Hailuoto

Sunday night I got back from the district 1380 & 1400 camp :) It was in Hailuoto, an island of the coast from Oulu that is really pretty, despite the cold. Mostly, we just spent our time with each other, getting to know the other exchange students better. It was nice to be with people going through the same things as me, both good and bad. And now I'm more excited than ever for the Lapland Tour :D

There were a lot of windmills on the island, probably because there was plenty of wind. Those buildings are some of the shops the people that live there set up, and the hotel we stayed at is nearby them.

Me and Taria, from New Mexico, on the bus while taking a tour of the island. Unfortunately, the tour guide didn't speak english.

The lighthouse, and the hotel is behind it. We climbed to the top. It wasn't too bad, but the stairwell was really narrow so it was kind of scary :P

Just some scenery :D

This weekend Arja is throwing a Halloween party for me, and the rest of my host families are coming. I'll probably bake some Halloween treats, and I'll be sure to take pictures :P

Lapland is not too far off after that; only a month away! And we're going to have a bowling weekend with Rotex in a couple of weeks too. Lots of stuff to look forward too!

Kemin Lukio!

Life's been good in Finland :) I have people I know in my new class schedule, and my social life has picked up a lot. I went to a friends last weekend and ate 'tortillas' (they were actually tacos, but to Finns only the crunchy ones are called tacos. And tortilla is pronounced how its spelled

here, haha).

I passed my first Finnish test, which is good, haha. The written exam is on Thursday, but I'm not worried. That's the last day of my classes though, so I'm not sure how I'm going to keep up with learning the

language. Hopefully I'll figure something out :P

But, because my mo

m requested it like a month ago, I took pictures

of my school last night before my art lesson. Its really simple looking, and a lot of Finnish buildings look similar to it. This is the entrance and the front of the building :)

This is the main hallway. Usually, there's a ton of people in it, but because this was at like 6:00 pm, I was one of the only people there. On the left is where we put out coats and everything, because we don't get lockers here.

This is of the 'parking lot', its not actually a marked area, cars just end up parking there. The building in the background is where we eat lunch, which is free :)

And the last one is of the pink church, I took the picture out of a fourth floor window in the school. I just think its funny there's a pink church in town :P

Two Months

I thought I might as well write a new post, seeing as I haven't in a while.

I realized yesterday that I've been here for two months. It really doesn't feel like it at all. Time has moved so quickly, I can't believe it. Starting Monday is my second period in school, which I'm sure won't be difficult because my schedule is even lighter than last period. I have two Art classes, Math, Movie (apparently a class where you watch historical movies the entire time, haha), and English. I'm looking forward to it though :)

All of last week has been testing week for the average Kemi lukio student, but since my Finnish isn't at the level where I can read test instructions, I didn't have to take them. I sat at home instead mostly and worked on my Finnish book while drinking chocolate tea and watching Grey's Anatomy (yay!).

Yesterday I stayed at Paullina's, a friend of Aino's, and we all watched Youtube videos on 'How to be Gangsta'. They thought it was ridiculous, haha.

Hopefully I'll have more to blog about later this week!