I'm ready for 2015!

Decided to write now when it's still 2014! Well at least in most parts of the world, and here too. I hope everyone is having good time today and celebrating the start of the new year with friends and/or family :) I'm heading tonight to a party, where, I guess, is at least half of my German classmates. I'm looking forward to it ^^

And now that the year is ending, it means that I have just spent my first Christmas away from my family, my home country and that I've experienced something new and got to know the traditions of another family and country. My Christmas was good. I ate a lot of cookies and cake, both an important part of German Christmas. But not like in Finland, in Germany there isn't special Christmas food. It's a tradition to eat potato salad and sausages on 24th but that's it. 

Our Christmas tree was/is HUGE!

What made my Christmas this year even better, was that the packet my mom sent me arrived on time! It arrived on the 24th.... xD I was worrying so much already that all my presents for my host-family would suck 'cause, to be honest, half of them were in that packet. It was such a relief when it arrived! (And there were presents for me too ♥)

Nikolaus went by

Two times :D

Before Christmas, I had also my belt exam and I was able to pass it! So now I have the yellow belt in Kung fu. But the next time I was training, I hurt my ankle, that was Wednesday. On Thursday, I stayed home because I couldn't walk properly. My foot kept on swelling so we decided to go to see the doctor. On Friday, I went to school (it was the last day before holidays) and then we drove to Melle and one hour or so later I had a pair of new shoes and a cast for six weeks, yay.

My last fight without belt

2014 wasn't that great year. There were so many bad things that happened, so many catastrophes and everything.... Of course there were also many good things but even so, I'm really waiting for the new year! HAPPY 2015! 

And I'm ending this year with my host sister kitty who's manipulating ski jumping... :D

Welcome December

My last post got delayed a bit... :D so for this one, I'm gonna actually write something!

Tomorrow is the first day of December. Christmas is coming and I'm pretty excited for it! ^^ Although it's going to be a little sad 'cause I'm not with my family, and for me Christmas is specifically a family holiday. But, of course I have my German family here and I know I'm going to get a packet from Finland again :)

When it comes to Christmas, there's always many traditions. Every country has their own and every family too. And of course all the delicious Christmas pastries and chocolates and food overall. I'm waiting to get to know, and taste, everything what belongs to a traditional German Christmas. (Okay, I've already started all the Christmas stuff with baking and visiting Weihnachtsmarkt in Bremen, and we have decorated our house a bit too.)

Merry Christmas in different languages

Adventskranz

Hmm...there was yet something I wanted to write about... Oh yeah! We visited the zoo in Osnabrück with my host-mom. It was pretty cool. :) We were lucky and the weather was really good that day, not too cold and the sun was shining. We were also at movies on one night. I'm fan of the Hunger Games and now that the first part of Mockingjay came out, of course I had to see it! Here in Germany all the films are dubbed in German (I don't think that's so cool... xD) so I was a little afraid that I couldn't watch the film until it comes in DVD, but luckily, in Osnabrück they show it once a week as the original version so we headed there. :) It was pretty good I think. 

This guy has pretty awesome horns

The kids were having fun

These two were so cute
the other one was a bit...weird xD

Black swans

Last week I was sick, again, and had to stay at home for a couple of days. Now I know what all the exchange students are saying, when they tell that they became homesick as they were ill. I think my homesickness had been growing for awhile, and when I didn't have anything to do and just laid in bed, it really hit me. It was bad....but I spoke with my host-mom about things and it really helped, I felt right away much better. Now I'm just gonna keep in mind that whenever I'm beginning to feel sad, I just have to find something to do!

AND!! in two weeks I'm going to have my first kung fu test, so that I can have finally my first belt and learn then new technics.