adiml 1/3/2012
Hihi! Long time no see long time no ABC.
I'm Nina, 23 young, Italianised Finnish, from northeast Europe- Finland! Turku/Åbo to be more exact. I study Swedish+German and have my own freelance translation activity by the side. But I am switching studies and working on moving to Helsinki in the near future with my bf so at this point more than on my current studies I am focused on work, personal projects and preparing for an entrance exam.
Now that I have skiing holliday, I got up late, was generally really lazy and the only productive thing I did was bringing summer job applications around. However, the day after this day I had a job interview and got the job, so my searching ended short. So this was all in vain, hehe.
A full 70 pics total! I pray to the pink elephant that you don't get bored.
Hellow people!
I literally wake up to the mailman trying to stuff the packages through my door. He makes it only with one of them so I open the door and he hands the 2nd one to me :) Clothing I have ordered online recently!
I refresh the air!
Funky pants. They say "French is my business. The rest is..." Awesome Finnish design
Hahhaa
Let's hope Im not an apple!
(I will show that pink dress later on in this post)
Not part of my planned outfit for the day, but comfy while doing household stuff.
Doin' the dishes.
I have breakfast of the kings. I got up at around 11, so... You just have to agree, huh?
This is a pretty normal breakfast for me though, apart from that I usually don't take all that many beverages.
My mum calls and lets me know the official procedure for the change of president is happening right now. I didn't even remember. It's a 4-hour footage on TV. I watch some of it. Here they are holding speeches in the parliament (Halonen, the president ending her office on left, and Niinistö, the new one, on right).
Then they are transported to the presidential palace which takes about 3 mins.
I changed into my ACTUAL outfit!
And here comes the moment of "closest-to-monarchy-you-can-get-in-Finland" - waving at the public from the balcony of the presidential palace. For the first time there are the spouses also.
I check out one shop's website in the intention to look for some info to put on the application I'm going to write.
After MORE THAN ENOUGH time writing applications and realising it's 14 o'clock so I need to get going if I want to lunch out, I put all of them into envelopes, and take my stuff with me (also an Aspirin as I feel like I might get sick - and I have a job interview the next day, so I want to do whatever to prevent it. I didn't use it though!)
it's tricky these days.
Cross the Dome square.
Cross the bridge on the river Aura.
It's a flagging day in honour of free elections.
Nasty to walk, again.
I go to my absolute.favourite.restaurant.Really! It's called Mami and it's on the river.
It's cheap and excellenttttt. I go there because I want to give myself some peace and harmony for my mind after too much stressing the last weeks. And mami never fails in that. At least if you go after the rush hour when you hardly get a seat!
I have meat salad. I asked for a gluten and milk free sauce and they (ofc) made one really tasty for me :) They handle individual needs in a really natural, non-bothered way. I don't care if they accidentally brought butter.
I chose a green tea as dessert.
I go to the loo. Nice individual towels.
Me! Ready for the next stop I guess!
Outside. I have gloves by a Finnish accessory brand that say "hej" and the other one says "hejdå". They were also available in "moi - heippa" and "moi - mojdå" or something like that. I maybe scored some points from my teachers when I saluted them with the gloves? hhahah!
I enter a cosy shopping centre in the heart of the town.
My mission is to bring some applications there.
Bringing the applications went well. I need to take a bus to go to another shopping centre outside of the town.
But I checked the timetable and saw I need to wait 10 mins for the next bus, so I...
Drop in one of my fave clothing shops just to look around at colourful things to kill time.
That multicolour sweater is one that gives me the urge "WANT TO BUY IT FOR BOYFRIEND!" hahaha! I now and then tend to buy him some clothing just because I enjoy looking at it on him. Selfishness?
Aaaand here we go! We're out of the centre already.
Two kids sitting next to each other, one with a hockey stick, are in a huge fight and I hate it when kids bully each other. Argh. The boy tells this girl that he's upset because he has no space now because the girl sat next to him, and threatens to hit her with the hockey stick. I get the creeps when I think back to it.
passing the cemetary
I've never been here before.
I think kids in Turku had their skiing holiday one week earlier already, and it's completely deserted. Well, I think it's in such a location that it's no wonder if there are no people. A comparable mall in where I come from is way busier, because there are no proper shops anywhere near - but this one is like maybe 4 km from the city centre. fail.
Why does this make me laugh?
Maybe because once in the same chain I went and ordered an ice cream in Italian with no success xD (Was an experiment)
That is Marimekko (Finnish) which reminds me that I fancy the multicolour Converse feat. Marimekko shoes, although I usually don't like Converse at all. The upbeat colours in the pattern just make them so fancy.
I haven't reported about it, but by now I have made the round of bringing my applications, and can concentrate on other things.
First I concentrate on getting a bit of small groceries in the supermarket. (And looking at exotic fruit.)
I have the vice of checking out bad grammar in Swedish. I'm right now on a course of Swedish as a 2nd language and we, among other things, analyse where different mistakes originate from. This is a REALLY interesting one in that sense.
My basket!
Done with the groceries, I take a random photo elsewhere. I wear rubber boots every time when the roads are the way they are now.
BYEEE
Aaaand the bus is late.
I swear that I so hope to work during the upcoming summer somewhere in the centre instead.
I didn't know yet that my wish would come true exactly one day later! My commute will be 3 minutes by bike xD
Thirsty and I have no water with me, so I opt for the juice, which is good too.
The bus tickets work that way that you can use the same 2,50€ ticket for 2h as much as you need.
There are loads of fog.
In the neighbourhood where I once used to live. Need to get off soon.
Got off in the hill.
I got an sms that one package has arrived, and it's fetched from this place.
Somehow, everything arrives exactly today, although I ordered them at very different times. I was a bit using the sales to my advantage and I think the best clothing is 1) online 2) 2nd hand.
I get to my street.
So, hello home!
HOME SWEET HOME <3 My nest.
There is a problem - no warm water coming, and the geek guy next door says he has the same thing. Because the geek guy didn't seem to find it necessary, I call the caretaker who takes a look... And takes a look in the basement too.
I have apple slices with tahini (=sesame cream) and tea with soy milk.
I grab my Finnish-Estonian-Finnish dictionary because I'm going to practise my Estonian. (One Brit in my earlier workplace said I speak "a bunch of useless languages". However, I'm proud to speak Estonian and I've found myself in situations where it helped me a bucketload of times! I love it so much!!!)
I kind of had got the feeling that they do one quirky looking abbreviation at times. I check it on Google. I usually learn languages on Google by writing what my intuition says there and seeing if what I suppose REALLY is used.
This time my intuition was right! YEEE!
Check one of my fave fashion blogs.
One LJ friend of mine needs to have ovarian cysts removed, and as you can understand, it can give you frightening sensations. I tell her that I've gone through it and tell how it was in my case. I was lucky though, and I hardly ever remember that I've gone through such a thing anymore - although itty-bitty hardly visible scars remain. I wish she will be strong.
I do the dishes. Still no warm water, so I mixed up a kettleful of boiled water with the cold water. The caretaker is looking into the matter. He makes some visits to my house. (They got it fixed just in time for my job interview the next day, luckily!)
Btw, this headband just arrived in the package from Sweden! Loving it!
My mum chats with me (yeees I call her by first name), pretty endlessly (she has a 1€/month contract with the operator). Sometimes when I need to do other stuff in the kitchen I put it on the loudspeaker.
I grab some olive oil to add to my soup (As for dinner I am heating up the soup I made yesterday).
But I miss hearing Familjen, so I put it on while I'm preparing to eat. Ahh.
Minced meat and vegetable soup and 3 pieces of affettati. How to call them in English? In Swedish they're chark! in Finnish leikkeleet. Good!
I wasn't even planning to dance, I was just trying on the dress that arrived from Sweden today - but then the music had such a nice, jännä rhythm that I started dancing without even noticing!
I do some Russian! In this chapter learn about happenings both in the life of a babushka and parallelly in the history of Soviet Union and Russia, while learning more vocab and constructions... My Russian book is hammer! (I usually do more languages during a day than what you see here, I was so sloppy with my schedule today, daaa)
My love finally makes it online after spending 3h in the traffic just to get home from uni (metro strike). I enjoy seeing him no matter if he's tired, though. We're both really exhausted plus I'm annoyed at the no warm water thing. I was planning to go out this night but now I don't feel like it anymore (esp. since I however have an interview the next day). I think I'll just stay here getting charmed by his dimples.
A friend of his who's already graduated told he was familiar with some chemical company in the Helsinki region that recruits people with bachelor's degree also. (My bf tries to get to do his master's here, but this interests him when it comes to working by the side or in case it doesn't work out with the study place right away.)
It's a special day because he got this big news! I am so thrilled about it that I need to shout it out loud on FB.
I should have gone to sleep in year sausage (=a lot of time ago) already, but I stay to chat first with a childhood friend of mine and then with this crazy Piemontese friend of mine.
I brush my tiiff.
I don't have a bed pic because I was ead tired, forgot.
I hope you enjoyed my day! I hope to make an adiml on some more eventful day sometime soon as well :)
I'm Nina, 23 young, Italianised Finnish, from northeast Europe- Finland! Turku/Åbo to be more exact. I study Swedish+German and have my own freelance translation activity by the side. But I am switching studies and working on moving to Helsinki in the near future with my bf so at this point more than on my current studies I am focused on work, personal projects and preparing for an entrance exam.
Now that I have skiing holliday, I got up late, was generally really lazy and the only productive thing I did was bringing summer job applications around. However, the day after this day I had a job interview and got the job, so my searching ended short. So this was all in vain, hehe.
A full 70 pics total! I pray to the pink elephant that you don't get bored.
Hellow people!
I literally wake up to the mailman trying to stuff the packages through my door. He makes it only with one of them so I open the door and he hands the 2nd one to me :) Clothing I have ordered online recently!
I refresh the air!
Funky pants. They say "French is my business. The rest is..." Awesome Finnish design
Hahhaa
Let's hope Im not an apple!
(I will show that pink dress later on in this post)
Not part of my planned outfit for the day, but comfy while doing household stuff.
Doin' the dishes.
I have breakfast of the kings. I got up at around 11, so... You just have to agree, huh?
This is a pretty normal breakfast for me though, apart from that I usually don't take all that many beverages.
My mum calls and lets me know the official procedure for the change of president is happening right now. I didn't even remember. It's a 4-hour footage on TV. I watch some of it. Here they are holding speeches in the parliament (Halonen, the president ending her office on left, and Niinistö, the new one, on right).
Then they are transported to the presidential palace which takes about 3 mins.
I changed into my ACTUAL outfit!
And here comes the moment of "closest-to-monarchy-you-can-get-in-Finland" - waving at the public from the balcony of the presidential palace. For the first time there are the spouses also.
I check out one shop's website in the intention to look for some info to put on the application I'm going to write.
After MORE THAN ENOUGH time writing applications and realising it's 14 o'clock so I need to get going if I want to lunch out, I put all of them into envelopes, and take my stuff with me (also an Aspirin as I feel like I might get sick - and I have a job interview the next day, so I want to do whatever to prevent it. I didn't use it though!)
it's tricky these days.
Cross the Dome square.
Cross the bridge on the river Aura.
It's a flagging day in honour of free elections.
Nasty to walk, again.
I go to my absolute.favourite.restaurant.Really! It's called Mami and it's on the river.
It's cheap and excellenttttt. I go there because I want to give myself some peace and harmony for my mind after too much stressing the last weeks. And mami never fails in that. At least if you go after the rush hour when you hardly get a seat!
I have meat salad. I asked for a gluten and milk free sauce and they (ofc) made one really tasty for me :) They handle individual needs in a really natural, non-bothered way. I don't care if they accidentally brought butter.
I chose a green tea as dessert.
I go to the loo. Nice individual towels.
Me! Ready for the next stop I guess!
Outside. I have gloves by a Finnish accessory brand that say "hej" and the other one says "hejdå". They were also available in "moi - heippa" and "moi - mojdå" or something like that. I maybe scored some points from my teachers when I saluted them with the gloves? hhahah!
I enter a cosy shopping centre in the heart of the town.
My mission is to bring some applications there.
Bringing the applications went well. I need to take a bus to go to another shopping centre outside of the town.
But I checked the timetable and saw I need to wait 10 mins for the next bus, so I...
Drop in one of my fave clothing shops just to look around at colourful things to kill time.
That multicolour sweater is one that gives me the urge "WANT TO BUY IT FOR BOYFRIEND!" hahaha! I now and then tend to buy him some clothing just because I enjoy looking at it on him. Selfishness?
Aaaand here we go! We're out of the centre already.
Two kids sitting next to each other, one with a hockey stick, are in a huge fight and I hate it when kids bully each other. Argh. The boy tells this girl that he's upset because he has no space now because the girl sat next to him, and threatens to hit her with the hockey stick. I get the creeps when I think back to it.
passing the cemetary
I've never been here before.
I think kids in Turku had their skiing holiday one week earlier already, and it's completely deserted. Well, I think it's in such a location that it's no wonder if there are no people. A comparable mall in where I come from is way busier, because there are no proper shops anywhere near - but this one is like maybe 4 km from the city centre. fail.
Why does this make me laugh?
Maybe because once in the same chain I went and ordered an ice cream in Italian with no success xD (Was an experiment)
That is Marimekko (Finnish) which reminds me that I fancy the multicolour Converse feat. Marimekko shoes, although I usually don't like Converse at all. The upbeat colours in the pattern just make them so fancy.
I haven't reported about it, but by now I have made the round of bringing my applications, and can concentrate on other things.
First I concentrate on getting a bit of small groceries in the supermarket. (And looking at exotic fruit.)
I have the vice of checking out bad grammar in Swedish. I'm right now on a course of Swedish as a 2nd language and we, among other things, analyse where different mistakes originate from. This is a REALLY interesting one in that sense.
My basket!
Done with the groceries, I take a random photo elsewhere. I wear rubber boots every time when the roads are the way they are now.
BYEEE
Aaaand the bus is late.
I swear that I so hope to work during the upcoming summer somewhere in the centre instead.
I didn't know yet that my wish would come true exactly one day later! My commute will be 3 minutes by bike xD
Thirsty and I have no water with me, so I opt for the juice, which is good too.
The bus tickets work that way that you can use the same 2,50€ ticket for 2h as much as you need.
There are loads of fog.
In the neighbourhood where I once used to live. Need to get off soon.
Got off in the hill.
I got an sms that one package has arrived, and it's fetched from this place.
Somehow, everything arrives exactly today, although I ordered them at very different times. I was a bit using the sales to my advantage and I think the best clothing is 1) online 2) 2nd hand.
I get to my street.
So, hello home!
HOME SWEET HOME <3 My nest.
There is a problem - no warm water coming, and the geek guy next door says he has the same thing. Because the geek guy didn't seem to find it necessary, I call the caretaker who takes a look... And takes a look in the basement too.
I have apple slices with tahini (=sesame cream) and tea with soy milk.
I grab my Finnish-Estonian-Finnish dictionary because I'm going to practise my Estonian. (One Brit in my earlier workplace said I speak "a bunch of useless languages". However, I'm proud to speak Estonian and I've found myself in situations where it helped me a bucketload of times! I love it so much!!!)
I kind of had got the feeling that they do one quirky looking abbreviation at times. I check it on Google. I usually learn languages on Google by writing what my intuition says there and seeing if what I suppose REALLY is used.
This time my intuition was right! YEEE!
Check one of my fave fashion blogs.
One LJ friend of mine needs to have ovarian cysts removed, and as you can understand, it can give you frightening sensations. I tell her that I've gone through it and tell how it was in my case. I was lucky though, and I hardly ever remember that I've gone through such a thing anymore - although itty-bitty hardly visible scars remain. I wish she will be strong.
I do the dishes. Still no warm water, so I mixed up a kettleful of boiled water with the cold water. The caretaker is looking into the matter. He makes some visits to my house. (They got it fixed just in time for my job interview the next day, luckily!)
Btw, this headband just arrived in the package from Sweden! Loving it!
My mum chats with me (yeees I call her by first name), pretty endlessly (she has a 1€/month contract with the operator). Sometimes when I need to do other stuff in the kitchen I put it on the loudspeaker.
I grab some olive oil to add to my soup (As for dinner I am heating up the soup I made yesterday).
But I miss hearing Familjen, so I put it on while I'm preparing to eat. Ahh.
Minced meat and vegetable soup and 3 pieces of affettati. How to call them in English? In Swedish they're chark! in Finnish leikkeleet. Good!
I wasn't even planning to dance, I was just trying on the dress that arrived from Sweden today - but then the music had such a nice, jännä rhythm that I started dancing without even noticing!
I do some Russian! In this chapter learn about happenings both in the life of a babushka and parallelly in the history of Soviet Union and Russia, while learning more vocab and constructions... My Russian book is hammer! (I usually do more languages during a day than what you see here, I was so sloppy with my schedule today, daaa)
My love finally makes it online after spending 3h in the traffic just to get home from uni (metro strike). I enjoy seeing him no matter if he's tired, though. We're both really exhausted plus I'm annoyed at the no warm water thing. I was planning to go out this night but now I don't feel like it anymore (esp. since I however have an interview the next day). I think I'll just stay here getting charmed by his dimples.
A friend of his who's already graduated told he was familiar with some chemical company in the Helsinki region that recruits people with bachelor's degree also. (My bf tries to get to do his master's here, but this interests him when it comes to working by the side or in case it doesn't work out with the study place right away.)
It's a special day because he got this big news! I am so thrilled about it that I need to shout it out loud on FB.
I should have gone to sleep in year sausage (=a lot of time ago) already, but I stay to chat first with a childhood friend of mine and then with this crazy Piemontese friend of mine.
I brush my tiiff.
I don't have a bed pic because I was ead tired, forgot.
I hope you enjoyed my day! I hope to make an adiml on some more eventful day sometime soon as well :)