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)