näytettii Tuomikirkko ja si satama, siihe se jäiki... annettii niillee pari tuntii aikaa kierrellä Kampissa ja shoppailla.
Ja ne kutsu meijä syömää lounast niiden kämpille. Menin sinne ja sain kunnon Italialaisen lounaan. Primo piatto ja secondo tuli syötyy ja si jälkkäriks mie sain jotain romanialaisia karkkeja. Nam ;)

Ja nyt illalla vietetää löhöiltaa kotona. Ostettii maman kaa juustoja ja suolakeksejä. Niitä napostelemaa ja kahtelemaa leffoja!
Ja kerranki tuli vähä lyhyenpuoleinen postaus :P

Buona serata!

Days with Italians

Few past day has been spent with Italian students from Foligno. We have been doing little bit stuffs with them and ´without them (:

1° Giorno
The fist day went well, we played with some games where we got to know each other little bit. With us was those Italians, Estonian students and also some Finnish students who are going to a exchange to Estonia.
We had a dinner where the students are living and in the evening we went to home. We didn't get much time to spend with them, cause first of all, Italians were 1,5 hours late. Well, that's normal for Italians, we were totally forgot that, but now we know to prepare for that ;)

2° Giorni

Wednesday morning we wen't to bakery class with Italians. We baked karelian pasties and korvapuusties : D And then we introduced them to our school's bar class. We did margarita and some other cocktails and let them drink/taste them, that's our school ! I think making drinks is the best part of our school ;D
On the evening we tried to get contact to Italians, but they wanted to go to home and sleep. So we made a little group of our friends and we went to drink and eat something and of course talking & having fun! (:

3° Giorni, 1st of December...

Yeah... today was really  unusual day. We went to beach with Italianos. The principle of the Italian school likes sauna and swimming so much, so he wanted to go to beach ON DECEMBER O.O well anyway, our international coordinator was made a reservation for us to sauna, we went there and almost all the Italians went to swim. The water was freezing! I stayed on ground and I was just taking photos of them ;) But in the end we got coffee/tea/hot chocolate or soda and one korvapuusti (:
 Tomorrow there should be a Helsinki tour, Awesome! I don't know anything about any sightseeing in Helsinki, well few places... but I'm gonna tell later, on weekend how it passed by : D And maybe some pics from there :)

P.S. Italiani sono matti!

CIAO CIAO! BUONANOTTE A TUTTI!