Grandparents' Secrets 1

I just had the most wonderful weekend with my grandparents and aunt here nearby Rovaniemi. I like to see that my grandma is so happy when I visit, as we used to live so far a way that we could only go there once or twice a year. We baked some traditional Finnish food or snack called "karjalanpiirakka", played cards and just talked a lot. I also borrowed my aunt's sewing machine and her assistance, and finally I successfully finished a pair of shorts with leopard print for the event with a jungle theme on Saturday. Oh my, how the time flies - I remember clearly when I was all excited about this event and planning my costume, and now it's already happening this week!

I had a little photography project with my grandparent's home: I thought it would be nice to catch some details and my favourite things in there, and I'm really happy with the results. Here is the first part, as there are plenty of pictures (:

Soon I'll put here some pictures of myself for a change, taken when O got his hands on the camera during our walk in the riverside.

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Social Animal

I have had a very nice couple of days, it feels like everything has gone just the way it's supposed to. First, on Saturday we had our subject association's birthday party with a theme of 1920's. There were many new people, and I was proud of myself to actually get to know many of them, because I'm normally really shy and not good hanging out with totally new people. And it was really cool to dress up like a 20's lady - there was a photographer and a place to take group pictures, I'll maybe post some here when they are published. The after party was simply awesome, because I danced two hours in a row with some old and new crazy friends.

Yesterday I participated in student's Shrovetide's celebrations by playing snow football in my subject association's team. If you don't know what it is like, I can describe it briefly: amazingly fun, socially connecting, chaotic and physically hard as hell! Right now every muscle in my body hurts because of having kicked a football in snow, and also I'm full of bruises because of the chaotic nature of the game (probably other people have bruises because of me, too…), but I have kind of always liked the feeling of hurting muscles, because then you know you have really done something. But god, that was fun! And again, I'm proud of myself for getting to know new people, because there were almost none I knew from before. I was supposed to be there only for taking pictures, but I'm happy I was recruited to the team.

And I can't express how weird and confusing it was again that at night at the after party of this event there were no people I knew again! Then I totally exceeded myself and went to talk to a guy with whom I had changed names before, and told him that I really know no one there, and that he looks like a nice person so I would like to join him if that's fine with him. Then we talked whole night and he actually was a really nice person and I'm hoping to get to know him better in the future.

When O came to pick me up, we noticed that for the first time in weeks the sky was clear, so we decided to go check if there were any northern lights - and there were! I didn't have my camera with me, and the lights were not too strong, but it was amazing to be there with under the stars, really bright moon and the northern lights with the man I love.

In these images you can see an example of how the weather has been for way too long now. Just cloudy and gray.

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Dog's Life

All my energy is gone for having worked two hours interviewing people outside a store in a rain, so no text this time either (:
Enjoy the puppies instead!

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Sun Is Coming Back

I always start having much more energy when it's noticeable that the days are getting longer again. I visited my grandparents, and there went to introduce my camera to the countryside's forests during sunset. The pictures in the earlier post are actually from the same walk.

Nature makes me feel so relaxed and simply good, happy. It's like I don't have anything to worry about, and I can feel myself in the moment being part of everything. I might have already written that, but I really can't stress enough how important nature and that feeling are to me, and how important it is that everyone should feel like that sometimes. That feeling makes my problems seem silly and unimportant, and I remember not to worry so much. I think it's kind of meditation.

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Winter Wonderland

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