My 90th post...

This blog is catching up to the old German blog and with this post, I will have posted a whooping 90 posts! [The German blog got up to 94 posts in total, none of which are open to the public anymore... sorry - I messed up and put my name in there somewhere.]

So point being, hi August! How have you arrived upon us so quickly?
This summer in Finland has been stupendous! I tutor twice a week for fun and spare change. Otherwise, the remaining 166 hours of my week are spent sleeping, eating ice cream, riding my bike, doing 1000 piece puzzles [or should I say A 1000 piece puzzle... though there are talks of a second being attempted after the first is completed], listening to music, going to the beach and swimming in the lake everyday and basically, living at WokWok part-time [where my friends work and spend most of their waking hours.]...oh and the fact that I spent over 11 hours watching extended editions of all the Lord of the Rings movies should also be mentioned as an activity.

Next Thursday my friend Jackie is flying in from Canada and I'm heading to Helsinki to get her from the airport. Then we have a few free days in and around Tampere to do as we please before we set off on our Scandinavian Adventure: Stockholm, Bergen and Oslo.

Speaking of Helsinki, I haven't heard anything about housing there yet and I'm wondering when/if I should try and find a private apartment for rent [since Helsinki has such reasonable prices of 500e/month for your home sweet 12m2 flats!] But we'll see... I'm supposed to hear back this month. And actually, the first orientation meeting is in the evening on August 25th... so less than 24 days left! Gah.!