The Night of Arts

As Juan already wrote it was the Night of Arts in Helsinki on friday. There was loads of people in town and things happening everywhere. We spent most of our time in the Hesperia park close to the Opera and the Finlandia house and saw fire shows, dance shows, capoeira and more. It was quite nice. On Saturday we had our own private little fire show in the same spot. Our friend´s rehearsing their fireshow. That was nice:-)

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Latest big stress factor

Well, I have survived my three first weeks at my new work. It has been fine so far but of course your more or less stressed at a new workplace. so much to learn and so many new faces.

The good thing of working for the big phone company in this country is the exellent work benefits you have. Like internet connection to your home (that is for you to be able at work from home though of...) Anyway, on monday morning they came and installed it to our nice rent apartment that we have been thinking of staying still for long, especially since the landlord asked us in November when we moved in if we are sure to stay long and not move out at least in a year. Sure we said.

On monday afternoon our landlord called us to kindly inform us she wants to move back in. Riight. Now we have to start looking for something new:-( We are really dissapointed in many ways. We really liked it here and the whole finding something nice and moving out is really stressy.

Anyway, if anyone knows a cheap and nice two-room apartment in Helsinki let us know!

Saaremaa and other places

Since last time I wrote we have been in the sailing festival in Loviisa, not sailing though but meeting friends and partying.


We 've also had a lovely weekend in Jakobstad with Martin and Catariina. Sleeping over in Martin's family's sailing boat.

El capitán and the boat :-)

I've had my last working day at Arcada and recieved some roses.


I hardly had the time to realize that I acctually wasn't going back there for work nor school anymore and we found ourself in Estonia, in Saaremaa, for a mini-holiday before my first day at work in Nokia. Saaremaa was lovely and super cheap, the only annoying thing was that the people always tried to cheat you with money since you were a tourist. Not that it mattered much if lost 20 kroons when buying something when we didn't get all our change back(20 kroons is about 1€) but in the end it got annoying when it happened everywhere, in the bar, in the hotel, in the restaurant. However, it was cheap and we even let ourself some luxury of spa-treatments:-)

The Saaremaa castle.

The lovely winery we found. Vinotec.

The idyllic park.

Our hotel.

But there's a back side of everywhere you go...

The back side of our hotel:

I'm not complaining though, on the inside our hotel was flawless except for a very hot room and a sauna that was burning your ass (sooo very too hot, and an electric one, so it was even impossible for me as an Finn to sit in there). However, it was quite interesting how there was houses on the same streets looking super nice and on the other side shacks falling apart.

Wanna swim?

Seurasaari/Fölisön

Last Sunday we got tired of the city life and decided to go to Seurasaari, it's an island just outside Helsinki but you feel totally like on the countryside...except for all the tourists and people.

Here's some pics:

The sqiurrels were really friendly:


















Almost swimming;-)

Lost Earrings and Roses

I love earrings and I have a lot of them but in the end I got super tired of always having to look for them as I am not a very organized girl. ( I admit it:-P). I've been looking around for a "earring holder" or whatever they are called but I haven't found one anywhere in Helsinki. So in the end I just fixed my own solution with a scarf and some nails:


At least temporarily it is better than having the earrings all around the flat:-D

Yesterday, we also had a little evening walk around the block in the nice weather and I couldn't get enough of the sweet smell of roses. In the end I decided to take the smell home. Instead of putting some aromatic oil in the oil burner I put some fresh rose petals in some water.

We had rosy dreams but in the morning the rose petals didn't look so nice:-P

Exercises

It's good to stay in shape so lately we have been doing some yoga;-)


We also biked 30 km from my parents place in Liljendal to Loviisa. First of course we had sauna at a friend's place and not to get tired many pauses on the way. It felt easier when we were heading for the big party in town:-P

Halfway we met also most of our parents so in the end we were a lot of people




and this weekend we did the exercise of "flankyball" in my graduation party:-D I promise it's hard exercise, but fun! At least my legs were really hurting the day after...
















to get some balance to the "all" the exercise I went to see the summer theater of Lurens the other weekend, to fill my culture quota;-) This year they did the quite serious Amadeus because they have been running for 50 years, but they did it really well and it was nice being there again. I've contributed myself standing on the stage in year 2002 and 2006, in the fiddler on the roof and Sugar:-)

Challenge

This is a challenge were you answer the questions by pictures found by the help of Google. The pics have to be on the first result page....No one really challenged me yet but since Camomilla, Charita and Catariina already have done it I decided I might as well.

Sain haasteen:
1) Vastaa kysymyksiin etsien vastaukset Googlen kuvahaun avulla.
2) Valitse kuva kuvahaun ensimmäisiltä sivuilta.

1. Ikäsi seuraavana syntymäpäivänäsi?

I'm gonna be 24 years in September...

2. Minne haluaisit matkustaa?

I'd like to travel most places but Mexico would be nice:

3. Lempipaikkasi?

My favorite spot is probably the summer cottage


4. Lempitavarasi?

My favorite stuff...hmmm, I do like the lion painting hanging on our bedroom wall.

5. Lempieläimesi?

Everyone that knows me knows I love dogs!

6. Lempivärisi?

You thought my favorite colour would be pink right? but I have to say I love blue

8. Tämänhetkinen tunnetilasi?

I'm feeling quite hungry at the moment. (almost lunchtime)

9. Kulkuneuvosi?

My nopsa fleur bike! Mine is green though...

10. Mitä teit viime lauantaina?

on saturday I was at Stefan's company's Summer Party

11. Mitä teit viime sunnuntaina?

On sunday we were lazy and watched a couple of movies and ate in restaurant Sevilla

12. Keneltä näytät?

and next of course I challenge my lovely boyfriend :-)