can’t believe i’ve been here for a month lioa…
more then that….i can’t believe i’ve been here for a month and the house STILL isn’t done
=_= the streak of bad weather we’ve been having…haix…
today’s good though…i’m just in a very ‘haix’ kind of mood because i kinda just lost ALL the photos from this week…don’t know how that happened because i really didn’t delete all the photos leh…was just about to upload it to my com and it was all plugged in, but when i opened the drive, it was empty…
empty…
and i got some really nice comparison photos for my report too…all gone larh….
i know…shit happens, rama rama…but…heart pain lar
haix….anyhoo, i’m here and will be going to get some more photos to replace the ones i’ve lost…no comparison shots, but at least i can get some new ones…
…
i’ve lost the photos of my sitting on the top of the rood too!!!
nooooooooo…this means i’ve got to do it again?!?!?!?!
*pales*
oh oh oh, and news! i’ll be heading up north to the laplands to visit the santa claus village!!! how cool is that?!?!? x
1) Learn to Cycle = DONE
2) Like Milk/Cheese = DONE
3) Become completely vegetarian = DONE
4) Trampoline = DONE
5) Go into a sauna (Sah-oo-na) = DONE xD
and….
6) Jump into a pond AFTER a sauna = DONE!!!!
lol, it really helps to sooth the aching muscles after a hard day’s work of picking flowers…yep! picking flowers~ we all spent half the day with our necks craned upwards picking the flowers off the reed roof from the inside because they are a fire hazard (would have been much easier to have just chopped all off them off before using it…but we never thought of that)
it’s a NEVER-ENDING TASK!
cut some, more pop out…
sian sia~~~~
so yeah, got back and went for a sauna and (at the recommendation of both Tom and Philippa) slowlyyyyyyy dipped myself into the pond (well, they did say to just jump ~.~ )…it was TERRIBLE! prolonged agony that it (=_=); so to warm up, we went for another sauna and i JUMPED into the pond..
hahaha…
it was FREEZINGGGGGGG *attempts a faked liverpudlian accent*
but after 2 seconds, it was GREAT! i even got the Panda brand white choco that i bargained for…xD
mnnnn…andddddd just to prove i really am in Finland on work, i found a couple fragments of bones and quartz flakes AND a quartz tool! *jumps around*
my FIRST find ever though was a burnt rock which i have permission to keep because they would have thrown it away anyway (T-T) xP
so! lunch is almost over and i’ve gotta round some internet surfing time up so…laterzzzz
today….i’ve managed to cut myself with a stone age pot sherd…
=_=
not with the saw/knifes/dagger-like-things…but an ancient pot sherd…
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
i mean that in the most literal way possible because today i…
cycled into a door…it’s more like a wooden fence really…(^-^)> got this huge bloody, bluish-black wound on my neck because my neck somehow landed against the bicycle handle…
and it didn’t hurt till i saw it in the bathroom mirror…m(_ _)m
i realise i’m rather accident prone…
always falling/slipping/running into things…
lol, since coming here, i’ve also learnt to like milk (full fat kinda milk) and cheese (any kind as long as it’s been sliced with a cheese slicer) AND that i like to clean dirty surfaces (^-^);;;
ehehehhe
hahaha, we went slightly crazy with the choco for abit….you would if you were 9km away from the closest supermarket!!! (^-^)/
12 days since i’ve been in Finland and i’ve FINALLY been able to connect to the internet with my own computer after cycling for 4km with my laptop and an hour of configuring the connection….BUT!
this is where they are putting us up at…an old school house…lol, i was expecting something really run down and scary looking…but i have my own room (the living room xD) and we have our fridge restocked everyday! and…this is where i work everyday~~~
it’s simply AMAAAAAAAAAAAAZING! xD
well, it hasn’t been looking so amazing the past week because it’s been pouring and we’ve had to work in the rain and cold….(mind you, we’re building a house…lol, i suppose that COUNTS as experimental archaeology because we’re reconstructing a stone age house)
well, day one was pretty much spent settling in…SOME of us HAD been traveling for 30 hours (me =_=) got to the airport here and realised that the language barrier COULD pose quite a bit of a problem…all 4 of us were a little peeved…well..not pissed peeved….just exhausted peeved…one guy was also missing and we weren’t told he had opted out of the programme so we were waiting at EVERY airport and stop along the way…hoping to find him….
day 2 was introductions…we’ve been working on building a roof for a thatched house…we began with nothing but the main wooden frame 9 days ago and it now looks like…
*beams*
i’m so proud…lol…falling off the top of the house suddenly seems ALMOST worth it…so has falling like 28000 times learning how to cycle so i don’t have to spend 2 hours walking to and from work everyday (which i kinda did for one week after scraping my knee and bruising my entire bum and earning myself 28 bruises from the pedels constantly hitting my shin….)
yeah….
so now…both Siim and Sam (our ‘instructors’ in building the house) have left and it’s only the 3 of us (Inga who works as an archaeologist for the site, Tom whose another student on the programme and I) to finish off the house…T-T i’ve managed to fall off the ceiling on the inside of the house 2 hours after Siim left..so….i have no idea how i’m gonna survive the next week finishing the house….lol
anyhoo…i smell lunch (did i mention we get hotel food for lunch EVERYDAY! pays to work at an archaeological site and hotel establishment) and i’m kinda running low on power…so…
i’ll be BACK!
(that’s Siim, Inga, Tom and I…i don’t have photos of Laura and Philippa on my cam)
