Wens 31st March 2010

Had pasta (spaghitti) with a sauce which contained meat tonight for tea, yum!

Helped make a castle, and is offically a jungle gym to Mr Jasse.

Rained today, took 10mins to get the kids out of the nursery not that I am complaining ;)

Nearly had snow and ice fall on me twice now, rather scary!

Umm...

They are having a witch easter party tomorrow at the nursery.

Talked to a German on Facebook, was very hard to understand. As I said normal things in english but she took them in a completely different way.

Later that day

Had spinach soup for tea :( with hard boiled egg. So I had toast afterwards.

Bad day working...

5 year olds do not like having au pairs in their homes by the sound of it.

Being an au pair is not an easy thing, worth it but hard.

For starters you shift to a different country; to join a family which sometimes like mine may not have an au pair in awhile and if so it is hard to become a member of it. Which can take awhile to join.

Secondly children do not always easily accept someone new to be in charge. Lots of uphill and downhill work there.

I'm sure there is alot more but can not think at the moment as I am tired.

30th March 2010 an average day

Well mum complained I did not put enough on my blog. In my opinion I am not doing interesting enough stuff as of yet.

I had my first pre cooked meal with the family last night it was rice, LIVER and rasins. I decided I dislike liver.

I am slowly starting to understand swedish (I know Im in Finland but they speak Swedish at home - besides to me.)

I am trying many different types of food. Such as deer. The pork tastes different here.

My average day goes I wake up around 8am, so 6pm NZ time now. Stay in my room till everyone has gone normally around 9am. But not today for some werid reason. Have breakfast, talk to mum on skype, then go have a shower and unload the dishwasher and hang up the washing. Come back and talk to mum for a bit longer and then go get Cessi, Jasse and Mia from nursery.

We normally then play outside for half an hour or longer on a good day 2 hours. Otherwise we then go inside and play games or make finger puppets or do something. Then I prepare a fruit snack at 2pm.

After they stay playing inside and I play to till whatever parent comes home first between 4-5pm.

I then generally go for a walk towards the city center or train station wwhich are in the same direction so I do not get lost and this walk takes an hour :)

Often I have been posting a letter at the same time.

I have no idea what I am going to do for easter as it sounds like I have a 4 day holiday...

Generally though my day is good.

Helsinki

Is so awesome!

Lots of old archeiture (sp)!

McDonalds (which has McFlurries), a pizza Hut.

Huge shopping centers, a place thats very easy to get lost in. Trams everywhere.

Jewllary stores that give you wine with out asking for ID

No snow well much just lots of rain!

Oh well good fun

Wenesday 24th March 2010

So not to much happening...

Working and going for walks...

The grandparents leave tomorrow so that will be good.

Can go back to last weeks routine then :)

Then I will be able to pick all the meals I eat besides tea! Some of the food the grandmother has cooked on the whole has been nice... Just not what I have wanted at that point and time.

And I will then be able to start working properly again!

Watching LOTS of Digimon and Friends...

Love you all

Olivia's Birthday

Today is Olivia's birthday... I gave her a kiwi which is one english word she said on her first try.

Been rather busy, meet an Aussie the other night and they have buses here that go a 1.20am!!!

Yea I actually went on it, was pretty fun lots of people were on it to.

Here they have to join the army when they are 19 for 6 months at least. Part of the uniform is this hoodie thing, and they still wear the old uniform hats for snow like the Russians.

There is a forest just down the road from were I am living, you have to stick to the path otherwise you end up thigh deep in snow.

Went on the train for the first time, was pretty cool. I had to ask how to pay as they do not have ticket people you just have to swipe your travel card.

I am finally now not getting lost and even managed to get all the way to a shopping center by myself :)

The snow is slowly melting and turning into slush. I made my first snowman to have Jasse sit on it a moment later. He likes trying to make me lose my temper. Which has not worked yet.

Photos from the 19th

outside the train station in Helsinki

Cessi and Mia with their colour cooridnated dolls

and again

snow first thing in the morning :) winter wonderland