and we looked like eskimos

Hi!

I grabbed my camera with me the other day again while we went out with two of my friends. Unfortunately the other one left before we could take pictures with her :( This was my last day in Rovaniemi for 5 weeks since I'm now doing an internship in Helsinki (more on that later). I didn't like the fact that I was leaving my friends who I've become so close with and see almost daily but hopefully five weeks will go by fast.  And thank god for whatsapp. 

See you soon!

~Susanna

The angrier birds

Hi!

One of the greatest things about having most of my friends from here live so close to me is totally the fact that we don't have to plan every single time we want to hang out. So as I got a text from my friend asking if I wanted to go for a walk with her, I said yes and grabbed my camera as I hadn't done that for such a long time. We went to walk around from the Jätkänkynttilä Bridge, to the Angry Birds activity park and after having a little snack at Subway, it got dark enough for me to try out a bokeh lense I quickly made before we left. I didn't think it would actually work but the pictures ended up pretty cool. I need to make more of these.

See you soon!

~Susanna

Not just sign language

Hi!

I haven't really done a school related post in a while so here's one. When I was applying here, I went through every blog post I found about this education so maybe someday in the future someone will find this as helpful as I found those blog posts a year ago.

For someone like me, who learns by doing things and is a pretty visual person, this education is just perfect. First of all, I've always loved languages but I've never been really good at them so actually understanding sign language and thinking it's pretty easy is really awesome for me. It's definitely my favorite subject in school, unless it's the last class of the day in the classroom we spend most of our days that has some problems. But I don't ONLY study sign language, this school is so much more. We might have a whole day of boring-ish lectures once in a while but we also do A LOT of group projects and presentations (things that terrified me before), play different games and recently we've had classes on how to instruct music, art, craft, sport sessions where we actually got to do a lot of different things. We learn a lot about instructing, the deaf culture and services that might be useful in our future jobs.

Some famous deaf people

I got a 3- on our 2nd sign language exam. I was pretty proud of myself tbh :P

Something I drew on our recent group project :3

3 pictures above are from art/crafts instructing class

We learned about noise in music instructing class.

This blog post was supposed to be much longer but I've tried to write this all week and couldn't come up with more for some reason so I'm not going to force any more text out :D Maybe I'll write another one later. Now I'm off for my winter break that I'm spending in Helsinki :)

See you soon!

~Susanna

Valentine's Day

Hi!

One thing I love about Valentine's Day in Finland is that it's a day to celebrate your friendships. I haven't usually done anything special on the day but few of my friends didn't have other plans so we decided to spend it together. We played board games, ate a lot and just hang out. I had a really lovely day and I'm happy I had such lovely people to spend the day with :) 

I decided to cover a bunch of things in chocolate because why not.

My friend got me some flowers :3 that was so sweet.

We also took a bunch of selfies obviously:

"There are some people in life that make you laugh a little louder, smile a little bigger and live just a little bit better"

See you soon!
~Susanna

A photo an hour: 3rd February 2015

Hi!

So on Tuesday I thought I'd try the "a photo an hour" thing where you take a photo every hour of the day. I took the pics with my phone and this is how my day went basically.

7:15 

Good morning!

8:15

On my way to school.

9:15

We did origami in class.

10:15

First coffee break aka my breakfast.

11:15

Friendship bracelets in class.

12:15

Lunch break.

13:15

Class in the dark.

14:15

Sign language class after second coffee break

15:15

Still in sign language class.

16:15

Home! Changed my 1D concert countdown.

17:15

Friend drew me a few things :3

18:15

On my way to the post office to pick up some packages.

19:15

My last calendar finally arrived! About time :D

20:15

I've been addicted to How I Met Your Mother lately.

21:15

Shower time.

22:15

More himym (this time with some snacks). My life is just so exciting.

23:15

Turned my couch in to a bed for the night.

00:15

Reading a bit before sleep.

See you soon!

~Susanna