The emoji challenge

Hi!

So Troye Sivan made a video , the emoji challenge, few weeks ago that inspired me to write this post. The challenge is to describe yourself in five emojis and explain why you picked them so here are mine:

I chose the little, blushing smiley face because I love smiling and I love it when other people smile. I think I'm a pretty positive person most of the time. That is also one of the smiley emojis I use the most.

I chose the camera emoji because I LOVE taking pictures. No matter if it's with my fancy DSLR or my phone camera, if it's a picture of a pretty view or a selfie, snapping pictures of things and people is what makes me happy.

I always have some music playing and most of the time from my headphones. Music just makes me really happy or sometimes gives me energy to do different things. Also it keeps me company when otherwise my apartment would be dead silent.

This was the closest emoji that I felt like represented sign language. And I love sign language which is obviously why I study it. It's something that I've been interested in since I was about 9 and now actually knowing the language a bit, it's absolutely one of my favorite languages.

I had to pick the lipstick emoji because I basically can't leave the house with some color on my lips. The brighter, the better :P I can't even keep count these days of how many lip products I actually own.

See you soon!
~Susanna

Fairs and headbands

Hi!

There were couple of fairs going on in Rovaniemi last weekends and we thought they would be worth of checking out with my classmate. We met up on Saturday and went for a little walk around central Rovaniemi (or whatever it's called, don't ask me I've lived here only for a week). The area I live in is starting to become more familiar and now I know a few cool and really cheap stores that I would've never found on my own. Here's a few pictures I snapped on Saturday: 

There was like an international food fair going on and I just had to get some churros. The paper bag was also super cute.

We actually went looking for these haha. They're like super long pieces of licorice and you can hardly get them anywhere unless you go to a fair or an amusement park etc...

After a few hours of walking and shopping, I went to get some groceries and made myself a yummy chicken salad. 

I ended up buying a few little things on Saturday including couple new jumpers because it's getting really cold in here (it was 5 degrees this morning!!! I had to ask how to sign "it's cold outside" haha). I also got few new headbands because I'm sick of having to push away my bangs from my face 500 times everyday. I've been wearing bandanas a lot lately and I like them because they keep my bangs in place so I thought I'd get a few headbands so I won't have to wear a bandana everyday. I didn't take pictures of the stuff that I bought but I'm sure you'll see them in this blog at some point :D I did have a new headband and jumper on today tho so here's a picture:

Please ignore the messy apartment (especially you, mom), I'm still unpacking. 

Also! Because of this headband/bandana addiction, I got a name sign. Our sign language teacher referred to me with a sign for a headband in one of the classes last week and I kind of just decided to keep it.

See you soon!

~Susanna

Flamingo shirt and overalls

Hi! 

So today I met up with my friend Laura. This was probably the last time we'll see each other before my move and that made me kinda sad. Almost every time we hang out, we go take pictures and today was no different. We drove around, had a picnic and I bought us Chinese food at the end of the day. I had so much fun and it made me forget the apartment hunting stress that I've been dealing with. I did get a pretty good apartment offer today tho so keep your fingers crossed for me, please?

I had a photography blog before but I thought I'd just move everything here and make it easier. So here's some of the pictures we took:

See you soon!

~Susanna

P.S. I really need to find a good layout for my blog so I'm probably gonna keep playing with these for a while, sorry.