Goood morning!
I spent today - so far - sleeping-in and after waking-up, enjoying some coffee with coconut milk and stevia and studying up on my Finnish. So I guess you can tell I'm in a better mood than yesterday and why.
We went to Päivi's for dinner last night after Juha took the Spanish boys ice swimming. Apparently the lake was packed and the door to the sauna was always open because so many people were running in and out - though this didn't affect the temperature inside. It seems we weren't the only ones who decided it would be fun to go ice swimming in -15C weather. (P.S. I didn't go. I walked to Päivi's from home because I hadn't been out yet yesterday so the 2.5 km of fresh air did me some good.) I got to borrow some Finnish children's books and a waffle iron. I can't wait to try out my almond flour waffle recipe! Meanwhile, I have to find vanilla extract in this country... so far, no luck. The liquid version is so rare (or seldom used) that Finns are asking me if that even exists. Seriously, they use vanilla sugar more here.. weird.
So today I have a fridge-full of food to eat, after which I'm kidnapping an apparently zombie-like Anne and bringing her to the grocery store with me! Tonight I have Finnish class at 6:30 and the best part is, I HAVE A CAR FOR THE DAY! This has never happened before, thus the excitement.
There are talks of Andy and Steffy planning a trip to Tampere in mid-April and before that, I'd like to spend a weekend in Jyväskylä visiting Veera. Sadly, I'm sort of broke right now BUT I'm starting up my English tutoring business as we speak so, we'll see if I can gather some students and maybe add €20 to my piggy bank ahah.
Stay tuned for pictures from this past weekend...
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