Spring

 Hello folks!

This is an awful week. Tomorrow I have 9 hours of laboratory + 2 hours of English homework. I also would like to do 1 hour of English conversational course but I think it's just not possible. On Thursday I have 9 hours of laboratory again plus my last German course. On Friday I have an English exam.. I'm actually pretty sad that my language courses are ending. My last French course is next week.

My language courses are ending but my other courses aren't! My last exams is scheduled to be 22nd of June so I still have a lot to do. I have a lot of laboratory work now.

In two weeks we have a vacation that lasts 2 weeks. I'm going to see my Italian Friend Valentina in Prague, my Finnish friend Iida in Dresden and after that I'm going to go to Barcelona with my cousin :P I definitely can't complain. The last time I saw my cousin was last November when he visited me here with my mom (I wrote about it in text: "My family in Paris"). The last time I saw Iida was when she was here a couple of weeks ago. And I haven't seen Valentina since August 2011 (I wrote about it in text: "Italy"). I'm really excited about all this! I've never been to eastern Germany, Czech nor Spain! :)

Last weekend I was working both Saturday and Sunday. I had a especially "nice" first of April since the daughter of the family (4 years) locked me out from their house.. She just locked the garden doors before my very eyes! Her parents weren't too happy about her little "prank".

Last weekend I also drove a car for the first time here! Now that I think about it I'm not even sure if I'm allowed to do it.. I have a Finnish driver's licence. I hope yes and if not I'm sorry!

When I started driving I was in a total panic.. I come from a rather small city from Finland with only ~100 000 inhabitants so I'm not used to a lot of traffic. I drove during the night so it wasn't too crowded here either. I also didn't drive in the center of Paris but at the outskirts :) I would never have the guts to drive in the actual city!

 The spring have come to Paris! For the last couple of weeks we have had +20C. I think this is really funny because all my friends are telling me how much snow they have in Finland and all. Personally I find this weather annoying especially because it's too hot for me to run. But maybe I should tan a bit now that it's possible.

All the trees and flowers started blooming and I've taken a lot of pictures about that :) I shared a bit of them with you if you go down. Now I think I have to start translating laboratory stuff for tomorrow.. G'Night!

A poster for English class

Italy

Hello and sweet feelings!

Now I've experienced Bologna and Venice. I came to Bologna on Saturday. The weather is awfull for a Finn: from +35 to +40C every day. Today was the hottest day with +45C. Even during the night the temperature doesn't drop under +25C. It's really hard for me to sleep.. When I left Finland it was +10C!

Bologna is a really nice city with a lot of places to see. All the places in the city are so old. Of course air conditioning would be a big plus.. I'm visiting my Italian friend here. She has a Czech and Slovakian visiting here too. Welcome to the international house of my friend! :) I knew all these people before this so it's nice. My friend has introduces us to two of her Italian friends too.

We visited Venice last Sunday. We left kinda early in the morning and we were in Venice around one. We walked the whole day! We saw all the main attractions. I especially loved the statues that you see in one picture. And plague doctor stuff that you see on the first picture. That's the exact outfit that plague doctors used in Middle Ages. The main canal was also really beautifull.

We had a little adventure when we tried to get back to Bologna. All the trains were booked! So we were in Venice with no transport back to Bologna. We went to the next railwaystation and booked a ticket without seats to a train that would have left the next morning. When a train to Bologna came in midnight my Slovakian friend girl kinda seduced the conductor so that we could get in. So always have a Slovakian girl with you so that you can make sure to get to a train.

I've eaten so good Italian food. It's really different from Finnish food.  Italians eat especially much of cheese called squacquerone. It's a bit bitter compeared to a Finnish cheese. They also eat pasta a lot. And the best pizza ever was in Venice! But one thing I don't like about Italian food: the sweet breakfast. I'm never going to get used to it.. In Finland we have salty breakfast so all these cakes and nutella in the morning make me almost sick. But at least they don't have chocolate bread here like in France. That's one of the most discusting thing I've even eaten.

Today I'm leaving for Bremen, Garmany at 11pm. I just can't wait for 13 hours in a train.. My suitcases are so heavy that I can't even carry them :D Next report comes after Bremen.