After my stay in Stockholm for almost a week I continued my journey to Italy. I arrived in Venice and took the train to a coastal city calle Trieste. I came here to visit my friend I who was working here during the summer.

While she was working I went for a little sightseeing around town. I saw something that was probably an old amphitheatre, visited a cathedral and saw the beautiful view over Trieste from there. I tried some Italian gnocchi with bolognese, which was so much different than the gnocchi in Finland. In the evening we had some apperitivos, which means almost pre-food drinks. And of course we had a super delicious pizza.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Except for the Festival I visited in Sweden I also went for a little "sightseeing", shopping and met a friend from Gothenburg during my stay. Stockholm was really beatiful during my stay and it was very warm outside to be in the beginning of June. During my stay in Stockholm I was living in my aints apartment in Fruängen, about 20min away from the centre by the underground. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My first ever festival I went to was this summer in Stockholm, to Summerburst! I thought why not go big and go to Stockholm for my first festival... and I loved it! We all did! The people in Sweden are so lovely and friendly and the atmosphere at the festival was amazing. It was a two day festival with a lot of different DJs, some from Sweden and some from other parts of the world.

 

David Guetta was even playing "sexy bitch" and we were reminded of some nice secondary school memories. Steve Angello from Sweden played som very nice tunes accompanied with a lot of fireworks closer to midnight. Kygo from Norway were playing "firestone" and we were relaxing with a cider. It was amazing! The most amazing moment for me was when i was jumping in the middle of the crowd to W&W's song "Spack Jarrow". Can't get better than W&W! And not to forget all the other great djs and musicians that were there! Armin van Buuren, Alesso, Icona Pop, Mike Perry, Alan Walker, and many mooooore! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's absolutely crazy how much I have done this summer and yet it feels like I have done nothing! I have been traveling, chilling, working, meeting friends and doing other fun stuff! This summer has gone by way too fast and next week I am already leaving for Sweden... It's been an amazing summer and hopefully it's gonna be an even more amazing school year to come in Jönköping, Sweden! 

 

As I have had no time to share with you my adventures during this summer, I am gonna post them here is quite many parts! :D Hopefully you will have the patient to look at all the pics and read all my stories! 

 

 

In the end of May me and my sis got dressed and went to Ritz in Vaasa. We had an end of season party for all the volunteers that have been working at Ritz this season. The dresscode was your favorite musician. But as all the musicians today dress so casual I decided to go for the 60s 70s Janis Joplin and my sis got dressed as some singer from a rock or metal band. 

We got very good food at the party and we sang a lot of songs and had some games. It was a very successful party! I'm going to miss the people in the fall when I'm moving to Sweden...

 

 

 

 

So my student life in little Vaasa is soon coming to an end.. Feels a bit sad, but I have been dragging it out now for a while so I guess it's about time. Last week I went on my last sitz (I think) in Vaasa. It was a spring break sitz, and what better way to say that summer is coming by dressing in summer clothes!? It was as always super fun to be on a Sitz and meet new people and old of course, as there were 160 other people there! (And i totally rocked my hairstyle btw!) 

 

Now I'm soon about to finish my thesis and hand it in for a last check before I can present it and graduate in the end of May! Summer is coming so fast now.. (even though it was snowing yesterday in Vaasa...) Soon its June, my birthday, and then off to Stockholm on Summerburst Festival! So exciting summer ahead! 

 

The smoothie bowl I am definitely gonna try at home!

I thought it was about time to share some pics from my trip to London that I made in October! My friend from France and I met in London for a weeks vacation and as it was our first trip ever there we wanted to see as much as possible. The first pic is from the hostel we were staying at, Smart Hostel at Russels Square. The rooms were quite small with beds on top of eachother, the whole thing moved if someone turned over in there sleep, but thank god I am not a light sleeper so I was good! 

 

The rest of the pics are from are trip on the bus and on the river cruise boat! It was quite cold sitting in a bus with no roof.. but we got around almost the whole of London and we were happy! We saw Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Queens castle, the London eye and sooo much more from there! And we could hop on and off to take pics at all the places too! The river cruise was also nice as we made it when the sun was setting and got a really beautiful view of the river and the Tower Bridge! All the old buildings were so beautiful and the last picture is a replica of Shakespeares theatre.

This new years was a bit different than all the others! This was the first time I met new friends on new years! This was the first time I went to a bar on new years! To this new years party I also made for the first time Jell-o Shots! 

The party started at a friends place in Vaasa with a lovely Pizza dinner from Koti Pizza! After we continued the party with games, small talks and snacks! Just before midnight we all went outside, opened our champagne bottles and cheered in the new year with fireworks! We had a lovely view of Bocks Brewery's fireworks just after midnight! 

 

Christmas is soon here! Decorations are being put up, gingerbread & candy is being made and of course gifts are being rapped in paper! There is a lot of gifts under the tree even if we said we wouldn't buy any this year! ooops! 

I'm working on christmas eve until 12 and then afterwards I'm free for 3 days! Woop woop! Then it's time to meet up with some friends and see how their Christmas is.

 

 

 

I'm a small Harry Potter fan so of course when me and my friend were in London we had to go visit some places where the movies were shot! We went to King's Cross to take the train at Platform 9 3/4, we went to the Diagon Alley (both at day and night) and of course we walked the Millenium bridge over the Thames! At King's Cross we also visited the Harry Potter shop to shop for our wands ;) (though they were so expensive that we didn't buy any) The Diagon Alley was shot at the Leadenhall Market, which you can find quite close to the Tower Bridge.

 

Saturday me and my sister spent at Olliver's Inn on their halloween party. My sister as Harley Quin and me as a cute/slit throat bunny! The party didn't last long for us though as I came back from London (more posts about that later) the same day and had like slept for 3 hours the night before so I was super tired.. But we had a fun time anyways! (: (everything's taken with phone, therefore the really bad quality....)

 

Saturday was spent in the spirit of Gamylis. Which is a student event for older students, that is second year and further. During the day we had about 12 stations to get to and perform a task of some kind. The pic below is our team of 8 amazing fun people. I still think we had the best team even though we didn't win any prices. We even had our own songs to go with our team name and everything, so the team spirit was on top! 

 

It is almost over 7 months that I haven't seen my classmate S, since she went to Austrailia for an internship and I went to Indonesia just before she returned home. So now that I have been home for almost 2 months we met at Raawka in Vaasa. Its a really small, and super cute place, which serves raw food. The day's salad was a huge plate with quinoa, and different vegetables. It was really good, better than expected! Though it took a while to eat the whole plate as we were talking so much and catching up on almost everything that had happened in 7 months.

Now its also time to work really hard on my thesis if I want to graduate in December. I got an email from my teacher saying that the first draft of the thesis has to be done by 7th of November if we want ot graduate this year... So I better get to it! I still have some theory to write and then to interview some people.

 

In Vaasa there is a place called Ritz, that organizes  cultural events, movies and other fun stuff. Me and my sister is active members there, which means that we work voluntarily and we get to go see all the event for free. This place is very cozy and has a large stage for different events and very good movies in the Kino. Ones a month they also arrange open stage so people can come perform live if they want. I have also performed a couple of times on this event. The place is awesome and there are great people here working and volunteering as we do. If you are in Vaasa you should definitely visit an event or just chill and have a beer or two there! If you live in Vaasa you can also become an active member like us or a supporting member that can also get discounts or free entrance to the events!