My time here in Mexico has been flying. I don´t know how it happened but it seems that I have under 2 moths left here. I don´t know if my life has become perfect here or do I just appreciate it more now that I am supposed to leave. I could easily  imagine staying here in Mexico and going to Finland just for holidays, still somehow I know that I also need to see all the people from Finland that I have been missing so much.

The truth is that exchange year is a bad idea if you want to keep your heart in one piece, first you miss everyone from your country and when you are supposed to go you spend the nights nearly crying as you chat with your new friends that you are supposed to leave without knowing when you are coming back. Still if I´m asked would I do all this again, I would say HELL YEAH!

During this year I have made new friendships, with Mexicans as well as exchange students from many different countries. I hope they will last even when I am far away and I know I have a place where I can eat and sleep for a night almost anywhere on this planet. I have experienced and seen things that I never believed to be possible.

I have learnt to speak Spanish, and I am even thinking in Spanish is this very moment. Still I think that I have learnt something even more important than Spanish. I have learnt many things about myself, I have seen how good people can be, unfortunately I have also seen that all people are not good. I have learnt how small this world is, and that everybody are alike, even though we are also different and we have our cultures that are not better or worse but just different from each others.

I have felt what it is like to be a part of many different families. In Finland I did not think that I would really think them as my family but at least some of my families I can call my family and I know that if some day I would come to their doors without money and feeling sad they would let me in and take care of me. 

Really I could go on forever about the wonders I have experienced here but really I just wanted to write that I am visiting Puebla so maybe I should write about that too.

I have now spent about 2 weeks traveling and I am going back to Coatza next Sunday. Now I´m in Puebla and I am staying in the family of the exchange student that lived in my family in Finland. Every thing that I can say that they are AWESOME. I want them to adopt me. :D The parents are so sweet, kind and cool, my brothers are cool and funny. They have taken me to see many cool places. Honestly I can say that seldom come along with people as well as with this family. They invited me to come back here before I´m going to Finland but I still have to talk about it with my parents of Coatza. I hope that I could come. Puebla is just so pretty.

ps. 18.6 is my birthday. I will have a party and I hope that all my friends from the school and the exchange students will show up. I think it will also be my ¨bye bye party¨ like my friend from Taiwan expressed it.

I am having a day off from school... maybe not legal but I´m an exchange student... I will go there on friday.;D

I thought that I could tell you something about my Christmas and about changing family. So the Christmas I spent with my first familly and I wasn´t happy at all that I should change family. My grandma started to cry on 20 something day becaus she wasn´t happy with me changing family either. I didn´t cry. I was just pissed off.

Just a few days before Christmas  felt that the calendar was wrong. It can´t be Christmas because I don´t feel like it. On 24th I still ended up feeling like Christmas. I started the day by eating a bunch of Finnish candies that my parents in Finland had sent me. Then I went on the computer and searched Snowman from youtube. I always watch from TV it if I´m spending the christmas in Finland. I ate quesadillas for breakfast before I started my Christmas movie marathon. I spent the day pretty much watching movies and in the evening the whole family ate together.

When everybody else were asleep I sneaked downstairs with my presents. I was happy to see that my parents had already been there and I hid my presents behind the presents that already were there.

Next morning my little brother woke me up around  o´clock screaming that we are going to open the presents. I got up and went downstairs looking pretty horrible.

By the way... Here everybody seem to get usually just one gift. This year Santa was just nice. I was happy because both, my little siter and brother liked the presents I had bought them.

 My father was nearly crying when he went through the photoalbum I had made for him (it was really for the whole family though) The album had photos of my time with my first family and my fail Spanish notes.

My grandma and mom were also happy with their gifts.

oh and from them I got a bag. It´s cute

 7.1 I changed my hostfamily. It wasn´t so bad even though I had thought so. Really the hardest thing was to put all my stuff together. Here´s everything I have after spending here 6 months.

A girl from Grmany was living here before and she spend my first day here with me explaining how this family works. That was really helpful because this time I didn´t have to figure it out all by myself. She also helped me to decorate the wall.

... and yes I have a pink-purple wall and that´s pretty terrible but I think that is just part of the princess treatment I´m getting here. In this house there is a lady who:makes my bed, cleans up my room, washes and irons my clothes, washes the dishes, and this is the best one:

I was going to MY OWN PERSONAL GYM when the lady saw me she said: "Good morning miss, what would you like to have for breakfast?" That made me feel like princess. I will be a spoiled brat after living here 3 months.

And I went to Veracruz with my new mom and the German girl who lived here:

We went to the aquarium of Veracruz

 

 

 

I got this book before I left to México from my dear friend also known in vuodatus as Reta (read her blog it´s awesome!) It is one of the sweetest things I have ever got from anyone. It´s full of little notes from her and definitely makes me smile. In the book she asked me to write a little in Finnish here so I guess I just have to try to write in Finnish even though it feels now really demanding, believe it or not. So here we go. Here you can see the book and my new laptop <3

Taytyy myontaa, etta kun sain kirjan kateeni ekan kerran tuntui etta enhan mina tata osaa mitenkaan lukea. Valtava pokkari ja espanjaksi, en mina osaa. Oleskeltuan vahan aikaa Meksikossa katsoin kirjaa uudelleen. Sanoja alkoi jo ymmartaa enemman ja sanakirjan kanssa katsoessa paasin parikymmenta sivua eteenpain, mutta erittain hitaasti ja melkein ehti jo unohtaa mita oli tapahtunut. 

Kirja unohtui muutamaksi kuukaudeksi laatikon pohjalle ja kuin huomaamatta espanjan taitoni kasvoivat. Loysin kirjan taas ja luin eteenpain. Tamahan ei olekaan niin vaikeaa ja vaikka sanakirja oli viela kovassa kaytossa vauhti jolla kirjaa etenin oli jo paljon nopeampi. Tiedan etta ilman pienia lappuja joita ystavani oli kirjoitellut pitkin kirjaa olisin jattanyt kirjan jo monta kertaa kesken. Aina vain sanoin itselleni: "viela 5 sivua ja on uusi lappu... viela 3" Nain motivaatio on sailynyt tahankin saakka.

Sitten elamastani tuli vahan kiireista eika minulla ollut aikaa rentoutua niin paljon ja lukea kirjoja. Menin Ruta Mayalle ja sita ennen vietin paljon aikaa muitten vaihtareitten kanssa, Kun tulin takaisin minulla olikin taas aikaa koko joululoma. Olin hieman kipeana ja huoneessani ei ollut muuta tekemista kuin lukea tai katsoa televisiota. Nyt sivut menivat jo vaudilla. Olen huomannut etta kirjailijat kayttavat aina samoja sanoja paljon. Tietyt sana alkavat toistaa itseaan enka oikeastaan enaa vilkaissutkaan sanakirjaa. Menin yli puolivalin ja loman edetessa sivut menivat kuin lentaen.

Palatessani kouluun sivuja taisi olla jaljella noin 200 ja nyt viikon tylsan koulussa nukkumisen-lukemisen-musiikinkuuntelun-kaiken-muun-paitsi-opiskelun jalkeen jaljella on noin 75 sivua. Niinmpa luulen etta parin paivan paasta olen virallisesti lukenut Sinuhe egyptilaisen, ja mika hienointa olen lukenut sen espanjaksi. En oikeasti osannut toivoa, etta pystyisin ikina lukemaan nain pitkan kirjan espanjaksi... tai oikestaan etta pystyisin lukemaan mitaan muuta kuin ehka lasten kuvakirjan espanjaksi,

Nyt vastaus pariin kysymykseen, joita ystavani oli kirjaan jattanyt:

Montako treffipyyntoa olen saanut: Riippuu mika lasketaan treffipyynnoksi? Jos joku kysyy haluanko etta se on mun meksikolainen poika ystava lasketaanko...?? pari kertaa nain. Kerran yks oikeesti kysy leffaan, mut hyi en tykkaa se on hirvee stalkkeri... ja ai niin mun salsa opettajakin tais kerran olla aika lailla pyytamassa mua ulos... Hyvin vaikea kysymys.

Kuinka moneen olen sanonut kylla? En yhteenkaan! Hahaa oon kusipaa! No ei. Ehka kerran tai kaksi... mut en ma tieda oliko ne treffit vai ei.

Mita kaipaat Suomesta? MUN YSTAVIA! Tahan on erittain helppo vastata, koska olette mulle hyvin hyvin tarkeita. Haluaisin jaada tanne asumaan ja palkata jonkun kidnappaamaan kaikki mun rakkaat sielta kylmasta pohjolasta.

Mika on sellaista mita haluaisit tuoda sielta Suomeen: Ruoka! Taa saattaa mahdollisesti olla syy miksi olen nyt laski. :/ Liian hyvaa ja epaterveellista ruokaa, mutta ei voi mitaan.  Mun terveellinen elama alkoi siita kun vaihdoin perhetta... vaikka takapakkia on ollut nyt 4 paivaa kun oon vaan massanny kaikkea. Tanaan tein muffineita Evitan ja Olin kaa. Nam!

Juhlat vois tuoda myos Suomeen. Taalla on kivaa kun kaikki ei ole ihan kannissa vaan ottaa kohtuudella ja tanssitaan paljon. Lauantaina oli Lucaksen laksiaiset. Se lahtee torstaina :( En tieda mita me tehdaan ilman Lucasta. Se on yksi hienoimmista ihmisista jonka olen elamassani tavannut. Raukka joutui syomaan habanero chilen ja itki 5 minuuttia. Laittoivat reppanan myos juomaan tequilaa, Lucas ei juonut koko vuonna. Tata myos arvostan paljon.

Kirjoittelen lisaa myohemmin ja ehka laitan vahan kuviakin. Buenas noches!

 

 

 

I changed class room. As maybe some of you know I wasn't having exactly great time at school. Finally I was exhausted in the whole situation. I told my school, I told my host parents and on Monday I even told to the Rotary. They all took my words seriously and Rotary promised to see me on Tuesday to talk about changing school.

Suprisingly everything was fixed before I even met Rotary. On Tuesday I was sitting and listening to my new dear ipod touch (my little baby, darling, honey, I love you darling)((I don't love nonhuman objects like cellphones and ipods... never)) When a teacher came and asked me and the other exchange students to come to have a talk.

I was a litle worried because I first thought that it would be something bad because one girl has really been making some problems for us but it wasn't that. They told us that they were really sorry about the situation in our class room and apologized. They also asked if we wanted to change class. Of course we said yes. I was really suprised when I heard that actually the people from the other class room had suggested that we should join their class. That made me smile.

We took our stuff from our former class room and went to the next one. It is unbelievable how the social atmosphere can change so completely in just 10 meters. In our old class nobody talked with us and now everybody where talking with us and everybody were happier and more relaxed than in the other cla