Jello, Pop-Tarts and Reese´s!!!

Hey!
I'm back!
The snow is still outside and my hair is still blue.
Although not as nice dark blue, but rathe light blue gray green with something.
Soon they will anyway gray.
Away from this subject, anyway nobody is interrested in this.

It has become a bit warmer, close to 0 degrees.
But that does not stop the snow.
But at a certain point, the white mass is a normality.
My Finnish is better, I can say simple things.
But I still have problems with the sentences, so I always missing a word.
But that is still determined.
I'm not going to Lapland in March, because it is too expensive.
Mona don´t go also  for the same reason.
But maybe we can do something together soon.
In my opinion we are no longer separable, we have become almost sisters,, even though we are incredibly different.
Mona loves  manga and anime, as well as K-Pop and conventions.
Her favorite color is blue.
I prefer vampires and zombies, hear punk and alternative.
My favorite color is black.
So we both are very different.
But I think that here in Finland you need a very good friend, otherwise you are alone and depressed.

This isolation, the many trees and the cold with all that snow can make you crazy already, although it can also be beautiful.
But the warmer months are better .
I have now found the American department in the large-S market in Kuopio.
There you will find Jello, Pop-Tarts and Reese's.
That makes me happy.

Maybe I'll soon pick something there.
Otherwise I can not currently say a lot about the life in Finland.
Maybe that winter is incredibly long and you need a hobby.
Knitting or books  are not bad.
Maybe learn to bake or cook.
Families bake here very often and also incredibly good.
I hope this helps a bit.
Many Greetings :-)

Bake a cake!!!!

It is not always easy to find something I could write about it.
So Mona was with me and we had done a lot of funny things.
We baked a rainbow cake, because we still had so much food color.
We also had made Bread, for the hamburger.
When, we watched movies, and we had a chocolate fondue with fruit.
Some ice was there too.

 
Since we had planned to do something for our body, we had also made ​​a workout on Friday and Saturday.
This has earned us a lot of soreness.
Oh, the cake tasted very good,  this time it was really good.
I am currently looking for a university place for future study.
My sister has to soon enroll at their university, and then I thought that I should do  sometimes researches.
But I can not decide.
Maybe England or Ireland, no idea.
But I've heard that universities in Finland should also be quite good.
So if you want to study abroad, Finland is also a good way.
If one wants to know, I've already been burned again, but not to the heater,  a cup that I had put in the microwave.

But I had the oven door on the weekend again unhooked and Mona thought that was very funny.
Yesterday I´ve made a sauna fire and it burned very well.

 
I'm proud of myself.
So this is it so far!

Hey, ho!!!!!

I'm still alive!
I know I have not written a long time, but I will do this with this.
It is still cold and the snow is still here.
I was shopping in the meantime in Kuopio and I've also bought a great dress.

But I have not found shoes.
I was trying to lose some weight, but that is not so easy when you are on an abroad year.
But for the 3 pounds so far, it has really worth.
Sweets are unfortunately always so tasty.
In school, it's normal.
Mona and I have stopped eating school meals, as it is usually the same and always will be boring.

 
This weekend Mona comes back to me and stayed with me.
I'm so excited, we want to cook again.
Let's see if the kitchen then still stands.
On Tuesday we were iceskating in physical education.
I got to play teacher for Mona because I can skate some.

 
The week before we had to go skiing.
It was very stressful for me.
Unfortunately, I have not more to say!
PS: Here you have to always wear gloves in the winter.
Do not play the hero, no matter how strong you are, here you need gloves.
Fingers are important!

Snow in Finland

In German!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now i want to write something in German, in fact of that i´m in Finland for a half year!

Hallo an meine Freunde, meine Familie, an andere Austauschschüler und interessierte Leser!
Ich bin nun ca.5 Monate hier!

Ehrlich gesagt, kommt es mir gar nicht so lange vor.
Ich hab mich so ziemlich gut eingelebt und möchte auch nicht mehr zurück nach Deutschland.
Ich weiß nicht wie es den anderen von YFU geht, doch ich denke, die haben so ziemlich das selbe Gefühl.
Na klar vermisse ich ein paar Sachen wie meine Shoppingausflüge oder einfach mal ins Eiscafe zu gehen, doch Finnland hat auch seine Vorteile.
Zurzeit haben wir hier Winter und es liegt meiner Meinung nah viel Schnee!
In meinem Dorf kann man nicht sonderlich viel Sport machen ( Winter und kaum Möglichkeiten) also nehme ich mit Schneeschippen und Yoga vorlieb!

Ich denke, dass man hier nicht wirklich zunimmt, da die Finnen einigermaßen sehr gesund leben.
Man trinkt viel Milch, isst Obst und Gemüse und bewegt sich oft in der Natur, ob zum Pilze sammeln oder wandern.
Das Essen hier ist auch nicht so verschieden von dem deutschen Essen.
Hier und da gibt es natürlich unterschiede und es kommt auch auf die Familie und den Ort an, doch man kommt mit dieser Umstellung gut klar.
Die Süßigkeiten sind oft eine große Falle, da sie so gut schmecken und wenn man auch noch ein Eis-Fan ist, hat man ganz verloren :-)

Die Schulen sind hier viel mehr Schülerfreundlich.
Die Lehrer kümmern sih viel mehr um einen und es gibt auch nicht so viele Schüler in einer Klasse!
Hinzu gibt es kostenloses Essen in der Schule und das lohnt sich auch, wenn man fast alles davon mag.
Sonst fährt man sehr viel mit dem Auto, da die Städte meist etwas weiter von einander entfernt liegen.
Da fährt man dann shon ca. 30km zum Großeinkauf.
Die Preise sind auch höher als in Deutschland, aber darauf muss man sich einstellen, wenn man sich für ein Auslandsjahr in Finnland entscheidet.
Das Finnisch lernen ist nicht sehr einfach.
Ich hab damit meine Schwierigkeiten.

Es kommt wahrsheinlich auch daher, da ich in einem Dorf lebe und nicht in der Großstadt.
Hinzu habe ich auch kein Sprachkurs wie manch anderer.
Der Start um diese Sprahe zu lernen, ist nicht immer ganz einfach.
Doch man lernt schnell die gängigen Wörte wie "Hallo" (Moi, Terve)oder "Danke"(Kiitos).
Wenn man auch noch einen Hund in der Familie hat, lernt man auch sehr schnell die Befehlswörter!
Den ultimativen Kulturschock hatteich bis jetzt noch nicht und ich denke, dass der nicht mehr kommen wird.
Ich kann nur sagen, dass man an Antimückenspray denken sollte, da hier unheimlich viele Mücken im Sommer sind!
Kirschen im Glas, Wackelpudding und Spekulatius gibt es hier nicht.

Wenn man ganz viel Glück hat, findet man so etwas bei Lidl.
Im allgemeinen sind die Familien beim Essen kochen sehr multikulti eingestellt.
Man sieht oft Sushi, chinesisches Essen oder auch mexikanisches Essen auf dem Tisch, doch Fisch ist meist auch sehr oft vertreten.
Im Winter wird sehr viel Glögi getrunken und die Würste fürs Lagerfeuer müssen schon fast Holzkohle sein, sonst shmeken sie nicht so gut.
Pfannenkuchen wird im Ofen gebacken und von sämtlichen Beeren kann man sich nicht fernhalten!

Ich denke, dass war erst einmal genug fürden Anfang!
Wenn ihr fragen habt, dann stellt sie mir einfach :-)

Viele Grüße aus dem kalten Finnland !!!

Back to normal!!!

Today I had to go back to school, a day after the New Years Day!
I'm still very tired.

 
Seems to come from the holidays.
New Year's Eve celebration is quite differently than in Germany. 
We don´t decorate the house and don´t hug us at 12 clock.
But we had fireworks.
We ate sausages, bread and sushi!
Delicious sushi!
In the evening, I also had skyping with my family in Germany.
I'm healthy again, was only a short cold.
Was well enough for me.
It has become a bit warmer in Finland.
We fluctuate since the past few days between the plus and minus degrees!
The snow has also become even more difficult.

 
I push the snow around here sometimes.
Soon I want to start with yoga and if there is no snow, I want to go jogging again.
In my opinion, the holidays were a bit too short, on the other hand, I do not know what I will do as long we don´t have school.

 
Well, back in March, there are holidays again.
By then, the snow remain are well!
I hope you all had a great New Years Eve and have a few things for the new year to make.
I want to improve my Finnish (much better!).
I also tried to bake again, but it was a big problem.
I burned  the cake!!!

Here are some other pictures:

My gingerbread house!

Yeah, it´s true! Minus 23 degrees!!!

Lots of snow, my legs are nearly away!

Firework