For my special person......

You come in my life so suddenly, even it somehow streched me to the ground. But good things happen when you don't wait them usually and you are not prepared for them. I don't know how you did it, but my heart now are completely yours- you steal my heart. You are my heart thief. It is so easy to be with you- you let be myself, you make laugh, you are treasure what I found..... It is hard to say everything what I feel in words... but Thanks that you are.

Farewell party

Our last party in Jyvaskyla.... I was so happy that all my closest friends were there.... An present from them CD- what they made about our adventures in Jyvaskyla was great too. And chosen music was great too. Big, big thanks.....

In pictures my tutor group+Irina. She just wanted to be in that picture. Her passion is pictures. She always repeats: "Picture, picture, people."

Huging scene. So cute picture- this picture I think express our that evening emotions.
And in last who will make better picture.

emotions....

I am home, but my friends changed, my house, my family.. Everything is somehow different.... My thoughts are still in Finland.. about time what I spent there... friends... and adventures, common memories what we had there.... So now I have friends around all Europe.... so it is more easier to travel... free guides....

It is hard to desribe all my emotions in words... To put my emotions on paper......

Dave you are always in our hearts

Dave invited our crazy "company"(Irina, Miguel, me) to his farewell party. Despite I still felt tiredness from Stockholm trip I could not miss on of greatest person's farewell party. Idea for this party was quite origanal-everybody had white t-shirts and other people wrote some wishes or what ever... Irina drawed rabbit at first on Nicolas t-shirt. Everybody liked it very much and this rabbit gained popularity. So after that I had same rabbit on my t-shirt too. In that pic I and Nicolas posing with our gain(rabbit). But Irina made some other masterpieces too like ladybird on Dave's t -shirt and bee on Miguel's t-shirt. Everywhere art of Irina. So we found new artist. Maybe my t-shirt in future will cost lot of many-when Irina will become world famous.

I hope Dave you know again can speak in Welsh not in Erasmus english.......

Venice of north- Stockholm

Our trip started at rainy and grey day. In my mind circulated thought-I hope in Stockholm will be better weather. Everybody put their bags and aidaaaa- our trip can start. Our bus was quite comfortable despite Dave had some rain from air conditioner.
Next stop-Turku. Harbour of Turku is big and to cheat time till our boarding we decided to play cards. Our playing manner attracted attention of young "pink lady". From secret information sources she was about 2 years old. Pink lady just simled and looked up and down to players. Specially she liked Dave funny face expressions.

Next stop- our ship- Amorella. Then we made expedition around the ship. Jap, tax free shops-old ladies and gentlemans put alcohol in their baskets. Then we decided to look about dinner possibilities on ship. We found cheapest place where hambuger was for 11 euros. It was quite funny- the place where we ate this hampurger looked like restaurant and waiter brought it . Weird situation. Then we decided to play game "WereWolves". What is card role game based on disscusion. worst thing on ship was russians(even if they were not so drunk at the beggining)- who repated phrase "Moscow number one". Their english language level was not so high. They tried to beard other people and looked that tehy were searching for fight. But now about better things.
morning. And it was still dark, but Stocholm's illumination light driveEarly in the morning we reached Stockholm. We arrived at 6:30 in the away darkness. Stockholm lights is amazing:))
Despite in Stockholm I was second time I saw new things there. After about 20 minutes walk we arrived in our wonderful hostel-Castanea- what was in heart of old city. Great location:))))
All Stocholm you can feel history breath- each building is unique and worth to be memorialized in picture. But First museum what our group visited was Vaasa museum- museum about ship which sinked at first vouyage and was found only after 333 years. Then we visited national art museum. This museum has great painting collections.

We looked in Stockholm shops too- and everything is so expensive-we had even joke- now seems that Finland is cheapest country in the world. Actually what I noticed that swedish people wear chic clothes and they have very good taste( then in my mind appeared Finn image-sporty clothes). Everywhere you can see many clothes shops and famous brand shops.

Second day started with Christmas market visiting. In the air vibrated sweat pancake smell. Mmmm. The Royal Palace guard shift was not so exciting if I compare it with summer guard shift with horses. We decided to visit Royal palace treasury. Treasyre was not so big as I expected, but I liked. Gold crowns, swords and king mantle. At the end of day we went to tower from which we had great view to all city.
And back to home we went by ship Isabella. Special memories, christmas music.......

p.s. jokes like "Look one tree, many trees"was main element of this trip.

Movie night and lasagne

Despite it was long time ago, I still thinking about best lasagne what I ate in my life. Pieter(from Belgium) was main chef. And everybody like in choir were singing song of praise. Njaa, now I started to think that man are better cooks. All best cook here in Jyvaskyla were man-Juha, Benny, Pieter. Thanks them for unforgettable meals. Thanks Benny for sweat balls, paprica dish, cake and Juha for spicy chineese food, Pieter for lasagne.
This picture is made after Pieter's made lasagne and we are preparing for movie "Wedding crashers" what Dave described as man movie:)) Later I understood why he said it.

Little Christmas(Pikkujoulu)

Finns light up the darkest period of the year by organising pre-christmas –parties. Pikkujoulu-season starts around November. And I enjoyed one of these parties.

We(Jan, Miguel, Benny, Dave, Irina and me) went to this party with big expectations. I bought small Christmas present- chocolate in Santa Claus form and made greeting card. I hope that person who received my present from Santa Calus hands was happy, because it was from heart. But I received from Santa Claus Christmas Chocolate calendar. So now from 1. december I will have new activity- to open window of calendar each day . But task is not so easy, numbers are not in order, you need to search. So this will be new expierence for me.

I really liked to taste Finnish Pulla(mildly-sweet Finnish dessert bread). I don't remember how many pullas I ate at this evening, but lot. Soooooo delicious. We tried traditional Finnish hot christmas drink-(Christmas Glögi). Glögi is made of hot juice or red wine and spiced with cinnamon, ginger, clove, raisins and almonds. We had Glögi without alchocol, so we spiced it with cinemon liqueur.

And again- surprise, surprise same DJ as in Stammtisches. So we were dancing in rhythm of new "Christmas music"- even Benny Bennasy seems is Christmas music? So we had some robot dances. Dave is "awesome" (Dave`s keayword- he uses this word so often like my my keyword "oh my Gosh") in this dance style.

And of course we had "modern" Santa Claus in jeans. Santa was very famous as object with whom people wanted to be photographed. Poor Santa :)

Last stammtisch

A little bit sad moment that it was last, but it was nice that there were lot of people. Before stammtish-me, Irina, Miguel and russian girl Masha had pre party with vodka and cider. Masha really showed how to drink vodka, but me and Irina were surprised about her drinking way. Now you can see how real russians drink. So fast shot. After photo session with Jyvaskyla thing, we were ready to go to party. Music was like always-seems dj does not want to change his habits. But any way, we had fun like always with that crap music. So I and Irina decided to have crazy dances-what looked quite interesting.
After stammtish we had quite interesting meeting with people in elevator. There were 2 persons-guy and girl. They were siting in elevetor on the chair and eating candies and offered us too. Quite strange situation. And we asked how long time they are sitting there and how many people they met. They said that we were only second group. Maybe it was some interesting experiment who knows.

Day which turned from bad to fantastic

Day started not very nice. My friend Jurate from Lithuania had accident bike accident. She crashed with car. That good that Jurate did not had serious injures. She was more shocked. But evening of night turned to good side. Jan, Miguel, Jurate and me went to pizzeria Maria. Very good place, one of my favourite pizzerias here in Jyvaskyla. Cheap, delicious and big pizzas. Njammmmm.
So after then we went to Hemingwey bar. Nice place were to chat with friends in antique atmosphere-interiour is fantastic. This place offer to paly games for free like-Scrabble, UNo, who want to be millionaire, Alias and many other. But unfortunately many games are in Finnish language. So we took again one of our favourite games "Scrabble". In picture me and Jan thinking about how to make words in game Scrabble. Some of our comapny become incredible hungre so we moved to one place "Hesburger" And there I become queen of hesburger:))))
Then we moved to Jazz bar-where brit pop happening was. And acidentally I met there another latvian girl-Liene with her friend Nina. World is small. Band was great and atmosphere too. So new place where to go. Despite there were some too drunk people-like one polish guy who spoke with us in Russian language. Then I started to regret that i understand russian language-drunk people can say incredible things.
But last song of band was great "Coldplay" Fix you......................