What a night

After a big week of school, two exams and an essay, I decided to unwind on Friday and have some fun with the others in Lapinkaari. The night started at about 8:30 where I met up with my companions started talking about the Olympics, and watching competitive skiing trick challenge thing. Apparently it is big in Europe and Sweden apparently is very good at the sport. The others were also telling me stories about their trip to Stockholm and how EVERYONE was beautiful. As we kept talking, socializing, and hearing about Lapinkaari drama it was baout time to head out. At about 11:30 we head out as a group to walk to the club Saha, it was a big international party or something, but it was free cover charge so that is the only reason I went. At Saha I met some Finnish people who wanted to teach me some of the language. I never grasped it of course because Finnish is impossible and don't remember what I was taught after the first 5-8 minutes. We were there until closing, which was 4 in the morning. Afterwards we were all about to go home, until some of my other friends decided that going to sauna would be a good idea. I agreed for some reason, so we went to one of the other student housing complexes and went to the sauna. At about 6 a.m. was the time I got back to my room, so it was a long and fun night. I get to bed and wake up at about 11:45 a.m and open the window cause it felt pretty stuffy, then went back to sleep. The around 1 I awoke to something flying into my room and it freaked me out for a second. A bird had made it into my room and decided to chill on my night stand right next to my bed. Of course I didn't feel comfortable going back to sleep with a bird in my room, so I go to my computer thinking that the bird would get timid and fly back outside. But the bird was pretty content, and decided to hop around on my hat and then flew to my suitcase and hopped around some more. I kept encouraging it to get out of my room but no luck. I got some pictures and a video because I couldn't believe a birdwas just hanging out in my room. After about 20-30 minutes it decided to leave, and I was not tired anymore so he played the role of unwanted alarm clock. This was a good time since I hadn't hung out with my friends in a while and I got my mind off of school. Sometimes you forget about that you're in Europe, and you have to enjoy yourself because I will probably not live in Europe again.

The lesson I learned is that even if you're cold walking back home don't be tempted to go sauna because then you get to bed at 6 a.m. The other lesson is that if you don't trust your alarm just open up your window and let the birds be a frightening waking call. Live like Fin!

Moy moy