Showing posts with label Finnish school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finnish school. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Club

Moi!

The promised sleep I didn't get this weekend because guess who discovered party-scene. Okay-okay during high school I went to a couple of parties but not like going to a nightclub for two straight days like I did this Friday & Saturday.
And I had fun! Got to dance, sing, hang out and drink a little on Friday. Well, something else did happen but I don't feel good about discussing it yet. I think it might be a little bit early, since I'm not so sure where is it going for me...short to say, it's too soon.

Last night I didn't get much sleep though. I wasn't exactly thinking of something but somehow I ended up waking up ~5.30AM. I tried to get back to sleep but it was rather useless because once I get up, it's hard for me to get back to sleep.
I think it would actually be a good thing if I had to go to 8AM Finnish lessons but I got a text message (+ an official note) that my Finnish teacher is sick and the lessons are cancelled, so I have to wait a little less than 6 hours for school AND I HAVE NOTHING TO DO! I haven't got any homework yet. In a way, it's good of course but then again I should practice my Finnish more and translating different texts/questions/etc could help me. But, oh well, I can't assign myself homework, so I focus on other things.

I find it hard to explain my days here. I mean it's fun to be here but if I say that we went to the shops, had dinner and walked to school, it doesn't sound fun, huh?
There is something new in everyday and we have developed some inside jokes that only we get and we laugh about, kind of like with Yuki.
I wish that she would be here already. Don't get me wrong! I have great people surrounding me here but I feel like that I don't talk to Yuki as much as I want. In a way I try to stay away from the computer, so I don't think about home so much.
I had a 5 second homesickness on the August 20 when it was Estonian's Day of Restoration of Independence or taasiseseisvumispƤev as Estonians like to call it. I think it was the first time in my 19 years when I have been abroad during that day. It was an important day for Estonia...
Anyways, on that day, I studied the 10 finger system on computer. Yeah, it was no fun. I think I type faster like I usually do and my fingers kept cramping, especially the pinkey.

...don't know what else to say. AGAIN! XD






XOXO Natsumiiiii ^^
PS. Club hits have been haunting me for days...




Friday, August 17, 2012

Week

Heippa!

Blogger isn't working with me..or it has something to do with the internet here. Anyways, I made couple of videos about my dorm and they just refuse to upload.
I have started this post...oh I don't know, ten times and since I'm putting a video here to upload it won't be saved into drafts -.-

Anyways, my first official school week has ended and now it's finally weekend I get to sleep.
Dorm life is totally different! I think for the past week I have played cards every night with Estonians (we don't get along with Finnish people because of that language barrier) and laughed until we had stomach cramps and cried XDD I'm having fun, so to say XD

The second and third year ones are very welcoming with the newcomer such as me, Gerda, Kristi and Anti. They invite us to go along and come and play cards with us and so on.
The only bad thing is that I live in a different house then them. Okay, some ways I'm lucky but I break curfew every night because of that...
I honestly thought that I will be sitting at the dorm all day long XDD

My sleep is too good here. Every night I get to bed after one or so and it's so hard to get up at six. Luckily there are only two days where I have to do that.

Monday: 9.55 - 13.55
Tuesday: 12.15 (if I want lunch then a little earlier) - 13.55
Wednesday: 8.30 (for Finnish lessons), but the real deal 12.15-13.55
Thursday: 12.15 - 14.55
Friday: 8.00 - 13.00 the longest day I have
And then comes the weekend ^.^

I don't even get  me started with the language. That's one of the other bad things about this whole thing. The first two days I just sat there and looked good because I didn't understand much they said. I know how the weekdays are but the thing I don't get is what happens then. It's really frustrating but Kersti noticed today that I'm keeping a positive mind and at least try but yeah that trying gave me an awful headache on the first day. My brain was working on hyper drive! XD
My customer service teacher is great. I talked to her and now she translates every slide after talking about it in Finnish. Of course there is a shorter summary for me but it's better that nothing and today I really learned some new things :D So, I'm having a good day.

For the first few days the weather was pretty cold but now it's like summer just begun. In the mornings the temperature is pretty low but when I walk home form school it's burning up! Awful!

It's crazy how much money I have spend. I really hate to go shopping here...okay not really hate but the prices are higher than in Estonia...

Don't really know what else to write XDD






Natsumiiiiii ^^
PS. I haven't been homesick yet...

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Finland

I know I promised to write yesterday but the day got ahead of me!
I woke up early but didn't get out of the bed right away (read fanfictions XD), then went to the store with my parents (I will miss that :/) and we wasted a "little" money XDD Yeah, but we did buy a blender, so no wonder XDD
So, somewhere around 3PM me and my mom went my mom's friend's house who gave us massages. It was kind of relaxing but also pinchy XDD Hopefully, we are going there this Saturday too.
And as soon as I got inside my room, Yuki called and I went to meet her. We had a nice time - ate dinner, watched Pirates of the Caribbean + ate popcorn and later had a little walk.

But now for the big news ^.^

I GOT ACCEPTED TO THE FINNISH SCHOOL!!!
But it wasn't that easy. At first I got wait-listed. And you can't even imagine how mad I was...
Anyways, I had 4 choices:
1) Accept the fact that I'm wait-listed and wait for an opening
2) Choose the media-assistant course (Yuki's course - PS. She got in right away)
3) Choose the compter techinician course (JL's couse and he also got in right away...no wonder I was bitter)
4) Decline
My first thought was to take choice number 4). I think I was afraid of another no...but I did tick the first one. And couple of weeks ago I got, first a text message then an e-mail from the Finnish school.
It was so sweet how caring they were. I'm the only Estonian in my course, so they were worried about me getting lonely ^.^ How cute is that! XD Anyways, I said I'll accept the challenge in Finnish, which HT helped me with.
And couple of days ago I got an huge envelope from that school. It had 3 page text in Estonian and then a lot of Finnish. Then there are these different certifications and timetables....crazy stuff XD

The bad news is that, although me and Yuki got both in that school, I have to go there over a month earlier. Good luck to me!
I hope I'll survive XDD

Something from this Monday ^.^
So, me and Yuki met on Monday. My mom bought me contact lenses for this and next month and went to the store, had a little drama but I have learned to let it go.
Later on we met up with Akira. We had milkshakes. Me and Yuki had also some fries. We just hang.out and Yuki talked about our childhood. Me and Yuki are friends since the 5th grade and she has an excellent memory, she talked how badass I was when we met and stuff XD Yeah...
We also walked around Viljandi and took couple of photos ^.^
It was fun, just being with friends :)






XOXO Natsumiiiii ^^
PS. Got a package from China. Telling you guys about it on the next post.