Being productive!

Yesterday after writing on my blog I decided not to go out anymore. I went to the shop and bought some food to cook dinner. After eating I was so tired from the working week that I nearly fell asleep in my armchair. I was watching some episodes of How I met you mother and went to bed quite early.

Today is a good day so far! I was very productive after a good night sleep I did a lot. I got up fresh and happy somehow. Although the weather wasn't that good in the morning I fixed myself after breakfast and talking to A. over Skype and went out.

I went to the city to look for a birthday present for A. She said, that I should not buy anything, since I am coming there for her birthday, but I would feel bad coming with empty hands. So I bought something small for her!When the weather got worse and it actually started raining I decided not to go out again, but stay in and finally write my report about my year abroad. Since there was no real deadline for it I totally forgot it, got a reminder by my university and forgot it again. Now came the second reminder and I put an alarm into my cellphone to write it this weekend.

Since I do not have a real desk here in my room and didn't wanted to write the whole bloody report with my laptop on my knees I took one of the shelves and used it as a table. It's actually pretty good and now I totally buried my plans of buying a desk for the room.I wrote and wrote and suddenly I realized, that it was already quite late. I had written the whole report at once and wrote about 5 pages about my life in Helsinki. It was good to recap the year and to write down important things to consider. It is amazing how much I would have been able to tell. I was already keeping it as short but informative as possible. Crazy how many impressions and experiences I had during this year in Finland!

Anyways, writing made me hungry and so I warmed up the rest from yesterday evening. I am always making so much more, than I can eat at once. Its hard to cook for just one person somehow and I really miss the time in Kannelmäki, where we were mostly cooking together!

Now I will relax a bit more, bring some order into all my stuff here in the room and maybe put the laundry on. There are no plans for this evening, so I will see, what the next hours will bring!

~M~

Disillusion

I didn't write yesterday. First of all, since I was nearly the whole day in Helsinki to do some shopping before the VAT-rise of today. Secondly because I had some administrative stuff to do in the evening and then totally forgot to write here.

So, first things first:
A. and I went yesterday to Helsinki to do, as mentioned, some shopping. But also we took A's aunt to Pasila. She had been here for over a week to celebrate Midsummer with us and was taking the train home. Further we had to get out of Ekenäs and to come to a big city again. Since we both feel more comfortable in big cities it was necessary to go there after nearly two months in this small town. It was good to be around people again. To walk through busy streets and to watch people walking by, while sitting on a bench in the sun on Esplanadi.

We were strolling around the city and walked into nearly every shop. It was on the one hand necessary, since one of my jeans broke during the trip with A's father's boat, and I needed a replacement. On the other hand it is just nice to see if you find nice and cheap clothes during the sales. We had lunch in Wrong Noodle Bar, one of my favorite places to eat in Helsinki and got a coffee in Robert's Coffee. It was just a good day in Helsinki.

When we came home I was checking my e-mails, where I hoped to find an approval of my internship placement. However it came how it had to come and my placement was not approved. The reason for the declination, however, was not really solid, so I wrote an e-mail back and hope to change it now. It's really disappointing, I was sending application over application - about 50 in number - and didnt get any placements. Now that I have one, my university is not approving it. I was also calling my father just to tell him and now, since he is the financier of my studies, he is also going to step in. Let's see how the university will react.

Anyways, I am now going to fix myself and start the day.

~M~