February 2010
17 posts
Happy Chinese New Year!! leipoin suklaa banani...
I was invited to celebrate lunar new years but the party was canceled? To me it sounded like I wasnt wanted so I planned to celebrate new years alone. I was soo tired today and just wanted to sleep. I felt like baking a cake with the extra bananas I put in the freezer. I found this recipe online and it was for a giant cake that feeds 16. Risky for a first try but I think it came out great. I...
leipoin bananileipoa
Day after snow survival I was so drained but Instead of sleeping I baked banana bread. I have issues…hahah
It was my first time making it but it came out well i think. Ong cooking gene?
I love this yellow sweater-not mine tho haha
i made this noodle soup the next morning.
Snow Survival 2010
I signed up to do Snow survival on wednesday. I decided to skip classes to go to this. We get the ultimate experience. Build quinzees(which i’ve already done) , sauna, eat by the fire and sleep in the quinzees overnight.
No one realized how extreme this was going to be. I got there late, of course. It was at lake Jyvasjarvi and we spent the morning piling snow. We were told we needed...
you're my summer snow
you asked my name, just a simple day, who knew Id never be the same.
You looked at me, instantly, it gave me chills but I liked it.
You ask me when you cant find the words, I bet you dont know Im the one left speechless.
The way you say my name, your gentle soul soothes mine and I hope no one catches me smiling
Even in this finnish winter, your bright smile makes me sweat.
I forget where I...
Sushi Party
Aya and Naomi held a sushi party this day. I came early to help out. There was 2 giant kilos of salmon that I wanted to just chomp into. We had salmon, ham, egg, teriyaki chicken, cucumber, etc.. Miso soup made by Saki, and everyone helped roll. I removed skins and sliced the salmon. I was very proud of my skin removing skills. Id never done it and it was stuck so tightly. Anyway,...
EPIC Saturday Cross Country Ski Trip
I set my alarm to wake me at 8:20. I got up and got ready. Multitasking, I was making an omelet to pack for lunch, pantless. I checked the time: 8:45 SHIT the bus leaving for keskusta leaves at 8:45. I was supposed to meet Aya at the bus stop to go to keskusta and change busses to laajavuori together for the ski trip today. Since it’s saturday, the busses only come by about twice in an...
Cross Country Skiing and Premature Alzheimers
So I haven’t been blogging so much recently. I haven’t even written about school have I? So let’s start. Im currently taking a small-average load of courses. I had a ton of sports but got dropped from all of them.(because they’re taught in finnish-LAME) I’m really liking languages now and so I registered for not only suomi 2 but also the Sano Vaan( speaking...
Forgiveness
This post is not really related to my travels. Recently I’ve been thinking about my friends back home and how for me, time flies by sooo quick, that its like I left yesterday.
Sadly, Im not sure if they notice, but I can see that we’ve changed. I’ve changed and so have they. How can I be irritated talking to a close friend about their daily life? I see that the goals and...
January 2010
45 posts
Finally ALL TRAVEL PICS ARE UP!!!
after being home for like a month Ive finally managed to upload my travel pics from the 7 countries I visited. Check back in Dec posts to see them <3
Kiina kurssi and pole dancing?
I had finnish conversation today aka. Sano Vaan. It was cool just speaking and interviewing. Then I had lunch with Naomi and Hiro who I bumped into in X building. I really eat too much when I eat at school. Damn bread/salad/fruit buffet!! oh well.
I headed to skating and games on ice. Sadly and very disappointingly, no one ever showed up. 4 people waitied in C3 and we realized no one was...
shopaholic
I dont really remember what happened this day because I’ve had so much to upload from travel pics and all.
I remember I had suomi„ then I went to keskusta to go to the bank, exchange latvian money, put money on my phone card, and shop to kill time for 4 hours.
I went to colors of benetton and the coats ive been eyeing since last year were now 50% off. I got one for me and another...
An Eventful Day
waiting for the bus…
I got up and caught the bus at 10ish to get to my hair appointment in the city center. I walked from the station to the salon and I met Tarja, the hairstylist. We talked for a while about what I wanted. Her husbands an American and she lived in LA for 15 years so we talked about life in Finland and Cali.
Im not sure if shes done edgy haircuts before because she...
Quiche & Ice Hockey
Sunday I woke up and headed over to Myllyjarvi. I was invited to make a mushroom quiche with the japanese girls and anja, a german girl whom I had dinner with the night before.
I cant believe I got lost and went into the neighborhood before SIWA instead of the one after so I was wandering around the wrong neighborhood and Naomi and Aya came to pick me up from SIWA
We were following a finnish...
Dinner with ZhanZhan and friends
Saturday, ZhanZhan invited me for dinner and I prepared pork and rice with mom’s marinade recipe. I hadn’t seen zhanzhan in some time and the apartment was missing Ruth since she’s now on exchange in denmark. I met zhanzhans friends and we had an amazing dinner with zhanzhans macaroni casserole, Kanako’s japanese curry, and my marinaded meat dish. Also I met Anja who...
An's get together & Rossi's Bday
An invited me, chen and another friend over to get together since we havent seen each other since traveling in italy together.
An made this chinese drink of white mushroom and some kind of berry. I’ve had it before but its hard to describe in english.
and chen made egg custard tarts
It was also Rossi’s birthday that day and they invited me to celebrate as well. We watched Rossi...
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