Chill Day | kaksi

I was right.
The walk was not short. But getting inside the air-conditioned Teen Center was surely great! But there wasn´t much to do inside... I mean there were computer games and games like billiard and a basketball court... But I didn´t really feel like doing sports that day (hah! Like I´d ever feel like that! Bullshit!). So as creative Finns we made an escape plan! Though the success wasn´t nearly as good as in Brighton. The fact is that we were hungry and A) I didn´t want to eat some healthy cornbars and B) I had no coins left to buy them (no I wasn´t broke yet... Got only paper-money left).

Our plan was this:
1. Ask Antti if we can go for a walk to the park and get the permission to do that
2. escape through the bushes to nearest Starbucks a.k.a "Tähtidollari" in our code language
3. get back quickly and nobody would notice anything

Fly Fan in Swedish:  FUCKING ESCAPE !

I don´t even know how we thought we actually could just quickly drop by a Starbucks and get back without anybody suspecting anything! I mean this was no Europe! You don´t just quickly drop by something without a car.

Anyways we got out the Teen C Carol (the US leader) just arrived to the parking area while we were walking out the place where we were supposed to be playing games and being social. She was shocked and we had a little chat but we got to park and sat there and watched ducks swimming in a pond. After we decided to stay in a park even though I was complaining my hunger all the time.. Sorry about that. 

dream car <3

enter without any1 suspecting but then....

Our hostparents came to pic us up from teen-center and already a lot of  people had been picked up. I was chatting wit Sini inside who wasn´t sure whether her hostmum had come or not. I was already wondering when my hostmum is gonna come and then somebody came to say to me I guess Pierre or Sini or some member of staff like "Your host mum has been sitting outside the building in the car about 20 minutes :)!"

Disneyland III

This post is gonna tell you how the wonderful day in Disneyland ended not so wonderfully.

It started to get dark and we were already a bit tired and some of the rides were already closing because it was late. We were advised to get these pineapple soft-ice creams and when we finally found the place where they sell this so-called amazing ice cream, it was obvious that a few other people had also found it.  The queue was  huge!  Eventually after ages of waiting this delicacy it was our (us = me, Sini, Siiri and Amanda) turn to order. I guess all of us ordered that soft ice in a way that it´s floating in pineapple juice cause it looked cool. Now was the time to taste it! I have a perfect word to describe the experience: DISAPPOINTMENT. I like pineapple nut that was seriously too pineapple-ish. I guess people praise that painapple ice cream only because it´s horribly high price.


And that´s enough talking about ice creams! Moving on to lunch (I´m not telling this in a chronological order so u just gotta suffer... sorry not sorry.)! As people tend to do we got hungry as the time passed. We had to find something to eat and quite quickly we found this food bar (?) near Indiana Jones ride. Me and Sini chose to take chicken skewers! I was excited cause the smell was good and I really needed to eat. I made my order and they quickly gave me my coke and the skewer. It´s a shame that I hadn´t yet bought eyeglasses because now was the time when I really would have needed them. That freaking "skewer" was only about 6 inches long! Yess I have heard about economic depression and cuts but how am I supposed the get full from that... I mean there was more coke (which sadly wasn´t cherry a.k.a kerry coke) than actual food. Well we only laughed about this whole thing and in fact they tasted great.

Now it was really dark. You´ve probably heard that parades in Disneyland are amazing. Well I don´t know about the parades during the day but the parade I saw in the evening was amazing! All the bright lights and just wow! The famous firework show was about to start and the Disneyland crew was guiding people to walk closer to the center of the park so after the fireworks they would be able to get everyone out. Of course we didn´t want to follow their orders so we went to a shop and walked where we wanted through shops. I bought a Mickey Mouse necklace for my sis from one of the shops. I hate buying souvenirs.

AND NOW IT WAS TIME FOR THE FIREWORK SHOW!!!!!! Each one of the visitors were gathered around the central something in front of this castle. We waited and waited. And waited. The we heard this announcement: "Due to technical problems the firework spectacle is cancelled." Our reaction was that it must be a joke.. Like of course and soon it would start. But no... It really was cancelled. I was pissed off. And that led to a situation where I ended up angrily and very slowly eating a chocolate muffin and drinking kerry outside the school buss on a parking area. Now you are wondering why the hell I didn´t go inside the bus. Well, my loves, I was there at first until I was told to go outside or stop eating cause it was prohibited in our buss. All other drivers allowed it but not ours. So I was like "OK then. You won´t go anywhere until I´ve eaten this muffin and drank all my coke. Just to remind you I ate only that tiny skewer and painapple ice cream.

All in all the trip was amazing though and you should definitely go there!

The 4th of July -part 1

The 4th of July!

I assume that you all know the meaning of this date! Exactly! It´s my mom´s birthday! Happy 30th birthday Mama!! <3

There´s also another celebration on this day that you may have heard of. It´s maybe slightly more known world-widely but almost as big as the previously mentioned celebration, at least to me! It´s the independence day of the United States of America! This day was one of those reasons why I chose this course. And I must say (even tho boasting stinks) that I chose really well!

We spent this day wit our host-families and did whatever they usually do on independence days.The main thing we were supposed to do this day was going to a park and help doing stuff with the boy scouts, watch firework and just chill and stroll around the market thing.

Before that we were pitching (?) a baseball ball on the home street for a while! It was really fun cause you can see people doing that in American movies and eventually break something with the ball. I was feeling like an American kid even though I didn´t break anything with that ball. I only heard stories about some incidents from the past when it comes to pitching and neighbors shouting. 

Later on, after we got bored with throwing the ball, Josh got an idea that we should go to "Baseball cages". It´s a place where you are able to practice your baseball hits. they shoot balls towards you from these machines and you just gotta try to hit it and do it as well as you can. It was really fun except that my hands started to hurt after a while but it was really nothing. I just gotta find something negative too to be a real Finn. Pierre got really good hits!!!! #JustSaying


-Party in the U.S.A -Miley Cyrus 

PS. Sorry that I write these in different parts but so much happened every day that if I wrote everything on the same post it would be at least 20miles long!  

Ha! Gayyy!

So I was gonna write this post about my 2nd day in California but then I heard something not so nice and I decided to write about it.

So I just got to know that people have been gossiping behind my back... Or maybe not gossiping but saying things. And what they have said is kind of childish. So, I heard from many people that guys from certain countries have been wondering if I´m gay or not. And I was actually laughing when I heard that cause I mean really!? You are travelling 10 hours to the other side of the world and when you get there you will just wonder in your small groups if somebody is gay! I wouldn´t bother doing that when I have all California around me!

Another thing is that I do not care about people´s sexual orientations! We are living in the 21st century and the only thing you really have to remember is that if you are nice to me I´ll be nice to you. But if that question really bothered your minds so much you could have just asked me! But apparently some people just preferred to talk about it behind my back. Oh well go ahead then!

It´s just not that big part of our culture to talk about sex and/with girls all the time... It just doesn´t make you gay if you are not desperately trying to find a girl to kiss from a language course´s disco...

My point here is that you should never assume anything about the person by their looks or by the way they talk or anything else. I know it´s hard and I admit that I kinda "judge" people by the looks but I do not start talking behind their backs! Because that is how nasty and stupid rumors spread! There was 1 person that I thought that might be gay cause he was winking his eye and he had an earring. But hey 1. It´s really stupid to even think like I did just cause of those two things. 2. His sexual orientation is actually none of my business and 3. I didn´t start talking behind his back with my friends even though I had my suspicions.

Okay I was joking with a guy from somewhere about the "hot nights" with me and Pierre but still... You just gotta find the line between a joke and the truth.

And if you really are that eager to know the answer to that question come to ask me face2face

"If you´re talking behind my back, don´t forget that you´re in a great position to kiss my ass" -Kim, my amazing hostmum