Herbstferien, Spiekeroog, Geburtstag

Hallo!

The time is running so fast that I can't keep up with everything. But here I am, once again to write about some things and yeah, let's see. 

The Autumn break came and went, I had some time to relax and sleep long and catch up with things for what I didn't have time with school going on and so. But I did actually something too :D I was shopping in Bielefeld, we were with my host-family in Spiekeroog and I trained Kung fu.

I just love the ocean

There's this Icelandic horse stable in Spiekeroog and I wanted to ride with an Icelandic 'cause it has been quite a while since I last did, and I wanted to remember my baby pony back in Finland. We went with my host sisters and my host mom for a 4 hour ride, and most of it we rode along the seashore. It was quite amazing!

Hamingja ♥

Then I also turned, finally, 18 last week! :) I celebrated with my German friends on Saturday and then with my host-family on Sunday. Thank you everyone, it was really, really nice, even though I was a little homesick because, yeah, it was an important day for me and my family and closest friends weren't there. BUT I'm going to celebrate again when I'm back in Finland :D

Something from Finland

Vielen Dank Hannah und Philip

 Oh and I also suffered otitis and had to visit a doctor. But it wasn't such a big of deal, I ate some antibiotics for five days and some painkillers, too, and then it was gone.

p.s. I have a lot more pictures from Spiekeroog but Blogger doesn't want to co-operate with me and I'm loosing my temper.... but I still want to post this finally today, so here :D

Busy days

Hallo,

I'm still here :D

Well it hasn't been more than two and a half weeks but feels much longer. I have finally time and inspiration to write again since we're having a day-off from school, YAY!

So, what I've been doing these weeks? A lot. I have finally decided that I'll continue with Kung fu, and have been training about two times a week. Sometimes I've had other plans on the day we have practices and sometimes there has been some other obstacles. Either way, I'm really enjoying my new hobby (even though it's really hard at times).

Most of the time I feel like this :D

Then I have had one really lazy weekend when I did seriously nothing. That was kinda nice to be honest :D It was like me back in Finland...hahah. But I have also had a weekend full of action (and eating, mostly cake). Actually, my whole last week was full. I was constantly going from one place to another. 

We were, with one friend of mine, in Melle and ate some french fries and cake. We also did some shopping and yeah, generally had fun and hopefully we're going to do it again. 

Last week, I was, for the first time here, at my friend's. We had a good time ^^ we talked and ate and sang and so on.

And I also tried on the traditional Oktoberfest dress, Drindl

On weekend, we visited my host-family's old riding teacher's riding school's open day or so. There we ate some cake and there was this little riding/horse show, and all kinds of things to see. That was on Saturday and on Sunday we had all of my host mother's family visiting and we ate brunch and played some games and so. :) Then we had to choose whether we would like to ride with carriage or go to a car museum, I rode the carriage. After everyone was back we ate CAKE ♥♥ 

The upcoming two weeks we have Herbstferien aka fall holidays! So far, I have plans with my friends; we are going to Hannover and shopping and some other things too. :) And with my host family, we'll go to this island, Spiekeroog, and spend there the second holiday week. We're going to ride Icelandic horses, and I'm really excited since I have one in Finland and I miss him pretty much.

I hope the next time I'll have more photos ^^ Tsüß!

Life

Hallo

School is filling my days and everything is feeling really normal, I can't be thinking: this is the real exchange student life. Some days are harder than others, of course, I'm tired most of the time and sometimes I feel lonely and foreign, but still -- not even for a moment -- I haven't thought of going home.

Last Sunday I skyped with my family and that was nice. Seeing that they were alright and just looking happy and all made me happy too. I didn't feel homesick, but seeing our dogs being there, goofing around as usual, made my eyes teary... I also showed my family my home here in Germany, that was cool :D

On Tuesday was Sophia's birthday and we had chocolate cake and these cute little cakes too. Unfortunately I wasn't able to give my present for my host-sister in time while it came from Finland and the packet was late. 

BUT on Wednesday my packet finally arrived! ^^ There were Sophia's present, some clothes, e.g. my winter coat and shoes, couple of books in Finnish, two dvds and of course some finnish food :D

In the end of the week I showed my host-parents my home town via Google earth. We also went to an YFU meeting for exchange students and host-families. 

All in all, my week was good. 

But this week the k-pop world has been shocked greatly. This girl group called 'Ladies Code' got into a serious car crash on the 3rd of September. One of the members, EunB, passed away at the accident place and four days later, today, another memeber, RiSe, passed away after being unconscious for the whole time since the accident. This isn't actually about my life, and I don't even know this group so well, but it has shocked me too, so much that I have cried more than once. 

Rest in peace EunB and RiSe. And for the other members, family and friends and of course the Ladies Code fans, fighting! 

I'm Fine Thank You - Ladies Code