Thoughts of my exchange

Hello dear people!

I am in Finland! Weather is amazing and I love to be with my family, just came from swimming! Nature is blooming and lakes are so pure, it makes it much more easier to be back in Finland. Anyway, now few words about the time in the exchange.

Past half an year has been best ever. I have learned so much about myself, to relax and to live for myself. I met amazing people who I will never forget, from whom I learned a lot and who were the reason I will always keep exploring and meeting new people.

Learned about new cultures and differences. I learned how similar we are, even we would be from the different parts of the world. I learned what unity means and how important it is to fight for equality not only for yourself and your country, but for all those people all over the world. I learned to appreciate thing in my home country I never really appreciated and noticed few things for which I want to work to make them better in Finland.  This eyeopening six months made me a international citizen and I realized how much there are things I still want to be part of and how much I want to explore.

To all you amazing people who made me even more adventurous and more enthusiastic about world: I can't even tell how much I changed and how important this exchange was to me. Everyone of you who handled me when I went hyper, who participated in our parties, who told me something about your culture or language. Everyone who studied with me, walked in a pouring rain with me or danced with me. Everyone of you who were part of my big experience becoming more open me, I thank you with the deepest of my heart.

I made life-long friends, I met amazing people, I did things I would have not normally done. I experienced youth and exchange in the way you are supposed to. This video is a little compilation of my exchange. It is just a scratch of everything I did, but there you go, hope you enjoy it.

Thank you Leeuwarden, ESN Leeuwarden and of course - exchangers Spring 2016! Proost!

- Uppa

10 things I've learned during Erasmus.

Hello orange beer monkeys!

Leslie and Dara left back to the country of leprechauns yesterday and guys traveled to Rotterdam so I started looking back what all we have gone through during past months. We have had amazing time and I have changed a lot. I also realized I have learned a lot and wanted to share everything with you's.

Right now my studies are done (hopefully) for this semester and I have 23 days left in the Netherlands, so I am planning just to relax and enjoy my time here, just like I learned. I'd love, if you would comment below how living abroad has changed you or what you have learned!

- Uppa

Photo Booth Challenge

Ho Ho Ho and Merry June!

Few weeks ago I collected all my brain cells and organized Anaalstraat AlcOlympics for our group just to celebrate life!!

We were battling in different sports from which one was Photo Booth Challenge. Tough all the participants were quite good and didn't laugh too much, for sure the video's are fun to watch now (especially cause everyone is SOOOO busy with school atm).

Teams were Finland and Ireland and unfortunately the Olympics ended with tie! Hope you enjoy our game!



- Uppa

Little bit of memories to cheer me up!

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

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