#TB Brighton Moments

So here are some throwback Brighton moments that I can never forget. Enjoy!

1. Accidentally stealing the window seat on a plain. The seat was meant to be Ville´s but apparently I didn´t have a clue how to read my boarding pass so I just sat there... Awkward enough? No! I even told Ville how lucky I was to get the window seat! Way to go Jaakko!

2. Meeting my roommate Hugo. I misunderstood what my hostdad said to me so I thought Hugo was also from Finland. That´s why I greeted him in Finnish with cheery "Moikka! Mä oon Jaakko" and after that he tells me he is from Sweden....

3. Desperately trying to find Anna who I had talked to on Kik and My EF... Found her in the end of the 2nd day even though she was sitting almost next to me in the airplane and we even looked at each other for several seconds there.

4. Getting to know to my teacher. He´s name was (well I think still is) Asim and while I was thinking about the name I tried to pronounce it aloud and said loudly and clearly "ASS-IM". I guess he hated me after that.

5. Getting a total score of -50 points on quiz for pressing the buttons too many times which annoyed the teacher.

6. Playing football on EF Arena! As I hate foorball but I was kinda forced to play I kicked the ball into a rosebush. For some reason I didn´t have to play anymore...

7. Partying by the pool! I was joking that maybe Im going to fall into a pool during the pool party in Lewis. After the pool party my clothes, money and phone had visited the pool. Damn those wild Italians!

8. Trying to help somebody with their phone at the beach but instead breaking it completely. Poor woman but for my defence Im not an IT wizard.

9. Escaping from the EF Megadisco. I was too tired and wanted to leave but we couldn´t. So we told that our last bus was leaving and we had to get to it. Our leader wanted to make sure that we are really going to the bus but we escaped from him.

10. The last day. This Swedish guy bit my shoulder at the airport "so I would always remember him". Im surely never be able to forget him though and it´s not only due to that bite.

++ Eating cake in Royal Pavillion park with my mates <3

Brighton Accommodation

Nowadays I haven´t even thought about going to live on a campus kind of thing. So I´ve contacted my former host family and asked if it would be possible to live with them during my 3-week-stay. I also contacted my local EF office in Helsinki and I have a strong feeling thatthings are gonna work out just perfectly! 

I´m a bit scared though cos going back there won´t be same as in 2014. Even though it´s the same city and possibly the same host family the other people there will be different and I´ll be 2 years older than last time I visited the place. The influence that others, like teachers, leaders and EF students, have on the trip is huge! 

If I get to stay with my last host family I´ll probably stay there alone cause they weren´t supposed to take  any students this year. That will also be really different from my last experiences.

Brighton Calling !!!!

Hey yall! 

Today I ain´t gonna write about California. Today I´m gonna tell about stuff that the future is gonna bring. So I had already decided that I´m not gonna book another language trip  but eventually I ended up booking a 3-week-course to Hastings with my sis. Unfortunately the coolest part of it got cancelled, a trip to Paris.

Cos we really wanted to get to Paris, we had only two options left; Brighton and Oxford. I thought about Oxford but then with my sis we decided that Brighton it is. As you might know I was in Brighton in summer 2014 and it was truly amazing! Now I´m really happy to show the hometown of Adele to my little sister.  

Back2School

Since I skipped that one school day I had no idea what the others had done in school that day. I´m deeply saddened to inform you that my mates took advantage of my state of ignorance as they convinced me what they had planned for the FarWell party.

So I was told that the Finnish crew had decided to connect the "traditional" side of Finland with something a bit courageous and naughty. According to that plan I was supposed to play Santa Claus and the others would be elves and we would dance and sing a Finnish Christmas song called "Tonttujen Jouluyö" (english lyrics: here). But the girls would be like "dirty" elves and the song would be sang in a really sexual-sounding way especially the "Tip  Tap" part.  And of course the dance wouldn´t be completely innocent either.

I don´t know why but I gullibly bought all that. For my defense I´ll say that I had my doubts about that but Siiri and Sini were just too convicing.


RIP