One Hundred Days

It has been over a month since I wrote last time so I thought I would come and tell what has happened and what's going on!

In the beginning of April my team took part in the Finnish Championships of Ringette and WE WON!! It was an amazing weekend and I got so many wonderful memories from there. Our Finnish Baseball season has also started and it feels good to be back after the long winter!

On the 16th of April we had the National Rotary Outbound training in Lahti. It took the whole day and it was divided in many parts. During the day we got a lot of important information and for the first time special information especially for the students heading to France. We also got to know the departure day, which makes the exchange even more concrete. From there I bought some Rotary clothes and pins and we tried our Rotary blazers on.

On the first weekend of May I celebrated Vappu with some of my friends. It was an awesome weekend: lots of donuts, sima (it's a drink) and of course a lot of laughing and having fun!

Last weekend we had a 4-day mini holiday from school. I had a Lord of the Rings -marathon with my friend and we were in Turku watching the newest Kung-Fu Panda movie with two of my friends. It was a nice weekend!

I haven't got the city nor the family information yet but school year has been and will be very busy so I don't have so much time to wait for them before the summer holiday (which is by the way in 20 days!)

This week I have done a lot of things for the exchange: signed some papers, sent files to France, designed my exchange pins and so on. On Wednesday we even booked the flights! Now I have an exact time for my flight which makes the exchange so much more real!

Day by day the departure is coming closer and closer and at the moment I have 100 days left here in Finland! I think they will go by so fast! I'm working in the summer and I have a lot of matches and training. And of course, I have to try to be with my friends and family as much as I can before my year in France starts!

Nea

You are the Dancing Queen...

...young and sweet, only seventeen

As you can guess, I'm turning 17 today! And because I've told mostly about exchange, I realised that some of you don't know almost anything about me. So here we go, because of my birthday, 17 not-so-known facts about me:

• I've danced for 12 years but last year I had to finish because of the lack of time
• When I was seven and applied to my local music school, I told I wanted to play the recorder. Unfortunately that wasn't possible, so I chose the piano (which I'm more than happy about!)
• I absolutely love reading but I don't have enough time for that and my list of books I should read could reach the moon!

• I've traveled quite a lot: I've visited Sweden, Egypt, Spain, Cyprus, Turkey, Thailand and the United States
• I speak Finnish, English, Swedish, fairly French and German and a little Spanish
• I'm on my first year in upper secondary school
• I don't like amusement parks (because I'm afraid of all kind of rides)
• I never have an alarm at 7:00 or 7:10 or so. It has to be like 7:01 or 7:12 or something like that!
• I think Dwayne Johnson is awesome!
• And Fast & Furious movies are absolutely the best movies I have ever seen!

• I also love BBC's Sherlock sooo much!
• I'm about 5'3" or 162 cm tall
• I remember a whole bunch of people's birthdays (and by that I mean a lot!)

• My friends are actually concerned because I have seen so few movies in my life

• I am a positive soul. I smile a lot and enjoy the little things in life!

• For a long time, I've had a dream of living abroad. Now the dream is becoming a plan, which makes me extremely happy! And maybe I will end up living abroad also later after my exchange!
• My friends are definitely world-class elite company!

At the moment, there is nothing new about the exchange, but the placement information can come any day, so I'm very excited!

That's all I have for today, wish you all a wonderful day and fantastic April!

Nea