Hei, I'm YFU Czech to Finland exchange student and this is a blog about my exchange year. Feel free to ask about anything :)


December 6, 2010

And so time goes by...

I really can’t believe it's already December! Christmas mood is all around as well as tons of snow and freezing atmosphere reaching sometimes even -20°C. Well, only there, in the south of Finland – in the north are the temperatures much crazier. But as I was assured - it will be down here very soon as well. Days last only slightly over 5 hours and so when I have school from the first to the last lesson (8:15 - 15:55), I don't even realize there actually IS any day. But again, the "worst" is yet to come. I can't say that this all isn't down-putting sometimes, but then I just come back home, to the warm place with a lot of light, people with hearts full of love and two hairy balls always ready to cuddle, and world is great again. And when I get package from my Czech family, messages and greetings from my Czech friends, I just know there is still a place to go back to, people who still remember me and take some time to let me know that. And yes, maybe I have to wake up at 6:30 the next day, but soon I'm in school with my Finnish friends who are just so adorable and unbelievably nice people! So here I go - with 2 caring families and 2 groups of the best friends one can ever have. I already can’t and don’t want to imagine leaving this place, because I will leave here a big part of me and lots of good memories for the brilliant time of my life.


Of course, I'm missing something or someone time by time, in these days especially the traditions that are kept in the Czech republic and in my family; of course, sometimes I have just totally bad day and wish for nothing more than just to hide under the blanket in my bed and never come out of there; of course, my heart sometimes hurts badly and I just want to have somebody to hug me for long hours… but common!! I'm teenage girl and I'm just me, with all those things like crazy hormones, uncontrolled emotions and swingy moods - I just have the biggest right to have such days and moments, don’t I? I know it would be the same wherever I were (including also the Czech home) and that the sun will eventually shine again. And so these not so nice moments disappear in the sea of amazing lifetime I’m having here.

Just in case you read this and feel similarly time by time, I have one more thing to advise you – Fazer sininen, sweating (in form of sauna or exercising – take your choice) and good company is all you need! :)

And why I wrote this totally trashy and senseless piece of… ergh… something?

Answer is totally clear – so that you read also some shoddy “literature” and to let you know that I do f*cking care about all of you, appreciate you and that I’m endlessly thankful to have you all.

Nice Advent to you! =)