Universal Studs ... *STUDIOS | uno

Okay I guess I´ve told you guys about almost every organised trip we´ve had and this one is gonna be the last of ´em all. Universal Studios a.k.a Universal Studs (as I accidentally wrote at first but didn´t want to correct it ´cos it gave me a good laugh!)

Once again we dragged our asses to the beloved yellow buses and off we went. After ages spent in a traffic-jam we finally saw the gates of the promised land! The long wait was rewarded almost immediately as we headed to Universal Studios studio tour! It was truly exciting and amazing to get a peek inside the scenery and set of different movies.

For instance I got to see the Town Hall from the movie "Back to the Future" and some streets from London and a rural town from Latin America. They also showed how some special effects work there. For example while passing that little town it just started to rain suddenly and thunder and volumes of water were billowing towards us splashing everywhere.

The Day When a Fan Abused Me :(

This most unpleasant yet expected event took place on a dark and rainy day in my bedroom. The heading may give you a completely wrong kind of picture what actually happened so please don´t start imagining any funny business going on in my bedroom.

The thing is that I woke up and tried to get out of the upper bed but didn´t quite succeed. You see, the ceiling fan hit my head... Or well maybe I hit it with my head but anyways I won´t recommend to star your morning like that.

The odd thing was that it was actually raining. It was a very  dry season and it hadn´t rained at all during our stay there. Rain was really refreshing after all and we just stayed inside and listened to the rain and played Xbox and listened to Spotify.

Eating Out With My Wintershoes

Ludo was enjoying the hot tub with other boys. Then he looked at me and Jossu and winked his eye and asked if I wanna come to swim. I laughed and said the truth that I hate water so I wouldn´t come. Jossu had a sunburn so she couldn´t swim either + she had no swimming suit with her.... Tho I guess the French wouldn´t have minded... 

Instead of staying by the pool we asked if Tim could drop us to a nearby shopping mall. It wasn´t that big but it was something. We decided to go and fins a place to eat. It was really warm day and for some stupid reason I had decide to wear my Converse shoes which I bought from Camarillo. Unfortunately after a while of walking and searching for the place where to eat my feet were sweating like pigs and the shoes also abraded a lot. We walked around the shopping area maybe twice and found nothing. Eventually we found ourselves in a pizzeria and yeah the pizza was good but there were maybe slightly too much cheese in them.

When we got back home the French boys were inside playing GTA. Me and Jossu were so tired after walking under the burning sun that swimming sounded like a dream now, We jumped to the refreshing water and enjoyed it not feeling like pigs anymore. You should have seen Pierre´s friends´ faces when they looked at us swimming there when while ago we had assured that we wouldn´t be swimming in any occasions. They joined us and we had fun playing in the pool. After that we went to the living room and watched a movie.

Pierre´s Poolparty

My roommate Pierre wanted to have a pool-party at our backyard. He invited all the French guys (I guess) and I was supposed to invite Finnish girls. For some reason Finnish squad wasn´t too keen on coming to this party... I wonder why.

It was weekend so I woke up late and when I finally go out of the bed I got to find out that all the guests had already arrived. I dragged myself to kitchen in my pajamas and brewed some coffee while truing to realize what is happening. Saying good morning to people was awkward cos my voice was so harsh after sleep.

I wanted to have a friend with me too ´cos I don´t understand French and it´s kinda hard to join a group if you can´t speak the language. Fortunately Jossu had nothing to do so she came to hang out with me. Me and Jossu sat down by the pool and watched while the French guys played basketball or something in the pool. I took a video while they tried a cool trick where they passed the ball to one another and the last one would jump from the waterfall-cliff and shoot the hoop.

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 :)!"

Meeting my Hostfamily ft. Lida

Our bus drove to Thousand Oaks teen center and I saw hosfamilies waiting there with different kinds of signs! Some of them even had balloons with them! It looked so unreal!

When we came out of the bus I was sonervous.. What if I couldn´t recognise my family? Would it be better to just hide behind the bus? What should I do now? Iida was nervous too because she had just a day ago got an information that she would be staying a few days with somebody called ´Gary´ cause her own family was on vacation somewhere. 

THERE! I saw my hostfamily! Well actually I saw only Tim and Josh cause Kim was somewhere in Europe and Lily was in Australia. The nervousness (?) inside me was getting bigger all the time while Tim and Josh were walking closer. I didn´t see my hostbro anywhere and my head was full of thoughts like "Am I the 1st one? Well porpably not with my luck... Maybe he didn´t want to see me... or maybe he changed family away from me ASSDHFHJGKHÖL help me! Try not to embrace yourself now!" We shook hands (yes I didn´t just nod) and they told me that Pierre hasn´t arrived yet cause their flight was delayed or something. They also told that 2 girls were gonna stay with us for a while too: Lida and Marie. Well Marie was from France so we had to wait only for Lida. We had no idea where she´s from. People started to leave from the parking area but Lida was not showing up! Damn you Lida! I was chatting with my Tim and Josh and Iida who hadn´t still found Gary...

And then I realized! Lida was Iida! her name was only misspelled and Gary was actually Grey! The last name of my HF! Then we just went into car and drove to the house! Guess we were so tired from the trip that we weren´t up to chatting but that wasn´t a problem. When we were shown where our rooms were they asked if we were hungry. I was a bit and so we ate some pasta. We were told earlier that we are gonna go to a restaurant when the French arrive. Josh asked if we want to walk or go by car to a nearby park. I said that we can walk cause umm it should be near as it is a nearby park. I didn´t realize how hot it is and how big the distances actually are in the US. So when we finally arrived to the park I was ready to just lay down somewhere!

At the park we met Drew who is Josh´s friend and we just walked around the park. After a while Tim called and said that he and the French (Pierre and Marie) are coming to park and that we are leaving to a restaurant after that! We walked to parking area and waited for Tim´s car! When he came we went to shake hands with the French from the car window. Suddenly somebody decided that we should travel to restaurant with 2 cars so we chose to go to Drew´s car. It felt a bit awkward to just go to say hi to Pierre and Marie and almost immediately after turn our backs and walk away... well never mind! The restaurant was called ´Junky yard´ and it was decorated the way the name tells! It was kinda cool and looked very American. Only bad thing was that the portions were so huge that I couldn´t possible eat so much after the flight... I still feel so sad for those Oreo icecream things and all other food! Almost crying!

The last thing we did was shopping in a supermarket! We were told to get something for lunch in school. I also had o choose breakfast cerials which was super hard cause there were so many options! The shelf itself was like 10km long! Well not really but you got what I meant there...


 The end of the 1st day!

No Control by One Direction

Host Family!

Wsup!?

So I decided to write this post in English. Got no particular reason for writing this post this way... guess I can compare my English skills before and after California and be ashamed of all my mistakes... So let´s just pretend that all those fails here are just typing errors right? Good! And now let´s start!

Guess it happened last week when almost all my course mates got their host families... Only me and one girl were without a family. I called EF and they told that they are probably just looking for a suitable roommate for me... Anyway a day after that day I got my host family! Pretty good service huh? I checked out their house and it was huge! They had a swimming pool and the house looked like a little mansion. I messaged my host mum-to-be and she answered quite quickly. She told that she ain´t my host mum. I was a bit shocked and thought that I still don´t have a family. She however explained that she will be hosting me for a few days while my original host family is on holiday. She was really nice to me and answered to all my questions.

Then one day when I logged on to myEF I saw that my family had changed. Well I messaged them as I figured out that they are my original family quite surely. And I was right about that. There would be a couple and their 3 kids + a cat and 2 dogs in my family! They also have a swimming pool which I´m so grateful of (last year I fell in a pool with my phone and wallet!). According to google maps they live just about 17minutes away from EF school in Simi Valley
 (time taken without any traffic). My roommate will be from France and I think it´s really cool to have somebody who isn´t from the Nordic Countries! 

And apparently I´ll be staying with this "new" family the whole time and I´m happy about that!