I’ve been here for months… no, wait, only 3 weeks!!

Tampere

Yea, that’s how it feels like – I have been in Finland 3 weeks (and 1 day) now, but I feel like if it was months. It’s easy to explain – so many new things happening every day, so many new people, new experience, new surprises and new words => so many things you would never think that it is possible to experience in such a short time! And in the same time I already know the surrounding, how to get to the city center, where to go for running or shopping. I sometimes even remember how is called the part of the city I live in (Linnainmaa :D)!

My school started 2 weeks ago and I’m really getting into it – no more being 30 minutes late for a lesson or getting lost. This school is so different from the small Czech grammar school I went to back at Czech Republic! Leaving out the fact that there is close to 1000 pupils, the biggest difference is definitely school system. My brain is still working on fully understanding to what’s that really about and I doubt it will ever reach any satisfactory result. I will write about it soon in more details.

I have managed to find a few friends there and I’m very happy for it. Yea, Finns are shy, but not everybody! And they usually are so friendly and sweet when you start talking to them. Looking at people in my school I can say they are also very fashionable and self-caring. Girls are always perfectly dressed and make-upped and you can hardly meet here a guy who would stink or wear some old ugly clothes. Everybody here do some sport and eat really healthy so you happen to be surrounded by good-looking people all the time. Kinda frustrating time by time :D.





Anyway, I’m doing really well here! I have experienced  many new things or old things in new ways! I was rowing, threw javelin (and hit my head when doing it :D), had a few saunas, eat dozens of new kinds of food and more to tell about. Still I’m very busy with arranging all things needed for my year here, but soon I will go on a biology trip to Lapland (and also to Norway) and start my new-old hobbies.

What more to say? In fact, much more, but it’s not so easy to tell something about my life here because I would always forget so many things! I’m enjoying my life in school and I’m getting on great with my small sister. We tease each other and try to understand what the other one is talking about. On weekends we all go to cottage, which is really lovely place.

Although sun already retreats and windy and rainy cold days are coming, I still feel the warmth and joy inside which is – of course - seldom covered with sad thoughts, but it never lasts for long time. I’m enjoying the time of my life… do you?

A lake by our cottage