Just random

Had a good weekend! On Saturday I went out with the family besides the mum as she was on call. To Helsinki and we went and brought a sofa, then advent calenders for the kids and had Pizza Hut for afternoon tea (After much deciding we where gonna have chinese but the kids wanted sushi but one of them commented I did not like it so we went and had pizza instead.) Then we came home played outside in the dark and then we watched Home Alone - it was my first time ever watching it.
Plus I managed to book my tickets to go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Excited about that!
Argh on Nov 11th I have an interview to get into uni at 23.30!!! Will need coffee or something that night.
Sunday I got to talk to mum in the morning and then went out to the movies to go see Eat, Pray, Love. With some of the other au pairs which was really fun. Went shopping before hand to. Got something I really wanted to have.
Except now the grandmother is here so life is not as fun as it normally is as the two youngest are home all day for the whole entire week! Oh well this morning on my walk I got one of them to come to so the other one could have one on one time with there grandmother.
It's 7 weeks and 1 day now till I leave Europe not long at all. (Still no idea when I leave Finland.)
Best go to work

19 :O

So I had a super long birthday this year!!! It started by people saying happy birthday at midnight NZ time, then Dad ringing me Thursday night. Then skyping home and talking to Jolene. Woke up Friday morning and was feeling sick argh. But woke up and there were two presents on the kitchen table waiting for me. 19 pairs of socks and a book about Copenhagen!!! Plus an awesome birthday card.
Went and skyped to mum and Jeremy for awhile then and went and caught the bus to the airport to go to Copenhagen!
Great time in Copenhagen 1st night we talked and Rachel and I went out for tea! Had Thai food. Plus had a birthday cake with whipped cream and pineapple lumps :)
The next day we woke up early and headed to Tivoli the amusement park!!!
http://www.tivoli.dk/composite-3351.htm
Incrediable spent all day there but by the end I could not even speak - so no going out that night either.
Sunday more or less just travelled home to Finland - got picked up at the airport! Then everyone else came home at 7pm my friend came over for tea as well and we had a birthday tea. With yummy cake - plus when I got home I had a present waiting for mum on my desk. Had an awesome birthday and felt very loved. Also will be home on the 23rd of Dec around 10am yay!!

Great weekend

Friday I finished work early around 3pm - so stayed and talked to my host mum :)

Saturday woke up early - then at 2pm I met one of the girls from my Finnish class and we went into Helsini together. As I needed some shoes, which we went to 5 stores looking for and being me I went and brough the first pair. now though I really want gumboots!

We also went to the info centre and on the way back there were these teddy bears made of plastic that had different designs of countries on them. Just to confuse me New Zealand was not under 'N' so we spent around 15mins looking for it! As it was super light but it was under 'U' I ran up and hugged it and my friend took a photo much to the suprise of the on lookers. Came back around 6pm. Got to have apple pie for pudding to celebrate my host mum winning her tennis match.

Sunday got to talk to mum for the first time since Wens and Jolene as well :) Got completly lost again. Then spent some of the night playing monopoly in Swedish!

Update:

It's been a while since I have updated;

• Started Finnish classes it is a small group but there is another Nzer!!!! Was so excited - had not meet one in Finland so 6 months without talking to a proper NZ accent face to face was great! Cant wait till Monday now.


• I have sent my application for uni to mum, so now it's up to her to finish everything off.


• I wanna go back to Scotland


• Going to Denmark for my birthday with Rachel Triska which should be great!


• There's another au pair in my finnish course from Sibera so meeting lot of different nationalities. Everyone in my course is around 6 years at least older.


• Icelandic family's au pair is nice - and see her at least once a week, plus she is 18!


• 99 days till christmas.


• i may get a chance to go to Sweden as well!


• Rewatching some Friends


• Finally read my Clare Mallory books.

Other then that, still missing people even though the one's I actually still talk to properly have dropped to 3 :( Werid not being at school as well, nearly a whole year without, in saying that I could not go back. Missing my family still a lot and getting to talk to them less and less.

Also what on earth is going on in NZ???

Finally it's Friday so got a whole weekend of nothing to do ;)

Confused

Ok, so once I am again back to where I have no idea what I wanna do next year.
This time it's deciding between courses (alot less decisions then that way last year.)
Primary teaching looks a lot harder to get into - but most likely more job options. Plus, do I really wanna teach teach?
Early childhood is what Kathleen did - do not really wanna copy her... Also some of my friends will be on that course and could always ask Kathleen for help. i do not think there as many job options anymore.. .
Primary is 4 years and Early Childhood 3 years.
Early childhood has more maori papers then Primary.
I have to apply really soon...
Or do I just find myself a full time job work for the year, save money and then apply? argh to many fricken choices :(

7th August 2010

11 Days till my lil sister's birthday. The only one beside's my own that I am not home for!

But no matter what I should be home in 140 days at least!!!

Ok so after not to greater week (just been me and the parents home.) nice and cruisy sure. But the reasons why I am staying finland were not here. Today it was me all day - I thought it would be the whole day till tomorrow afternoon or night. Then at 7pm I hear voice's then "Josie. Josie, where are you?" and in comes Julia all excitied and gives me a huge hug! Made my week.

So pretty much my week has been boring -particuarly compared to the last 3 weeks.

Love hearing the loudness of the kids again - though they will drive me crazy again soon!

Been waching heaps of NCIS

Scotland!!!

My favourite country so far!!!!

It was amazing I went on a MacBackpackers tour for 5 days. There were 10 of us for most of the time including a scottish guide. 3 Aussie's, 1 French Canadian, 1 Canadian, 2 Spanish, 1 Indian then me theonly Kiwi

Just a few things that happened (not just to me but to others on my tour, awesome over 8 people!):

Hiking up many hills in rain,

Sliding down in the rain not once but 3 times!

Falling down 3 and 1/2 times

Drinking

Whisky

Listening to live highland bands

Seeing the Harry Potter bridge

The train Hogwarts Express was based on.

Picked up by Navy boys

Drinking

Shots!

Snoring

Loud talking

Laughing so much your stomach hurt

Walking through a forest and spending 30 mins watching a fishermen attempt to bring in his catch.

Walking through Glen Coe

Chasing sheep away

Seeing Highland cows

Going to school

Education Centre in the middle of nowhere

Drinking

Fish n Chips

Thai Food

Sandwiches

people imitating the kiwi accent

Commando Rolling

Going on a ferry

Stirling

CASTLES

Toliet stops

Swimming in Loch Ness

Washing our faces in river for beauty and good luck

Being the 'gang' with 'our bus'

Hanging washing up on trees

Midges!

Just one of the most amazing things I have ever done and are likely to do. If you like most of those things then I highly reccommend going to Scotland and going on the tour!