Every-day-life with freedom

A loooong time... since I wrote last time. The reason is; there's nothing special happened to me after that. To be honest life has now become that kinda every-day-life. There's no more moments of joy when everything is SO new and unusual. Right now I really want to live here and life is so good and normal!

But my life has changed a little bit 'cause the football ended last Friday. I have to say that I really enjoyed football and enjoyed even more when the season went on. But now it's also really nice to have a little break from sports and gain some weight... in my muscles ;)) ! It was kinda sensitive moment when I checked a score board in our last game and it showed "0:00" Then I knew, there's nothing to do, it was over. N0t my life but my career as a football legend. I can say that I was the best Finnish player in our team. I was happy and sad after all was over. Then one of our coaches came to me hugged me and said "It was great to have u here, thanks!" I smiled and thought "What a nice man". But then, when nobody expected it, it came slowly like in slow-motion-movie, deep from lungs: "Football is definitely NOT your sport." My answer was "Thanks!" I was speechless. I know that I wasn't so good at football but who in f*ck can come to me and say that after all. Answer is our coach. But that's alright, I didn't cry, I took it by humor as always. But anyways I don't definitely love that man. Because of the thing that I just said and I'm straight.

It's really weird to come home straight from school and having no practice after school. Now I have so much downtime that I don't even know what to do. :---D It's so funny that when u don't have downtime u might think during a practice: "Right now I could play guitar and Xbox, doing Facebook hanging out with friends." But when u get that time to do all that, u don't even want to do that whole the time. But don't get me wrong. I'm not sitting alone in our house and getting bored. It's impossible in this family. And it's all good. :--) I have to enjoy these 2-3 weeks that I have before basketball starts.

Nowadays I come home, make my homework if any and then do all the things I enjoy. Like guitar playing, Xbox, watching movies and TV, talking with my host family and reading ald Gothic stories from our English book. Guess what of those is not a thing I do? ( :

My future. It looks AWESOME!! My swedish brother (Daniel who was in this same family last year) is coming to visit here on Friday and will stay to Wednesday. :--) I really wait seeing him. And ofc I can tell some gay jokes from Swedish men. I will say to u how many jokes I got back to me about Finnish men with alcohol problems..
Also I'm getting NEW HAIR tomorrow! ((: Don't know yet what kind of, but I will put a photo tomorrow. :)

take care

Sami

I gotta feeling that this year gonna be an awesome year

This is the moment u have been waiting for. An honest description how I feel without too much humor. U r allowed to cry after this.

~School

Right now it really feels that all the students (almost) keep me as an American man. I mean there r yet some questions but pretty seldom. In hall ways, during luch and periods people talks me in same way they do with others. So I'm really happy now that i'm not weirdo anymore, even though it was cool at start. I think I'm a part of every group which we have in different. Everything is so automatic and normal (every day same schedule) and it's really safe and comfortable feeling to be at school. There are frustating moments with storys and texts of which I don't understand like any words, but I've started to get used to it. I'm still acting in pretty shy way 'cause I don't have so many things to say of stuff I haven't done. For more when there's buncha people I do some mistakes at times and saying something that makes sense to converstations it's hard also sometimes. That outsider-emotion is still bothering me a little, comparing my clown-role in Finland while periods there. But it's coming better I think. I felt myself as an outsider in the first day at school like 99,9%, right now it's like 7% I think and it will be zero after a moment. Finally I have to tell u guys that I'm often so tired at school, so I will change my routin, force myself to go to bed earlier than... cats! I bet when I'm not tired I'm more social. But there's no so much time to speak during the school day, but I have to use the time better. After all I can say I really like being at school and after a moment it will be even more fun when I will have more common memories this gonna be perfect!


~ Football

I have seriously got into the whole game. Every day I wait our practice to start. Even though I have more bruises than skin right now, I don't care! But I care about that our season will be over after two weeks... That's kinda sad, but 3 weeks break from sports after that is really good for change too. I love my team. They treat me as a part of the team, cares about me and I care about them. I enjoy football and run to the field with smile which changes serious face on the field while blocking and tackling. All the physically pain doesn't ever bother me 'cause I'm feeling so good inside my brains.


~ Important people in USA

Family. I love them all. I'm feeling as a family member and it warms my heart really much! I can talk with them about everything. If I have a bad day (which I have like never) I will and I can tell the reason to my family. Sitting in a dinner table feels so good, my family here together. We come along really good. We have had no arguments at all. There's no day without hugs. I have no words to describe how happy I am to be a member of this family. The reason why I'm happy every day, the biggest reason is this family. I'm feeling relaxed, being myself, superhappy, funny with these people I already love. An athmosphere is even warmer than weather right now (30 celsius). I'm the most lucky person in the world to live with the best family in the United States.

Friends. I have found like 10 friends already, and some people I can talk with. It's really hard to find some time to all new friends and get known them. I can say that I already have one really good friend and with him I have hanged out pretty often. Other friends are also goos but I need more time to getting known each other and then they will be better friends. During schoolweek it's impossible nut in weekends if there's nothing important going on I always try to hang out with some friends. I really hope like next weekend I could hang out with buncha people, it's a good way to get known buncha people at the same time. Talking with just one guy is easier than in a big group and I feel more confident and comfortable with just one guy. But it's gonna change, I think, when I will hang out more with groups. Time heels! I bet I'm gonna get many friends which stay as my friends when I come back to Finland.


~ Important people in Finland

My parents. I have realized how much I love them when I have been gone. They will always be my love ones. I read their e-mails. letter and everything in a different way now that I did in Finland, that's obvious I bet. There's sometimes little tears in my eyes when I read some e-mail from my parents. Of course I miss them at times, but I have so much stuff to dfo and I love my American family so there's usually not that kinda "missing you"-times. But sometimes after I have read their e-mail, before I've fallen asleep, I miss them or I think it's better to say: think how's they are doing, all our memories together, what kinda life wil be when I come back.

Love friends. There are same kinda things with missing friends that it's with parents. So much memories and always I hope that i would do those, but I think I'm gonna do them when I come back. Facebook is a good place to check how's everybody doing. Calling in skype, sending messages on Facebook it's not the same thing at all than hanging out in real life, but I'm okay with that. Time flies as u know and I will have the rest of my life to spend with my friends I love and right now my life is here. Love u guys and wil always! I bet we'll make this and be as good friends as the time I left here. Don't worries, I think about u guys and nobody replace u! See you after 8 months, right now I see still happiness here even though miss u guys at times when I have time to think a lot.


~ Right now

I'm feeling happy (as almost 247) and tired. I used to stress a lot about things like "What I will do then?" "When is that?" "What should I with that?" But now I'm not stressing at all, thanks for my host mom who waked me up! I also got today a letter from my grandparents, a postcard and photos from my parents. I can say they almost made me cry in the middle of living room. So now I can go sleep with a big smile.

'til next time

sensitive guy in this time

Sami

ps. 2 months !

Round table

Guinnessss World Record! That's my goal now. I'm gonna keep this short and tell briefly about exchange students' round table meeting.

There were 3 things and 3 groups. At first my group did the "long-table"-thing. There were microphones and American students (this all happened in Xavier-high school) asked all kinda questions and we answered. Usually I was quiet with most people 'cause my section of table hadn't any mic so it did everything harder. But we Finns r pretty shy and quiet right? ;) It was fun and some of guys took it too much by humor and now others think that like Chinese are people that have no free time and German guys drink when they r 11...

Next thing was talking with American Spanish-class students. Last thing was just speaking with other exchange students. That's it! I had a great time to talk with people who actually understood what everything's like. After that I went 1,5 hour-drive to East Central to lost our football game. :---)

'til next time which is as soon as I have time !

Sami

M(innesota)US(hopping)E

Lazy and buzy. Those r the words to describe me.. but honesty I have now time for writing, not before. So, Homecoming has now come and it's past and now it is time to tell u guys something new special! This blog is just about one special thing that has happened to me after the Homecoming. In next blog I will write just about my feelings right now here. But I can tell u it's gonna be really positive blog! ;--)

All ideas come 1AM at night. That it's true when we r talking about my brother Kyle. "Could we go to see Muse to Minnesota?" Of course! And now again, one of my dreams came true. I bet there is no other exchange student that have seen Green Day and Muse during 2 months and is writing a blog called "Sami Iowassa". If u can find one, please call me and I can give him or her $1,000,000. If u can't u must send that money for me. Thanks u already. (--: (Oh god, so tiring humor when I should be sleeping)

I got off from school 1PM 'cause we had early out day. So even if u r not Sherlock Holmes I bet u can know what it means. Then our trip to Minnesota begun with my mother and brother. As u now (clever Finns) Minnesota is just next to Iowa in north. The drive took 4 hours and then we went to our hotel. It had hot tub and swimming pool and that kinda stuff but we decided just watch a movie in our room. :--DD After we ate in Italian restaurant, we all ate so much food that we were just stuck on our chairs and nobody couldn't walk (that's why we used our car). Hotel's brakfast was amazing. That kind of stuff that if u eat every day so much you r not able to get to a plane. So I think I will avoid eating that stuff every day. (I don't have enough money to spend all the nights in hotel).

After the breakfast we left to the store. And it's NOT a regular store. It was MAL OF AMERICA. About 9090796 different stores. The Mal in Minnesota is the biggest one in whole America I have heard. I bought buncha stuff. I spent only about $600. H&M and leather jacket ate most of my money... And we ate after sgopping in a special restaurant called Hooters. The idea is "Our food is not so good but look at our waitress' BOOBS, they have tight t-shirts and pants which r more underwear than pants, more food to eyes than your mouth". So here's one pic. That's me believe r not, she even didn't try to escape. ((:



And the last thing I wanna tell about is... MUSE!! ((:: :))) :))) The gig was amazing, they are so talented artists. It sounded so good that I don't really have no words to describe that. I just say: U HAVE TO SEE MUSE at leat once in your life. I enjoyed frkn much with my family. Here are pics. They can say more words than me.




Tomorrow I'm going to exchange students meeting. It will be one rounded table and we will discuss about stuff like how everything would be better. I think I'm gonna be quiet about that 'cause I have everything better than anybody else has. I will tell u guys about that and right after that I will keep my promise and do that blog which gets u cry 'cause I'm gonna be sensitive little boy. :'((

'til then

Sami