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February 27, 2006 :
Big news, everyone, big news. If Canadian embassy is kind enough (and apparently they should be), I will leave Finland
again in June - this time for six months, living it up in Vancouver. This is my dream, now it looks like it will be real.
I have the final answer from the embassy probably by the time I get back from New York. If it's a positive one (and I heard
that since I don't have a criminal record, it should be) I'll have a whole lot of things to do before I leave. This time
I'm not worried, though, because finally this is about to happen. I feel like a new person. The door is opening.
Of course, no good news without bad news. I have hurt my back. This time, it's not just something I can cure with a few
stretches. According to the doctor I saw, my back is overmobile (he has apparently never seen a back as mobile as mine) and
it's not a good thing. I can never ever practise taekwondo again, neither go riding more often than what I currently am.
Instead I should do isometric excercise, which basically means excercise staying still (how do you do that??). As you can assume,
for me this was crushing news.
February 24, 2006 :
So very, very bored. My parents came by today, was nice, they even bought me a pair of new pillows! Sweet dreams!
Then we ate out and I ate too much (like usual). Now they're already on their way back and I've got nothing to do.
Just waiting for tonight's interesting (Finland-wise) olympic events to begin: curling and ice hockey, those cool
Canadian winter sports! It's gonna be great (if we win; if not, it's gonna be all shitty again).
I've got my suitcase here next to my bed now, ready to be packed again! I'll wait a few more days, but not too many.
I bought a little travel guide (book, not person) and it looks like we'll be lost in that huge apple!
Umm, yeah! I saw the EURES-councellor yesterday. I guess it was somewhat useful but not that much... I've got a few
phone numbers and adresses now but I don't know. I WANT TO FIND JOB ABROAD! PLEASE JUST LET ME! But the councellor
got superexcited about my Disney-exprerience and she asked me to write an article about it for the employment agency's use.
I might even do it!
February 15, 2006 :
I have now seen Brokeback Mountain three times. Not going for the fourth, I still want to eat. But it's been worth seeing several times. Now I'm patiently waiting for its release on DVD. This time thank you's go to Iiris and Jaana, it was
nice to see the film with you guys <3
I also have The O.C. season 1 on DVD, wahey!
Now something else. I have two presentations for next week plus some written assignments to do. The presentations are freaking me out, especially the first one which is a short argumentative speech. Recorded. Anything with a microphone is scary.
I chose a stupid-stupid subject and I have nothing to say and I mumble when recorded.
Funniest thing! I had a nightmare about the Empire State Building! In case you might have not known, I find big buildings like that creepy as hell, like towers and the like. Except NOT the Eiffel tower. That's not scary at all (apart from the scary-ass
elevator ride from 2nd to 3rd floor). And that is by far the tallest building I've ever seen. Yeah so in the nightmare I was walking near the ESB with my sister (!) but I didn't dare to look at it, so I always had to have my back facing its direction.
That made walking around the neighborhood pretty damn hard. And now I'm scared to go.
February 11, 2006 :
Sugar OD. O.C. OD. I'm a zombie after Saturday's work. Every single time! I cannot perform any living person's tasks after 8 and something hours of serving burgers to people. And then you get a darling customer complaining about fries.
BUT WHATEVER! Tomorrow off and I will do my best to enjoy that day. Olympic games! Cried twice during the opening ceremony. Oh those Canadians and Coreans, making me shed my Olympic tears... It happens every time. The olympic games make me cry.
They make me happy.
Sia has an amazing voice. Breathe me is gorgeous. More of this, please.
And just to let you know (and perhaps even make myself realize) - 19 days to mine and Laura's NYC adventure hooplaa!
February 7, 2006 :
Stockholm was happiness. Death Cab For Cutie is love. Berns was the most gorgeous place imaginable for the concert and everything was just perfection. I don't know what else to say. I love them I love them I love them.
I added a few pics to my gallery. Here with me I have a video of Transatlanticism. I'll have last night forever. Special thanks for Jaana for being such fun company! We sure didn't spare any money or appetite! Was such
a nice trip. And now I have a great desire for sleep.
February 1, 2006 :
Life is g o o d. I'm feeling so incredibly free now that the term paper is done and I have time for friends again. 'Friends' and friends :) Actually, I just started to go through the O.C.'s second season. Iiris even gave me an O.C. button ♥
At last, I saw Brokeback Mountain in the cinema; it was everything I had wished for. It was 100 per cent moving and heart-breaking and just perfect. Any movie that makes me cry and think the way this one did deserves to be referred to
as perfect. Tonight continued the perfection, after two lectures that dragged on and on I went straight to Jaana's place where we watched Bridget Jones - The edge of reason and then carried on with Supernintendo a total of three hours!
No wonder I'm feeling dizzy. From the music. Tomorrow I'll go get dizzy at Jenny's by playing Tekken (again. Yes. I know).
What else... Of course, 4 weeks to NYC. Life's just a one big trip (and I mean literally)! Right now plans are getting a job from (preferably) England, starting from June, ending December. Then I could come back for my BA seminar for spring 2007.
I think it's the best plan I've come up with in a while. Gotta make it happen now. And that's where it gets tricky.