This is it

The best part in Helsinki is when you go for a walk at night and it's warm and not dark at all 'cause of the city's lights. All's good in my kingdom since Anni bought me SMASH!es and I got my Gilmore Girls season 5 (no spoilers, please!).


 
















ISO 2000:

Thanks to Anni who took the photos where I appear in!

Brownie & Mustache

Was bored on the train - until I made up and yes, drew, this comic. I know, you all must be so jealous of my drawing skills but hey, you know...cant get it all.

Oh joy

This is me, moving out. On my way to the eleventh room I'll live in.
Watched tons of Gilmore, plus there's a guy behind me watching something from his laptop and he's laughing like a lady. Alone. Always a plus. Must be what I've been doing, too, the whole trip!

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I dag är alla dagar.

                           Och alla ögonblick är nu.

- Erlend Loe: Gör vad du vill

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"Oprah Winfrey har sagt att hon insåg att hon inte var lika söt som många andra i sin class och att hon inte kunde förlita sig på sitt yttre för att ta sig fram i livet. Så hon koncentrerade sig på sina starka sidor - och resultatet talar för sig självt."

- Arthur Freeman & Rose Dewolf: De tio dummaste misstagen klyftiga personer gör och hur man undviker dem

How to feel

Emiliana Torrini - Wednesday's Child

Watched a Phlearn video were Aaron talked about doing hard stuff - something to do over the weekend. This was my hard stuff - taking a photo. Okay, weren't that simple since I also crawled on the ground and donated blood to all the mosquitos and I'm all scratched up by that huge stick thing, but taking photos has kind of been hard for me lately. So getting me out with a camera and letting all the joggers stare it me was sooo hard and now I'm just so thrilled I did it!

Polaroid&TV

     And so my time in this town has come to and end. My sunless days here in the north consisted of leaving for school an hour before it started, since the busses went so rear - we live 16km s away from our school. The massive clothes I wore to keep warm as Elina and I decided that fashion is not going to get on our way of staying nice and warm. It's weird that during this time here, I never got to know anyone from where I actually lived - all my friends lived in the city. Not that I would've been lonely, it's just weird to think how it went like that. Actually, I enjoyed coming home straight from school and burying myself under my blanket to watch TV. Every time I hear Ryan Stars 'Brand new day', I remember how it felt to be in my dark room, just 'Lie to me' and some Smash!es. Someone might call that unsocial and sad, but I call it safety. 


Everything turned out to be OK. I finished school with good grades, worked every summer at the same place, and sat on the train for hours and hours visiting my mom and sometimes Helsinki. Now I'm moving again, but this time it's just me. No twin sister to drag along with. Don't get me wrong, it has been a blast, but it's also nice to finally get to start my own life. To meet people who have no idea I have a twin thus getting to know me as me. 


To all of you, starting a new life somewhere, I would like to recommend a few TV series that helped me through a lot of traveling hours and long nights (haha). I still think that the best series are found when you find them yourself. So no guarantees that you are going to love these - all I'm saying is: never base your opinion of the series on the pilot - give it two or three episodes. Unless it's really crappy, like Hung... Anyways - this is what I learned from my three year school career (not in any specific order);

The Vampire Diaries

Human Target (2010)

In Treatment
Leverage

True Blood

White Collar

Lie to me

Teen Wolf

Dexter

Glee

Gilmore Girls

Grey's Anatomy

The Mentalist

NCIS

Criminal Minds

Friends

Frasier

Bones

A movie, too? Knight and Day is the only one worth mentioning (and maybe Mr and Ms Smith). And  Iron Man s.

I'll let you in in a secret: one day I realized I don't have to like Amelie or the other artistic movies ever and be oh so cool. Thus, I became truly happy, haha!

Anna-Riikka & Janne

Eräänä lauantaina osallistuin linssin läpi Anna-Riikan ja Jannen häihin. Ennen kirkkoa ja juhlaa kävimme Ainolan puistossa kuvaamassa ja voin kertoa, emme tosiaan olleet ainoat, jotka ottivat hääkuviaan kyseisessä paikassa! Tässä valikoituja kuvia tuolta päivältä.

Johanna Kurkela - Rakkauslaulu