maybe some of you read my blog when i was living in manchester (www.kaisaman.vuodatus.net) and the ones who did, (or the ones who lived there with me) might know/ remember that i had A LOT of problems with my lip piercing. It got popping off and a lot of stuff happened.. ha.

well anyways, i have a short piercing story from here as well. this morning i went to my exam at 8 am. and it went.. ok'ish ;) it doesnt matter really, its done now. and afterwards i walked to the gym, worked out and went to SAUNA <3 , for the second time here. the first time was in august, when it was not as hot as its been for almoust 3 months now. this morning i could wear jeans and a shirt with long sleeves!! its only like 20 degrees celicius today. ok, this was probably not what i was supposed to tell about, i apologize. so.. after i was done wth sauna i went to a nearby choppies, the local convenience stoor, and as i was paying for my groceries, a cashier from another till wakjed to me, staring my face, and said to me "can i have your piercing". it was not that weird to be honest. by so far people have asked me for my sunglasses, shirts, dresses, pants, couple of pairs of shoes and some other random stuff. money obviously. so this was not the first time. but it was most definetly one of the weirdest requests i've heard by so far.

heres the conversation:

me: hmm..  i kind of need it myself

the girl: yes, but i have a hole here you see? (showing the pierced hole under her lower lip)

me: yes, i can see it. why dont you have a piercing there?

the girl: yes you see, so i need one.

me: maybe you should go and get one

the girl: but why cant you give me yours?

me: as i said, i need it myself since i only have this one.

the girl walks away.. and returns from the behind of my back about 30 seconds later

the girl: so seriously, youre not gonna give it to me eh?

me: seriously, no.

 

that was the conversation, as i remeber it. it was kind of funny. i was thinking, i havent really told anything lately of what has happened.. like the weekend passed, since its tuesday now. and on friday we went to primi's to have dinner. that was the first place all the international sutdents went to have dinner together for the first time. i was still in on the summer camps back then, but for the ones (like everyone else here..) it was kind of closure of a circle here, nostalgic even. there were around 30 of us, and it was a really pleasant evening. afterwards we went to bull&bush (a bar) but everyone was kind of tired so we did not end up dancing on tables, like the weekend before :D

on saturday we went to yacht club again, only to discovere that there waa some kind of a private party that night. so we had to pay to get in the area and only had 40 minutes to be there before he party started. we went by the water and sat on the cliffs and experienced the most beautiful sunset i've seen here the whole time. and it was quiet and calm and relaxing and i felt like in finland. its the water.. when we were to leave, the others accidently took ur taxi and we wated for one for over 50 minutes. it would have been fine, if the sun was still up, but sice it wasnt, all the insects came out. and i must say it was EXTREMELY DiSGUSTING. not that im the kind of person who is scared of bees of flies or dragonflies (riikka!! :D) but there were so many of them and so many of the kinds i have never seen before, and they were all on us and it was a really unpleasent 50 minutes, even though we tried to dance them away. afterwards we drove to river walk, for the millionth time, and had dinner. i was tired (im always tired here! maybe its the heat..) and just went to bed around 10pm.

sunday.. what happened on sunday? oh yeah, sunday i just read the whole day, studying for the finals. and in the evening we went to Bujani, a local jazz/reggae-bar, in which only the locals go to. and some even say we shouldnt go. but its really nice there! and this time german caroline, nicole and christian + dan from US were performing! they've benn going to drumming lessons and now they performed one song and i was great! additition to that they had two bands, the same ones they usually hae every sunday. and its nice up there since they already start at like 5pm and play untill 11pm. it was a nice evening. a lot of dancing.

this morning i had finals on history of africa, and yeah, i only have 3 more finals to go. two of them are music, both this fri and they're easy, so i kind of have only one more next thursday. and on friday we leave!! only one week left. its insane. it kind of feels a bit bittersweet as well, since now everyones leaving. this friday were gonna have a farewell party. i need to start thinking what i want to bring with, and what to leave for charity. (ja vippe, tää ei oo nyt se charity kelle pistät kirjepommeja!)

ok, that being said, the next thing is to go and rent a film. me and silje are gonna watch "love actually" tonight, because we both love it, and it wll get us on a christmas mood aswell.

bye for now. x

ps. mari, ihanaa, kylläpä minäkin oon teitä kaivannu!