After two fun filled weeks at Tapiola following the end of school, I suddenly find myself at our grandparents, in Ylivieska. A six hour train journey from Helsinki. The hectic times just before the end of school, and the two weeks I spent busily enjoying my Summer holiday, have left me feeling somewhat agitated now that I am (by my standards) in the middle of nowhere, completely idle. Luckily the library computers offer some consolation.
In order to fill up my time here with something constructive, I have decided to take plenty of excercise in the form a 6km run every morning and a 1k swim in the afternoon. I also packed with me my Japanese textbook, so I should be able to throroughly study everything I need to know for my next course, rendering it somewhat pointless. My bag is also packed with books to read, in an attempt to improve my Finnish skills. Currently I am reading the Finnish translation of the Fellowship of The Ring. Any time left will be spent eating the delicious cooking of my grandma.
Today it seems our grandparents will drag us to the local church, where my brother and I shall observe it's beauty and pretend we are interested. Luckily they aren't complete bible heads, only as much as old people in general.
Oh yes, I will also be frequenting the library playing various dull, browser based MMO's and writing my blog.
One of the slight inconveniences here in northen Finland, especially for a city dweller like myself, is the abundance of mosquitos. Especially when one is trying to get to sleep. Luckily, my brother and I have years of experience in nightly mosquito hunts, and it is not long after we here that aggravating and familiar whining of a mosquito that the walls are decorated with yet another mosquito corpse, a grim warning to all mosquitos who dare disturb us.