Holidays

Though I haven't done much this holiday it has been just amazing :p
But maybe having a great holiday isn't about doing a lot of different things, maybe it's more about being around great people. :) And that's exactly what I found this holiday: I have amazing people around me. :)

Christmas:

I spent my Christmas at my father's with my sis and my granny.
In the morning we watched different kinds of christmas movies from tv and had a visit at our relatives. Then we had sauna and I got a clever idea to go outdoors from there.... It didn't feel that bad at first though we had bare feet but after few steps it started to feel quite cold :DD Cause it was like -20 celsius at least.. :D
At the evening we had christmas dinner together and opened the gifts !
I got a lot wonderful gifts such as a pink juimpsuit and ear rings and chocolate ofcourse :D

I'll add photos of those when I get them to the computer :)

Holiday:


After christmas I have been with my mom and my sis a lot. We baked pizza and watched Harry Potter and stuff :D
I also went shopping and found a lovely new sweater for myself :)
And on Friday we went to see the movie The Hobbit - The unexpected journey with my father and sister and her bf. :) The movie was really good but that's not a suprise cause I was a huge fan of LOTR movies too.. :D

My holiday has been somehow a lil bit crazy too but I don't mind I'm actually loving it :D
My yesterday was just... ah ! :D <3
Wish the holidays wouldn't have to end.. :( But like all good things, it has to come to an end at some point.
Tomorrow it's time to celebrate the New Years Eve ! Can't wait :p I really hope it's gonna be a great evening and a good start for the coming year !

I wish everybody nice last days of the year 2012 ! :)
Hope you had great Christmas Holidays too :)

Song of the day: Ne-Yo - Stay

Merry Christmas :) !

I finally survived from the exams of this week !
The past 6 weeks been really hard. I've been consentrating to the competitions we had so much that I didn't really focus at school.. And that's definitely something that shows at the exams I had. I won't be getting any great grades but at least I was able to answer something to those questions they had :D Though at times just guessing the answer.. :D

But the good part of having exam weeks is that you get from school when you have finished the exam. So you don't have any lessons at that week.
When I got from school I had time to go to the stores to buy christmas presents !
I'm pretty sure I forgot something since everything went so easily :D

I had the last one of the exams on SATURDAY.. -.- So I was at school 7.40 yesterday morning.. That kinda sucked. But when I got from the exam we went to buy the last presents with my mom and baked at home with my mom and sis ! :)
We also listened christmas songs by Michael Bublé and it was really nice ! (8

Going to watch a Christmas play

 Yesterday was just an amazing day <3
I really loved it and I'm ready for Christmas !
All the presents are packed and all the chocolate waits to be eaten x)

I wish you all Merry Christmas ! :))

Song of the day: Train - Shake up Christmas !

St. Petersburg

Thursday

Our trip to St. Petersburg started on Thursday morning. We went by bus to Lahti and took a train from there to St. Petersburg. We were all ready excited but also kinda worried about filling the visas. :D Our leader of the trip just said "If u don't get Russia, we'll meet in Lahti in 4 days :) "
When we finally got there we took our luggage to the hotel and changed clothes and left the hotel. We walked around the main street called Nevsky Prospekt watching sights and we also had dinner.

Russian girls ;)

The only negative thing on that restaurant or that city is that people is allowed to smoke indoors.. From the first day there til the end of the day we all smelled like cigarettes.. Yummy..!(not)
We also bought some water from the market across the street from our hotel.

Friday

Friday was the first morning we had that amazing breakfast at the hotel 8) They had yogurt, bred, bacon, omelettes (the way you wanted it), croissants, bancakes and all ! I ordered hot chocolate too and it was so good ! I literally ate so much I felt ill xD

After breakfast we went to other side of Nevsky by subway. It was so cool that I was navigate there from the other station to another !! I was like " cool I can use russian subway :p" lol :DD
We went a museum called hermitage. It was a beautiful place !
We were a bit bored there cause we are quite lively crew and there we just needed to walk and be quiet so we took all kinds of silly photos.. :DD

We also went shopping on that day to a huge shopping center called Galleria or something. It was gorgeous ! We literally ran around it and we only had time to go through like 5 stores.. :/

Hermitage Museum

Saturday 

Again morning started with the amazing breakfast. I was actually so full next time I ate it was like 4 pm :D Saturday was the competing day so we were at the competitions at 10 am til 9 pm.
We watched the kids performing first and they were so cute and talented ! Then it was time for our duo. Oh and yeah btw it was all RUSSIAN there ! In that entire place was only few person who spoke english.. So we understood nothing they said. Until they noticed we're Finns.. :D The duo went really well and we won gold on our own category ! It was just crazy !
Then right away we changed our clothes and peformed our crew show ! It went really well and I don't think i've ever peformed that well :p
Later we found the resoults: We had won on that category too! It was just mad !! We were all blown away ! We wanted to celebrate the gold so we went out eating at the evening and wandered around St. Petersburg dancing and singing ! It was the greatest evening ever and it got quite late :DD

Double Gold ;)

Sunday

Sunday was about shopping :D We went through the stores we haven't gotten time to go on Friday. I found a dress and a shirt and pants :)
Then it was our time to leave Russia and come back to Finland.. It was mostly just sleeping the whole way to home.. :D

Monday recovering..

Monday was a terrible day. I was so confused with the time difference and I was so tired at school and get forgetting everything in 2 secs.. I was like an ADHD cause i couldn't get anything done when something else came to my mind and I forgot another.. :D It was just awful.. But I was really happy cause the congrats we got and grateful of the great trip :) My mom made me some Heavenly Delight so it made me even happier x)

Song of the week: Till the world ends By Britney Spears

Breathe, practise, repeat !

These past 5 weeks have been probably the hardest ever during high school.
I've been almost every day from 8 am til 4 pm in school and then practising until 9 pm.

Like I said earlier we've been practising for the competitions that are in St.Petersburg. We didn't have much time to change completely the show and we had to make it look better.  So we created it again and practised every freaking day ! And not only that we did our show for our crew but also for our duo with Selma.. And we did it like during only 6 times we met. :D

At school we have had a lot of work !
We had to do portfolios and essays and prepare to word tests and all..! It just been really tireing and it felt like there was just not enough time ! But somehow I'm still alive though I haven't had any free time AT ALL !

Last weekend I was with my father, sister and granny :) We had dinner at my father's and we stayed over there. It was really nice to have that one evening with my relatives cause I don't really have time for them either ! And we also had the independence day which I spent with my mother :))

At the times it felt like this isn't really what I want to do cause I was so tired I came home crying for no reason and wasn't able to see my friends or do my homework on time.. But every time I felt that way I either said to myself "No pain, no gain" or then I just listened the song "Numb" by Usher and jumped around singing "just goo nuuuuuummmbbb!!" :DD

But like usually the hard work pays ! We finally got our routines ready and clothes arrived from the post! And one of our crew member who isn't able to come to our competitions brought us chocolate for our practises so we just made a deal that we would finish a bit earlier and massage each others and eat some chocolate ! Me likey x))

This is what I call "Perfecto!" :p

Tomorrow it's time for ST.PETERSBURG !! Wish us luck ;)
I'll blog u on Sunday or Monday when I get back !

Song of the day: The hardest ever by will.i.am