SNOW! I love snow. It is just so pretty when it is falling in big chunks... and actually sticking. I heard TN got snow. I am jealous. I think it may have waited for me to leave the country to fall, but that is just my own theory. Tuesday it snowed about 5 inches, but the snow is still falling today, Thursday. The sad part is they scrape the sidewalks, meaning you don't get to walk in as much snow since it is all pushed over to the side. The good part about that is there are these huge piles of snow on the side of the road!
Something really neat happened to me yesterday. I was wearing a hat, because well, it is cold outside. Although, I took it off after a while because I was getting warm. I ran into someone I knew and we started talking, meaning I was only focused on the conversation. Because of my absent mindedness, I dropped my hat somewhere on my way to class. As soon as I noticed I went back to look for it, but class was starting. Throughout the whole 2 hour class I was sad I lost my hat, I’ve had it for years. It was my intro to Film Music class and we watched King Kong, so I guess I wasn't too distracted. Any who, on my way home from class my poor ears were so cold (I think just because I knew I couldn't wear a hat). I was very sad... until I saw this red thing sitting on the edge of a window. IT WAS MY HAT! I was so excited! It was nowhere close to where I thought I lost it. Sorry that was so long, it just made me so happy. I guess some nice person picked it up for me.
Last night a group of us went to the European ISU (Ice Skating Union) Championships. It was really neat. They were handing out free blow up clapper thingys, which of course I took. Naturally the loud American banged them throughout the night. I don't think anyone else knew what to do with them. We watched 20 pairs ice skate! The Germans, who I really liked because you could sense their love, won. The Russians took second and third. It was really neat. I felt like I was at a mini-Olympics or something. Because our tickets were not too expensive, we thought we would be in the nosebleed section... but we were on the 11th row! We had a lot fun.
We had to ride the train to get to the arena. On the way back we had to wait about 15 minutes for the next train... in the freezing cold. My theory was if I am going to cold, and there is snow, I might as well play in the snow. My whole time in Finland I have yet to really play in the snow (which in my opinion is very sad). I made a little snowman whose arms were made out of the Finnish flags we received at the arena. Although it was a little snowman, it made me happy. I don't think the people around had made many snow mans in their lives because they all gave me really weird looks.
My final story in this post will be about the Inauguration (sorry to all my non-Obama lovers who are reading this). My American friend, Duncan, and I decided to watch the inauguration in a Finnish Pub. I think it was silly for us to assume that if a Finnish pub were showing it they would turn up the volume for us. The inauguration gang turned out to be 5 Americans and 2 Australians. We walked around for about 30 minutes looking for a pub to show Obama. Finally, we ended up in a third Aussie's room where we watched it online along with a Brit. I thought it was a very exciting moment. It was neat to be watching it in Finland with 4 other non-Americans. To hear their perspectives and thoughts on everything was really interesting.
Something really neat happened to me yesterday. I was wearing a hat, because well, it is cold outside. Although, I took it off after a while because I was getting warm. I ran into someone I knew and we started talking, meaning I was only focused on the conversation. Because of my absent mindedness, I dropped my hat somewhere on my way to class. As soon as I noticed I went back to look for it, but class was starting. Throughout the whole 2 hour class I was sad I lost my hat, I’ve had it for years. It was my intro to Film Music class and we watched King Kong, so I guess I wasn't too distracted. Any who, on my way home from class my poor ears were so cold (I think just because I knew I couldn't wear a hat). I was very sad... until I saw this red thing sitting on the edge of a window. IT WAS MY HAT! I was so excited! It was nowhere close to where I thought I lost it. Sorry that was so long, it just made me so happy. I guess some nice person picked it up for me.
Last night a group of us went to the European ISU (Ice Skating Union) Championships. It was really neat. They were handing out free blow up clapper thingys, which of course I took. Naturally the loud American banged them throughout the night. I don't think anyone else knew what to do with them. We watched 20 pairs ice skate! The Germans, who I really liked because you could sense their love, won. The Russians took second and third. It was really neat. I felt like I was at a mini-Olympics or something. Because our tickets were not too expensive, we thought we would be in the nosebleed section... but we were on the 11th row! We had a lot fun.
We had to ride the train to get to the arena. On the way back we had to wait about 15 minutes for the next train... in the freezing cold. My theory was if I am going to cold, and there is snow, I might as well play in the snow. My whole time in Finland I have yet to really play in the snow (which in my opinion is very sad). I made a little snowman whose arms were made out of the Finnish flags we received at the arena. Although it was a little snowman, it made me happy. I don't think the people around had made many snow mans in their lives because they all gave me really weird looks.
My final story in this post will be about the Inauguration (sorry to all my non-Obama lovers who are reading this). My American friend, Duncan, and I decided to watch the inauguration in a Finnish Pub. I think it was silly for us to assume that if a Finnish pub were showing it they would turn up the volume for us. The inauguration gang turned out to be 5 Americans and 2 Australians. We walked around for about 30 minutes looking for a pub to show Obama. Finally, we ended up in a third Aussie's room where we watched it online along with a Brit. I thought it was a very exciting moment. It was neat to be watching it in Finland with 4 other non-Americans. To hear their perspectives and thoughts on everything was really interesting.
The pictures above are of the huge snow mounds (I also wanted to show the bar Memphis in the background), the group that went to the ISU Championships, actual skaters doing cool tricks, and then my little snowman representin' Finland.
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