Visiting Stockholm

This week has been awesome in many ways :) I've had holiday from school (school continues in a few days), I've had time to just laze at home, and I've been on a cruise to Stockholm, Sweden, with  my friends Hanna nr. 1 & 2. The trip was short but lovely :) We went to the Royal Palace of Stockholm and had a guide to  show us around and tell about the history. But the castle is so huge, we only had time (and strength :-p) to see a small part of it. My first time inside the castle and it was cool, even though I know my friends were more amazed to be there than I was ;)

The Palace from back.

Inside the Palace. Actually it was forbidden to take pics, so this is the only one I took.

And back in Helsinki. The pic is taken from the boat.

We had time to shop a bit in the city, but I had to be economical, because I'm short of money. On the ferry I bought plenty of candy home to my family and to my boyfriend. When I came home yesterday and gave the sweets my family ate the most of it ;) My boyfriend was overjoyed to get the candy he had asked me to bring :D and he was happy to see me too :3 We had missed each other.

Tonight I'll read and take it easy, maybe even watch a film. I'll go downstairs to the sauna and relax in the heat :3 I should also make some homework. Let's see what I'll do.

Have fun! :)

A day with just you & me

Yesterday was a day to celebrate again: me and my boyfriend have been together for six months! <3 It feels weird that it has been such a long time already, but at the same time it feels like I've known him longer than a half year.

We didn't celebrate in such a great way, but it was lovely just to be together for over 24 hours. We watched the icehockey games, played cards, chilled and ate cake :) Even though it was our 6 months' day, we didn't have to celebrate it in an other way than this. I'm happy how the day turned out! :) You don't always have to celebrate with big parties or by going out, I just think the most important thing is to be together and have fun :)

Now it's just to read, read and read for exams next week... Not that nice, but sure it's interesting books! Just one week of school and then I have one week of holiday, yay! Something to look forward to ;)

Valentine's day

Heart-shaped pastries.

My Valentine's day started with early morning and work on a kindergarten in Helsinki. Someone was sick and I came there to help as an substitute. The days' theme at kindergarten was "We are all friends with each other". We even sang together with the children: "It's nice to have a friend... you are my friend, I am your friend...It's nice to have a friend..." cute! :3

After work I went directly to my boyfriend to celebrate the special day with him. He had really made an great effort to surprise me: he'd made food and a cute card for me :3 <3 The evening was lovely; simply just by eating and chilling together. Then we watched the Olympic Icehockey game Finland-Norway, which Finland won 6-1 yay! :) I'm not such a fan of icehockey but I agreed to watch the game because it was so important for him. Hehee... I fell asleep at the last 15 minutes of the game... :-P (Sorry, I've been 8h at work and I'm tired!) But he woke me up just after the game ended, so it wasn't that bad for him.

But this was my first Valentine's day date. So it felt special. And I'm happy he made a great effort to make it perfect! :) Hope you had a nice Valentine's day too! :)

Stressful school

Yesterday I got frustrated when I noticed that I've totally forgotten about a tent in three weeks! I hadn't written it down in my calendar, and now let's see, I have three tents in a row! The first one 26th February, the second 27th and the third 28th... Argh! >:( How will I manage to read all the books to these?!?

Remember that I wrote just a few days ago that I feel like I'm ahead of the others in my class, but now I feel the stress. I've just finnished reading one of them, but as a total it's five books I have to manage to read. And I don't even have the other books in my hands yet. I have to wait for the others to read them and give them back to the libraries, so that I can borrow them then. Not fun.

Sorry, for not spreading the joy of school life, but this is how I feel now. It's usually so nice to study, but sometimes I have these days. I know it's not going to help to think this way. I will change that. Think positive and read, that's what I'll do for the rest of this month.


PS: I'm not always this negative, here's a song that I found on Spotify just a few days ago, it makes me happy. Gives me hope :)

Colors inspires me!

A few days ago I read something at my desk in my room. I was daydreaming for a while and my gaze stopped at something on the windowsill: a figure or statyette with a birthday card in the background. I suddenly noticed that the colors fit together so well! I was excited and eager to test photographing them together. So here's the result and I have to say I love what I've created:

I see the figure as an angel with the heart on the right place...

... which leads me right in life :) <3

Anyone there?

Hey! Sorry, I've been out a while... I've not had the inspiration or time to write here for over a half year. Sorry about that. Now I want to try again. Maybe I'll start a new blog, who knows... ;)

What has happened since last time? I've started studying in my new school, I nowadays have a cute boyfriend and I've turned 21 a few weeks ago. Last weekend I had a party: celebrated with my friends, which was so fun! Loved it! <3 :)

My everyday life keeps going on FAST! Time runs so frickin' fast! That's why I've started reading for my tests which are in the end of this month. It feels like I'm way ahead of the others from my class when I've started reading the books so soon, but February is a short month, only 28 days :-P And then here's March, April and we have spring, yeah! :D

Shortly about school: I've made new friends, and my courses are really interesting. I'm sooo glad I chose this university and subject! For those who doesn't know; I'm studying to become a kindergarten teacher in Helsinki, Finland.

A typical day for me is: school, then come home to my parents and brothers. Make homework/read books, facebook, eat with my family and afterwards meet my boyfriend M. at his place. We usually watch tv together, chill and eat. On weekends we do also other stuff. I would like to play tennis with him sometime soon. Eeeh, where were I? Yes, after watching tv together we usually fall asleep. Or actually he usually fall asleep :-P

Then I have those days when I don't meet him at all. Like today. Those days it feels like I have so much leisure time (sometimes very much alone time) so that I feel restless and doesn't always know what to do with all the extra time.

Today I've had school,  met Hanna nr. 2; we ate at school then she went home and I went to the library to read in a school book. When I came home we ate pizza and since that I've not done so much. Soon in a hot shower, aaah :3 and then to bed! Tomorrow I'll have a 6h school day... Twice as long as today, not fun!

C ya some time soon! :)

Stunning big ships

I've seen many large ships at "The Tall Ships Race 2013" happening today in Helsinki. Hundreds of thousands of people were wandering at the docks admiring the beautiful and stunning ships. I saw ships from countries such as Finland, Russia and Sweden. I heard that the crown Princess Victoria and her spouse Daniel has been eating on board on the ship "Götheborg" from Sweden. Nice! The happening was big, but very crowded. I could hardly get a good picture without any heads coming in the way.

Well, you have time to visit the happening until Saturday this week. I surely recommend it! :)



The Swedish ship called "Götheborg"