So many thoughts in my head!

Who needs the gym when you can go walking around Tampere for 2 hours every day?
Okay... so every day is a gross exaggeration, especially since this is my 9th day here, but you get the idea.
So when I don't want to stay in the flat all day or I need a little inspiration for my motivation letters (I have 6 of them to do, but luckily only 1 is due in the next month.), I go for a walk, explore and think. Today I learned the word "tilaa." It means space (as in, there are free parking spots). On my walk back, I learned the word for full: täynnä. I tried to learn both in one go a few days ago and failed, so this time, I did them one at a time.
I noticed today that the sky isn't actually grey. I would call it off-white...because it almost blends in exactly with the snow. It was just a random thought.
Also, I went to buy highlighters today and noticed that the woman was really chatty with the customer before me (although it seemed like she was business chatty- informing her about sales and such.) The woman in front of me said: ei, kiitos. So I knew she turned down whatever offer it was. When I got to the front of the cash, she looked at me and I thought MAYBE I would be able to understand something but, nope! It was my usual "deer-caught-in-headlights-whenever-anyone-speaks-Finnish-to-me" look. I can't really explain why this happens, but I'm sure I'm not the first person this has ever happened to. It would be so easy to smile and say apologetically: I'm sorry, I don't speak Finnish (I can even say that IN Finnish for God's sake!). But instead I completely freeze up and have to FORCE myself to mutter a few words of English. It might be the desire to want to badly to understand that I don't want to give away that I'm foreign. Let's go with that for now because I have no idea explanations.

In other news, our DNA (internet company) man has informed us that he has ordered our modem. Although there is no word on how long it will take to arrive, Juha and I take comfort in the hope that it will arrive soon enough... especially since every day we have AT LEAST one breakdown EACH, over how shit our internet is. Cind iti e lumea mai draga... (Romanian expression meaning: "When the world is dearest to you..." implying that something unfavourable happens then aka our internet stops working.) So if you're working why I haven't called you yet, chances are I've been thinking about you WISHING I could call you. If that's any comfort to you... and at least we have Facebook. Or you have Facebook. I sometimes have Facebook!

Also, my two packages finally arrived today and I just have to pick them up from the post office! I would've gone on my walk but since I had no desire to lug 24kg in 2 packages for over 1km, I haven't gone yet. I'll go when I can get a ride.

Funny story, I went to buy nail polish remover today and figured it would be "meh... like... 1€." I get to Sokos and I can't seem to find anything under 4.90€!! I found nail polish removed that cost up to 10€ (boys, this crap is usually 1$ and you can get it anywhere in Canada). So since there was no way I was paying almost 10 bucks for it, I looked a little closer. Of course the brand that had no English translation on it was the cheapest. The actual funny part of the story (well there isn't really one but I like the word for nail polish remover): Kynsilakanpoistoaine. The only reason I recognized it was because of the Swedish translation: Nagellacksborttagningsmedel.
Although I have to say, these words only look scary because they're stuck together but they're usually only long because they're compound words. Otherwise, it's not like dog is: eläinkoirapyrstönkanssa! (That probably doesn't make much sense but you get the idea...) Dog is just koira. (Okay, enough of Google Translate for now.)

And now, lunch!

P.S. I took a ton of pictures of the area but the internet is too slow to upload them onto Blogger. They're coming soon.