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Happy new year!! Currently still in 2019 as I am writing this but when I publish this in a few days we'll already be counting days for the end of the next year and decade. Lol hopefully not though. Christmas On Christmas eve I called back home to my family. There At my house, having christmas dinner was my mom, my dad, my sister and her boyfriend, my grandparents and my uncle's family, as in my cousins. I also called separately to my aunt and cousins who weren't there and wished them merry christmas. I've actually never seen a christmas dinner so big at my house, and of course just this year I wasn't invited :( ahaha no just kidding I had a great christmas dinner with my family here in Chile. The actual dinner was a bit different from the usual traditional Finnish christmas dinner but it was really good, and we spent pretty much the whole day preparing it and the cocktails that came before the dinner. After eating we opened presents. My mom and sister had sen...

Hi there It's been a while. I don't really know why I ever decided to start writing a blog since I knew very well I would run out of motivation eventually. I thought by writing a blog I could get people in Finland (and elsewhere) informed on how and what am I doing here and that afterwards I wouldn't have a hundred persons asking me how am I actually doing. Oh boy was I wrong ahahaha keeping a blog has definitely scraped off a few of the extra questions but I still get a lot of q's about a lot of things, such as my weekly schedule and wellbeing. Oh and one of my friends still thinks that I'm in France.  Now that this unnecessary rant is over, I'm just gonna say that I'm not giving up on this blog thing, at least not yet. So here, have a quick summary of my December so far. December in a nutshell During December, I decorated the christmas tree, left my school for summer vacations, celebrated Finland's independence day, wrapped christmas prese...

Today, on December 6th we celebrate the independency in Finland. In honor of the independence day I'm going to write this text in Finnish, so take in mind that if you are translating the text, the translations will not be accurate. Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää! Näin itsenäisyyspäivän kunniaks aattelin kirjata ylös jotain asioita Suomesta. Nää asiat saattaa olla jotain mitä ikävöin tai mitä oon alkanu Suomesta arvostaa ihan uudella tavalla täällä ollessani. En siis tosiaankaan vielä nyt kirjottaessani oo ihan kartalla et mitä tää tulee sisältään mut ehkä tää tästä vielä kokonaiseks tekstiks muodostuu. Tänään, 6.12.2019, kun itsenäinen Suomi täyttää 102 vuotta, mä oon maailman toisella puolella Chilessä. Itsenäisyyspäivään, ainakin meidän perheessä, kuuluu jonkinnäköisiä perinteitä. Tänä vuonna itsenäisyyspäivänä en siis pääse katsomaan linnan juhlia taikka tuntematonta sotilasta, paleltumaan iltapäiväkävelyllä kun en oo laittanut tarpeeksi vaatetta päälle, käymään isoisoäidin Gre...

Hi hei hola hello again As you know, I   haven't been that productive here in my blog during November. Took a break from writing, tried to keep at least myself on the same page with me. The truth with it is that I've been dealing with a terrible tiredness (involving a few breakdowns) and I just haven't felt like writing. Trying to keep this blog as real as possible, without hiding any problems, so if you find that interesting, keep on reading. Now things are going a bit better than before and I thought I'd write something here quickly. Let's see how this evolves.  Are you even tired? As I said, I have been incredibly tired now during November. This would probably be normal if I was in Finland since Kaamosmasennus  is a real thing, and the lack of sunlight does actually affect you in ways you can't even imagine / remember before it starts to affect you, again .  But here in Chile  the sunlight is on a really  decent level so this just can't be about...

Happy Halloween! ..oops I'm late with the halloween thing Time for me to write some new stuff here :) There isn't much to tell from the past weeks EXCEPT there actually is since I realised that I haven't really been talking about what I've been doing here. (can you see my memory is not the best kind) Nevertheless I thought I'd make this one about my general feelings, kinda in honor of three months here in Chile, but I'll also make a quick summary (in a nonsense order) of what's been going on during October. Also as a side note, the situation in Chile has still not cleared entirely, and probably won't fully clear up anytime soon. The people are still demanding better human rights, there is a lot of marches and for example schools and stores have been functioning on a more limited schedule. Two international summits (APEC & COP25) scheduled to be organised in Chile in the next two months have been canceled due to the unstable state of the coun...

Mitä Chilessä tapahtuu just nyt? Tää blogiteksti tulee olemaan vähän erilainen. Kuten osa on varmaan jostain lukenutkin, Chilessä on aloitettu mellakoimaan, eikä pelkästään ihan pienellä mittakaavalla. Tässä postauksessa yritän selittää että mitä täällä oikein tapahtuu. Omat lähteeni ei välttämättä myöskään ole 100% luotettavia, lähinnä chileläisiltä kuultua ja sosiaalisessa mediassa useasti esiintynyttä tietoa. Tämän postauksen tarkoituksena ei myöskään ole rauhoitella ketään, vaan kertoa asiat niinkuin ne on. Medianäkyvyys tän asian osalta on jo valmiiksi aika vähäistä ja puutteellista / virheellistä, että tätä postausta ja / tai muuten tietoa tapahtuvasta saa vapaasti (ja mieluusti) jakaa.  Vietin siis itse viime viikonlopun Santiagossa orientaatioleirillä muiden vaihto-oppilaiden kanssa. Mä, ja muut vaihto-oppilaat ollaan kaikki turvassa. Itse tällä hetkellä omassa kotikaupungissa, jossa tapahtumat ei ole niin radikaaleja. Chilen pääkaupungissa Santiagossa alkoi siis ...

It has again been a while since my last blog posting oops.. But here I am again writing about my week since I can actually write about it without the text being just a stub :D Quality content (not) but here you have it, enjoy :) Last weekend we went to buy me the last pieces of my school uniform, and a pair of shoes to use with it. I'm not feeling that comfortable with the skirt yet but I guess that's just a minor downside that I'll have to (and I will) deal with. The skirts were a bit too big for me so we had to drop them off to some woman who will sew them to fit me better. Not waiting too anxiously for next Tuesday when I have to start using the uniform... but anyways! I did my first test here on Monday! It was obviously maths since I can't really understand that much of any other subjects yet (and so far we haven't had tests in English). The test was about second grade equations and inverse functions (probably had something else to it as well but I don'...