Tampere-Espoo-Tampere-Helsinki-Mikkeli-Jyväskylä-Tampere...
Sorry guys for the longish pause. As the heading suggests; I've been travelling around this frozen country for the past two-and-some weeks. Now I'm finally back here, home in Tampere. Phuuuuuuuuuuuuh!
There has been lots - and again not that much - going on in my life for this past few weeks. I evacuated myself to Espoo to my sisters place due to that NESU-seminar I mentioned in my last posting. We didn't accomplish much with my big sister Nanna during those several days; just living with those two small boys kept both of us busy enough! I did sit over a coffee cup with few of my school friends for 4,5h on that friday, but that's pretty much it.
I returned to Tampere on sunday night - just to find a tired, alcohol-smelling man lying on the couch.
On following wednesday we had a legendary party, management by PERKELE, in Mikkeli - which we naturally couldn't miss. So, I took off from Tampere early in the afternoon, took a train to Helsinki from where we took another train to Mikkeli. It might sound a bit insane, since going first to Helsinki is actually a very long detour... but the trip from Helsinki with 4 friends was definitely worth it!! We called that trip "an unemployed daytrip" since we're all in the middle of a desperate job-hunt.
The party itself was just as insane as I remembered: for a 10€ ticket one can drink as much as they can. And as you know: Finns can! A lot! This year I was just a bit wiser, since I drank water on the side THE WHOLE NIGHT LONG! This guaranteed that I didn't feel so bad the next morning when I woke up sleeping on this tiny little mattress with my friend Eeva... There was actually 15 people sleeping in that 3-room apartment that morning. Us girls (Jonna, Eeva and I) showered quickly and headed to a well deserved breakfast to Macdonalds... ;)
From Mikkeli I took a bus to Jyväskylä; my home city! My parents are doing some home improvements in our house now, and so I decided to stay over at my friend Pauliina's place. During friday I met my sisters and friends. On saturday I borrowed a car from my parents and drove down to Tampere with some stuff I still had lying around in my parents place - and finally I got my cross-country skiis and skates here!! Then on sunday we drove back to Kinkomaa with Olli, spent time at my parents place (watched how Finnish ice hockey team BITTERLY lost to f****ng swedes in the Olympic final :'( ), had dinner, visited my sister and then headed back home by train.
Now I'm just so happy that I don't have to go ANYWHERE for a while. Unless someone would call me to an interview...
In upcoming weeks we have at least few great parties; sweden-sitsit this thursday and Tampere business student annual ball next friday and saturday. Then we'll be heading up to Lapland with Olli's parents and then... I don't know yet.
Ideas, anyone?? ;) ;)