discovered. Americans have three big holes in their papers, we have two. People in here get noisy in the Sundays when they get back in to the residence halls, in Finland people are dead on Sundays. When it's sunny people do not go out to enjoy the sun like in Finland.Now that I've been in here for "so long" I don't notice anymore the differences like I noticed them few weeks ago. But instead I've started to see familiar faces from Finland now. I did the same thing when I moved from Tampere to Jyväskylä. I started to see my friends though I knew they couldn't be there.
And I don't want to study this much. I was just talking about this with Kaisa. I want to get good grades but I don't want to study my ass off, I can do that in Finland too. The good thing is that when I transfer my courses I can choose if I get pass/failed or grades. That makes things so much easier. But I just need to see what my grades turn out to be when I'm done here. It's not that I want to be lazy, I just want to explore my surroundings too, not just study all the time. And that's what I'm doing now :P Though I like studying, time goes by quicker and then it's December soon... And I want that and then again I do not want that to come this quick.
And by the way, I ordered some more Finnish chocolate, salmiakki (kind of sour sweets, kind of liquorice) and hapankorppu (dark dried bread)! All traditional Finnish things I can offer to poor people in here who have no idea what they taste like (I have to start with the dark bread, then give salmiakki because I'm sure many people won't like it and then give the chocolate so that people don't start to hate me ;)
And my parents had this water damage in their house. Their dishwasher had been leaking for
about year already but they didn't notice it because there was no water anywhere. Finally last week the neighbors downstairs said that there was water dripping. My mom was so shocked and she cried (that does not happen often). And I know it's because she's had so rough time this year and she really didn't need this to happen. Dad is shocked too obviously. Now they need to take off the floor and dry the apartment and then get the floor back. I think they even had to take one wall off too... And they can't cook or wash the dishes there for a few months or at least for few weeks now... But mom sounded a lot better this morning. I wish I could just give them hugs. I sent them a cute card instead, hope that cheers them up.What else..? I miss our cats a lot. When I went to sleep on Friday I saw this Kittie statue in the corner and it just made me smile :) It was white but it still made me miss our kitties. And yeah, my face is getting better. But I'm still embarrassed to be in public places with my red face. People tried to joke around "But red is your favorite color!". Yeah, but I don't need it in my face! I prefer it to be in my clothes and accessories :P
And the daydreaming made me miss home, so I need to stop daydreaming :D though I don't miss home that badly that I'd like to leave so that's good. I still love this place :) Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I talked today with my parents, with Tarmo and with Tarmo's mom. And she promised that she has some mushrooms and berries for me when I get back (we Finnish people go to the forest to get mushrooms and berries every Fall) ^^
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