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I got a twitter!

Idk how often I'll use it but follow me anyway.

Yeah too lazy for English. Practise your Finnish-Babelfish-English skills or something.

Jea eli tossahan toi joulukuu humpsahti, stressiä, stressiä, vittuhajoopää, vaikka oikeesti en ees osaa stressata saati kiroilla. Partio tunki aika pahasti päälle kun lippukuntalehden jonka päätoimittaja oon deadline oli joulujuhla, jossa olin toisena pääjärkkääjänä. Sit oli koeviikkoo, koulun ison näytelmäprojun ekoja kokouksia (jatkossa kulkee nimellä Linko), paketointia Ruotsin vaihtoa varten ja tietty joulu. Miikka oli gines eli kines eli kiinni valtiolla joulukuun alusta asti uuteen vuoteen, eli väisti ovelasti kaikki siivoukset ja muut. Kukapa muukaan täällä ois sit mitään tehny, nii joulusiivous ja laatikot ja kinkku oli kaikki tuttuun tapaan by meityli.

Varsinainen aatto oliki sit yllättävän jees, mitä nyt oli pientä peruskähinää kiitos porukoiden. Lahjat oli vielä enemmän jees, kunnon kirjoja ja puukko ja lapaset, kyllä näillä kevääseen pärjää. Sit heti tapaninpäivän jälkeen lähinki partionjohtajan peruskurssille, missä tutustuin ekaa kertaa tyyppiin, joka oikeesti oikeesti oikeesti otti päähän ja pahasti. Sen luokan ryhmätyökyvyttömyyttä, yksipuolisia näkökantoja, kykenemättömyyttä ymmärtää vertauskuvia ja olematonta luku- ja kirjoitustaitoa en oo aikuisella ihmisellä ennen nähny. Lähes ihmeellistä. Mut ne loput 11 kurssilaista olikin sitten aivan mahtavaa ja ältsin sikasiistiä porukkaa, jonka kanssa tuli tosi hyvin juttuun, vaikka kurssin keski-ikä olikin jotain kolmenkympin hujakoilla ja vaikka kolmekymppisiä oli vain yksi.

Sen jälkeen oonki pitäny yllä tällasta terveellistä kahentoista tunnin yöunta, neljästä neljään. Tosin näköjään nyt tuli valvottua vielä vähän pidempään, äiti lähti jo töihin tunti sitten meinaan. Mut kattelin tässä ens kevään projuja nii näihin se mun aika sit varmaan menee. Aika tuttua kamaa kyllä mut myös jotain uutta.

A list about what will I do and talk about this spring, so maybe you'll understand a bit more about my future wordburps.

- Vanhojentanssit, this hella big national prom thing that every Finnish girl waits for since 4 years old. Mine's next February, and I don't feel too good about this. So many dances to practise, have no idea about shoes or hair or jshjsfbvsjkb. At least I have a pair and a dress (it looks like this: http://www.nexteve.com/shop/ballgowns/F6356.html).
- Scouting, of course. Now that I have been in this scouting leader course thing, I have to do the leading project part of it. Plus some scouting skills competitions, wilderness skills course 2 and whatever else.
- A children's play my school is doing with a local amateur theater. I'm scriptwriting, making setup and writing lyrics for the songs. The play's got cool music, nice stories from all over the world and funny characters this far. I really really like making it.
- Stockholm and Eskilstuna exchange project. A lot of fundraising for 4 days there. Idk how I got in with my grades, but there am I going.
- Next summer's cosplay! I'm making Haruko from FLCL, already got the pvc and pattern for the jacket, haha.

Plus everything else I'll get myself into. Huh.

I apologise for the lack of pictures from Lithuania, but I plan on posting them as soon as possible. First I have to rant a bit.

I have lost all my motivation for learning Swedish, apart from the fact that to become a teacher I have to pass the bureaucrat Swedish course in uni. It's just that this is my fifth year of "studying" it, and I've never wanted to. It's so irritating that even if my own mother tongue is such a useless minority language, I have to learn another, instead of, for example, some that I could use in more than one country or maybe even be interested in it.

The Swedish I learnt back in upper elementary school was nothing to the amount we were supposed to learn. They didn't even teach us that much. And in the first course in high school we run through those basic things (that I haven't learnt), and I have only fell behind more and more after that. The teachers are expecting us to be close to fluent by now, and I still can't even properly introduce myself.

I'm in the fourth course right now, and I doubt I will pass this one. I've got 5, 5 and 6 from the past courses (10 is the best and 4 is failed), and in the latest one I got a different teacher that actually could teach and I managed to get a better grade. But now I'm back having this horrible excuse of a teacher that seems to think me as a lost cause already. I don't even know, she just has this fetish for rikssvenska and when she teaches something, she teaches about the correct pronunciation. Otherwise her lessons are straight abstract and fkgbvaödkfnv.

This wouldn't bug me that much if I wouldn't need the language in uni. But it irks me even more that after that I will not need it at all, so suffering through nine courses of it seems just unbearable. Though from those nine courses only five are obligatory, so I could do just five and forget about the language forever... until I have that bureaucrat course ahead of me. So I should do nine courses and possibly even the grand big exams for it, not because I'd need it for life, but because I'd need it for school.

Of course maybe more than half of the stuff I learn in high school is completely useless in life, but I'd like to think that I learn languages to use them someday. Or if not, then just for fun. But Swedish doesn't hit either of those reasons, and here am, having no motivation.

TL;DR SOMEONE TELL ME A REASON TO STUDY SWEDISH

It snowed last week in four different days but this was the only one that stayed to the next day. But it's long gone now, too.

I'm writing this in Kaunas, Lithuania since I kind of messed up with the cities and thought until today that we'd be going to Vilnius. But we're possibly visiting it in Friday.

I don't have much to say about the place yet, since we arrived tonight. But our hotel is about the same we expected it to be and the language sounds cool.

My cousin wants to sleep know so gotta end short. I'll write more when I've seen more (and maybe upload some pics too)!

Our school had this yearly something-like-a-prom thing last Friday (it exists to celebrate our school's birthday), and there was a lot of music as always and one band played this quite, eh, political song there and I heard it for the first time and liked it (the fact that they changed the lyrics a bit to fit it to the recent "reformations" in our school helped). So I made a fail translation of it for you to enjoy too.

I'm kind of surprised how fine I'm doing. I was actually pretty worried about Miikka (the big bro) going to the army, since for last four years we have done pretty much all laundry and cooking and cleaning in this house just two of us together. The other three members of our family have their problems, "problems", reasons and "reasons" for not doing anything, but often it's just 'cos they're so lazy.

So after Miikka left, all the housework has been on me. But I made some changes to our routines (cooking enough food for two days so I don't have to cook every day, not setting the table and using the saved time to empty the dishwasher etc) and somehow I have less to do than before. This is nice.

To other things: Today I finished knitting a scarf I started last week, it's now about 5 cm broad and 3,5 meters long and it changes colour softly (from turquoise to pine green to mustard to white to salmon) and it's merino wool and I love it.

We have this new Spanish teacher in our school, and it's kind of weird how she made me want to continue studying Spanish again. I've been planning to study four courses of it (because this expensive book we had to buy has four courses) and it has been really hard at times because the book is so bad and the former teacher didn't like me and I grew not to like Spanish. But the new teacher's lessons are actually funny and she makes us do something else than translate those damn sentences so I've been thinking to continue studying the language after all. But the problem is that I don't have space for that in my timetable, or actually I do have but that would mean I'd be in school from 8 am to 3 or 4 pm indefinitely. Plus I'd have to buy a new expensive book and after those next four courses it would be smarter for me to do those Grand and Very Important exams also about Spanish. And that is something I certainly don't have space or time for.

Also, some actually happy news! I'm going to visit Kausas, Lithuania (possibly Vilna too) with my aunt and his husband and my cousin in our fall break. Precisely I'll be there from 20th to 23rd November. Ahh I can't wait ;3;

Now off to sleep /o/


//I forgot to say! The wedding I was at last weekend was bilingual, Finnish and Swedish. And it was really cute how the Finnish groom's family tried to speak as much Swedish as possible and the Swedish(-speaking, she was a Finnish Swede) bride's family used all the Finnish they knew.  :)

So the summer is over and school has already started two weeks ago. I came back from my cousin's wedding just a couple of hours ago and I'm feeling particularly nostalgic towards the trip last June since I've been browsing my picture folder of Germany for an hour and I'm now eating a Nutella bread and wearing a Bochum hoodie I got from my host family back then. So here it starts:

( VERY image heavy )


I think I might later post something about the rest of my summer but I think this is far more than enough for now. Spanish homework, here I come!


Also, check this out:

Rutto, the boffering group I fought with in Sohu this year, had that kind of thing yesterday. Well, actually it started around 10 pm at Friday night with good food and beer. We were at one guy's summer cottage which was huge and had a good sauna and was next to a lake that had really clear water. We went to the sauna around 1 am and after that it was switching between it and the lake until 6 am.

There were ten of us, eight boys and two girls and uhh, just saying that it's good I've pretty much grown up with them because otherwise my mind could be somehow, well, shattered. Underestimation of the year, but their humour is a bit... direct.

The most intellectually nourishing moment of the weekend might have been the conversation with Niko, a coming-to-be philosophy major. It was maybe 11 am in Saturday morning and we were waiting for others to suffer from hangovers while talking about poetry and world and differences and making cone cows.

Monday morning I'll go to Kajaani with my family to send Miikka off to military service. It's 362 mornings ahead for him, mwahahaha. After that we'll go to Ii, Northern Finland to meet my cousins and stuff, and I'll come back alone Saturday 17th. Next day we'll go to Åland with my scouting group and after that is Ropecon, a role playing-centered con in Espoo. Then is Kilke, a national scouting camp that lasts for ten days and then it's a couple of days and school starts.

Will I be a little bit busy or what.



Also, after Sotahuuto my wrist started to hurt (all the sudden boffing after a month-long break?) and now it's beginning to really annoy me. Arrgh.

So I came back from Germany over a week ago, but I have been too busy with this flu and Sotahuuto, the biggest boffering event in Finland that was last weekend, to post the picspam I promised. This will not be it either, since I'm now in the Turku archipelago with my family. We've been here since Sunday now, and we're now in Kittuis, in the island of Houtskär. The sunsets are beautiful and people friendly. Their Swedish is cute but Finnish awkward.

I would post pictures but I'm on my phone so LJ doesn't let me.

It felt like an open air gig.

Except I'm now covered in beer.