Fantastic experience!!

This has been to me a great experience. I get along with the family very good. Now I have only two days to go back to Barcelona and these four weeks have gone very fast. On saturday morning we went (me and Aina with the "parents") to Porvoo and there were many antique shops. From there we bought some souvenirs to my family.
We found there very antique keys. Later we went to one popular store Hakaniemi market hall. There were many different foods and upstairs were clothes and Marimekkos place. From there I bought one present to my mother.

There was always one cafeteria. When we went back to the car, we went to one spanish cafeteria. I bought from there one spanish cake. When we drove with the car in Porvoo, we saw one popular lake. We went to eat to McDonald's. At six o'clock we went to Wanha Mylly (at Herttoniemi) with Aina. There we eated one shrimp toast and hamburger. We got taxi to home.

We have already packed the suitcases. We would like to be here for more weeks.



I had the last workday at Malmi Neste Oil on friday. At  work I learned much and I was happy to have that place.

Last week in Finland!

Hi! This is the last week in Finland and I’m writing for the last time.

Last weekend it was really nice! I went to sleep to Laia’s house all the weekend. On Friday, her finish mum cooked paella, with selfish and beef! And for desert they made Crema Catalana!! All the food was very delicious!  It’s really nice that the finish people know typical foods from Spain and Catalonia.

On Saturday Laia, her family and I went to visit the grandparents of her dad and her mum. We went by car and it took us around 2 hours to arrive. The car it’s really old, it’s a Chevrolet from 1960. Her dad, had two old cars, are very amazing! And we went 6 persons in the same car; the mum, the daughter and her boyfriend went at back of the car and the dad, Laia and I went at the front of the car.

The next day, the mum prepared for breakfast bread with tomato (pà amb tomàquet) with some Iberic jam, cold meat and cheese. The food in Laia’s house is fantastic!! And then Laia, her dad and I went to visit a public farm. We saw a lot of animals, such as picks, horses, rabbits… 
And then we started the barbecue with the sunset.

And then, on Monday Laia and I went to visit some other areas of Helsinki,  we visited a lot of places, for example:

The Helsinki Cathedral 

The Wheel 

                           

                                               
This is a really nice week!!

Kiitos!

Aina. 

Friday with the girls!

Hi everyone! This Friday I did a lot of things, I think it was one of the best days I have had in Finland.

First of all Veera came to my house to pick me up with her moped car (a car with two seats that it's able to use for people over 15 years old or more.) Then she drove to Elli's house (the other finnish girl who lives in the other part of Vantaa ) and brought us to her house, she showed me the neighbourhood and we walked to a cake shop where I tasted a delicious finnish donut, I had been talking in Spanish with the seller lady, she speaks Italian so we understood each other really well I think.

After that Veera lead us through the forest and we arrived to a neighbour house, then she knocked the door and when it had opened 7 dogs came out from the house while all of them were jumping and barking. Veera took one of them and we went for a walk in the forest. There I could saw the magic part of Finland, I heard the flow of the river and the silence of the nature.

 Then we came back home and they make a mastercheffs plate with typical finnish food, some of them were uneatable, like the white onion or the salat but the other ones like the bread the cheese or the pink liquid which is a kind of yogurt but much more sticky.

When I finished the unbelievable plate Veera and Elli gave me a helmet and gloves and told me to go outside, there I saw a dazzle of lights coming from the headlamps of a quad bike, the girls jumped in and encouraged me to take a ride with them.

 In the middle of the route we made a stop and gave me the steering wheel.

After 20 minutes we took a break and Veera called a friend who I had met with before called Shibbe, he came with his moped car, really similar of Veera's one, to the place we had been waiting for and suggested us to go for a finnish kebab, We went there and when we had finished they decided to took me to an amazing shopping center: Flamingo!



That shopping center have almost everything, you can find there clothes shops, cinema, laser games, coffee shops and even a Barcelona tapas, but I think that one was a fake,they didn't understand spanish.( I checked it).

There I met with new people and also with some guys who I met before like Henri a really nice guy who came one year ago to Badalona.

Later Shibbe and the girls took me sledding, in my opinion, a really dangerous sport. We had been there for half an hour enough time to freeze almost all my body, however I had been having a really nice time with them.

Finally while Shibbe had been driving towards my house we were speculating about the things that we could do someday if he comes to Barcelona.

It only rest one week and I hope I will enjoy it with the people who has been making of these the best experience I have ever had.

Skating time!!

Last Tuesday, when the sun, finally, came to Helsinki, Laia and I decided to do something different…we went together to ice skating.

The ice skating rink is outdoors in the center of Helsinki, near the Rautatientori station and it was easy for us to go there. We went after we finished the work, around four o’clock, when the sun reflected on the ice. It was just my second time skating and I don’t have much experience… we were having a good time when after only 20 minutes in the rink, I fell down... Everybody was looking at me! I was so ashamed… But I was lucky because a worker man went to help me! I think it was a great idea to go to skating but I’m not sure if I will repeat…

Great family day!!!

On Monday  i went to the famous chocolate factory with some of the Finns. there we visited all kind of chocolate and then we went to the factory to buy some other chocolate.
At first they told us when the factory was created and how many people visit it every year.


Friday and yesterday Aina slept in my house because her parents were out.. For dinner on Friday we ate "Paella Valenciana", check with prawn, meet, mussel... It was very good, both wanted to repeat. For dessert we ate a catalan cream.


Today was a long but fun day. We have been visiting Eija and Hanu parents. We had to travel almost two hours by car.
My family has two classic cars for many years old. One is green and the other is yellow with orange flames ahead.







Her parents are firendly. They also offered us to taste ice cream, cookies and coffee.
Then we went for a drive with the car in the middle.

Sun in Finland!

Yesterday it was an especiall day. An incredible event happened, the sun appeard!

It was at about 11:30 when I had had a break in the work and I decided to go outside for a walk and at that moment I saw for the first time since my arrival to Finland the glimmering light of the finnish sun reflecting from the windows of Helsinki city. 

I have never had that happiness before, I can't write my feelings when my eyes discover what the couds had been concealing to that moment.

The temperature rise to 10 degrees and the appereance of the city changed in a few minutes,also, the mood of the people had changed, they were more friendly and kind, you could see it in their glowing complexion. 

We saw all the colours that the city has with the immense light standing in the top of the sky.

At 5:00 I decided to leave Helsinki and get set for the return to home, I took the K train and I had been waitng for a while before the doors were closed, for that period of time I had been enjoing the lasts moments of sun of the day.

When I left the train and I started walking throught my routine route the sun stood behind my shape letting me see my own shadow standing in front of me.

Once I arrived at home I look trought the clouded window and I saw that the sun was setting down, this occurrence remember me my lasts days in Spain.

TWO WEEKS IN FINLAND!!

Took two weeks in Finland!

This week i went with my family in the International Park. Spent the all afternoon there, it was very cold (i think that was 0 degrees)
and all was snow. We drove by ski area and went to ask how much it would cost to practice it.

When we returned at home we stopped to see a monument of an animal "The gorilla" done only with the wheels of cars and motorbikes.


On Thursday we went Aina (friend spanish), Deniz, Anna, Gulbahar, Lineea and I at the Kiasma Museum. There we saw al type of animals mount and even the skeletons of some dinosaurs.



I have made great friends with them.

Yesterday, Aina was left to sleep in my house for the first time and went to the sauna together. For me it was my first time and was luck with Aina because I didn't know working very well.

Today we went to the zoo of Helsinki. Is very large and there are many animals, but the problem there is many animals in winter do not usually stay out sleeping inside which prevented us from seeing any of them. Still, we could enjoy the amazing animals such as lions, reindeers and tigers.

                          
                                                                                         

Weekend with the family

Last weekend I went with my family to the amazing Nuuksio National Park. The park spreads over an area of forests and lakes in Espoo, Kirkkonummi and Vihti.

 



The sausages in the fireplaces!!

We went by car, and there, we walked along the snowed paths. After a walk of about fifteen minutes we stopped at the designated fireplaces area near the campgrounds , we eat some sausages and had a picnic. After lunch, we continued the excursion and we walked for along time. We walked inside the forest 4 km. Even the floor was slippery and definitely a difficult walk for me…

I went back home really tired and exhausted but the excursion was really good and I will always remember the beautiful views!



The beautiful views!!

 

 

Incredible weekend!

Our weekend was amazing. 

It started in Friday evening when  Hiob and me went to the shooping centre to buy some clothes to use in a party that took  place in Saturday night. When we arrived at home we left our stuff and hanged out with some friends.We went to the McDonalds of Tikkurila 4 km away on foot a really far place but the trip was really funny and I enjoyed a really good time. 

In Saturday morning I woke up extremly early to be a weekend like 7AM and I decided to go to the gym that is 5 minuts of our home. I stayed 1 hour and when I came back I ate the lunch and an appetizing dessert, bread with jam and white salse. When we had finished we change our clothes to the new ones we bought in Friday to go to the party.

At 7:00 PM we met with a friend who took us there, 30 km north of the city I live.

The party was awesome it took place in a cabin with 50 people, I really enjoied that becouse in Spain we don't have that kind of parties. The party finished at 5:00 Am some of us slept there and the other ones leave earlier.

When we woke up we found all the cabin almost destroyed thats the result of 50 people partying all the night. We clean it all and took the bus to Helsinki, there we went to a place called Barbarosa where we ate a really big pizza. 

In the afternoon we took the train to come back home and rest there all the day.