Very, very VERY long time no post! (Like 5 months)

Wow..where to even begin, I haven't posted on my blog in 5 months. I feel really bad about that, but I just kept putting it off and procrastinating, it get's the best of us I guess! So since I can't give you a whole lot of details because it's been 5 months..I'll just post all of the photos that I've taken and caption them, sorry for not posting for such a long time, but I hope you enjoy this very belated post anyway!

  

 So this was in Lapland, we got to go on reindeer rides which was really cool!

Finland always has really amazing sunsets, as you can see

That's Kaitlyn, she's from Australia and she is one of my best friends that I've made on my exchange <3

 This is the really
awesome library in my town, it's brand new and just opened in August when I got here

 More of the amazing library

 It has these really cool holes in the walls that are carpeted for people to sit in them and relax

 My town in the winter time














Saying goodbye to my Aussie girls at the airport :(

 Oh, and Aussie boy too of course

 Home-made spaghetti on New Years with my girls :)

 Move number 1..

 The river that goes through my town

 Chocolate chip cookies, yum!

The ocean

 Walking on the ocean!

 People driving their cars on the ocean, because this is Finland and that's what you do.

 Ice hole!

 Ice swimming is definitely one of the most refreshing things in the world, I love it!

 Really nice scenery and sunsets in Finland

 Always amazing sunsets in Finland

Long time no post!

Australia, America, Australia, New Zealand

At Karkku camp

Beautiful photo in Kotka

Some other exchange students

Exchange students and Finns, and beautiful leaves!

And again

America, Germany, Finland, Spain!

America, Australia, Germany

Friends in Tampere!

Nice moon.

You know, I have to say that it is quite wonderful to wake up to this in the morning. Right from my bedroom window! So nice. :)

My backyard again

And again

And again!

My friend Amelie and I 1 am strolling in the snow! :D

Kaitlyn!

Making Red Velvet cake for Amelie's(German) 17th birthday!

So first we just covered it with white frosting..

..then Kaitlyn wrote hi on it, and then she decided to change the whole perspective by switching the direction of the writing..

..and well, that was just too confusing so we just covered the whole thing..

..and then finally we used strawberries to do a 17!

Sooo much frosting, so sweet, and so tasty!

Snow!

Snow.

Snow!

Snow!

Not an awesome picture of me, but oh well!

My Finnish friend Laura who was an exchange student in Oregon last year :)

My front yard-ish

First snow! 19.10.12

Ah, delicious lakritsi!

These are all of the bikes at my school and it's like this everyday! And all around the edges are the scooters and vespas.

First snow!

So first of all sorry about not posting in what seems like forever! I've just been pretty busy and when I do get time I'm too lazy to do it..so sorry for that!  Well the rest of September pretty much consisted of just going to school and hanging out with people and friends, so nothing very big but still good of course.  On the 6th of this month(October for those of you who may not know) I went to Tampere with about 15 people, mostly exchange students but some Finns as well, and that was pretty fun.  We pretty much just walked around the town all day and went places to eat and talked and had fun! Oh and the very bright colored yellow leaves that you see in those pictures happen all over Finland and it's called ruska, in fall the leaves on the leaves all turn very beautiful colors and it's amazing!  So on the 12th-14th I went to my inbound camp and it was about an hour away from my city and there were about 20 exchange students there so that was good. Then on the 15th-19th I had syysloma which is Autumn Break. I went to a place called Tropiclandia with my host family in Vaasa which is about an hour from my city as well, and it was swimming place and I love swimming so it was fun of course. Then the rest of that week I just hung out with friends, watched movies, and went swimming. And I've been back in school since then, and the weekend of course. Also coming up at the end of November, from 30.11-5.12 I'm going on a trip to Lapland(the part of Finland which is in the Arctic Circle) with all of the Rotary exchange students in Finland which is somewhere around 130-140 so I am very excited to be with everybody and it should be really awesome because we will also get to see the Northern Lights and that shall be amazing! So that's all for now, and I'll make another post in November and then another post after the Lapland trip, hopefully that plan will happen!

Heippa!