Suomi!

Karkku camp

Karkku camp

Sauna at Karkku

The lake/river at Karkku

Cute little boat house!

My friend Katie and I :)

R-kioski, they are around every corner.

Kind of like McDonald's, but not

Church in Tampere

Most of the others at Karkku

The river in my town with a fountain

Butterflies in my front yard

And the wings look like a tiger's face!

Fountain in Tampere

Cool floating faucet at Särkänniemi Amusement Park!

American, Australian, German

The only Angry Birds land at Särkänniemi, because Finland made Angry Birds

Angry Birds land!

Angry Birds Land!

I think the bathroom signs here are so cute!

View of Tampere

The view of the amusement park

Cool ride

Another cool ride

More rides..

Pygmy lighthouse..

Half-pipe roller coaster

Clowns! I had to.

Well so far I've been here for one month which has most definitely gone by way too insanely quickly! But that only means that I'm having lots of fun here in Finland. This is really a great place and I am just loving every single part of it. I'm making lots of new amazing friends here and having a lot of fun doing different and new things and just enjoying everything and making awesome memories that I'll never forget! The classes that I'm taking at school are Russian, Ethics, English, Music, Art, Geography, and a Finnish class every Wednesday. They are all in Finnish except for English of course, and Geography. My favorite class is probably music because it's just really fun and I like learning instruments. Almost all Finns are super shy and reserved at first, so they can be kind of hard to approach sometimes but when you start talking to them then they become really outgoing and fun and nice people. My school has about 800 students so it's pretty small but the school itself is quite big and very nice! And in my school there are 5 exchange students so far but there are going to be about 8-10 soon so it's pretty cool. Oh and many things here are so far technologically advanced, it's amazing. Also the way of transportation is extremely different than back home. Back home it's like just about everybody goes by school bus and then most 16 year olds drive a car, and pretty much nobody rides their bike and if you live close then you can walk. Here, you have to be 15 to ride a moped/vespa/scooter/small motorcycle and you can also drive a moped car when you're 15 as well which we don't have in the US yet, they basically look like electric cars but they're gas and you can drive them alone when you're 15. Then you can drive real cars when you're 18, and the majority of students ride their bike, I do everyday. The amount of bikes in the school parking lot is more than I've ever seen at one time..sad. But I'll take a picture sometime and post it on here. And then the last thing is that the food is extremely healthy and excellent here! The school lunch is completely free and probably better than most food that I've had in my own house in America. It's pretty much gourmet to me. Oh and the amusement park pictures on here is called Särkänniemi and it has the world's only Angry Bird Lang, and I went there. :D I'll try to post here at least once a month so keep checking up on it for new posts and pictures!