Hellooou everyone !
It's been a while since my last post. I've been really busy last couple months but NOW I have time :D I'm on my way to Barbados ! I'm super excited :DD We will land in 52 minutes! Pretty cool! We left our house yesterday morning at 10 and we fly to Miami and we'll spent the night there, because we have to be at the airport in Miami at 6.45.
And btw the reason why I'm doing this in english is that I want to improve my English skills even more. Here I've learned more about speaking and understanding and writing... not so much :D
Anyway I have no idea when I posted last time but I assume that it was before my birthday. So yes, I'm 18 now! Hahahah I don't feel the difference :D I didn't get ”big” benefits like drinking or driving, so life is pretty much as it was when I was 17. But maybe that’s only good thing :D The Americans can vote and take tattoos and piercings, when they turn 18, but that's pretty much it :D Oh and of course, they can buy cigarettes. So my birthday here was quite different than it would have been in Finland, BUT it wasn’t better or worse, it was just different :)
Actually my birthday celebrations got early start, when the Saturday before my actual birthday. We went to see movie, the vow, and then to a restaurant with some of my crazy foreign friends. After that we went to my house and had birthday cake and played wii :) I was super fun! And I got a lot of cool gifts! :DD In my actual birthday we had Finnish dinner at home just with my family and i got a super cute dress and gift card to best buy (=paikallinen gigantti) and some other things :) Okay I don’t want to think about it, because thinking about that day makes me want to have Finnish food :D But the following weekend I had one more birthday party. We went bowling with my crazy(and now I mean like CRAZY) American friends. But before that we had tacolaatikkoo <3 omnomnom. Okay no more Finnish food will be mentioned! And well after that Megan, Bailey and I had sleepover at my house :)) I would say that it was pretty SWELL birthday overall !
And well actually couple weekends earlier I was also in Chicago with my liaison Robbin, her husband Rolland, Laura from Italy and Moeez from Pakistan. We went to a place called Garfield Park Conservatory, which was like a huge greenhouse full of flowers and plants. A lot of them were pink, so I loved it! Then we went to Chicago History Museum and see the famous Chicago Bean with a lightshow around it. And we had Pakistani food! Pretty interesting experience and I liked it a lot, but It was really spicy so my sensitive mouth didn’t like it that much :D
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| In the Conservatory :)) |
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| The Museum! |
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| The Skyline ! |
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| The Bean! |
Hmmm just before springbreak, on the Thursday night, we went to see the Hunger games on the midnight premier with Nick, Bailey and Megan. AND with our mum’s! Well too bad that Bailey’s mum didn’t come, but otherwise our mum’s were there. The movie was soo good, but during the beginning it was pretty hard to keep my eyes open, but towards the end I didn’t have any problems at all. The next day at school was pretty bad though...
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| Megan's mum made Hunger Games cupcakes :) |
Anyways I'm on my home from barbados now :D I didn't got to finish this text on our way there, so I'm going to do it now :) Barbados was awesome! Except for couple little incidents but still overall it was just amazing. The weather was great, sunshine every day and about 30 degrees celcius :D But still little windy and cloudy so we weren't dying under the sun. And no rain at all! I went scuba diving two times, we visited in the world oldest Rum factory, we saw monkeys in a wildlife preserve, we went 170 feet underground in cave and of course a loot of lying on the pool. And well the Australian National Cricket team stayed at our hotel, so the pool was even more amusing.. ;D But well one of the incidents was that one of our family friends went swimming to the sea regardless of the red flag and hurt his eye lid pretty badly and even had a surgery. Because of that we were babysitting their three children couple first days. But the kids were super nice so that wasn’t too bad.. At least not for me :DD
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| Mum and Dad in the Wildlife preserve :) |
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| Monkeyyyy! |
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| The cave |
The other incident was my first dive..... I got lost! That sounds pretty crazy. And it was. Omg. The dive master did not sign diving buddy's and I thought weird, but whatever I'm gonna be just fine by following one nice couple who were in the same diving group. Well then it was the time to jump out of the boat and two older men went before me and after the second man, the boat moved so that we had to move the boat back to the original location, and it took about a minute to get back. I jumped to the water and the dive master just took air out of my BCD and waved go there. So first I saw couple bubbles coming from the previous divers, but soon I couldn’t even those bubbles anymore. I was trying to look up and down and I saw no one. I thought great. What should I do? I was trying to wait right there but soon I realized I had sunk deeper and deeper and I was almost at the bottom of the sea. At 30+ meters below the surface. About 12 minutes had gone by then. I realized that there is no way that I could find them down there so I had no other choice than getting back up. Well I was pretty much panicking and thinking how can they find me on the surface. I wasn't afraid that I couldn't make my way up, because I had my diving computer so I knew all the safety stop times and stuff. But of course I read/misunderstood the numbers. Eventually I got back to the surface 30 minutes after I got out of the boat. Luckily I saw the boat right away and they heard me screaming and they came to get me. And actually they were really scared. And the reason why I couldn't see anyone behind me when I went down was that the other woman got panic attack on her way down and they all went back up and it took a while. Mutta loppu hyvin kaikki hyvin! And the next day I went diving again and it was much better! And I saw five wrecks and it was pretty cool to go through tiny holes and get inside the wrecks! And a looot of different kinds of fishes and corals were around the wrecks :D
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Before my dive... |
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| Miss Bailey enjoying Barbados :D |
And well okay the incidents didn’t end there. Then on our way home, I got stuck in the passport control in Miami. I waited there like 90 minutes and NO ONE spoke english. Even the announcements were in spanish. After like 10 minutes, I realized that there is no way that I could get out of here before our flight to Chicago leaves. Well when I eventually got out of there, our flight hadn’t left yet, but the gate was closed so we couldn’t get there anymore. And of course all the hotels around the airport were full. We ended up staying at our friends hotel room’s couch and floor. Luckily dad was able to get a flight back home via Memphis on the Sunday... Overall it was awesome trip and I had wonderful time in Barbados! And at least it wasn’t so boring that I can’t even remember anything else than lying on the pool :DD Thanks Dad for earning the trip for us :))
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| The Scatterday and The Hirsch families :) |
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| The last sunset |
Hahaha okay now after two weeks of writing, I’m pretty much done. Or maybe couple words about Easter and then I’m done. So first on Thursday, Bailey and I had sleepover at her house and it was SO MUCH fun! And on Friday I got to be there when Nick asked her to prom and (surprisingly) she said yess :))) And btw I don’t have a date to the prom yet and I’m pretty much freaking out about it. But yeah then later on Friday night Becca (my sister) and Dane came home and then Ina came on Saturday. The Saturday night was just fun to hanging out and eating at home but on Sunday morning we went at first to the church and during that the Easter Bunny had hidden 100 Easter egg’s around our garden and we had to find them. Well sounds like something that five-year-old kids would like but I loved it too :DD It was so must fun :D And after that we got our Easter baskets and then we had brunch with Grammy and Grandpa. It was different kind of easter than in Finland, but be ready, next year you will have little bit more American Easter in Finland!
Okay now it’s time to end this. Btw Miss Bailey is in the Barbados pictures, because of my photo project :D Byebye! LOVE YOU ALL! And thanks for reading my super long text. Good job.
