Showing posts with label parents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parents. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2011

Things that suck and don't suck in Sucksa

So I'm back in Germany for almost 2 weeks now. Hmm feels still weird but not as bad as i thought it would be. I realized that not all things are bad here even though i will still for the rest of my life refer to this country as Sucksa.
For everybody who doesn't get the joke: Germany means Saksa in Finnish but me and some German friends of mine always complain how bad Germany is so I came up with the mixture of Saksa and suck because seriously almost everything sucks in Saksa. :D
But during the last few days I noticed a few things that i seriously missed, especially since the end of Winter. So here is the list:

1. Cheap chocolate. I already got a letter from a friend in Finland who asked me if I am super happy now that i can eat delicious German chocolate everyday. Well I still like Finnish chocolate more but seriously I missed the 35c chocolate. After a while 3€ or more for 200g just makes you want to cry much more when you are in the shop after a bad day to buy some suklaa to cheer you up. :/
2. Stars and dark nights. I love Finland but i hate Finnish summers. It's light outside almost 24/7 and I hadn't seen stars in months! And stars are my favorites! Last winter the night bike rides from a party were the best part of most nights since even with -25°C these millions of light spots above me just made me speechless and happy every time. :D
3. Free food and laundry. It's nice for a change not to worry about how to pay for food for the rest of the month or spending whole days washing and drying clothes because the laundry room was 200m away, always booked, the dryer full or the drying room not working! I still have to cook 50% of the time here but that is much more fun when you know you didn't have to spend money on what you are eating. :D And it's great just to tell your parents what you want and then you get it. :D

And well of course there are are things I didn't miss at all:
1. Complaining parents! I stopped counting how often they told me to do this or that during the past days. They clearly forgot how old I am.
2. Living in a big city! Don't get me wrong, I lived most of my life in a small town but i thought that part of my life was over. Having no cinema, computer store or decent library in the town you live in is giving me nightmares!
3. Rivers, lakes or the ocean. I noticed after my first year in Finland that I will never be happy in a place where there is no big river, lake or the sea near by. Well guess what? There is nothing like that here. :(
4. My own room. Ok the house here is quite big but i got, of course, the tiniest room which is at the same time my mothers ironing room. So no change even though my sister moved out 2 months ago. I just miss having a desk to work on or my posters hanging on the walls. And it is annoying if you need to go to your parents room to search for clothes to wear or to go in the basement to find some university papers or books. :(

So my conclusion: I'll survive here for a while but i have to make some serious decisions soon if i want to be ever really happy again. :/

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Parental visit in May


So in May my parents and my sis were here in Finland for a week. After 5 days I managed to 'escape'. :D Well or something like that. But the time together wasn't as bad as i expected. It was nice not to be the 'evil' daughter for a change. ;) My sister hasn't been the nicest person since I moved out almost 7 years ago but since she moved out a month ago, she thinks she knows everything better. Yeah, sure!

Anyway, we went to Fiskars, a little village which is famous for it's knives and scissors. Then we haded to Hämeenlinna and Lahti on the second day. Spend a relaxing Sunday at the cottage and tried to find some weird submarine place somewhere at the southern coast on a very rainy Monday. We got lost of course and ended at a military base. Well that is so typical my parents no car atlas, no real travel guide just some vague description and then they think I should know everything. Jeah, because I drove with a car on every little street in Finland. Sure! Anyway, my sort of last full day with my family was spend in Porvoo, a gorgeous little town 40km east of Helsinki. On my b-day we went back to Turku, ate in the Viking restaurant Harald (but didn't get the funny Viking hats as friends of mine did a couple of days before us). Afterwards we had a little walk on beautiful Ruissalo, the island located right in front of the harbor of Turku. Then I got rid of my parents for 1 1/2 days until Friday, when they came after my last exam, to pick up most of my stuff to drive back to Germany. Since then I have white walls again, been sleeping in a sleeping bag and have practically no clothes to wear (not that it was much different before :P). So now I'm sort of counting the days till June 30th, when I go back to Germany.




And after that? Seriously I don't know, so please everybody stop asking me!


Enjoy the pics from my travels in May.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Germany Visit (part 2): one wedding and no funeral


... but a lot of friends and not to forget a castle


- visit of friends in magdeburg
- wedding of my cousin in wernigerode