Hello after months!
Yes, I DO suck at posting here and I feel extremely guilty cause now you all can't see how amazingly fun I'm having here with my unicorns. But hey, who can expect me to sit in front of a computer when I'm surrounded by amazing people and plenty of activities and things and thingys?
I woke up this morning to the fact that I really do have only one month left with these amazing people and two months left in the Netherlands. This obviously makes me super sad, but it is good moment to look back and think what all cool experiences I've gone through during my stay here.
Last few weeks have been going so fast, we had lots of friends over and our dear Cathy left back to Ireland. I've been working like crazy with school and spend more time writing school things than I ever did in Finland. SO, to cheer myself and all of you fluffy cinnamon alligators, I decided not be lazy and I finally edited the video of Ameland trip. That was absolutely one of my favourite weekends from the past months and I wanted to share it with you's!
Hope you enjoy the video and hopefully I'll get a grip to post bit more often for the next few months!
- Uppa
Uppa
5/03/2016
All this is really happening!
Hallo!
Month has passed since I last time wrote anything. A MONTH. Time keeps passing so fast and I can't believe I've been here already wayyyy over three months! A little update what has happened!
Last time I was writing I told about homesickness and how I decided to really start living in a moment. And surely have! We had a project week in school, were we had to make exhibition about food with all the communication students. I finally had a change to meet more dutch people and do workshop-kind of-studies. I really enjoyed my week with them and met plenty of new people!
Because of a quite long night out after exhibition premiere we started our trip to Ameland, little island at northern part of the Netherlands. (I was suppose to edit you's a video of that trip, but unfortunately can't edit atm, so you'll get that one later!) Ameland was great! Shitloads of rain, plenty of fields and AMAZING people. I talked with so many exchange students I didn't have change to chat earlier. I hope everyone would experience how it is to be part of erasmus group! We are so unite and every person, no matter they are from, has something in common here!
It wasn't enough that Ameland was great; after trip new module with such interesting courses started AND it was the King´s Day -week. Two days partying with my favourite people in beautiful Leeuwarden full of people - could you hope more? King´s Day ended up being one of the best nights so far. Last weekend we celebrated May Day with Finns, hanged at Anaalstraat and Sunday me and the guys took a tiny day trip to Zwolle, Kampen and Meppel. Three minimal cities with so much potential for adventure. Really much fun and got even a little bit tanned!! WEEEEE :D
This week we're enjoying holiday and at Thursday bus leaves to Berlin for four days! Can't wait what Berlin gives us (at least victory against Germany at ice hockey at Sunday, remember to watch!! LEIJONAT!)
Because I'm so excited of everything here and outside weather is absolutely gorgeous and I wanna just go running there, I'll just add here a little bit cliche, but cute film about exchanging in Europe by BuzzFeed (yes Les, I stole it from your fb):
- Uppa
PS: 8,6 from dutch language BITCHEEES!!!! Basically I'm fluent.
Month has passed since I last time wrote anything. A MONTH. Time keeps passing so fast and I can't believe I've been here already wayyyy over three months! A little update what has happened!
Last time I was writing I told about homesickness and how I decided to really start living in a moment. And surely have! We had a project week in school, were we had to make exhibition about food with all the communication students. I finally had a change to meet more dutch people and do workshop-kind of-studies. I really enjoyed my week with them and met plenty of new people!
Because of a quite long night out after exhibition premiere we started our trip to Ameland, little island at northern part of the Netherlands. (I was suppose to edit you's a video of that trip, but unfortunately can't edit atm, so you'll get that one later!) Ameland was great! Shitloads of rain, plenty of fields and AMAZING people. I talked with so many exchange students I didn't have change to chat earlier. I hope everyone would experience how it is to be part of erasmus group! We are so unite and every person, no matter they are from, has something in common here!
It wasn't enough that Ameland was great; after trip new module with such interesting courses started AND it was the King´s Day -week. Two days partying with my favourite people in beautiful Leeuwarden full of people - could you hope more? King´s Day ended up being one of the best nights so far. Last weekend we celebrated May Day with Finns, hanged at Anaalstraat and Sunday me and the guys took a tiny day trip to Zwolle, Kampen and Meppel. Three minimal cities with so much potential for adventure. Really much fun and got even a little bit tanned!! WEEEEE :D
This week we're enjoying holiday and at Thursday bus leaves to Berlin for four days! Can't wait what Berlin gives us (at least victory against Germany at ice hockey at Sunday, remember to watch!! LEIJONAT!)
Because I'm so excited of everything here and outside weather is absolutely gorgeous and I wanna just go running there, I'll just add here a little bit cliche, but cute film about exchanging in Europe by BuzzFeed (yes Les, I stole it from your fb):
- Uppa
PS: 8,6 from dutch language BITCHEEES!!!! Basically I'm fluent.
4/10/2016
I am positive about being positive.
Hello everyone!
Like most of you know, I was in Finland a week ago. I had amazing time, met all my favourite people, went to places I love and obviously went a lot to the sauna. When I arrived Finland it was absolutely weird to be there and to be honest, I was even scared. But routines came back quite fast and in days it felt like home again.
But well. I came back to Leeuwarden and for me it is really hard to admit, but I felt homesick. A lot. Since I've been teenager I've been traveling and been quite much away from home. Actually before this I only felt homesick few times when I moved to Tampere. But I've never felt this abroad, so it was a bit of a shock. Sure I love my time here and people are amazing but for some reason the homesickness hit me this time. Hard.
As a rational person I forced myself to believe it is gonna go away, everything is fine and I really can't do anything to this. I called my family and boyfriend and told the situation to them but still I kept feeling really bad and actually got even a bit sick (might be also our house which is probably covered with diseases, mice, mold and ghosts). And somehow I wanted to stay in my bad feeling. Somehow feeling grumpy and whining about it to my family felt normal thing to do. I wanted to stay in my negative bubble so I didn't have to face the fact I am here and I'm wasting my time by being a grumpy fuck.
But today, I woke up and got urge to go for a walk. Weather was absolutely gorgeous and thought that maybe tiny walk would cheer my up. And boy it did!
I walked and suddenly I started smiling. I found new places in Leeuwarden I've never seen. Seemed like everyone was smiling and greeting me. A nice girl in the shop was helping me and doing amazing customer service. I went to the park and had a conversation with a lady who had a dog exactly we had when I was a kid. I kicked a ball for a tiny boy who was playing football and his ball got away to my direction. A old man with clogs walked by and greeted cheerfully. For the first time since I got back from Finland I felt like this was home again.
And what was the secret ingredient for me to heal my homesickness? Attitude.
In life you can't decide everything and write everything ready for yourself like in films. But what you can do, is to relax and think positive. I know that sounds cliché as fuck, but it just happens to be true. And especially for us Finns that is one thing that seems to be extremely hard to understand. It is up to yourself how you see things. If you keep thinking this is shit, for sure it becomes shit. If you keep thinking you fail, for sure you will fail. If you think it's gonna be okay and you concentrate on the good things, suddenly it is not that bad at the end.
I know I'm often horribly negative person and I will stop it now. Sure we all have bad times and sometimes things really are going bad. But when there is at least a little light, go for it! I dare everyone to join in my challenge of finding the positive in things and trying not to spread that negativeness around so much. Stay positive people and please, think about those unicorns.
- Uppa
PS: I also saw shitloads of GOATS today. That if something cheered me up. Go goats!
Like most of you know, I was in Finland a week ago. I had amazing time, met all my favourite people, went to places I love and obviously went a lot to the sauna. When I arrived Finland it was absolutely weird to be there and to be honest, I was even scared. But routines came back quite fast and in days it felt like home again.
But well. I came back to Leeuwarden and for me it is really hard to admit, but I felt homesick. A lot. Since I've been teenager I've been traveling and been quite much away from home. Actually before this I only felt homesick few times when I moved to Tampere. But I've never felt this abroad, so it was a bit of a shock. Sure I love my time here and people are amazing but for some reason the homesickness hit me this time. Hard.
As a rational person I forced myself to believe it is gonna go away, everything is fine and I really can't do anything to this. I called my family and boyfriend and told the situation to them but still I kept feeling really bad and actually got even a bit sick (might be also our house which is probably covered with diseases, mice, mold and ghosts). And somehow I wanted to stay in my bad feeling. Somehow feeling grumpy and whining about it to my family felt normal thing to do. I wanted to stay in my negative bubble so I didn't have to face the fact I am here and I'm wasting my time by being a grumpy fuck.
But today, I woke up and got urge to go for a walk. Weather was absolutely gorgeous and thought that maybe tiny walk would cheer my up. And boy it did!
I walked and suddenly I started smiling. I found new places in Leeuwarden I've never seen. Seemed like everyone was smiling and greeting me. A nice girl in the shop was helping me and doing amazing customer service. I went to the park and had a conversation with a lady who had a dog exactly we had when I was a kid. I kicked a ball for a tiny boy who was playing football and his ball got away to my direction. A old man with clogs walked by and greeted cheerfully. For the first time since I got back from Finland I felt like this was home again.
And what was the secret ingredient for me to heal my homesickness? Attitude.
In life you can't decide everything and write everything ready for yourself like in films. But what you can do, is to relax and think positive. I know that sounds cliché as fuck, but it just happens to be true. And especially for us Finns that is one thing that seems to be extremely hard to understand. It is up to yourself how you see things. If you keep thinking this is shit, for sure it becomes shit. If you keep thinking you fail, for sure you will fail. If you think it's gonna be okay and you concentrate on the good things, suddenly it is not that bad at the end.
I know I'm often horribly negative person and I will stop it now. Sure we all have bad times and sometimes things really are going bad. But when there is at least a little light, go for it! I dare everyone to join in my challenge of finding the positive in things and trying not to spread that negativeness around so much. Stay positive people and please, think about those unicorns.
- Uppa
PS: I also saw shitloads of GOATS today. That if something cheered me up. Go goats!
3/17/2016
Spring Break part. 2 - Belfast
Hello mates and happy St. Patrick's Day!!!
I promised to post video of our spring break's other part so here it is for the glory of St. Paddy's!
Me and guys headed to Belfast to see Dara and I absolutely felt for Ireland. I mean really. I'm no Finn anymore. People are the most amazing, country is absolutely beautiful and who wouldn't love to live with leprechauns?
We also traveled all the way up to North coast, saw foaming ocean, had amazing food with Guinness and Magners. Dara is probably the greatest tourist guide ever, I recommend her tour's if you ever happen to find yourselves from Belfast. Had also honor to meet her sweetest mom and be around when Dara's sister Hana made a surprise visit home!
So with this video and my heart full of Ireland I want to wish Ireland happy St. Patrick's Day!
Hope you all like the video! :)
- Uppa
3/13/2016
Spring break part. 1 - Cologne
Hola amigos!
Few weeks ago we had a spring break and it was AWESOME with my crazy pigs and piglets. We took our backs and headed to Cologne for a long weekend. Saw lots of places, enjoyed german beer and hanged around. After Cologne we took few days rest in Leeuwarden and traveled to Belfast!
More about that in upcoming video. What did you mates do during spring break? Comment and don't forget to subscribe in Youtube. Enjoy the video flufferballs!
Music: www.bensound.com & www.purple-planet.com
- Uppa
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