FarmLife | 2

Now was the time for practicing. We rode to a field and first mission was to just basically ride in a circle. I wasn´t able to do that. I just couldn´t make the horse to go around the cones. The next thing was a "Around the world" thingy where you had to move around on horses back. For my great surprise that was something I was able to do!! Now we were ready to go to ride to the hills.

The experience was amazing actually! It was like from a tale: riding under the sun on the Californian hills. I saw a deer family under a tree trying to hide from the sun. I really really enjoyed riding and thinking about my friends being in school. After the day I wasn´t scared of horses anymore!

When we got back to the ranch we had to wash the horses and take care of them etc. When everything was done we got our stuff and drove to a 7eleven and bought some slush! It was so good after being outside for so long. Pierre was sleeping on our way back to home. He always sleeps in the car. I can´t understand how he does that.

I´m just glorious.

RanchLife

So while everybody else was getting ready for school I got to sleep a little longer and after me Kim Lily and Pierre headed towards the ranch. On our way there Kim told that they used to have 2 own horses but had to give them away and that they do horse therapy for example for physically or mentally challenged people and I think that´s just great!

It was really hot day! We parked next to a horse shit carriage so once I stepped outta the car it smelled like home during the fertilization of the fields (: (: . We grabbed our snacks with, took them to a little hut and went to say hello to this woman who, I believe, is one of the managers of that place. Then I heard shocking news. I was actually gonna go trying riding a horse.  I mean I was a bit scared of horses and I´ve never ridden a horse before. When I was little I rode a donkey in my daycare place.

The horse manager woman (gonna call her Anne now) was gonna teach me and Pierre to ride and she was telling us what to do and how to be with horses and so on. I was really relieved that I wasn´t alone learning how to ride a horse. Oh how wrong I was again! After Anne had gone to walk another horse to the place Pierre laughed and told mHow do u start this??", "How do u stop this?!" and  "Now listen to me horse. I won´t tolerate any horseplay." 

e that he has ridden a horse over 10 years back in France. But it is a secret so I couldn´t tell anybody. HOW IS UR SECRET NOW BRO?? JK love ya. So I was all alone trying to learn how to ride. I was  really recognizable cos I was the one going like "



PS. Riding a horse as a hobby is actually so cool! if I find out that you´ve bullied Pierre for riding a horse I´ll send u some mämmi in a wrapper!

Skipping School is PROHIBITED!

me.

"See you all tomorrow" says the teacher. And that means you will go to school ´cos what is the point of skipping school while it´s the very reason why you´ve traveled all the way to your destination. On this post I  wanna talk about the importance of education and school to you guys. So: get your lazy asses to school kids and do not skip the extremely long school days!

That´s what you should actually do but you already might guess that I did quite the opposite. A day before this longest school day on the whole course, we had a conversation with Kim (my hostmum) at parking area. She told us that Lily and her will go to a ranch that day and asked if we really wanted to get rotted in school. What we were supposed to do I obviously had to put an end to that with Kim so we kinda ignored opinions of everybody in back seat (Pierre). Okay seriously I just went kinda like "Oh what did you say Pierre?? You want to come to ranch? Nono for school?? Yess that´s what Im talking about!!". 

at school was to study and plan a performance for the Far-well party. Pierre actually wanted to go to school and hang out with his mates.

At the ranch 

And so it was decided.  Nono for school and yaass for ranch. Kim handed the absence reports to Antti and everybody was happy.

Evening Of da Beach Day

After we got back from the beach we were almost immediately driven to a scout gathering. Me and Pierre were playing this game where I was trying to guess the titles of those songs he played from his phone. I suck at that kind of games!!! I seriously know nothing which is why, after saying "I don´t know" like million times, I´ll pretend that I know the next song. Rip Jaakko.

I guess we seemed bored or somebody just wanted to save me from the music game but anyway Lily was told to show us how to put up a tent so next couple of minutes she tried to teach us that. Eventually the tent was ready but the next thing was to kinda undo everything and put it back in this bag.

The scouts were still doing some scout stuff so me and Pierre went play to the playground (: . It was actually quite fun fooling around there. I even got this video where Pierre is hanging from this kinda handle and asking if I´m taking video. "Me??? Taking video??? Noooo!!" 

BEACH DAY | B

Finally we got to the walk around the beach! We walked to the very end of the beach and passed some true EF-beefcake-adonis-leaders lying under the sun!

The houses near the beach were A M A Z I N G ! Like from movies! The whole beach being your backyard. Next thing that happened was Oona kinda sinking in the sand. In the end me and Iida a.k.a Lida were laughing around her cause she was knee-deep in the sand. The next very reasonable thing to do  was of course to put your head in water... I mean that´s something we all would do if we got stuck in waterfront right? Well I can say that Oona´s head was not long in the water cause some couple near us shouted "OMG Look!!! 2 sharks in the water!!!!!" We saw the sharks so yeah they were real and we quickly pulled Oona outta the sand. This really belongs to the group "Once in a lifetime experiences". 

CRABS! So many crabs running around the outcrop! Iida wanted to be a part of crab-family and danced a crab dance to those little animals but sadly she wasn´t accepted to live with them under rocks...

After a few minutes me and Oona went to find a pizza place cause why not! Iida was supposed to come with us but she disappeared... probably to dance with crabs. We were feeling lazy and didn´t wear any shoes which was a mistake cause the pavement was like a grill. We walked ages through streets and across a railway and all the time behind a farting man and his son. Getting really into that lunch mood :)))))! We finally arrived to the pizzeria only to notice that it was closed that day. Tears. We walked back to a supermarket we saw on our way to pizzeria and got some cherry coke and something else. Okay Oona bought drinks for me and her cause I was broke.

BLUE ICE CREAM FINALLY! I mean a holiday ain´t no holiday without blue ice cream! And that is what I bought. The shop clerk refused to understand what I mean´t when I said "2 balls of blue ice cream" so I gave her no tip. We walked happily back to beach again after the farting man eating blue ice cream and drinking kerry. While we were entering the beach area we talked in Finnish about how weird and disgusting that fating man was. Then suddenly some guy stops as and asks what language we are speaking and says that it sounds really beautiful. It was hard not laugh I mean the subject that we talked about couldn´t be described with a word "beautiful".

We also invented some code names to French people like "Aurinkokuningas - apparently Mandarin king in English, Pärre/Pertsa and Jartsa.

BEACH DAY | A

"let's go to the beach each let's go get away" 

Today we headed towards Carpinteria beach! The weather was perfect! Everybody´s mood was perfect! Bus drivers were happy! Seemed like an amazing day-to-be! And I can tell you now that nothing bad or catastrophical (?) happened it really was a perfect day!

When we arrived to our destination sun was shining delightfully and I´ll stop trying to act like Dostoyevsky with these adjectives.... Anyway those who had booked a surfing lesson started right away and those who hadn´t done that just spread around the beach to sunbath or something.

I was carrying a huge red cooler-box with me which had mine and Pierre´s lunch inside. For some reason I was carrying the box all the time during the school day and after it... Pierre where was your sense of responsibility of our lunch ???? Oh now I remember! It was when the lunch suddenly disappeared somewhere... But I´ve almost forgotten that!

I wanted to go wander around the beach but people didn´t want to get their lazy asses up from that hot sand so I waited for ages for Oona to arrive from photo-shooting of one certain ´Tyylilyyli´ and after that and the surfing lesson

Eating Wrong

Okay so in the afternoon we went to eat out in a Mexican restaurant! The daughter of my HF, Lily, had came back from Australia and we celebrated her homecoming.

I was pleased as Punch when I heard that we were about to go to a restaurant ´cause I had been hungry the whole day. Okay I´m sorry! Nobody says ´pleased as Punch´ I just found it and had to use it!!! Anyways I was happy.

The only problem was that it was my first time in a Mexican restaurant (don´t judge me now!) and I had no idea what o order... I desperately tried to google the names of the foods so I could see how they look like and at the same time I really ried to hide that I had o idea what Im doing.. It didn´t work so I let Josh, my host brother, to order for me.

The problem number dos! Once I got the delicious looking meal in front of me I didn´t know how to eat it. I know I know! I´m hopeless! The result was a mess that I tried so hard to control! And the the portions were so huge that it is hard to eat everything no matter how hungry you are!

In the evening we tested the swimming pool! it is smply awesome with the waterfall and hot tub and lights with different colors.

Swedes everywhere -.-