What does make American people to eat like horses? What does bring all relatives around? Answer is Sami. Just kidding. Thanksgiving ofc! I understood that the reason why we are doing the eating and hanging out with relatives is: they (we) wanna thank for people who came here many years ago and made this country that u can live there with smile on ur face. Maybe better explanation than the dictionary does. (:
I had only one full day at school last week 'cause of Thanksgiving. On Tuesday we went to Mal to have some lunch. I'm Subway-addict, so I filled my stomach with bread. On Wednesday my French brother came here! He has a name also, Leo. He was in this same family two years ago. The first thing I noticed was his French English accent. And I loved it! It sounded so cool (sorry Americans). He was here from Wednesday to Sunday. We played our guitars together. Or is it better to say: he played and I was staring at him with my mouth open. He is really good. Maybe because he's from French, don't now. We Finnish people are only good in playing our mouths. Leo is really nice man. And the funniest thing is that he's two months younger than me! I have and will always keep he as 21 years old 'cause he looks and acts like one. But me... When I first came some guys asked me: "Are u 15?" WHAT THE...? I just laughed in that moment but I could have said: "Do u wanna see my...?" Passport of course, u guys have dirty minds.... :--((
Friday=Thanksgiving. We slept long and like 2pm we started to eat, continue eating, enjoyed eating, eating. I didn't get any breakfast 'cause I wanted to be starving when the meal starts. I ate a lot. More than usual. I was full as Stockmann when there's "Hullut päivät" or Walmart when there's "Black Friday". All kinda food were served. In that table photo in the end of this blog u will see those. Turkey was number one ofc but I ate everything, not like Kyle who ate like two things... what an asshole. :-D End of that day we just tried to get over that meal and there was 59083098 people's line to toilet. Not really. I lied 1 people too much. :/
Rest of the weekend went by chilling with my brothers, Leo and Kyle. I enjoyed that so much. :--) But I didn't enjoyed waking up like 6AM on Saturday; Basketball Scrimmage game. I played some and it was so cool that I can't any words. Maybe I should look for under my bed... Time flew as always and there we were again, at the airport saying goodbyes to Leo.
Here are some photos of Thanksgiving Day.
Kyle and me with our biggest smiles.
Men ready to have some good food.
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Christmas picture. American dad, mom, bro, me and Leo
Family picture.
Right now I'm so tired, as u can see about my humor in this blog (u can hardly call it humor). Now it's best to me to go to bed. And even better to u! Don't have to listen my stupid jokes 'til next blog!
Love much, laugh often, enjoy ur life people.
Sami
Relax, take it eeeeeeasy. That was my job for this sport break. I noticed it was good for me. Just giving time to myself (selfish) and doing stuff that I enjoy, like my guitar and xbox (what a poor life). Before this there hasn't really been that kinda times that I'm able to just sit down and think about every excited and less excited things inside my "huge" brains. So, now I know what's in there but not gonna tell you. As u noticed that was a stupid promise 'cause I'm telling u those things right now, right here. Maybe my brains are not so huge...
Anyways, there were two weekends that I pretty much stayed home. I tried to ask everyone, what are they doing but finally I ended up getting messages like; "I have to do my homeworks.", "I'm in a volleyball tournament.", "I have to hold my dad's uncle's cousin's friend's husband's wife's left hand." So, everybody has some other stuff to do. It (s*it) happens at times. But as I said it was okay! I enjoyed that, time to my family also and enjoying the feeling after school: "I have time to do something!" And don't get this wrong... Even though I put 3 examples of what they had to do, I have more than 3 friends here, as impopssible it sounds. ;--)
This weekend everything changed. The last weekend before basketball started. I start that weekend by "Xbox and my guitar, here I come again!" and ended up my weekend by "Xbox and my guitar, I'm sorry, I couldn't make it..." On Friday I went with some of my friends to watch our Physics teacher's play. He acted some sad and frustated man. It was fun to watch him without saying the words: velocity, speed or average. He was kinda good actor but I preciate that he's no in Hollywood 'cause then there would be nobody to tell me, how fast a car moves. Ofc I know that it depends, is there a woman or a man driving... :--D Girls, please don't hit me (with ur car) ! After that we went to a Mexican restaurant and I ate a HUGE meal: one glass of water and one taco chip. I'm not trying to get fat, I just ate at home earlier. :----)
Saturday. I thought that now it's time to go to a date with my xbox, but no way. My brother came home and got my ass to the party that night. I didn't resist. We had a good time even though most of his friends there were in his age (20-21) but that was alright. I had still some good conversations with people. One guy started to speak with my accent. It sounded TERRIBLE. Hopefully there was something wrong with my ears or something...
Everything has an other side of the coin. So had the party... I had promised to skype with my parents and grandparents on Saturday morning 10 AM. Guess what people.. We came home from the party 3AM. So I was everything else than tired when I woke up. I made a choice, I know. And I did good and no falling asleep during that skype call. I wanna tell u guys more about that skype call, how it got me feel. I spoke 3 hours, with my dad, mom, granny and grandpa. I really felt that I miss those guys, but seeing them in a web cam and talking with them made me smile for itself. There are so many memories u know. And I love each one of them SO much. But it didn't make me wanna go back 'cause my life is now here still 7 months and theirs is there. Here, I also have people that I love. It's different and I like it. I mean there are those times just sitting and doing nothing (really seldom) and then I start to think the stuff that I have done in Finland and what I'll be doing. But that's far away and I know that. I don't wanna go anywhere, I wanna stay here now with the people I love too. ((: That's it.
Today I'm feeling R-E-A-L-L-Y tired, like a zombie. We had a first basketball practice and the time for that was awesome: 6AM in this morning! (( :: But that timing and tireness were only negative things in this day. I totally fell in love with BASKETBALL. I just love it. Even though I have had only one practice now I know I'm gonna love it and there would be no sad break-up between us. I must say I like basketball more than football. Maybe 'cause I can play some already and in a pratice there's not so much time that u have to just stand and watch others playing that I had in football. After this week when I have had 5 practices (lucky the rest of them are after school) and I'm more wise to tell u more about basketball and how's my life with that. Right now it looks awesome. : )
'til then
Michael Jordan
"Time, it needs time, to remake your love again, I will be there, I will be there", sings Scorpions in their song. This same sentence can be said also a little different way; "Time, it takes time, to write a new blog again, so much to tell, I'm lazy as hell."
At least I kicked myself to my ass and took a break of being lazy Finnish people. Btw "I'm from Finland" is a great excuse for everything! "Why didn't u do that?", "Why u can't do that?", "Why u said that he is an idiot?". Always a good answer is "I'm from Finland". So if u come here and start thinking, why American people think you are a handless idiot, I'm the reason why. :--) Maybe I should tell u guys my address to "Thank u"-cards... If u are from Sweden u just have to say "Sweden" instead of Finland in that great answer, when someone asks why u like men so much. Now as I started to talk about Sweden I can tell u something more about one Swedish guy who happens to be my brother.
So he's not my real brother. Hopefully u didn't get a heart attack. He was here, in this same lovely family, last year. As an exchange student, no "just-hanging-around-because-I-have-nothing-to-do"-guy. I think now it's a good time to tell about other brothers also (then I don't have any secret brothers anymore). Here have been 4 human beings before me. First one was Patrick from Switzerland, second one Eren from Germany, third one Leo from France and fourth one Daniel from Sweden. Leo will come to visit here after 3 weeks! I really wait that. :--) Daniel came here last week and left this Wednesday.
A little over a week ago, on Friday evening, I was standing inside the same airport where I was last time about 3 months ago when I came. It was kinda weird to be there again 'cause I didn't remeber that the building had walls, doors and that kinda stuff becauseee I was so shocked and excited in my first day here. But now I now what is it like, but u don't care I know... We all hugged Daniel when he walked to us. (Even me even though he's from Sweden u know...) Daniel is really nice dude (that doesn't mean that now I have crush on him) and really easy person to get along with.
First thing what we did was PIZZAAA ! Real, fatty, thick and American pizzas. We didn't make those, just crabbed from the restaurant. If u let me do a pizza, the color of the thing u will get is black. The pizza we ate was really good though but the opinion of a mirror can be different. We ate and talk about everything. :--) Daniel is raelly funny also, like me, so maybe that's some Scandinavian thing. That night was pretty much it. But I must mention one thing. I GOT SWEDISH SOCCER JERSEY FROM DANIEL ! (((: It's cool. Now I can wear it in Finland when I come back and do all kinda stupid stuff and all complain-letters will be send to Sweden.
Saturday is obviously a next day after Friday I suppose. Saturday was pretty much getting ready for... (it starts with "P" and ends with "Y", and it's NOT between women's legs). If somebody didn't guess the word I can tell that it is PARTY ! (--: Ofc somebody maybe guessed that one which I said it's NOT 'cause that one can include to the party. I bet I have been perv enough now. So, the pussy... wait.. PARTY was for Daniel. Kyle, my brother, organized the whole thing, thanks for him! (: Before the party we slept late and after sitting few hours in kitchen doing pretty much nothing we went shopping! Daniel loves shopping and a proof is 5 shirts from first stor e we went.. Lucky he didn't buy them all so I had a chance to buy one also. Then the next step was buying me some costume for our party (I forget to tell: it was in our place and everybody had to have some costume 'cause Halloween u know..) At first I thought to be Jigsaw from Saw-movies. Then I realized that I will scare all the girls off! What a bummer that would be.. :--DD So then I decided to be another scary character: Joker from Dark knight (Batman). Don't ask me what is the logic in this. No girls anyways, but at least when u check the picture below, I am COOL right? ;-) Daniel made my face. His costume is... Swedish viikinki :--)) !
The party went alright ! Buncha people. I knew like 80% of them. I had a great time. So much fun to talk with every people and playing different games. Even though we didn't play any strip poker i changed my clothes and washed my face so that people could see how ugly is the man behind the mask. :---) Kyle was Corey Taylor from Slipknot btw and he had also mask and looked so much as Corey. ((: I was kinda jealous. I think he didn't wear the mask 'cause he was afraid of girls 'cause he already has one!
We all went to sleep 4AM ish so next day, Sunday, was called zombie day. We slept pretty long and then looked out "What the...?" It was that warm that we played basketball without shirts (I'm really sorry I don't have any pictures of us when we were without shirts... but life must go on people!) with Daniel and Nathaniel. Then we went to the store again and Daniel made PYTTIPANNU for luch. It was really good and brought memories of Finnish food even though Pytt i panna is Swedish meal. Here's photo of happy brothers eating it.
7 hours singing same boring hymns and then performing them in Kyle's college with choir. That was pretty much my day. In that choir had students from different schools. It wasn't the best experience in my life but better than being at school for sure! ( : Here's one photo of that just in case.
This photo is my family + Swedish bro eating in a restaurant after the choir thing. :)
'Tuesday was Daniel's last day here. He came school with me. :) To be honest he slept 'til 11 and then came... What a lazy Swedish boyy.. I would have done same to be honest. Not being Swedish, sleeping late I mean. School was normal as usual. But Daniel's hanging around made my day much better. During his stay here we tried to speak Swedish with each other. It didn't work so well. Daniel can obviously speak Swedish but I couldn't so well. I don't get it. Do Swedish people have some hurry to somewhere, 'cause they speak as fast as Antero Mertaranta? We made a little joke at school btw. Daniel spoke Swedish and I Finnish and we said to other people that we can understand each other. A biiig lie but they bought it. :-)
We had to leave to the airport to take Daniel 5AM and guess who was awake 'til 230AM? Yep, all of us. So tired is too weak word to describe my feelings. But ofc I went with the guys to say goodbyes. I promised that I will come visit Daniel to Sweden when I'm in Finland again. That's true and I'll sure do it ! (:
Now it has been almost a week since Daniel left. I haven't been nothing special, just being at school, relaxing at home with family, xbox games and my guitar. At school, btw, I have at last to speak with every people possible, talking during classes and between them. My goal is gain "the clown of the class"-thing which I had in Finland with my friends. It's gonna happen, believe or believe. No everything feels more right and easier when I have thrown my shield away and show everyone I'm not that frkn lonely boy without social skills. I love my life here now. Time flies here, and I wanna be here right now, with all there lovely people.
And now I wanna finish this blog. Captain Sami hopes u had a safety and good flight during reading this blog.
'til next blog's landing
Sami
This is my new hair now ! :--) U can say ur positive or shit comment about that !
I will write tomorrow about Halloween and everything excited stuff about it :))
'til then
Sami
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
~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 !
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
Kyle and me with our biggest smiles.
Men ready to have some good food.
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Christmas picture. American dad, mom, bro, me and Leo
Family picture.
