Somehow I've slipped into writing in English. I blame certain people; I think they know who they are (for example people who keep nagging because I haven't mentioned them here. Same people who keep correcting my English while insisting on using 75 year-old meaning for sophisticated…but I guess they are allowed since they are sad enough to read the preface from a dictionary;) So my readers (if they exist) have to deal with a blog that isn't updated very frequently and when is, isn't that good language. No surprise, I think my writing is richer in Finnish and therefore more interesting to those possibly existing readers of mine.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

So, sorry I haven't written anything in a while. Friends and family visiting. Somehow the days just flow through fingers. Like sand *something something* are the days of our lives… you get the ideaJ After the holidays we just realized we have to go back home pretty soon. Horror, panic! Don't get this the wrong way, but consider this.

Glasgow: days when you get up at 1 because you couldn't be bother to go to the lecture, eat Nutella straight out of the jar with a spoon because you haven't had bread for a week, wander aimlessly in the city shopping, eat out three nights in a row, pub nights that turn into club nights so easily, only worried of your alcohol use because it contains too much energy (although a Bloody Mary can totally substitute a meal), no responsibility except to not to waste your time here and to travel as much as conceivably can

Finland: Feeling SOOO guilty if you miss one lecture in a semester, no social life, worrying about getting too much salt in food and about global warming and the future of our society, exercising with a very strict program where you feel bad if you don't give 100% in every spinning class, nights with insomnia worrying about your studies and just generally worrying.

 

Now, seriously, how many people can honestly say that 1) I haven't earned this break and 2) they wouldn't try to prolong and procrastinate this as long as possible? Therefore, we decided that the theme for the remaining time is going to be "burning the candle at the both ends". And also, the idea that you have to leave something for tomorrow. So no worries if you didn't go to the library today, you have to leave something for tomorrow also;) And to help the inevitable, the forbidden subject of going back home, we came up with a plan. A very, very expensive plan, but hard times require hard measures. Plan is called <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Australia. Next Christmas, a month off from the uni. It's purely for health reasons, have to get vitamin D. And so that we have a reason to go to the gym, have to be in beach condition. And that would nicely solve my anxiety for the future change in legislation in Finland about students working as doctors, 'cause, guess what?! I'd be in Australia! It's now or never. Financial issues? Don't ask. Thank God for government guaranteed student loans;)