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...

 

 

 

 

It is starting to look a lot like summer here in Finland! It's May and it is quite warm outside. Last week we had 20 degrees several days. And at this point of the year it doesn't really get dark anymore during the night! It's absolutely lovely, except if you wanna go to bed early and you can't sleep because it't bright outside.. The first picture is almost at 11 o'clock in the evening and the second is at 5.30 in the morning, so the sun is not gone for too long as you can see! 

 

 

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! 

 

Me and my sister tried making some own granola bars the other day, and they turned out deliciously! We just mixed all kinds of seeds and nuts, some coconut, pitted dates, and oats. We added syrup, honey and some salt and mixed it into a dough.

 

When it's like a dough we just put in on an oven plate and put it in the oven on 150*c for like 15-20 minutes. After we took it from the oven we left it get a bit colder before we cut it in bars. Super easy and super delicious!

 

Friday was a less fun day for me, as I spent half of the day at Vaasa Hospital. I sprained my ankle so bad I thought it was off. I couldn't walk at all on it without it hurting like hell.. So the whole hospital visit I was sitting in a wheelchair and my sis was driving me around. I had to take an x-ray of my ankle to see if it was off or not but it wasn't, so I was happy it was just a bad spraining! So now I get to lay in my bed the whole weekend and finish my thesis! YEY!.. 

 

The smoothie bowl I am definitely gonna try at home!

Me and my sister is very close and act very silly/crazy when we are together! We come up with all sort of fun stuff together, like foot bath, but then we had only one bath to fit four feet in! And then she is always there when you are trying to take a picture :D <3

 

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Mix the spices together and rub it into the meat

 

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 blog is not getting much of my attention these days.. I have a lot on my plate right now... I have my thesis I am trying hard to finish so I can graduate and move on with my life.. Then I have also work which comes in the way of this writing once in a while.. and of course a lot of other stuff.. Plus I do want to have a life also and not just sit in front of my computer or be at work.. 

 

If I could finish my thesis now in February I would be so happy! Then I could relax and enter the next era in this life, which is either work somewhere or continue studying! I have already applied to a couple of schools in Finland and one in Sweden. If I succeed to not get a place somewhere I will start to look for work somewhere. Hopefully I would find something that is NOT in Finland. I like exploring new places, so this is first on my list! Plus then I don't really have to use Finnish, which I'm not that strong in.. 

 

I have been trying some new smoothie recipes recently or making up my own ones. One more successful than the other, but you never find the best one without some failures! The first one is a green smoothie and the other one more of a berry smoothie.