16th to 22nd of July
It was Jarmo's birthday on the 16th so we spent the morning
making some things for afternoon tea. When everyone arrived, I got a few
birthday presents. A lovely pair of earrings, some Marimekko cases, some cloud-berries and a cactus! We watched a slideshow on Henriikka's pictures from Australia. One thing about Finnish people is that when young people
have a birthday, Christmas or confirmation, it is common for them to receive gifts
like sets of plates, mugs and kitchen utensils that they can keep in storage
until they move out and then they have a collection of things to use. I think
it is a great idea and am going to be asking for those sorts of things for my
next birthday. In the evening I watched the very last episode of Sea Patrol
ever :( I love that show!
On the Sunday I woke up early and tried to find the
motivation to finish my eurotour blogs. I got a way but gave up after before I finished.
Ritva and I drove up into the forest and picked some blueberries because I
wanted to make blueberry muffins. The mosquitoes were crazy! We came home after
just two containers of blueberries and had lunch. We all went to Ritva’s mums
place and had pulla and coffee and laid out in the sun on the trampoline. I had
ice cream with cloudberries and they were really delicious!
I made my blueberry muffins on the Monday morning and they
turned out really, really well. I used this recipe and I couldn’t recommend it
any more. I went to volleyball in the evening and I hadn’t been in a while and
it was good to be back! We played beach volleyball with some of Henriikka's
friends afterwards and it was pretty fun. I thought it was funny how as the
game progressed the swearing increased and how much I understood did too :P
The rest of the week was spent doing nothing at all, I was
sick and I had gone into holiday hibernation. I went to the library and
borrowed some kids books to read in Finnish and on the way home got absolutely
saturated. Finnish summer is really lovely but it rains almost every second
day! Coming from the direst state on the driest continent, I got sick of it
quite quickly. The Friday was my 6 month mark in Finland which was just incomprehensible.
In more recent news, I moved host families just over a week ago. That means that the next time I pack up all my things, it will be to head back to Australia. Time is running out so fast but I have been trying to not think of it and just live with the time I have. It is also the 1 year mark from when Dad fell which is so crazy! At the time each day felt so long and hard and now a whole year has been and gone. Mum and Dad are in the air right now, heading to Europe, I think its fitting that their flight was today.
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