Stupid blogspot :(

I’ve been ignoring my blog completely for the longest time. At some point I totally forgot it even existed. And then, one day I thought I'd write something, and blogspot wouldn't let me in! I was so mad. But now it works again. Now I don't feel like writing anything though. I guess I have to sinse it's been such a long time.

I was looking through my previous blog texts and realized what a boring person I am nowadays. I used to be so much fun! I used to write so sarcastically and funny, I even made myself laugh just looking at it. And now? Now I just report the things I’ve been doing lately.

I cannot wait to go back home. And at the same time I don’t want the June 16th to ever come. I miss my country, I miss my family, I miss my friends. And then again, I know that they’re there waiting for me. But the people I leave behind when I leave… Well, I might not ever see them again. It’s so bittersweet. I’m thinking about this all the time, constantly. I can’t get it out of my mind. I should just put a smile on my face and enjoy my last few weeks.

But I can’t. It’s because of school. I am so sick of school that you wouldn’t believe me. I think everybody here is. If you Finland people think school is boring, you’re wrong. Come to America and try. I’m living for 4th and 5th period, when I get to paint and sing (and cry). Probably my two (three) favorite things to do at the moment. I am in love with oil paints. I’m doing my first oil painting and it is really hard but also rewarding. I might have to buy some oil paints when I get back home.

Yesterday was seniors last day. Oh how much I wish I was a senior right now. There would be no more stupid finals. No more waking up (well okay graduation practice, but I wouldn’t mind that), no more sitting in classes doing nothing getting bored out of your mind...

I’m guessing you all want to know about my prom. I had a lot of fun considering it was only standing in lines, posing in pictures and dancing. Okay and which sounds more fun: riding in a bus for 5 hours with obnoxious people and spending a long day in a nasty waterpark after partying the previous night and not sleeping, or; sleeping in and lying on the couch for 8 hours straight with the people you love, watching movies, walking in the rain bare foot and eating milkshakes. I pick the second choice. That was our own little post prom.



Random facts:

We had our choir concert which went pretty well. I guess. At least most of it.

The yearbook is one thing that I think we should have in Finland too. It's such a great memory, especially the signatures.

Um. My life is boring. I hate Uniontown.

Oh. I had my Rotary presentation last Tuesday. It went pretty well. I made it more informal and not-boring. I tried to make it interesting.

Then this Wednesday me and Nick went to this Cyberschool dance with Christina. Laura got excited and took about 234567 thousand pictures.

"Just climb on that tree." And awkwardly sit there and smile?

I guess that's it. I'll write again when I feel like writing and hope blogspot won't act dumb next time. Byes.

TSADATATADAADAAAAA !

Things I'm going to do today:

• play Elton John as loud as possible
• bake a cake to Laura for Mother's day tomorrow
• prepare my presentation of Finland for Rotary
• play piano
• draw

Things I WOULD do IF I wasn't sick:

• dance around the house and sing obnoxiously loud with Elton John
• go jogging (the weather even is nice for a change. And I need air)

"On kaikkein kaunein aina oma maa,

Niin moni muuta paremmaksi luuli,

Mut pettymyksen itsellensä saa.

Ei missään taivas sinisemmin loista,

Ei missään hanki hohda kirkkaammin.

Tämä paina sydämees,

Niin on taivas aina sees,

Ja sun taipaleeltas murhe kauas kaikkoo."

♥

The band and choir trip to Disney! (this is going to be really bad English because of my extreme tiredness)

I am convinced that Disney World is the happiest place on earth. They must drug the place somehow. I really think they pump extra oxygen in the air to make everybody walk around for at least ten hours a day, still smiling like they slept a hanger in their mouth. How else could it be possible? I mean, Disney movies and characters are magical but not THAT magical.

Even the 20 hours long bus ride couldn't ruin it. I slept most of the ride anyway. When coming home I was so tired that the floor of the bus felt like the most comfortable place to sleep on ever.

We left Uniontown on Tuesday after school. At that point I didn't realize we were going at all. I was still getting over the fact that I won't see my mom again in awhile. The bus ride was bad, but not as horrible as I had imagined. We drove all day and all night only stopping few times. In Orlando we didn't even check in the hotel, we stopped to eat breakfast and then went straight to the park. You can just imagine how stinky and ugly we were.

The first day we spent at the Islands of Adventure. That park is not a part of Disney and I hadn't been there yet so I was extremely pumped. The Harry Potter world was there! I could not wait to see the castle and everything else. The ride inside the castle was the best. It made me so happy and convinced that I am an actual witch, they just forgot to send me the invitation letter to Hogwarts (Tylypahka). Besides Hogwarts, they also had Hogsmeade (Tylyaho) there, with the actual stores that are there. They actually had Honeydukes (Hunajaherttua) and Zonko's Joke Shop (Sekon Pilapuoti). They sold butterbeer (kermakalja) and chocolate frogs and things like that.

That night it felt amazing to get back to the hotel, take a shower and sleep on a bed. After building a fort between the beds and lying there laughing like bunch of morons. Too bad we couldn't do that while the cake was baking in the oven...

The next day was the Magic Kingdom day. I already visited the other parks that we went to, so it wasn't as overwhelming. It was really different to be with my friends though, instead of my host family. We all wanted to do the same stuff and it was really easy, fun and convenient. We did a lot of unnecessary walking that day.

HUMONGOUS MICKEY MOUSE COOKIES! omnomn.

On Friday we had our performance in Epcot. After that we went to the Blizzard Beach and to Hollywood studios after that. Of course the water park day would be the coldest day. Still not that cold though. It was way too hot for me. The first breath of Florida air after stepping out of the bus was horrible. It is so humid there. I could not take it at all, I'm really happy they didn't place me in any of the Southern States. I added sun sc/g-reen on like every ten minutes and didn't get too burned. Just a bit. Oh and I think Lazy River is the best thing anybody ever came up with.

Saturday, our last day we spent in Epcot. I probably had most fun that day just because we were so tired and laughed at the stupidest stuff. We walked around the world twice. We ate actual good food. Me and Shelby got our faces painted. Clairesa acted super crazy and it was too funny. And then Mickey tried to kill us being creepy and sneaking out of my bag.

I had lots of fun and laughed SO MUCH during that trip, it was absolutely amazing. I will miss these moments so much when I go back to Finland. Even coming back to Uniontown felt so lame.

Minulla tuntuu niin usein näinä päivinä olevan niin kamalan haikea olo. Ihan yhtäkkiä iskee suuri haikeus ja huoli. Siitä, että minä lähden reilun kuukauden päästä kotiin ja joudun jättämään tämän kaiken taakseni. Uniontown, likainen, ruma ja kaikinpuolin tylsä pieni kyläpahanen, kaupunki joka on ollut kotini kohta yhdeksän kuukautta. Ei tule ikävä. Kouluni, minun mittakaavassa suuri, sekin likainen ja erittäin haiseva ja tunkkainen epämieluisa rakennus, jossa vessan ovet eivät sulkeudu jos niitä ei muuraa kiinni repulla ja kirjoilla ja joka tarjoaa pelkästään ranskalaisia tai pizzaa ruoaksi. Ei tule ikävä.

Ystävät. Olen saanut aivan mielettömiä ystäviä. He ovat sen haikeuden ja huolen aihe. Heitä minulle tulee ikävä. On minulla ystäviä Suomessakin, aivan mielettömän upeita ja hauskoja ihmisiä, ihan yhtä upeita kun nämäkin täällä, ei se siitä ole kiinni. Mutta nämä ihmiset täällä ovat jakaneet minun kanssani minun elämäni parhaan vuoden. Eikä minulla ole mitään takeita siitä että ikinä näkisin heitä uudestaan. Kyllä me yhdessä lupasimme yrittää. Mutta heillä alkaa yliopisto kesän jälkeen ja he tulevat olemaan köyhiä opiskelijoita. Ja minä luultavasti tulen olemaan se "starving artist" loppuelämäni ajan... Lupaus siitä, että yritetään todella kovasti järjestää uudelleen näkeminen pitäisi olla minulle tarpeeksi. Haluaisin vain niin kovasti että joku lupaisi minulle, että näemme vielä, etten minä tule koskaan unohtamaan heitä, eivätkä he minua. Best friends forever.

I had to do this dance again since people (Miss Groves) liked it. I think it's a Disney World thing now. If I ever have the opportunity to go back I'm just going to walk around the park dancing like that. And if not, I'll just do it every time I watch a Disney movie.

Anniina kiittää.