Nothing is one-dimensional

Nothing is one-dimensional

keskiviikko 2. toukokuuta 2018

Wind changes - so do I

Hey!

It's been a few months since I last wrote here, I've been incredibly busy and a lot has happened. So now is the time to give you some updated news.

First of all, the most important news that already a few people know but for most people probably come as a surprise: I am moving back to Finland with my boyfriend this summer. So the whole thing started around last Christmas when I was thinking of transferring my school to Finland and it seemed like a huge process and everything but we decided to give it a try. In April I went for a two-week "holiday" to Finland and had my entrance examination for Haaga-Helia, which I passed and was officially accepted as a student for next autumn. So here I come again Finland, but this time not alone. It is in a way sad to leave England 'cause I've made some good friends here but then again this doesn't need to mean the end for those relationships (hopefully...). England itself I'm not actually gonna miss... I'm not that big of a fan of wind and rain and humidity. This country is cold... haha.

It is going to be quite a change for us, especially for my boyfriend who hasn't lived in Finland yet, only visited it a few times. I'm just hoping everything will go well and we will get an apartment, both of us will get jobs and we can adapt to living in Finland. It might be a bit difficult even for myself as everything I've done on a daily basis for the last two years I've done in English. It has become my main language and Finnish is just the second one. For my boyfriend adapting will be a bit more difficult as he doesn't speak Finnish and at least some of our (Finnish) customs are very different from his or British. We'll see how it goes, I'll keep you posted.

Buuuut, before the whole moving in Finland there are many things to happen and a lot of things to do. I have started going to gym about four times per week and I'm hoping to go five or six times but that will happen gradually, not too much at once. I feel really good about going to gym, it gives me energy and my body feels a lot better. I guess I caught a fitness-bug. But I have fun at gym in some weird way, it is enjoyable, and I get so motivated when I see changes in myself. Also my boyfriend is my motivator when he comes to gym with me. It's nice to go there with someone and not always just alone. Although, there is a thing I find weird and kind of annoying. No matter how much I push myself I cannot feel it in my muscles the next day. And I love the muscle pain after workout, it makes me feel I have actually done something. So I don't know if I need to use heavier weights or just do more sets...

Also, I will finish this semester in Bournemouth University at the end of May and later in June we will go to Romania again. We have an important wedding to go to and hopefully have some rest and sun for the rest of the time. From there we will move to Finland, about in August. Now is time to finish my school work and pass all the units, I get credits from them to Haaga-Helia and I can graduate from there quicker. It would be nice to work outside but English weather doesn't really look that enjoyable. Maybe, hopefully, summer will come here too before we leave the country.

Till the next time! Have a good rest of the week.


We have had some good days too :)

Glow Now - Marina Maximilian. Her music makes me feel like dancing.

I want to share a quote with you that I came across a few days ago:
"Growing stronger is about accumulating wisdom, learning from your mistakes and inspiring others to become the strongest version of themselves." - Elliott Hulse

sunnuntai 4. helmikuuta 2018

Women - keep dreaming

Why am I feminist? For a simple reason: because even though we live the year 2018 women are still not seen as equal with men, they don’t have the same rights and they are not valued and respected like men are. What do I base this opinion on? It is based on everything I have seen, heard, felt and read. Just my opinion, of everything I have managed to observe and experience in my life, something that a lot of people should also spend a moment to think about if they haven’t already.

To start with, a little bit about where I come from, or more likely from which kind of society. I come from Finland which is known for high standard economy and one of the best education systems in the world. I have had a good, very thorough education where girls and boys are seen and mostly treated as equal. In primary education everyone has to study the same things, including crafts and woodwork, and later they are given a choice whether they want to continue studying crafts or woodworks. Then it’s up to the student what they choose. In most cases boys choose woodwork and girls crafts. It doesn’t really raise any questions, right? It’s completely normal. However, I find it weird. Why girls don’t choose woodwork or why boys don’t want to do crafts?

“Look, look!! (Sam) is doooing craaa-afts!! Mamma’s boooyyy!!” That, or something similar, could be heard in the hallways of the primary school I went to if a boy chose to do crafts instead of woodworks. Why is it such a bad thing that it deserves laughs and mockery? Because that is what our society has taught us. Not necessarily our parents, or at least not on purpose, but our society. Because our society relates woodworks to be the job for boys and crafts as a girly thing, a skill that girls will need when they grow up. Again, why? Becaaause, women are the ones who will be giving birth to the child, and after that, women are the ones who will be taking care of the child. Now I can almost hear the complaints from men saying they are also taking care of their own child. But let’s face it. How many men really take a year or even more off from their work to take care of a new-born child? How many? I can answer you, not many. The reason for this is because our society teaches us that it is the woman’s job to stay home with the new baby to take care of him/her. This might take a bit less than a year, or more like my mother stayed at home three years for each one of us. During that time the mother doesn’t go to work, unless she is considered a superwoman who doesn’t want to give up on her job and works while taking care of the child, which is not easy (not that I have tried it, but this goes into the category of what I have heard or read). So, here comes out one thing that is not fair: women are kind of forced to give up on their job, maybe even their dream, if they want to have children and not to raise them in kindergarten. It’s a fact that women usually need to stay home for a while after the child is born, unless they want to feed the child solely with infant formulas. But after a certain amount of time, why couldn’t the father take some time off from work to take care of the child while the mother could go to work? Why not? Would it make the men feel less masculine? Would it make the men look weak in others’, in society’s eyes? Think about that.

(pic from google)

Taking care of a child is not easy, it could be considered a full-time job (which it kind of is…). A full-time job that is put on women’s shoulders without considering whether a woman has her own dreams or goals she wants to achieve in life. As staying home with a child could mean quitting a job or at least being away a long time, not having time for hobbies for example dancing and even more so not having time for yourself. How do you think a woman can get that promotion she wanted so bad when she has to take a year off, or how a woman can fulfil her dream to become a dancer when she doesn’t have time to go to classes? Meanwhile her husband is getting a promotion and is now one step closer to his dream. I might go to extremes here, but at the same time it is the reality. Women are put under a huge pressure where they have to choose between their family and their jobs and dreams, while for men it is simple: job, they will continue going to work as someone needs to get that income. While that someone could also be the mother…

And not only that, but women are also put under a lot of stress and work while they are staying home taking care of the children. I’ll give you an example of an imaginary day of a couple: Couple, Emily and Peter, in their 30s, with two children Laura 4 years old and Jack 2 years old. Emily is staying at home taking care of the children while working from home as she chose not to give up on her dream to become a journalist. Peter goes to work every day (except weekends) at 7.30am and comes home around 5pm. Morning: Emily wakes up at 6.30 because Jack is crying and goes to feed him. As Jack is now awake Emily can’t go back to sleep and takes out her work while keeping an eye on Jack. Later Laura also wakes up and wants breakfast which Emily will prepare for her, putting away her work. It is time for Peter to wake up and soon he leaves to work after saying bye to kids. Laura is on a good mood and talks continuously while taking out pens and paper for drawing while Emily is showering Jack, there was an accident with potty training. Still seems to be a long way to go before Jack knows how to do that.

After a while Emily has cleaned everything, Jack is “playing” on his own and Laura has been drawing for a while in her room. Emily has now time to clean the house and do the laundry. Not long after Jack cries and wants attention. Also Laura comes to Emily showing all her masterpieces which Emily has to compliment openheartedly. It is just 9am. The show goes own with cooking, cleaning and playing with the kids. Peter is at work. Finally time to put the kids for a nap and for Emily a time to concentrate on work. It is a good day and the kids are sleeping for two whole hours. It is now 1pm. Jack needs feeding again and Laura had a nightmare and is yelling in the kitchen while demanding for chocolate which Emily doesn’t have. After a while the kids calm down and Emily goes to the park with them. It is now 3pm and they are back at home, Jack needed a potty. Time for a little snack and cartoons. And unfinished work. Laundry is also done. At 4pm Laura has decided to try Emily’s makeup, with bad results. Cleaning awaits. Finally at 5pm Peter is back, he is tired after work and plays a while with kids while Emily prepares dinner. Soon he tells the kids to go to mum as he is tired and wants to read a book and goes to the bedroom. Emily is still preparing the dinner while the kids want attention, they are hungry again. 6.30pm, dinner time. It turns out to be messy. Emily is super thankful for a dishwasher. After dinner Peter spends time with the kids while Emily cleans the table. They all spend a while together and soon it is 8.30pm. Time to for night routine: showering and toothbrushing. Laura hates it and it is a war again. Peter tries to help Laura but she wants mum. Emily is with Jack but they switch places. At 9pm kids go to sleep and Emily and Peter have a moment together, however, Emily didn’t finish her work yet so she needs to go to her laptop. Peter watches TV and goes to bed, it is now 11pm. Emily goes to bed after him at midnight. Jack cries a few times in a night and Emily goes to him as Peter needs his sleep because he will go to work in the morning. Laura doesn’t sleep well either and comes to wake Emily up. After an hour of being awake Emily gets back to sleep and wakes up again 6.30am. And it’s a new day!


That was a long example, and maybe even quite simple. There could be a lot of other things going on too. But it shows how the mother doesn’t have time for herself or to do the things she would want to do. While Peter is at work leaving everything at home for Emily and comes back home for the good parts: playing with kids and some alone time. Yes he is tired and can’t be blamed for wanting to relax, but so is Emily. She hasn’t had a single moment in a whole day for relaxing as the house doesn’t clean itself and the kids are not like pets and the food doesn’t just appear on the table and if she didn’t do all that no-one would and moreover, because she is the mother. The mother whose job is to stay at home, care and be with the children. Have you ever thought why children often go to the mother or ask for the mother when something happens? Because mother is the one who is always there. Because she is the one feeding them, playing with them, picking them up when they fall, coming to them when they cry and showing them love. While the father is at work. I guess it is the price the father must pay then, not being so close with his children. Which is a shame as it could be different. So many things could be different, better. But no, our society is not changing, and if it is, way too slowly.

One other thing I am extremely feminist about is the way women are treated by men, and kind of by our society too. Just today I had a conversation about this with my boyfriend. As I have seen it, women are so often seen as objects by men. Women are “boobs and ass”, excuse the wording. Women are things, objects that have no value for anything else than what’s seen by the eye. Women are there to clean and cook and satisfy the needs of the man. And if the man gets tired, he goes find himself a new better model. Yes, I am going to an extreme here. But let’s put it in a context. A beautiful woman walks to her work at a law firm. She clearly takes care of her body and wears stylish form-fitting office clothes. On her way to work she gets stares on her body, whistles, catcalling. When arriving to work her co-worker, man, approaches her and asks her on a date while thinking how sexy her ass is. Everything people see and care about is how she looks. Well, that is normal. How could they know she is a smart woman who just got a promotion in a well-known law firm. On the other hand, a good-looking man from the same law firm is walking to work. He is dressed up in a smart suit and also clearly goes to gym. He gets stares too, but different from what the woman got. He is admired and respected, even envied. He gets a boost on his self-esteem of those looks while the woman tries her best not to be affected by everything. You see, it is accepted by our society for people to treat women as objects, objects of desire and tools for getting satisfied. Women should get the same right as men have: to go outside in nice clothes without being harassed, catcalled, stared or whatever else you could think of. Women should be respected and valued for what they are and not only physically, and what they have achieved. It is not fair to see and treat women as “that ass” or “hey babe”, women are just as good and just equal as men are, so people better start giving us some real respect too.


(pics from google)

I end my probably longest post ever now. This is a subject I could talk about forever but I need to control myself, haha. But it is a thing that people should think about. Women, and some men too, are not feminist without a reason. Some go to extremes which is not always good and gives all the feminists a bad reputation, but it doesn’t mean all that feminists are saying is rubbish.

Lost Frequencies & Zonderling - Crazy

Pablo Alborán - No vaya a ser

lauantai 23. joulukuuta 2017

Christmas time

Hello and very merry Christmas for everyone! :)

It's 23rd December, tomorrow is already Christmas Eve!! Time has gone so fast and I've been busy... Especially the last month before Christmas break from university was pretty crazy. I had a few presentations and assignments to make and now I still have one assignment left and reading to exams... Yay. But tomorrow is Christmas, yaaaay! My favourite holiday of the year. For me it is about family time, relaxing, peace and quiet and of course, it is a time to celebrate the birth of the Christ. This Christmas I'm spending in England with my boyfriend and in January we'll go to Finland to see my family. We don't have a lot of Christmas decorations, less than I would like to have (I love Christmas things, hehehe) but we do have a pretty little Christmas tree which I just carried to living room from the bath tub (it had some problems with keeping the water in the soil rather than letting it drop on the floor...) and we have candles, of course, and a the red Christmas flower. And food. Let's not forget that. I just made gingerbread yesterday, which also disappeared already, but tomorrow I will make new fresh ones! In this post I was thinking of talking about preparing for Christmas. There are loads of things most people do before Christmas, it's kinda weird as it is just a few days but still every year people put up decorations and spend time and money for gifts and other stuff.


Christmas last year from Finland. I love that snow!!! In England we don't have snow at all...

What I have learned from my mum is that the whole house "needs" to be cleaned for Christmas. This is what I did today and I can tell my lower back is not thanking me for it right now. But why do we clean the house thoroughly for a few days, even if there were no guests coming (except Santa of course). What I think is the reason, because I am Christian, we clean the house to prepare it to be at its best as it is the greatest celebration for our Saviour who was brought to the world at this time. And it is also nice and relaxing to be in a clean and tidy house. For the same reason we put up decorations. To make the house look festive, cosy and fit for the Christ's birthday. Other people might have different reasons to do these (or not to do anything) but for me these are the reasons why I have done everything. Christmas is a birthday celebration which I like to spend with family and loved ones, eating food, chilling, listening to Christmas songs and enjoying the feeling of peace and love that is around.

Although, I can't say it's just peace and quiet at Christmas and before it, it is also quite stressful at times. At my parents' home mum spends a lot of time cooking, first rice porridge in the morning and later proper big dinner. That takes some time... She also puts up all the decorations at the beginning of December, and when you have a home for six people there is a bit of work to do (even tho our house is not big). And the most difficult part, buying gifts. When you get older it gets harder and harder to buy gifts for your siblings and parents as they already have everything! Or at least everything you can fit to your budget... Then it's time to get creative. In these things imagination is one of the best things you can have. I find it nearly impossible every year to buy a gift for my brother and dad, and when I ask what they would want I get an answer "a car"..... Okaaay. Anything else?? You are not making this any easier. And then it's again up to me to come up with something they hopefully could like. It is stressful!! Well, only if I let it be but to be honest, it is hard.

So yeah, I mentioned only a few things to do at Christmas and before it but I think those are the main things. Now our apartment is as clean as it can be and I have music and I hope the tree will not pour any water on the floor again... And I have half of my gift to my boyfriend, the other half got stuck somewhere which I'm not happy about but can't help it. Hopefully it comes before New Year. So with this post, merry Christmas to everyone again and happy New Year! See you in 2018! :)

Pentatonix - Mary Did You Know

lauantai 4. marraskuuta 2017

It's about the attitude

Hey! Today it's raining... And I really wanted to go running but I'm not willing to take the risk of getting sick now. Maybe it gets better later today *fingers crossed*. Anyway, since I'm telling myself I'm stuck indoors and I'm doing my best to procrastinate washing the huge pile of dishes already from yesterday (I know... gross... I was so lazy and slightly busy), I will now write about what I talked with my sister yesterday: school life, (boooooriiiiing..... Nope, if you read forwards). In more detail, school life in different countries and how people see and act to it.


As it has become clear in my earlier posts I'm studying at a university in England at the moment for my second year already (still two to go though...). My sister is studying at a university in Helsinki and right now doing an exchange in Belgium. There we got three different universities and countries to compare, all in Europe though. But the differences are BIG I might say. First of all England. What should I start with... £9000 a year. Yes, I start with the money I have to pay for each year just to be able to study here. I have no clue what they use all that money for... Think about it, about 16000 students everyone paying £9000/year or more if you are an international student. And still we have tiny lecture rooms where the air runs out till the end of the lecture and at least once during the lecture someone accidentally flips their creaky tables down making everything from laptops and notebooks to phones fall down. I would really like to see their budget sheets some day... Anyway, lets continue. Besides the tuition fee we are paying our food which in university is fairly cheap, £3-5 lunch. And of course everything you need for studying, rent for an apartment which might be even £400-500 for a shared house and even more expensive if you want to live by yourself like I do, travelling and other stuff. And majority of the students here work part-time just to cover some costs.

In Finland it's a bit other story. Studying is free, no tuition fees (I'm not kidding) and actually, you are kind of paid to study. Students get support from the Finnish government, the amount depends on the level of your studies but often is around 300-400€/month. And of course you can get a student loan with a very low interest rate (not bad I can say). University food is extremely healthy and around 2€ lunch. Travelling within Helsinki is easy with monthly bus/train/subway passes with a student discount of about -50%. Renting apartment is... Almost guaranteed by the university or city. There are loads of student apartments in Helsinki rented by the city or university, shared apartments, studios or almost anything. The rent varies from 200€ to maybe 500€/month (hard to say as it depends on the apartment size, location etc.). But when I lived in a shared student apartment with two other people in Helsinki my rent was about 250€/month. And yes, it includes everything: water, electricity, WiFi. IN HELSINKI. The rent my sister and her husband are now paying in Belgium for their kind of shared apartment is ridiculous, it is more than 700€/month. And my sister told me that is the normal amount of rent in the area they live in, which is not even Brussels. Back to Finland, on top of all the previous, students get a huuuuge amount of discounts and cheap services and all kinds of opportunities for practising nearly anything you are interested in, for example sports, arts, crafts and the list goes on, which here in England I have found really hard to find. I love fashion and I want to make clothes, but I have found one fabric store from Bournemouth where the selection of fabrics was... terrible. Maybe I'm just bad at searching or then here practising these kind of interests are not supported. Which is a shame.

(google)

Anyway, what I find weird is that as can be seen from the previous, the education and all the possible services for students in Finland seem exceptionally good, amazing actually, still generally put every student there complains, and students here in England too. "I have to find a part-time job", "I have to pay rent, so much money...", "my house is so cold", "I got so much work to do", "I don't have time for all this" and so on. Yes, at university level students have loads of work to do, even in Finland. But c'mon... Now when I have seen and experienced the student life in England I got nothing to complain about the studying in Finland. Even finding an apartment from Helsinki is piece of cake when compared to the apartment hunt I went through here. I was looking for an apartment with my boyfriend and no-one wanted us. No-one wants students and if they do, they need a guarantor which needs to be a full-time worker based in UK... Well where could I get someone like that???? So yea, I don't have a guarantor. And my boyfriend is self-employed and to provide consistent evidence of income you are supposed to be self-employed at least for three years... He has been for one year. No guarantor either as he is not British. It was a hunt to find an apartment and it was a miracle we finally found one, not a great one but it has a roof and floor. And a bathroom... I am great to get lost from the topic. Complaining, it is just ridiculous in Finland. I have a tendency to do that here too which I'm trying to fix from my behaviour... But as a comparison, my sister told me how now in Belgium she had been talking with some students from Africa and they told her how their or their friends' families sold everything they had just to get their child to school. It is a privilege for them to be able to study and some of them have their own families, husband/wife and kids in another country and they don't have money to go see them even once while they are studying. And still they are happy. Because they can study, get a good education. It is a privilege. Not a duty, not a requirement. No complaining.

(google)

Why do we complain then? When we can hear stories like that which show how good everything is for us. How easy it has been made for us to study. I think it's just because it is so easy to find negative things and point them out and put the focus on them instead of concentrating on the good things in life. For example, when you are sick everything seems depressing and you moan and complain but have you noticed your partner has cooked for you? Did you thank him/her? Did you appreciate it? Or just complain how you can't taste it cause your nose is so blocked and you have lost your appetite. Maybe less complaining would be better... Like my boyfriend always says, haha.

Ed Sheeran - Perfect (something beautiful, those lyrics)

sunnuntai 8. lokakuuta 2017

The way we go

Hey! October, second year in university, second year in England, new semester, new assignments, new home, new life, new beginnings and the same old me.


These sunflower fields... My soul rested every time I could just watch them.

For starters, I wanted to change the outlook and name of this blog as I have had it since year... 2014 (maybe..). So quite a few years and now I feel like it's time to give it a little makeover. And I can promise you I will be writing just onec in a month as my school and other life is keeping me crazy busy, which is not necessarily a bad thing, not at all.

So, what is new after all these months I didn't write here are that I managed to pass the first year of university (yay), I met my boyfriend and spent two months of summer in Romania just boiling in the sun with him, and we came back to England and after the most horrible stress ever found an apartment just before we were about to be homeless living under bridges. I can wholeheartedly say that our God has been taking care of me (and my boyfriend) with all His power. Sometimes it takes a while before I notice it but that's just because I'm a blind and slow human.


Way to Herculane.

This was the first time ever I went to Romania, got one more country ticked off from the list. I can't say I got a culture shock when I went there even though it is a lot different there than in England or Finland. The only thing that was a bit surprising to me was that almost no-one speaks English... So yea, for me it was a bit more quiet summer at least from my part. But I did get to hear loads of Romanian... And I had loads of barbeque, meat in general, late nights and late mornings, too much sun and heat (35 celsius degrees is a lot...), a few weddings to go to and meeting more and more new people. I like Romania, it's different from what I'm used to, it gave me nice change to the normal life. But I need to learn the language for the future... So I can actually participate in the conversations and not just chill and try to guess the topics. I like talking you know... And if I don't get to talk for a while I start losing the skill of fluent conversating. But despite the lack of talking a lot I still had a great time there. So that was two months of Romania.


Castelul Corvinilor 


And I can't remember the name of this one... But it was in Orsova!

What else... I'm trying to find a placement job for my third year of university. It's not easy since I'm not even sure which kind of job I would want to do then. Well, it will all sort out in time. I'm also trying to grow my hair long again... It's probably even harder than finding a placement job. Maybe as frustrating too. And I'm trying to get back to the normal exercising routine as I had before summer. I gained weight in Romania... And lost muscle, which is not good. But I'll give myself time and try not to push myself to the limits at the beginning of the semester, it would just make me tired already before Christmas. I find it really important to know myself, my strenghts, weaknesses and limits.

This is all for now! Have a great autumn :)


Sibiu and the church tower and eyes on the roofs. 

Hanine - Arabia

Camila Cabello - Havana

torstai 9. maaliskuuta 2017

Here I am again

Hey again! It seems to take me a while to write here now, sorry about that. It's the busy university life (or I blame that...) but actually it's just about to get busy, haven't been so horrible lately. I've just been lazy, lol. Now I have an in-class test coming up on Monday, and it's about finance!!! Oh goosh... It ain't one of my strengths. I'm good at maths but remembering how to do all the calculations and those weird words that in English are seriously just words to me. And then there's one assignment due the end of this month... And I haven't really even started it. Oops.


This is basically how I've been lately. Nooo motivation. (pics from pinterest)

But there are also good news!! \(o.o)/ My looovely friend is coming to visit me for a few days at the end of this month, a few days after my birthday! And we'll probably go watch Beauty and the Beast starring Emma Watson. I'm so excited! Can't waaaait. I haven't seen her for... maybe a year?? That is a long time. And other good news is that now I have officially applied to the exchange study program here! I would really reaaaally want to go study somewhere else for a semester next year. I hope I could get to the place I put on my first university choice. It would be awesome. Oh, and I also (finally) created an Instagram account!! It took some years to happen, lol. But in case any of you are interested in following me, go look for maronn19. \(-.^)- I would be really glad :D.


Well now I'm still recovering from the stomach flu I got on Tuesday, nasty stuff. And I missed a day from our practicals which are assessments each day. I hope I can do a catch-up-session later on spring so I won't lose marks. Oh, and I got evicted from our house because some pest controllers came to spray it and we can't enter it for 2 hours. How nice (-.-).


Has there been anything remarkable lately... Hmm. Not really. February passed by as if it hadn't even existed. Same with January. And now it's already almost mid of March. Craazy how time goes, and I'm about to get one year older in two weeks time! But actually I don't even feel that old, even though majority of the people here (=students) are either 4 or 5 years younger than me. One of my classmates was actually shocked when she heard how "old" I am, lol.

I've gotten to the 6th season of Game of Thrones finally!! But now I can't really watch it anywhere... might have to wait till summer when I go back to Finland (probably) and I can get the free trial month of HBO, lol. And binge-watch some Gaaame of Throoones, hahaha. For some reason I haven't found HBO app which would work in UK.. Is everything wrong with this country?! Awell...

Oh and I've also been drawing a bit! I'll post some pics later on when I've finished them and if I'm happy with them.


Why do I love manga? For this. ;)

Now, have a good day!

Imagine Dragons - Believer

Rag'n'Bone Man - Human

perjantai 3. helmikuuta 2017

Foodie


It's been nearly two months since I last wrote here... -(o.o')- Well, in my defence I had A LOT of things to do, with school mostly. We had four assignments to write over Christmas and one exam in January. So yes, I've been busy and my Christmas wasn't much of a holiday.

I went to Finland for Christmas and mostly spent time at my parents' house, chilling out with my family and doing my school work. I did meet a few friends too! -(^^)/ But my actual holiday was in January after my exam. I went back to Finland for about 10 days and I spent most of that time freeloading at my big sister's or my friend's place. It was a good little vacation. With my friend we ate looooads of good food and sweets, haha. But we also went to gym twice. Or I went twice, she a bit more... I hadn't gone to gym for.. maybe two years!!??? And I felt it in my arms and legs, lol. But it's good pain!

For this post I thought I could put several food pics since I have a lot of them -(ü.ü)-


Before Christmas holiday I went to eat gorgeous ice creams with two of my friends.

I also made myself noodle soup with king prawns and some turkey fillets with noodles and veggies before going to Finland. Those are really easy and quick to make so they fit perfectly to my busy days :D 

Finally some food from my Finland trips! This pic below is from a Thai restaurant in Helsinki. I went there with my friend and we had a looooot of food! It was a buffet... haha.



This one was also from that restaurant.. -(^^')- It was on a door of one toilet.


This was our Christmas table at my parents' home. All kinds of delicious foods!


Then on my second trip to Finland we made these meals with my friend. The one on the left has sweet potato mash, salad and smoked salmon and the pic on the right has chanterelles, egg, veggies, cottage cheese and sweet potato mash. So delicious meals -(n.n)/

 Those days when I'm too lazy to cook I eat simple foods like the one below: meatballs, scrambled eggs, salad and lingonberries. I miss eating berries... They don't have good berries here in England.


We had a meeting at my work and we were offered free pizzas! Mine was called Vesuvio, it had chili, jalapeno and pepperoni. After our meeting I went out with a few of my friends to listen some live music and just chill out.

And now I got sick... Got that flu I've been trying to avoid a few weeks already. Well I made some hot veggie+meat soup to get rid of it. It was hot, in many ways. I put fresh chili, ginger, onion, veggies and minced meat into it. And spices of course too. It ´turned out pretty good, I like it! \(ë.ë)/


 Alessia Cara - How far I'll go (I haven't yet seen Moana, but I will at some point, but this song from it is really good. I like Alessia's voice a lot and I can relate to these lyrics so well!!)