I've spend all week keenly watching children's movies in Swedish together with my notebook and pen. ;) it's quite amazing how much I can understand solely from the other languages I'm already able to speak, though it's much much easier if I also have the subtitles to read while listening to how the words are being said.
- by the way, did you see this new Disney Version of "'Rapunzel"? If not, take some minutes and watch it - it's awesome and well worth being seen. :)
The language course is going on, though now my German Au Pair friend decided that she won't be coming anymore, but concentrate fully on learning Finnish instead, but no worries, for as always and wherever I go in this nordic country, I found another German girl to talk to and help each other with mastering the Finnish instructions on learning Swedish xD anyways it's still sad that in the end we couldn't pull through together, as we planned to, so good luck and all the best for learning Finnish, Christin! :)
Today is the first day that feels kinda cold here up north. These last days it was quite fresh during the day, but in the late afternoon the sun always tended to warm up the area again and rise the temperatures over 20°C...just hoping that snow's not coming yet ;)
Lately I've also found these Danish cookies at "Tiger", one great store to find anything you would not expect to buy when going shopping xD
...it reads "These butter cookise are from Denmark, a small country full of fairytales, kings and queens...and a rather large export of bacon. Our queen lives in a castle guarded by soldiers wearing bearskin hats. The queen loves her sausage dogs, and they love Danish butter cookies for breakfast...I imagine. I also imagine how the vikings would eat cookies in the afternoon. I eat mine in the evening with a nice glass of cold milk...enjoy yours - as you like"
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Last weekend I wanted to go to Tracon 8, one of Finland's bigger conventions, held in Tampere-talo, but since I did not reserve a ticket one month ahead, it was sold out by the time I arrived. In the evening, however, I gave it another try, as I wanted to attend the after-party and Overworld's first-time-playing-in-Finland gig --> and, YESS, I got in! ;D I went alone, so I started talking to some girls that seemed sympathetic and set myself a challenge with that - for I talked to them in Finnish only. After one and a half hour we came to talk about our homes and one of the girls asked if I'm coming from a swedish-speaking part of Finland, because of my accent.
GODDAMNIT, I'M SO PROUD OF NOT BEING ASSUMED AS A FOREIGNER ANYMORE, BUT A FINN FROM A SWEDISH-SPEAKING PART OF THIS CO'UNTRY! :D :D
...and with that I made new friends and got to know some people from Tampere, Helsinki and Espoo, of which some belonged to 2 bands I've already been hearing from. :) Jenlayn and Karmia - check them out!
Overworld's show itself was really great! I've already been hearing how amazing it would be beforehand and my expectations were all fulfilled. I got carried away with the beat and ended up quite exhausted after all the dancing, singing and headbanging.
(can you find me here? ;) )
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Wanna hear what's coming up next?
- Going to Rovaniemi, cross the Arctic Circle and meet Santa Claus. ;)
That's the plan for the following weekend. This morning I met with Christin at the library to plan our trip and check the books for advices, sights and stuff to do. Now, I'm all into travelling xD looking forward so much to getting to know a new area and taking one step closer to the north pole.
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