Marraskuu – November

Hello!

Sorry Ive been so busy lately  i coulndt make any new posts.  October is the Halloween month, and look what i found in the supermarket!! So cute! I didnt do anything special, except for visiting friends for dinner. Ive heard Finland doesnt have this  Halloween tradition of kids going door to door asking for candies, and actually I didnt see anyone doing that. The only thing happening were shops selling costumes and Halloween related products.

So november has arrived, and here you can really see the difference in weather compared to october. Well if youre like me, you never believe what people tell you beforehand about Finland, always think theyre exagerating. Ive heard many times that november is the worst month ever, that its dark and cold and finnish people talk less (is it possible?) and everybody feels a bit down, depressed-like, until Christmas party spirit comes. I got a bit sad when I heard all that cause november is the month of my birthday, but i thought like “Nahhh cant be that bad” and now i will really check the facts by myself.  Yesterday i was just watching some TV and doing my finnish homework after lunch, when i looked outside the window and suddenly it was everything white out there! It wasnt snowing ice flakes but little ice balls, and it was very intense. I guess this was the first “white day” of the winter, already in the first week of november.

We had previously planned to go swimming as we do almost every weekend but, with all that white outside, we decide to change plans and go for a 1hour walk in the forest. It was so refreshing!I dressed up in 2 pants for the first time this winter, and  2 coats; took a camera with me but unfortunately the batteries were dead.

Well the finnish course is going well and we are now studying the past tense, among other things. We are using a new book, different from the one used for courses 1 and 2. I didnt like this new book very much (actually 2 new nooks) not only because it is “boring”: black&white, almost not illustrations.. but also cause it looks more complicated, the exercises are tiring and predictable, and theres no answer key – in my opinion this is the worst. I need answer key to check mistakes and learn better! But what can i do, have to live with it now. Heres a foto of the group on the day we took the Level 2 exam:

Last wednesday Kristiina and i went to see the Ars Fennica exhibition at the Kiasma museum. Once again i forgot to take my camera and made some photos with the phone, unfortunately my phone is good only for day pictures. The Ars Fennica is actually a competition of the best artist of the year. There were 5 artists competing and in the end of the exhibition we could vote for our favorite. This was the artist I liked best, she interferes in pictures with painting. In this example she painted the reflection of the building, its so perfect that its hard to tell which one is the picture and which is the painting.

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