..But I guess i'll have to stick to paying rent and listen to my mate's advice to not always run from my problems.
But escapism...oh so fun, and so easy...
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lauantai 27. lokakuuta 2012
Take Me Away
It feels like it's time to pack my bag and leave once again.
..But I guess i'll have to stick to paying rent and listen to my mate's advice to not always run from my problems.
But escapism...oh so fun, and so easy...
..But I guess i'll have to stick to paying rent and listen to my mate's advice to not always run from my problems.
But escapism...oh so fun, and so easy...
sunnuntai 15. huhtikuuta 2012
INDECICIVENESS
Tried to write this in Finnish but goddamn, dunno if it's this hungover or just the lack of my ability to produce anything written in Finnish anymore...
I feel pretty lost right now. I have tons of ideas of where I could go and how I could spend my vacation, but I just don't know which idea sounds the most appealing or whether anything really sounds that appealing that I would be bothered enough to whore myself out as a cashier and save every penny. I just feel like I don't have any MUST SEE -top places any more that I would like to see (ofc South America but that's something I won't cover in such a short time as a summer vacation) or things that would reeeeeaally get me pumping.
I don't know. Must be the problem of when you have too much to chose from, the difficulty to chose steps in and nothing sounds more appealing than the other.
Anyhoo, here are the stuff I am currently deciding on. Might be that I'll do some, might be that I'll do none. Who the fuck knows.
1) Bali in May
Yeaaaah Randomness. Was not planning on this at all but then Jean told me there's a four day rave at a volcano happening and that I should come. Would also be cool to surf and Claudia would be there so could have a couple messy nights in Kuta with her! Probably the most appealing matter is though the fact that nowadays I have the ability to fly standby... which means, I could get to South East Asia for money close to nothing... Kinda intrigued to just go to the airport and try it out.
2) Band of Skulls @ Berlin
Really really really wanna see Band of Skulls live and they would be playing a small venue gig in Berlin on May 15th. I've been meaning to go to Berlin again so this would be a perfect combination. The only thing that's stopping me from going is that I don't have anyone to go with. And you CAN'T possibly go to a gig by yourself ! My Canadian couz Laura, who is now doing her exchange in Paris would be willing to go but she most likely will have her finals on that day :/ I really wanna go though so I'm gonna see if I can find someone to go with me.
3) Tall Ship Races
Dad told me he knows some people that work at the dockyard or what ever so he suggested he could ask around if there are still places available. But somehow, now that I got so accustomed to the idea of not being able to participate, I don't know if I wanna go anymore (?!?!? yeah wtf is wrong with me)
4) Surfing in Portugal
Wrote about this already. This would take place in July but let's see if i'll make it happen.
4) Creamfields
I'm pretty sure i'm going. Last year I was so up for it but unfortunately my school had just started so there was no way I could've missed on the first days of school (especially since I had only started as a Freshman). This year however, the line up is even sicker and now that Tomorrowland failed, I'm even more sure i'll go. PLUS the tickets only cost 140e with camping !! The only reason why I haven't purchased my ticket yet, is because my friends are still in doubt whether they wanna go (tyyyypical... always someone holding me back.. maybe I should just buy the ticket for myself and see what happens?)
5) Berlin in August
Pretty sure we are going to make this happen with a couple mates - Masa, Jassu, Aava, Ansku. Spend a week in the coolest city in Europe (after Helsinki ofc ;) ) viewing street art, going through thrift stores, attending sick parties and just wondering on the well designed streets of Berlin.
I think the main reasons that are holding me back - or why I don't feel so SUPER enthusiastic about the ideas of e.g. Bali, Tall Ship Races or a longer trip, is that maybe I subconsciously long to be at home. Maybe I miss stability and long for not having to be in full motion all the time. The past three years starting from early 2009 when I was collecting money for Mexico and the 2 weeks in Holland/Netherlands, combined with Rock Werchter, up till last winter holiday's Bali trip has just been such a hassle. Those 12 fucking months I spent working working working, saving saving saving for Australia (best trip of my life so far) was quite a lot. It was ofc rewarding, but also really fucking stressful and a lot to handle. Sometimes I would wake up, get ready, go work 10 hours, come back home to go straight to bed and sleep 12 hours just to wake up to the same thing again. Or I would have four part time jobs at the same time and managing my time would be a superwoman skill.
I mean, don't get me wrong. I _fucking_ love traveling. I don't think I feel anywhere more at home and like myself when I'm on the road with my backpack on my shoulders or when I am jumping up and down all sweaty to the rhythm of the music. I just think that I've realized that I need a break from it. In 2009 I worked after school to save till Holland/Netherlands, went there in the summer, fell in love at Rock Werchter, came home for three days, sat on a plane and flew to Mexico for a month. Came home in August with a feeling of longing and like my heart was about to explode & decided to make Australia come true. Worked for a year, fought with dad the whole time, was getting stressed, anxious, depressed but made it through. Worked like a machine, smiled at 10 grand in my bank account, hoped on a plane in October. Heart full of hope and mind full of adventure. Journey took 39 hours to Cairns. Had the best three months of my life in Oz and then traveled to Morocco where I had the worst month of my life. Came home anxious and depressed and realized I had to take care of myself. Got better, saved, worked, saved, worked, went to Heineken Open'er in Poland and Interailing by myself for a month. Realized I liked traveling by myself. Came home worked the rest of the vacation, started school in the end of August and multitasked my way through a report card full of 5's (top grade) and a bank account enough of money to fly to Bali. Spent Christmas and my B-day with strangers (& Jasmine) again. Came back.
Although I've had the best time of my life I can't help it to feel a bit tired. I feel like i've been in full motion all the time and that I haven't been able to catch my breath. I feel like I live according to two very distinct cycles - one is where I work and save and barely have time to see any of my mates and the other where I feel like I am living. This last school year I've only had time to see my best mate THREE TIMES thanks to school and working when ever I have free time and spending the rest of my free time abroad.
Feels like the past three years have been super hectic. Work work work -phase, travel, come back, work work work, travel, come back, work work work and so on... Full speed on and on and on.
Like I already said - Don't get me wrong - I love my life. But - Would also be nice to live back in home every once in a while and not only when I'm backpacking. Also everytime when I go fetch/drop someone off at the airport I just feel super tired. I used to looove airports but nowadays the sight of one makes me feel stressed. That's why I've realized that maybe should just stay in Finland for the summer. Catch my breath. "Take some time off". Enjoy life here. Ofc I want to and probably will make shorter trips but I think I've had enough of "longer" trips for now. At least until December.
I realized that how cool would it be to just enjoy the summer in the city, in lovely little Helsinki. The best city in the world. How wonderful would it be to have an actual SUMMER VACATION. I have tons of shit I wanna save up for but I mean, what if I would work but not work to the max this summer? What if I would live for myself and not for my bank account this summer? Thinking about money and always maxing your balance up just results into no social life and I would like to do something else than sit as the check out girl.
So yeah. I think I might just chill the fuck out and stay in one spot (apart from those minitravels) this summer.
Dunno where this long rant came from. It's just that this has been on my mind and I've been so confused about not KNOWING what I want. Until I realized what I actually wanted :)
But yeh, the sun is shining, the snow is melting and i'm having a happy hangover so life is good :) I better get back to studying now since I have three presentations (gonna have to rock the corporate whore -look again :((( ) and two exams on Mon-Fri.
Next Friday off to Eurotrip with my class !
I feel pretty lost right now. I have tons of ideas of where I could go and how I could spend my vacation, but I just don't know which idea sounds the most appealing or whether anything really sounds that appealing that I would be bothered enough to whore myself out as a cashier and save every penny. I just feel like I don't have any MUST SEE -top places any more that I would like to see (ofc South America but that's something I won't cover in such a short time as a summer vacation) or things that would reeeeeaally get me pumping.
I don't know. Must be the problem of when you have too much to chose from, the difficulty to chose steps in and nothing sounds more appealing than the other.
Anyhoo, here are the stuff I am currently deciding on. Might be that I'll do some, might be that I'll do none. Who the fuck knows.
1) Bali in May
Yeaaaah Randomness. Was not planning on this at all but then Jean told me there's a four day rave at a volcano happening and that I should come. Would also be cool to surf and Claudia would be there so could have a couple messy nights in Kuta with her! Probably the most appealing matter is though the fact that nowadays I have the ability to fly standby... which means, I could get to South East Asia for money close to nothing... Kinda intrigued to just go to the airport and try it out.
2) Band of Skulls @ Berlin
Really really really wanna see Band of Skulls live and they would be playing a small venue gig in Berlin on May 15th. I've been meaning to go to Berlin again so this would be a perfect combination. The only thing that's stopping me from going is that I don't have anyone to go with. And you CAN'T possibly go to a gig by yourself ! My Canadian couz Laura, who is now doing her exchange in Paris would be willing to go but she most likely will have her finals on that day :/ I really wanna go though so I'm gonna see if I can find someone to go with me.
3) Tall Ship Races
Dad told me he knows some people that work at the dockyard or what ever so he suggested he could ask around if there are still places available. But somehow, now that I got so accustomed to the idea of not being able to participate, I don't know if I wanna go anymore (?!?!? yeah wtf is wrong with me)
4) Surfing in Portugal
Wrote about this already. This would take place in July but let's see if i'll make it happen.
4) Creamfields
I'm pretty sure i'm going. Last year I was so up for it but unfortunately my school had just started so there was no way I could've missed on the first days of school (especially since I had only started as a Freshman). This year however, the line up is even sicker and now that Tomorrowland failed, I'm even more sure i'll go. PLUS the tickets only cost 140e with camping !! The only reason why I haven't purchased my ticket yet, is because my friends are still in doubt whether they wanna go (tyyyypical... always someone holding me back.. maybe I should just buy the ticket for myself and see what happens?)
5) Berlin in August
Pretty sure we are going to make this happen with a couple mates - Masa, Jassu, Aava, Ansku. Spend a week in the coolest city in Europe (after Helsinki ofc ;) ) viewing street art, going through thrift stores, attending sick parties and just wondering on the well designed streets of Berlin.
I think the main reasons that are holding me back - or why I don't feel so SUPER enthusiastic about the ideas of e.g. Bali, Tall Ship Races or a longer trip, is that maybe I subconsciously long to be at home. Maybe I miss stability and long for not having to be in full motion all the time. The past three years starting from early 2009 when I was collecting money for Mexico and the 2 weeks in Holland/Netherlands, combined with Rock Werchter, up till last winter holiday's Bali trip has just been such a hassle. Those 12 fucking months I spent working working working, saving saving saving for Australia (best trip of my life so far) was quite a lot. It was ofc rewarding, but also really fucking stressful and a lot to handle. Sometimes I would wake up, get ready, go work 10 hours, come back home to go straight to bed and sleep 12 hours just to wake up to the same thing again. Or I would have four part time jobs at the same time and managing my time would be a superwoman skill.
I mean, don't get me wrong. I _fucking_ love traveling. I don't think I feel anywhere more at home and like myself when I'm on the road with my backpack on my shoulders or when I am jumping up and down all sweaty to the rhythm of the music. I just think that I've realized that I need a break from it. In 2009 I worked after school to save till Holland/Netherlands, went there in the summer, fell in love at Rock Werchter, came home for three days, sat on a plane and flew to Mexico for a month. Came home in August with a feeling of longing and like my heart was about to explode & decided to make Australia come true. Worked for a year, fought with dad the whole time, was getting stressed, anxious, depressed but made it through. Worked like a machine, smiled at 10 grand in my bank account, hoped on a plane in October. Heart full of hope and mind full of adventure. Journey took 39 hours to Cairns. Had the best three months of my life in Oz and then traveled to Morocco where I had the worst month of my life. Came home anxious and depressed and realized I had to take care of myself. Got better, saved, worked, saved, worked, went to Heineken Open'er in Poland and Interailing by myself for a month. Realized I liked traveling by myself. Came home worked the rest of the vacation, started school in the end of August and multitasked my way through a report card full of 5's (top grade) and a bank account enough of money to fly to Bali. Spent Christmas and my B-day with strangers (& Jasmine) again. Came back.
Although I've had the best time of my life I can't help it to feel a bit tired. I feel like i've been in full motion all the time and that I haven't been able to catch my breath. I feel like I live according to two very distinct cycles - one is where I work and save and barely have time to see any of my mates and the other where I feel like I am living. This last school year I've only had time to see my best mate THREE TIMES thanks to school and working when ever I have free time and spending the rest of my free time abroad.
Feels like the past three years have been super hectic. Work work work -phase, travel, come back, work work work, travel, come back, work work work and so on... Full speed on and on and on.
Like I already said - Don't get me wrong - I love my life. But - Would also be nice to live back in home every once in a while and not only when I'm backpacking. Also everytime when I go fetch/drop someone off at the airport I just feel super tired. I used to looove airports but nowadays the sight of one makes me feel stressed. That's why I've realized that maybe should just stay in Finland for the summer. Catch my breath. "Take some time off". Enjoy life here. Ofc I want to and probably will make shorter trips but I think I've had enough of "longer" trips for now. At least until December.
I realized that how cool would it be to just enjoy the summer in the city, in lovely little Helsinki. The best city in the world. How wonderful would it be to have an actual SUMMER VACATION. I have tons of shit I wanna save up for but I mean, what if I would work but not work to the max this summer? What if I would live for myself and not for my bank account this summer? Thinking about money and always maxing your balance up just results into no social life and I would like to do something else than sit as the check out girl.
So yeah. I think I might just chill the fuck out and stay in one spot (apart from those minitravels) this summer.
Dunno where this long rant came from. It's just that this has been on my mind and I've been so confused about not KNOWING what I want. Until I realized what I actually wanted :)
But yeh, the sun is shining, the snow is melting and i'm having a happy hangover so life is good :) I better get back to studying now since I have three presentations (gonna have to rock the corporate whore -look again :((( ) and two exams on Mon-Fri.
Next Friday off to Eurotrip with my class !
Photos by: Laura Anderson (Photo nr. 1), Jasmine Färling (Photo nr. 9) and Band of Skull photo from here.
torstai 29. maaliskuuta 2012
Marketing Trainee, Flow Festival
The thing I so secretly talked about a couple weeks back - the internship I applied for.
At first I had no incentive to apply to any internships since I had other plans in mind - first to Rock Werchter (Belgium), 3 weeks of sailing from St. Malo, France to Lisbon, Portugal and then back to Belgium for Tomorrowland festival.
But... Then I got a message from my ex-classmate Laura claiming I HAD TO apply for this position that was screaming my name - the Marketing trainee at Flow Festival.
The pace my heart was racing at and the speed my breath had accelerated to told me I was going to have to make a hard decision - apply to my dream job I have been striving towards to or follow my passion of traveling and take part in the tall ship races I had been thinking about for a couple of years already.
I was laying wade awake that night. Weighting the options. I was sad to admit that I already had different plans - as I already had purchased the Rock Werchter ticket some three weeks ago (probs forgot to mention) and I would just have to let this perfect opportunity slip. I was just on the verge of falling asleep when I sprung up as enlightenment hit me.
The past three years I have been doing things such as organizing parties, travels and even resulted in starting my own event management company. I have been all around the world just for festivals sake - from good ol' Seinäjoki to Gdynia, and Werchter to Lorne. I have experienced and learnt a lot of things about festivals and marketing and my head is full of ideas how things could be developed. Since becoming aware after reading an article that such a profession as an "event manager" exists, creating my OWN festival has been my sole dream.
So why the fuck shouldn't I apply to my dream job?
It's not like I didn't email the exact same company last year asking whether they had some work (the internships had been given out already at that time - on a more miniscule applicant search scale though).
So I decided to do it. To give it a try. What could I lose? Plus. I was their perfect candidate.
The least that could happen was that I wouldn't get in and I could pursue my travel plans. At least I would know that I had TRIED - which I think is all that matters.
Well, I sent them the best application I've ever written but unfortunately I wasn't picked. I don't know what kind of superwoman they are looking for cause my cv and resumée was pretty damn good ( ;) ), but I hope the person they choose really fits the job and appreciates the opportunity :) And, I'm not bitter at all. I'm super happy I tried and content with the result. I mean, I guess in one point they were relatively interested in my application since they emailed me asking for my age (oops.. Can't remember why i've deleted it in the past?) ? So yeah. Better luck next time (:
PLUS.
Now I can go traveling ;)
-Optimisti ei koskaan pety-
*=thank you Kimmo _so_ much for all the proofreading and tips you gave me, means a lot, really :)
Photo property of Kimsu Love
maanantai 19. maaliskuuta 2012
Set Me Free
Every once in a while I get this feeling:
Kinda getting anxious here... I should be surfing, sleeping in a beach shack and walking barefoot... Living life the way I want it. Not the way I should live it.
I'm slightly freaked out that although I have quite the freedom here (since I do get to backpack twice a year; during chrissie I have a month off of school and I have a nice 3 month summer vacation) - I'll be completely unchained only after three years... and I'll be turning 25 that year. fuuuuuuu. I should be living my life NOW.
But. yeah. I'm gonna finish school - or at least keep on going as long as this motivation remains. I guess I just need to distract myself until then - music, parties and mini-traveling until I set myself completely freeee.
And hey, it's not like i'll be in Finland for that long anymore... :) 2013 Fall I'm off to Madrid to do my exchange and on my fourth year (2014-2015) I have my five month working holiday abroad.
Life's pretty good. Just gotta remember it.
Kinda getting anxious here... I should be surfing, sleeping in a beach shack and walking barefoot... Living life the way I want it. Not the way I should live it.
I'm slightly freaked out that although I have quite the freedom here (since I do get to backpack twice a year; during chrissie I have a month off of school and I have a nice 3 month summer vacation) - I'll be completely unchained only after three years... and I'll be turning 25 that year. fuuuuuuu. I should be living my life NOW.
But. yeah. I'm gonna finish school - or at least keep on going as long as this motivation remains. I guess I just need to distract myself until then - music, parties and mini-traveling until I set myself completely freeee.
And hey, it's not like i'll be in Finland for that long anymore... :) 2013 Fall I'm off to Madrid to do my exchange and on my fourth year (2014-2015) I have my five month working holiday abroad.
Life's pretty good. Just gotta remember it.
maanantai 12. maaliskuuta 2012
Crossroads
Shit just got real.
I've got millions of things I want to write about here... but... things they (might be) changing.
So what is this Mysterious Thing about? Can't tell you. Not until 27.3.
People who know me will know that something big is up though, for me to even consider not going traveling. (Hrrrrrrrrrrr the though of not getting to go traveling aka sailing freaks me out but I must remind myself of the opportunity cost and opportunity of a life time that might follow).
Anyway. Keep your fingers crossed. :]
PS: For Fuck Sakes the style of my projects / essays for school are way too informal in my opinion.. I sound like I am writing for my blog...
I've got millions of things I want to write about here... but... things they (might be) changing.
So what is this Mysterious Thing about? Can't tell you. Not until 27.3.
People who know me will know that something big is up though, for me to even consider not going traveling. (Hrrrrrrrrrrr the though of not getting to go traveling aka sailing freaks me out but I must remind myself of the opportunity cost and opportunity of a life time that might follow).
Anyway. Keep your fingers crossed. :]
PS: For Fuck Sakes the style of my projects / essays for school are way too informal in my opinion.. I sound like I am writing for my blog...
torstai 16. helmikuuta 2012
FUUUUCK YEAH
I FUCKING LOVE MY SCHOOL !!!
"Hi everyone,
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for the nice surprise that I found on my keyboard two days ago – happy belated valentine’s day to you all, too!
Second thing that you might have heard from Tero already… I am teaching Introduction to European Markets to EBA11 group and I have been planning Europe field trip for this May. This trip would be mainly for you and EBA11 (EM/EBA10 groups as well, if there are free seats left). Without further ado, this is what I have been planning:
April 20 (Friday) departure from Helsinki by evening ferry to Stockholm
April 21-22 (Saturday-Sunday) Traveling to Amsterdam
April 23 (Monday) Visit to INHOLLAND University of Applied Sciences
April 24 (Tuesday) Visit to Utrecht University of Applied Sciences – drive to Brussels
April 25 (Wednesday) Visit to European Parliament in Brussels plus several EU agencies
April 26 (Thursday) Drive to Berlin
April 27 (Friday) Visit to Berlin School of Economics and Law
April 28-29 (Saturday-Sunday) Back to Helsinki (either ferry from Germany to Finland or ferry&drive combo via Baltic states)
There will be free time to get to know Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin as well. Better schedule will be sent to you as soon as the programme develops a bit further.
What does this cost? I am trying to keep it in 100-120 euros per student, rest would be paid by us. It includes transportation and accommodation, but you would pay your own food. I know you have exams that week but those won’t be a problem. I will talk with the teachers and they will be organized either before or after the trip.
This is your chance to get to see Europe with very little investment – in great company, too! More info to come after the week 8 holiday.
Cheers!
Marko"
FUUUUUUUUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
This would is going to be so amazing!! (As long as we can reschedule all those marketing/economic/math -finals/presentations BEFORE the trip and not after... or Metropolia's GPA will experience a major dip... ;D)
I'm also excited that we would go on this trip with European Business Administration (EBA) students and not only us, European Management students :]
And hey... I've been CRAAAVING to go back to Berlin, so I AM STOKED.
ah, love life!!!!!!!
But, now, time to go pack for Poland. Flight tomo! ;)
PS. For those of you who might ask, why are we visiting all these universities in Europe: I'm doing a double degree, and a compulsory exchange in one of the partner unis is integrated into our programme. Berlin and Ütrecht are two out of the five partner unis we have in our (EM) programme. The school in Amsterdam, on he other hand, is one of EBA's partners.
PPS. I am not looking forward to that cruise to Stockholm.......... I guess I am just getting too old!
PPPS. Finally Brussels we shall meet...<3 and not only from the window of a train!
Check out what cool things our awesome teachers have been planning for us:
"Hi everyone,
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for the nice surprise that I found on my keyboard two days ago – happy belated valentine’s day to you all, too!
Second thing that you might have heard from Tero already… I am teaching Introduction to European Markets to EBA11 group and I have been planning Europe field trip for this May. This trip would be mainly for you and EBA11 (EM/EBA10 groups as well, if there are free seats left). Without further ado, this is what I have been planning:
April 20 (Friday) departure from Helsinki by evening ferry to Stockholm
April 21-22 (Saturday-Sunday) Traveling to Amsterdam
April 23 (Monday) Visit to INHOLLAND University of Applied Sciences
April 24 (Tuesday) Visit to Utrecht University of Applied Sciences – drive to Brussels
April 25 (Wednesday) Visit to European Parliament in Brussels plus several EU agencies
April 26 (Thursday) Drive to Berlin
April 27 (Friday) Visit to Berlin School of Economics and Law
April 28-29 (Saturday-Sunday) Back to Helsinki (either ferry from Germany to Finland or ferry&drive combo via Baltic states)
There will be free time to get to know Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin as well. Better schedule will be sent to you as soon as the programme develops a bit further.
Ütrecht last summer
What does this cost? I am trying to keep it in 100-120 euros per student, rest would be paid by us. It includes transportation and accommodation, but you would pay your own food. I know you have exams that week but those won’t be a problem. I will talk with the teachers and they will be organized either before or after the trip.
This is your chance to get to see Europe with very little investment – in great company, too! More info to come after the week 8 holiday.
Cheers!
Marko"
Berlin Baby!
FUUUUUUUUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
This would is going to be so amazing!! (As long as we can reschedule all those marketing/economic/math -finals/presentations BEFORE the trip and not after... or Metropolia's GPA will experience a major dip... ;D)
I'm also excited that we would go on this trip with European Business Administration (EBA) students and not only us, European Management students :]
Picnic in Amsterdam feat. Marty !
And hey... I've been CRAAAVING to go back to Berlin, so I AM STOKED.
ah, love life!!!!!!!
But, now, time to go pack for Poland. Flight tomo! ;)
PS. For those of you who might ask, why are we visiting all these universities in Europe: I'm doing a double degree, and a compulsory exchange in one of the partner unis is integrated into our programme. Berlin and Ütrecht are two out of the five partner unis we have in our (EM) programme. The school in Amsterdam, on he other hand, is one of EBA's partners.
PPS. I am not looking forward to that cruise to Stockholm.......... I guess I am just getting too old!
PPPS. Finally Brussels we shall meet...<3 and not only from the window of a train!
keskiviikko 11. tammikuuta 2012
Stoked on the Future!
11.1.2012 Ubud
Although I love Bali, I’m super stoked on going back home. I have so much cool stuff waiting for me back home!!!
Only after three days when returning home, I will be attending Matkamessut (a travel expo), which Rantapallo is kind enough to grant us bloggers tickets to :) I’m super keen on seeing what the conference has to offer and I will be sure for keeping my eyes open for ticket discounts for my next travels ;) It will also be a great opportunity for looking for sponsors for my Tall Ship Races –trip !
I also need to start planning something I like to refer as to the W.E.P – what it is, you will find out when the time is right. ;)
Also i’m pretty stoked on going back to school... :D Maths and accounting..!.wow I am a nerd. Nah but really, I had a really good semester studying wise, and the only three grades I’ve gotten so far where 5’s !!! (From subjects I DID NOT expect myself to be getting tp marks from!) I’m constantly checking our school’s netportal to see whether the teachers would be bored enough on their vacation to fill in our grades ;) I have a strong feeling this will the best report card I’ve ever got... I know I did pretty fuckign well on my exams and I’m excited on getting the results back (and seeing how many more 5’s I got :D) :) AND this semester I will make damn sure that i’ll concentrate 150% on Spanish porque quiero hablar español perfectamente un día..! ALSO pretty keen on taking the digital photography course and learning more about photography (:
I’m also excited because two days ago when we were driving to Ubud on the scooter with Milka and I was just sitting back, listening to my iPod hungover, I had these realizations:
1) I Started thinking about whether I should do marketing as my major. During the fall semester when I was thinking of what to study as my major I knew that I didn’t want it to be
a) Economics – because although it is useful and usually pretty logical, the graphs are a total mind fuck most of the time and usually just requires for you to learn them by heart. AND four years with Michale Keaney would just be too painful with his bad bad bad jokes : D
b) Marketing – because Kotler (the author) is a fuckign lunatic who writes books that are ACTUALLY over 1000 pages long and the size of big laptops... Tooooo much man..
...BUT
when I came to Bali I started rethinking the issue. Marketing started to sound appealing as I started realizing the opportunities that marketing would provide. I could basically work anywhere.
For example:
Paolo, the 46-year-old Brazilian guy from Balangan Beach owns his own ”surf village” in an island somewhere in Indonesia and I asked jokingly whether I could come work for him ”yeah. You could do the marketing”. Ding ding ding, jackpot!
I also got inspired by Jean, Jonas’ French friend (who’s friend’s villa we stayed at) who has been now living in Bali for a year. He’s a fucking lucky guy because at ony 25 he got hired as the director of Ticket to the Moon in Bali and is doing e.g. the marketing for the company. So basically he is living in Bali and has a cool job of selling freakin’ hammocks :D
So yeah.. with marketing comes a lot of options and different livestyles to choose from.
2) What I also realized, was that I’m not going to give up on Out of Control Productions, mine and a couple friends’ company/organization we created, registered and threw a succesful Halloween Party with. We had some internal problems that made me seriously doubt whether I wanted to continue to work in OOCP and when leaving to Bali I just answered ”I don’t know” when I was being asked whether I was still in after a month of avoiding everything that had to do with OOCP. I told I’d figure things out in Bali. But after staying in Bali for three weeks I still hadn’t gotten an epiphany about what to do with the issue. I just wished I wouldn’t have to choose between working-with-wonderful,-passionate-people-who-are-amazing-at-what-they-do-but-with-whom-you’d-probably-clash-big-time-with-at-times to giving up on something I was part of creating and loved doing.
I was sitting at the back of the scooter with my headphones when I realized there was no way I was going to quit doing something I am good at. Never ever have I been as passionate as in those two manic weeks when we pulled off the sickest Halloween Party with Demi and Janika. Never ever have I been so driven and focused. 12 hour days have not seemed like work with such a good and FUN team. Although we might have our differences its not worth giving up on something that could fourish from a tiny seed into a beautiful flower. Not forgetting about friendship.
I’m super excited in going back as when I asked the girls and Jin (when combining the StartUp Challenge with OOCP Jin, the graphic and computer wizard joined forces with us) to fill me in on what was happening nowaday in OOCP (as I had been succesfully avoiding our FB-Admin page for two months) Demi told we are doing collab with Trombi Ry, the student organization, and throwing parties for them...! Not to mention all the other school parties and what not :) I also have a couple ideas on parties and I can’t wait to see my girls again and meet Jin finally, so that we can start working on our company’s future :)
So yeah, Pretty fucking stoked on going back home. Not to mention that Sean who has left Australia behind to make his RTW-trip is heading to Helsinki on the 26th aka AUSSIE DAY!!!!
Although I love Bali, I’m super stoked on going back home. I have so much cool stuff waiting for me back home!!!
Only after three days when returning home, I will be attending Matkamessut (a travel expo), which Rantapallo is kind enough to grant us bloggers tickets to :) I’m super keen on seeing what the conference has to offer and I will be sure for keeping my eyes open for ticket discounts for my next travels ;) It will also be a great opportunity for looking for sponsors for my Tall Ship Races –trip !
I also need to start planning something I like to refer as to the W.E.P – what it is, you will find out when the time is right. ;)
Also i’m pretty stoked on going back to school... :D Maths and accounting..!.wow I am a nerd. Nah but really, I had a really good semester studying wise, and the only three grades I’ve gotten so far where 5’s !!! (From subjects I DID NOT expect myself to be getting tp marks from!) I’m constantly checking our school’s netportal to see whether the teachers would be bored enough on their vacation to fill in our grades ;) I have a strong feeling this will the best report card I’ve ever got... I know I did pretty fuckign well on my exams and I’m excited on getting the results back (and seeing how many more 5’s I got :D) :) AND this semester I will make damn sure that i’ll concentrate 150% on Spanish porque quiero hablar español perfectamente un día..! ALSO pretty keen on taking the digital photography course and learning more about photography (:
I’m also excited because two days ago when we were driving to Ubud on the scooter with Milka and I was just sitting back, listening to my iPod hungover, I had these realizations:
1) I Started thinking about whether I should do marketing as my major. During the fall semester when I was thinking of what to study as my major I knew that I didn’t want it to be
a) Economics – because although it is useful and usually pretty logical, the graphs are a total mind fuck most of the time and usually just requires for you to learn them by heart. AND four years with Michale Keaney would just be too painful with his bad bad bad jokes : D
b) Marketing – because Kotler (the author) is a fuckign lunatic who writes books that are ACTUALLY over 1000 pages long and the size of big laptops... Tooooo much man..
...BUT
when I came to Bali I started rethinking the issue. Marketing started to sound appealing as I started realizing the opportunities that marketing would provide. I could basically work anywhere.
For example:
Paolo, the 46-year-old Brazilian guy from Balangan Beach owns his own ”surf village” in an island somewhere in Indonesia and I asked jokingly whether I could come work for him ”yeah. You could do the marketing”. Ding ding ding, jackpot!
I also got inspired by Jean, Jonas’ French friend (who’s friend’s villa we stayed at) who has been now living in Bali for a year. He’s a fucking lucky guy because at ony 25 he got hired as the director of Ticket to the Moon in Bali and is doing e.g. the marketing for the company. So basically he is living in Bali and has a cool job of selling freakin’ hammocks :D
So yeah.. with marketing comes a lot of options and different livestyles to choose from.
2) What I also realized, was that I’m not going to give up on Out of Control Productions, mine and a couple friends’ company/organization we created, registered and threw a succesful Halloween Party with. We had some internal problems that made me seriously doubt whether I wanted to continue to work in OOCP and when leaving to Bali I just answered ”I don’t know” when I was being asked whether I was still in after a month of avoiding everything that had to do with OOCP. I told I’d figure things out in Bali. But after staying in Bali for three weeks I still hadn’t gotten an epiphany about what to do with the issue. I just wished I wouldn’t have to choose between working-with-wonderful,-passionate-people-who-are-amazing-at-what-they-do-but-with-whom-you’d-probably-clash-big-time-with-at-times to giving up on something I was part of creating and loved doing.
I was sitting at the back of the scooter with my headphones when I realized there was no way I was going to quit doing something I am good at. Never ever have I been as passionate as in those two manic weeks when we pulled off the sickest Halloween Party with Demi and Janika. Never ever have I been so driven and focused. 12 hour days have not seemed like work with such a good and FUN team. Although we might have our differences its not worth giving up on something that could fourish from a tiny seed into a beautiful flower. Not forgetting about friendship.
I’m super excited in going back as when I asked the girls and Jin (when combining the StartUp Challenge with OOCP Jin, the graphic and computer wizard joined forces with us) to fill me in on what was happening nowaday in OOCP (as I had been succesfully avoiding our FB-Admin page for two months) Demi told we are doing collab with Trombi Ry, the student organization, and throwing parties for them...! Not to mention all the other school parties and what not :) I also have a couple ideas on parties and I can’t wait to see my girls again and meet Jin finally, so that we can start working on our company’s future :)
So yeah, Pretty fucking stoked on going back home. Not to mention that Sean who has left Australia behind to make his RTW-trip is heading to Helsinki on the 26th aka AUSSIE DAY!!!!
maanantai 21. marraskuuta 2011
Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal 26.7
Today was such a big hassle day.
So I wake up in Lissabon just when the cute Swedish guy sitting next to me was getting up. It was around 10ish and our train had just arrived in Portugal. I said bye Erik who hurried to the sunny outdoors. I started packing my stuff up and then I noticed that Erik had forgotten the cap, that he had been wearing, on his seat. I grabbed the cap with me so that I could give it to him in case i would still bump into him but unfortunately he was nowhere to be seen.
I had no clue how to get to my hostel or were it was (I was doing this in my bulletproof adventure way yet again: just write down the address of the place and you'll end up there somehow) so I kept just asking ppl in Spannish how to get to the part of town where my hostel was. This guy told me to get on the bus so I did so and kept my eyes open for my stop. I arrived at my hostel around 12ish and they told me that if I waited around an hour I would be able to check in. Well my room wasn’t ready after an hours wait so I left to the train station to sort my ticket out. I was kinda bummed I hadn’t realized to do it as I already had been at the train staion when arriving via train that morning.
So I hoped on the bus and asked if the drived could tell me to get off at the right stop. As I was watching the scenery pass and the bus stop names change, I got this feeling that this one stop was my stop but because the bus driver didn’t tell me anything, I didn’t get off. It was not until we drive on to a ramp that I went up to the driver to ask about my stop. I found out hat I HAD been right about my stop, and I had missed it... The driver told me that there would be another train station stop in 20 minutes so I just went back into sitting and watching the landscape.
When I finally arrived at the train station, I had to kill another 30 minutes in order for the international departure office to open up.. When the thing eventually opened up and it as my turn, it took me like 40 minutes to sort my train out :D Usually it takes you a minute... Anyhoo, it had been super easy booking my way out of Lisbon: the Lisbon – Madrid train for Friday BUT the way Madrid – Paris = everything booked. I’ve never been to Paris but I must say I’m not that excited anyways about it, I just wanted to get to Paris because I have to get to Brussels so I can fly back home... So it’s on the way home and the place where I need to go in order to make international connections out of France.
I had been standing in like with two Swedish girls who told me they were going from Hembaye, border of France, to Paris, so I decided to give it a try. The booking person could only book me from Madrid to Irún but he told me that the next station was really close – only a five minute walk away from Hembaye station. I would arrive in the middle of the night so I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to get a train to Paris, or where I’ll be sleeping that night... but I decided to book the train anyways as there were no other options for me.
So I returned to my hostel and was fianlly able to check in. Took that well needed shower <3 I was in the bathroom were the showers are and I met this girl Lien from Belgium. I asked her whether she knew where to find a super market. Se was really nice and traveling by herself too. So I walked to the super market (I don’t get it how people say it was ”far away”, come on, a 10 minute walk? And who wouldn’t like to walk in a foreign country and see more stuff...!) and I was so amaized how cheap everything was !!!! I even took a picture of the groceries I did for 12 euros 8D Bought a bottle of red for myself and cooked up some salad for dinner. I made so much of it and had like 3 portions which after I was super bloated of :D
I was sitting ouside with Lien, eating, and we decided to go walking. Because she needed something out of the store we walked there again and I bought some readymade Sangría. Gotta love San Juan. ;) We walked up to this castle and because the sun was setting I was a bit camera happy ! We randomly bumped into Lien’s uncle ?!? Small world much? Anyway, we were just sitting and drinking Sangría and enjoying life :) She told me about this time she got high with her mate and then they found some bubble wrap from the trash can which they then took and got this brillian idea of selling it... ”Selling fun” they called it :D I mean who wouldn’t love bubble wrap?! Anyhoo, people were really getting into the bubble wrap thing as they were trying to make everyone they passed on the street to purchase it. Eventually they got bored and just started throwing the bubble wrap all over the street and then the police got a bit interested in who was trashing the streets and –being high- they got super freaked out and ran away and then paranoia hit in and they were hiding inside with the curtains closed 8D Alrighty. But yeah cool, love people who can just make fun out of nothing...such as bubble wrap!
We also went to walk on the promenade or what ever you call it. I took pictures of the beautiful ”25 de Abril” -bridge that lead up to the peninsula. The bridge looked exactly like the Golden Gate and it actually WAS designed by the same company that constructed the Oackland Bay bridge in San Fran but not the Golden Gate (as someone told me) Wikipedia says.
Today was such a big hassle day.
So I wake up in Lissabon just when the cute Swedish guy sitting next to me was getting up. It was around 10ish and our train had just arrived in Portugal. I said bye Erik who hurried to the sunny outdoors. I started packing my stuff up and then I noticed that Erik had forgotten the cap, that he had been wearing, on his seat. I grabbed the cap with me so that I could give it to him in case i would still bump into him but unfortunately he was nowhere to be seen.
I had no clue how to get to my hostel or were it was (I was doing this in my bulletproof adventure way yet again: just write down the address of the place and you'll end up there somehow) so I kept just asking ppl in Spannish how to get to the part of town where my hostel was. This guy told me to get on the bus so I did so and kept my eyes open for my stop. I arrived at my hostel around 12ish and they told me that if I waited around an hour I would be able to check in. Well my room wasn’t ready after an hours wait so I left to the train station to sort my ticket out. I was kinda bummed I hadn’t realized to do it as I already had been at the train staion when arriving via train that morning.
So I hoped on the bus and asked if the drived could tell me to get off at the right stop. As I was watching the scenery pass and the bus stop names change, I got this feeling that this one stop was my stop but because the bus driver didn’t tell me anything, I didn’t get off. It was not until we drive on to a ramp that I went up to the driver to ask about my stop. I found out hat I HAD been right about my stop, and I had missed it... The driver told me that there would be another train station stop in 20 minutes so I just went back into sitting and watching the landscape.
When I finally arrived at the train station, I had to kill another 30 minutes in order for the international departure office to open up.. When the thing eventually opened up and it as my turn, it took me like 40 minutes to sort my train out :D Usually it takes you a minute... Anyhoo, it had been super easy booking my way out of Lisbon: the Lisbon – Madrid train for Friday BUT the way Madrid – Paris = everything booked. I’ve never been to Paris but I must say I’m not that excited anyways about it, I just wanted to get to Paris because I have to get to Brussels so I can fly back home... So it’s on the way home and the place where I need to go in order to make international connections out of France.
I had been standing in like with two Swedish girls who told me they were going from Hembaye, border of France, to Paris, so I decided to give it a try. The booking person could only book me from Madrid to Irún but he told me that the next station was really close – only a five minute walk away from Hembaye station. I would arrive in the middle of the night so I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to get a train to Paris, or where I’ll be sleeping that night... but I decided to book the train anyways as there were no other options for me.
So I returned to my hostel and was fianlly able to check in. Took that well needed shower <3 I was in the bathroom were the showers are and I met this girl Lien from Belgium. I asked her whether she knew where to find a super market. Se was really nice and traveling by herself too. So I walked to the super market (I don’t get it how people say it was ”far away”, come on, a 10 minute walk? And who wouldn’t like to walk in a foreign country and see more stuff...!) and I was so amaized how cheap everything was !!!! I even took a picture of the groceries I did for 12 euros 8D Bought a bottle of red for myself and cooked up some salad for dinner. I made so much of it and had like 3 portions which after I was super bloated of :D
I was sitting ouside with Lien, eating, and we decided to go walking. Because she needed something out of the store we walked there again and I bought some readymade Sangría. Gotta love San Juan. ;) We walked up to this castle and because the sun was setting I was a bit camera happy ! We randomly bumped into Lien’s uncle ?!? Small world much? Anyway, we were just sitting and drinking Sangría and enjoying life :) She told me about this time she got high with her mate and then they found some bubble wrap from the trash can which they then took and got this brillian idea of selling it... ”Selling fun” they called it :D I mean who wouldn’t love bubble wrap?! Anyhoo, people were really getting into the bubble wrap thing as they were trying to make everyone they passed on the street to purchase it. Eventually they got bored and just started throwing the bubble wrap all over the street and then the police got a bit interested in who was trashing the streets and –being high- they got super freaked out and ran away and then paranoia hit in and they were hiding inside with the curtains closed 8D Alrighty. But yeah cool, love people who can just make fun out of nothing...such as bubble wrap!
We also went to walk on the promenade or what ever you call it. I took pictures of the beautiful ”25 de Abril” -bridge that lead up to the peninsula. The bridge looked exactly like the Golden Gate and it actually WAS designed by the same company that constructed the Oackland Bay bridge in San Fran but not the Golden Gate (as someone told me) Wikipedia says.
torstai 4. elokuuta 2011
Sleep Deprivation
4.8 At Barcelona Airport 8:30 AM
I was almost left outside of the terminal at 00:30 because I lacked any papers of my flight what so ever.
Security guard infront of the gates of terminal 2:
"Su tarjeta de embarque por favor."
"...............No tengo."
"No tarjeta, no pasar."
"Pero.. no tengo."
"No puede pasar. Abiertan en las seis."
At this point I thought that I was in deep shit. I was trying to recall whether it had been ever necessary print out any forms (disregarding Ryanair's flights) or was a passport just fine to be able to check in. I began to panic that I would not get home. Or that I would have to wait outside the terminal for 5,5 hours..........
"Estás sola?"
"Sí.."
"Ok, pasa"
"MUCHOS GRACIAS."
I think the security guard realized I wouldn't be well off on my own with all my luggage and no where to go to (except terminal 1), waiting outside in the dark for the clock to struck six.
There was no way I was going to risk missing my flight (again) so sleeping was not an option. So I purchased 24 h wifi with 10 euros and pretty much made a camp in one corner. I sat in that very same place for 7 hours... Holy fuck. Thank god my friends have insomnia and Hector was on facebook to keep me company. Later on I saw Jared online and we skyped for half an hour!!! Man do I miss him so incredibly much. He is one of my all time favourite people I met in Australia and I still keep in contact with him. It was so good to see his face and hear his voice and I wished I could've just jumped through the screen to Darwin and hang out with him and hug him ! Jared's the best. We reminisced about good times... That very first night Melanie introduced me and Laura to Ian and Jared and we met crazy Wolf man. On that same night me and Jared got peed on by Melanie (!!! EPIC!!!)... We also thought about Magnetic Island and Airlie along other stuff. Damn. If only Jared would be going to Indonesia in December instead of September.
After skyping with Jared and reading one message on fb that wasn't reall the most pleasant one, I started feeling a bit anxious about going back. I am pretty sure it's the sleep deprivation that's talking, but I just really started doubting my purpose in my life back home. It felt a bit like in January, when I was returning home from my four month trip - returning to nothing (no school, no job etc). I tried to remind myself that it was just an illusion because I have everything going on for me back home - I'll be working non stop in August, i'll be volunteer working at this festival and getting free tickets to it, i'm gonna start going to the gym again and school is about to start in late August. But somehow just knowing, that I would go back to Finland with the mentality of saving up again so I could get away go traveling again felt a bit depressing. It feels crazy to have this strong urge of wanting to get away...
Don't I really have anything in Finland that would make a difference to keep me from wanting to leave home again ?
That's the issue I've been resteling with on this trip. Am I really happy in Finland? Do I really wanna live there? Meeting Finnish people abroad is always such a dull reminder of how things are back home - everyone is just so "jäinen". No one can keep up a conversation (unless they are drunk) and although I would be the one that is trying to spark up the convo, the other participate just lacks the skills to maintain it. And talk about Finnish men. Oh God. Don't even get me started. When I came home from Morocco I had decided to stay back in Finland to study, because I had a lot of shit going on and I knew I wouldn't have been able to cope on my own in a foreing country without my safety net. But now that I feel like i'm over those dark times, I feel like there's really no reason why I should stay home, in Finland.
The only reason why I would consider living and studying in Finland is that uni is free and I can make a lot more money -so I can go traveling again- in my country compared to most of the countries. Unless we are talking about Australia with a minimum wage of $18.5 per hour. Jared actually just told me that he gets $20 an hour but with tips $30.. He said he worked yesterday for 5,5 hours and made _150_ dollars. But yeah. The uni isn't free in Australia... It's pretty much the opposite, at least the ones I looked at some two years ago.
Yeah. I don't really know... I've been planning I should at least do an exchange year after this one. That would give me one year in Finland, second one in exchange and the third one in one of the partner universities abroad (in Madrid I hope!). The final year, the fourth one, has a work practice term of five months, and it is recommended to do abroad - which I would totally do of course. So I would only be in Finalnd for some 1,5 years or so. Unless they wouldn't recognise my studies on my exchange year. I think I wanna go visit CIMO - the place where they took us in high school. Maybe they would be able to sort my life out a bit for myself.
But I must say. When I was surfing in Portugal, I just felt so happy. "This is what I wanna do in my spare time", I thought to myself for the tenth time. And surfing is not something you can do in Finland (unless you are totally passionate, crazy and ridiculous).
We'll see.
Ps. I've just been so happy during these past five weeks that I don't want it to go away.
I was almost left outside of the terminal at 00:30 because I lacked any papers of my flight what so ever.
Security guard infront of the gates of terminal 2:
"Su tarjeta de embarque por favor."
"...............No tengo."
"No tarjeta, no pasar."
"Pero.. no tengo."
"No puede pasar. Abiertan en las seis."
At this point I thought that I was in deep shit. I was trying to recall whether it had been ever necessary print out any forms (disregarding Ryanair's flights) or was a passport just fine to be able to check in. I began to panic that I would not get home. Or that I would have to wait outside the terminal for 5,5 hours..........
"Estás sola?"
"Sí.."
"Ok, pasa"
"MUCHOS GRACIAS."
I think the security guard realized I wouldn't be well off on my own with all my luggage and no where to go to (except terminal 1), waiting outside in the dark for the clock to struck six.
There was no way I was going to risk missing my flight (again) so sleeping was not an option. So I purchased 24 h wifi with 10 euros and pretty much made a camp in one corner. I sat in that very same place for 7 hours... Holy fuck. Thank god my friends have insomnia and Hector was on facebook to keep me company. Later on I saw Jared online and we skyped for half an hour!!! Man do I miss him so incredibly much. He is one of my all time favourite people I met in Australia and I still keep in contact with him. It was so good to see his face and hear his voice and I wished I could've just jumped through the screen to Darwin and hang out with him and hug him ! Jared's the best. We reminisced about good times... That very first night Melanie introduced me and Laura to Ian and Jared and we met crazy Wolf man. On that same night me and Jared got peed on by Melanie (!!! EPIC!!!)... We also thought about Magnetic Island and Airlie along other stuff. Damn. If only Jared would be going to Indonesia in December instead of September.
After skyping with Jared and reading one message on fb that wasn't reall the most pleasant one, I started feeling a bit anxious about going back. I am pretty sure it's the sleep deprivation that's talking, but I just really started doubting my purpose in my life back home. It felt a bit like in January, when I was returning home from my four month trip - returning to nothing (no school, no job etc). I tried to remind myself that it was just an illusion because I have everything going on for me back home - I'll be working non stop in August, i'll be volunteer working at this festival and getting free tickets to it, i'm gonna start going to the gym again and school is about to start in late August. But somehow just knowing, that I would go back to Finland with the mentality of saving up again so I could get away go traveling again felt a bit depressing. It feels crazy to have this strong urge of wanting to get away...
Don't I really have anything in Finland that would make a difference to keep me from wanting to leave home again ?
That's the issue I've been resteling with on this trip. Am I really happy in Finland? Do I really wanna live there? Meeting Finnish people abroad is always such a dull reminder of how things are back home - everyone is just so "jäinen". No one can keep up a conversation (unless they are drunk) and although I would be the one that is trying to spark up the convo, the other participate just lacks the skills to maintain it. And talk about Finnish men. Oh God. Don't even get me started. When I came home from Morocco I had decided to stay back in Finland to study, because I had a lot of shit going on and I knew I wouldn't have been able to cope on my own in a foreing country without my safety net. But now that I feel like i'm over those dark times, I feel like there's really no reason why I should stay home, in Finland.
The only reason why I would consider living and studying in Finland is that uni is free and I can make a lot more money -so I can go traveling again- in my country compared to most of the countries. Unless we are talking about Australia with a minimum wage of $18.5 per hour. Jared actually just told me that he gets $20 an hour but with tips $30.. He said he worked yesterday for 5,5 hours and made _150_ dollars. But yeah. The uni isn't free in Australia... It's pretty much the opposite, at least the ones I looked at some two years ago.
Yeah. I don't really know... I've been planning I should at least do an exchange year after this one. That would give me one year in Finland, second one in exchange and the third one in one of the partner universities abroad (in Madrid I hope!). The final year, the fourth one, has a work practice term of five months, and it is recommended to do abroad - which I would totally do of course. So I would only be in Finalnd for some 1,5 years or so. Unless they wouldn't recognise my studies on my exchange year. I think I wanna go visit CIMO - the place where they took us in high school. Maybe they would be able to sort my life out a bit for myself.
But I must say. When I was surfing in Portugal, I just felt so happy. "This is what I wanna do in my spare time", I thought to myself for the tenth time. And surfing is not something you can do in Finland (unless you are totally passionate, crazy and ridiculous).
We'll see.
Ps. I've just been so happy during these past five weeks that I don't want it to go away.
maanantai 27. kesäkuuta 2011
Koepakkaus
Transportation of Luggage... Backpacker Style!
Tein eilen koepakkauksen.
Suoritin sen n. 15 minuutissa ! Man, how fast am I ?
Asiaa selvästi helpotti se, että olin aiemmin (töissä) listannut haluamani reissuvaatteet ja muut kamat alas, joten "mitä mun pitäiskään pakkaa" -miettimiseen ei mennyt ollenkaan aikaa. Panin merkille, kuinka luonnolliselta ja arkipäiväiseltä pakkaaminen tuntui: se sujui vaan niin sukkelasti ja päämärätietosesti ! Oli jotenki sellanen "osaan tän unissanikin" -fiilis ja siitä tuli entistä enemmän sellaset OON NIIN VALMIS REISSUUN -vibat :) Huomaa, että on tultu purettua ja pakattua sitä rinkkaa pariin otteeseen aiemmilla reissuilla ;)
Kuitenkin kuten olinkin ajatellut, päädyin siihen, että ostan uuden rinkan. Tässä tapauksessa rinkka olisi myös ihan iki-omani (oon tähän asti käyttäny faijan rinkkoja) ! Tohon koepakkausrinkkaan ei nimittäin mahdu oikein mitään. Tiedän, että voisin jättää ehkä pari vaatetta himaan, mutta naah. Pitää muutenkin ostaa oma rinkka jossain vaiheessa niin why not now. The sales are on too. Kaiken lisäks, discoverasin uuden vian tossa rinkassa. Se alavetskariosion ja keskivartalo-osion rajottava pohja (jonka saa avattua vetskarilla), on myös revennyt... Eli joo. Uus rinkka vaan tänne. Huomenna siis Mastercardia vinguttamaan urheilukauppojen alennusmyynteihin...
torstai 25. marraskuuta 2010
Buying My Surfboard
The reason I went to Yoshi's surf factory was that I went design my surfboard!!!
http://www.takeda.com.au/about.htm
Yes
I am buying a CUSTOM MADE surfboard.
I wrestled with buying a custom made board over a factory one..
I'm only a beginner so I could pretty much get any preloved (used) surf board and still have fun.
Just like playing a brand new Fender won't make you a better guitar player..
But
I still needed to buy a surfboard for Morocco.
And ever since Tom had suggested that his friend Yoshi could make me one for a good deal,
I couldn't get that thought out of my head.
SO
I decided to purchase myself an early 20th birthday present for $550.
Yoshi's even going to give me a paint job for free!
And I know that I won't be able to surf in Finland (excluding Yyteri.. which apparently sucks anyway)
but since i'm not going to live and study there anyways, it doesn't matter.
Like Jared said "I guess you'll just have to move somewhere where you can surf".
My board's going to be ready in a month; just in time for Tom to take it down with him to Melbourne
(where we fly from to Morocco)
PS. Who could resist a custom made board for only $550?
http://www.takeda.com.au/about.htm
Yes
I am buying a CUSTOM MADE surfboard.
I wrestled with buying a custom made board over a factory one..
I'm only a beginner so I could pretty much get any preloved (used) surf board and still have fun.
Just like playing a brand new Fender won't make you a better guitar player..
But
I still needed to buy a surfboard for Morocco.
And ever since Tom had suggested that his friend Yoshi could make me one for a good deal,
I couldn't get that thought out of my head.
SO
I decided to purchase myself an early 20th birthday present for $550.
Yoshi's even going to give me a paint job for free!
And I know that I won't be able to surf in Finland (excluding Yyteri.. which apparently sucks anyway)
but since i'm not going to live and study there anyways, it doesn't matter.
Like Jared said "I guess you'll just have to move somewhere where you can surf".
My board's going to be ready in a month; just in time for Tom to take it down with him to Melbourne
(where we fly from to Morocco)
PS. Who could resist a custom made board for only $550?
maanantai 22. marraskuuta 2010
Random House Party
These was one of those days. Did really nothing. We went to Peter Pans for the Internet cause I had shit to do. We ended up sitting there for 1,5 hours and not paying, cause Reece (the guy were hanging out with on Saturday before Tom came. He booked our van.) was working. haha 8)
We went to see Natalia (from Mission Beach) before she went on the bus!
Oh and we asked him whether we could crash at this place tomorrow, cause Tom's roomies are moving in. So yay, staying at Reece's on Tuesday!
Surfers was PACKED with schoolies as usual...
One 17-year-old came up to us on the street in broad daylight and asked whether we would like to go back with him and his friend to their hotel room.. ummm hell no :D:D
While we were walking somewhere in Burleigh Heads trying to find our way back to Tom's in the moonlight, we saw two guys throw a ball across the street.
"I wanna go to a house party. I still have it on my list of things to do in Australia."
"Yeah, we should totally crash a house party."
As we walk pass the house where the guys had thrown the ball from, we noticed that it actually was a house party. People were sitting on the terrace of the beach house and yelling "wooooooo schoooliesssssss!" at us.
"No... BACKPACKERS!"
The guy with the ball comes up to us and tells us that we should join their party.
So we randomnly entered to this sweet crib full of skateboarders and surfers. Immediately we were offered a welcome drink and conversing with these new friends of ours.
Go to a house party in Australia [x]
Kit & us
We also went with them to this small cafe/bar, The Caves, and listened to some live music. The place was part of an art-indie-scene and had a really nice atmosphere in it. Lots of good looking guys.. haha :D The Caves reminded me a bit of one of my favourite bars in Helsinki, Como Te Llamas or just Laama in short.
We ended up getting drunk for $7 cause the guys were buying us drinks. We went back to their sweet little beach house after the cafe closed at 11 and had a couple of drinks before going back home.
Oh, one of the guys, Kit, said that we could stay for free at a place in Surfers that he's renting out. The apartment is empty now, cause he doesn't want any schoolies in it. We'll see.. :)
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