Feliz Navidad!

Holaa!!

I know I wrote here last time like a month ago... whoops... bueeno no importa jaja. 

So what has happend... I have no idea .. I have my summer vacation <3 ahh <3 I go to bed about at 3 every night and i wake up something between 12 and 3pm... hehe. What do I do... Im wondering the same. Almost every day I go to walk to the beach or to the center and i walk usually something like 2 hours or dunno... And i have lots of time to read bible and pray.. I found one local Ywam school close to my house (missionuoret/ JuCUM) and I'm gonna do some summer thing there in January. 

Mis hermanos <3

Sis y host mama, ja piparkakku :)

Okay anyway La Navidad is in 2 days! Whii! Today I made piparkakku -house con mis hermanos. Mun piti vasata taikia yllaripyllari ite, mut onnistu aika jeesisti :D enka polttanu iihan mustiks ku yhen pellillisen pipareita :D It feels kinda weird.. because the temperature is something between 20-30 degrees (still celsius) Maybe i miss a bit Finnish Christmas with snow and stuff... funny. I never imagined that I'd miss cold o.O Oh, btw my Finns ettikaa kasiinne "Nuotta" niminen nuortenlehti Joulukuun numero! I wrote there something :) (to the magazine called "Nuotta)

Kiitos tati ja Ch!!

Oh, a few days ago arrived something... CH and my aunt sent me something from Finland!! Whiiii! Chocolate... Salmiakki (my sis face <3) ratsastuslehti... <3<3<3<3<3

Salmiakki on hyvaa

What else... no se.. Almost half of my time here is over... weird. Oh, my Spanish.. I understand "everything" but i should speak better :/ 

Aika hyvin? Mun ensimmaiseks p.k. taikinaks ja taloks

I don't know yet when I'll come back to Finland. I'll let u know when i know... and all of my Finns friends... parempi olla sit kentalla vastassa! 



















Tiiina te amoo!! Miss juu so bad <3 

Se ei suostunu laitta tata yhtaa pienempana.. -.-

Mun matekistit, teitakin kaipailen! (olga, sun vuoro kirjottaa :P)

Edustus <3

Miss juu just so bad <3

Ja kaikki muutkin sukulaiset ja muut, ootte ajatuksissa :)



CH (one more time tankjuuuu) pilasit mun lupaavan "karista vaihtokilot"-kampanjan -.-

Joo moi :D eipa mulla muuta

 Kaisaa (kato muistin sutki o.O) Call me maybe O:) rapy rapy

Sulleiollumeianyhteiskuviiii!! Hasta lumipallo!!

 Pero bueeno....

 Felizz navidad!!

<3: Heidi

 

 Talta suunnileen tuntuu....
(Brw.. I just read this text .. my English has "never" been worse.. :,( *tear, anyway, the point was that you understand, right?)

Besos
Heidi

Patagonia

This time i really have something to tell you :) 

Last week we made a 11-day-trip to Patagonia ( = shoutern part of Argentina (vahan niinku lappi eli ei asu pahemmin porukkaa ja on "viileaa")) 

Friday

I went to a one hostel here in Puerto Madryn, because other exchange students came here first. It was great to meet them again! There were 16 of us, almost half from Germany, 2 from Sweden, 1 from Swizerland, 2 from Canada, 2 from New Zeland, 1 from Australia and 1 from Finland (me o.O) 

From the hostel in P. Madryn  (find Lula? :) )

  So we ate (one meal: a soup, empanadas, spaghetti and ice cream.. I must start jogging -.-) and then we went to the center. Later one of my friend (Lulaaa <3) came with us to the hostel and we had amazing time with her and with other girls :) (and then we ate again -.- ) :D

Ellie and a mug

Saturday

A whale

The boat

On saturday we woke up early (if i remember right) and we went to a place called "Peninsula Valdes" (look for google, i'm too lazy to tell you all about it) in there we went to "Puerto Pyramides" we went to a boat and we saw whales, it was kinda cool :) And in the evening Lula and my sis Sol came to the hostel (jaja if we had stayed there longer my whole class would propably have appeard there)

Sunday

Punta Tombo

Mate

We started our 28-hour-journey to Calafate ( a city in the south) We stopped in Punta Tombo, the place where are Penguins. ( We were there like one and half hour and my skin was sooo red after that <3 umph) In the bus we drank mate and watched a million movies and danced... (Jess <3 )

Monday

Upsala

We arrived to Calafate. We had whole day time to get to know the city and buy some turist stuff and so on.. (I found a shop called "Upsala" excuse me Swedish people....? (yeah, later i heard that there was some guy from Sweden who came to Argentina and named a mountain " Upsala" What imagination! (those who don't know there is a town called "Uppsala" in Sweden)) So Calafate is one expensive turist city.. a small one somewhere :) 

Tuesday

Yeah, i was there (and i'm still pink)

We went to one place close to Calafate, where was an ice berg called "Perito Moreno" It was so cool... and then we walked on it... I'm not gonna try to explain.. u'll see it from pictures. When we arrived part of us went to a mm... small boliche, that was made from ice. I mean everything was from ice.. chairs, walls, glasses... And after that everyone were so tired... 

On the ice berg

Wednesday

Just trying to remember what did we do... I guess we just travelled whole day? And night... Oh, yeah.. and then we met one other exchange group "Rotary" hehe.. there was 16 of us and 70 something of them... and 3 girls from Finland!! How cool it was to speak Finnish again.. :)

Thursday

We arrived to place called "Esquel" It's a cute town close to borded of Chile. We ate and we had time to walk in the city. (In fact we slept like half of the afternoon, but... whatever:) ) 

Parque nacional

Friday

We woke up early ( i guess? ) and we went to some "parque nacional" yeah, i think you guess what it is in English.. it was so pretty :) (everything here is so pretty <3 ) and after that we continued to Bariloche (only 5 hours!! in the bus, everything here is like.. at least 10 hours... 20... 25..hours...) We arrived to a hotel and there we meet again with the Rotary group, and at 11pm we went to one boliche with rotarys. 

Bariloche: A "party city" that is full of boliches and chocolate shops. Every year people from all over the Argentina from the last grade of high school come to Bariloche with their class just to celebrate the "end of the school" 

Saturday

We <3

We woke up maybe at.. 7(??) That was great... after sleeping 5 hours <3 And we did a small tour around the Bariloche... it was so beautiful <3 su país es el mas lindo! Then we went to one chocolate factory and we bought a lot of chocolate (i've never seen more expencive chocolate ... o.O ) Kaakaopakkaus 10e, suklaalevy 10e.. >.< and after that we had time to walk in the center. We went to one café and it was soo nice :) (in fact it was a café of one chocolate shop... :) ) In the evening we went to "Bowling" -.- (siella oli ehka kuus rataa ja meita oli lahemmas sata...) so mainly we played pool. 

Café

Sunday

Ice cream 

We woke up a bit before 10 and then we went to the center an other time. Then about at midday others took their stuff and said bye to me and left to Cordoba. I live in the other side of Argentina so I had to take an other bus. I had like 5 hours more time at hotel, so I packed my stuff and I talked with a local  basketball team :D that was in the hotel. Then I took a taxi to terminal de colectivos and started my 13-hour-journey to Puerto Madryn.

Bariloche

Monday

I arrived to Madryn at 7am (<3) I love those nights in the bus -.- So, when I went to wait a taxi I met one Swiss girl who was visiting in the Madryn and we ended up to take a same taxi, because there wasn't too many of them... So, the girl didn't speak so much Spanish, so i found myself traducing(?) (dunno how you write it -.-) spanish-english-spanish-english... jaja so, finally the girl found her hostel and we drove to my home... and the driver told me that he remembers me from the first day when i arrived to P.Madryn (almost 3 months ago) he had driven me and the family from the bus terminal to my new home (and there lives 100 000 people in this city!!!) yeah.. i think i'm the only blond in the city :D he gave me his card, so now i have my own "taxi driver" :DD

Anyway It was really great to see everybody again and I miss you already! (Jess and Ellie.. Some day I'll appear to New Zeland... :) ) And I've never in my entire life seen landscapes like that!! 

I LOVE YOU ARGENTINA!
TE QUIERO ARGENTINA!

Besos
Heidi

Plaaplaaplaa

Hello guys... Now i'm just gonna write something random because I'm bored.. After one hour I'll go to center to drink mate with Lula (meian ois pitany menna puoltoist tuntii sitte, mutta eras sai paremman idean .. eli mennaanki vahan myohemmin umph...aikataulut on iha oma juttunsa taalla, pero te amooo Lulaa <3 ) 

It's kinda interesting see that there is really people who read my blog o.O I mean it says that my blog has been visited almost 3000 times o.O and people from all over the world. Finland (suprise), Argentina, USA, France, Russia, Holland, Germany, UK, Afganistan, taiwan, Israel, South Korea, Arab Emirates, Austria.... I'm famous ^.^ :D 

Meeh... que mas? Heyyy!! I can tell you about the music! La musica...It's different... Cumbia, cuarteto... 

And there is music all the time, everytime when i walk somewhere i hear music from the homes.. cars... phones... So, i'll put a few links for you.

Know the song? :D

And this "Nene malo" ( bad baby)

is really famous here... 

So, do i like this kinda music?? In fact i've no idea... it's just so different (: 

mm.. what else... Less than one month school left!!!! Partypartyypartyy Summer is coming!! Now... temperature is like... something between 20 and 30 grades (celsius) 

Or i have "clases" only 8 days.. because next week i'll make a trip with Coinded (the excange company or whatever) 10 days... And we'll go to the "end of the world" so we'll go to south.. :) I'm suuuper excited to go and see other guys from Finland... Sweden... Germany... New Zeland..and thousand other countries) And when i come back i have one week school and we just have fun there (i guess??) oh, yesterday i had math test at school, it was interesting, and i almost understood what they wanted me to do ...

Now the life is fine here... my Spanish is getting better.. my little sister just arrived from their English lesson (i didn't have school today, don't ask me why) my other sis is preparing mate, dog is crying because the door of the bathroom is closed, because host mom is taking the shower and my brothers are watching the tv. I'm getting bored ¡, because i've no idea, what i should write here. (My English grammar is getting so bad -.- looking for the next year.. English courses and... umh.... especially Swedish courses. I don't remember anything... Hej, jag heter...)jaja

Mitas muuta (meian koira pissas tanaa aamulla mun kannykan paalle <3) So, i've been here almost 4 moths more than one thrid is over. Maybe i expected something more... dunno "Woow" i mean i'm having a good time, but it's still just life :) 

Oh, now you want me to put some pic here. Let's see if i can find some... :)

Me and my city :)

Bueno che!

So now I'm gonna tell you about the trip that we made with a group from school to Sierra de la Ventana. (Ikkunan vuoristo o.O ihailen naitten mielikuvitusta nimeta paikkoja)

1º dia Domingo

On Sunday evening, okay night at 11 pm we (me, my sis Sol and my bro Juan Cruz) put our stuff to car and drived to the school, where was waiting a bus and 30 other guys ready to have a great week. (runollista) So, anyway we put our stuff to the bus... I had my dear green peace of luggage... (en toki ottanu suunnillee saman verran kamaa viideks paivaks, kun koko vuodeks...) And then we started 12-hour-trip to Sierra de la Ventana, to a small village in the province of Buenos Aires (if you don't know what is province, check out the last posting) I slept that night maybe... 4 hours? (thanks guys -.-) In fact i don't remember too much what we did in that night. 

2º dia Lunes

Cabañas

We arrived to the place about at 11 o`clock (am) and i was super tired (suprisesuprise) It was somekinda ''camp center'' no se, leirikeskus of the YMCA ( :) ) There was all the houses and stuff (pool <3) but our place was in the other side of the place. There was a big house to have the meals (i know how you pronunce that word, but i can't remember how you write it and i'm to lazy to go to google translater) and about 7 cottages with 8 beds. And yeah.. So, we arrived.. put our stuff to the cabañas (=cottage, i'm teaching you Spanish) and then we started to do activities .. (ainahan sita voi unelmoida et ois voinu nukkua hetken...) we were playing howdoyoucallit hide and seek? seek and hide? dunno, piilosta :D in the forest.. like the version where one guy "dessapears" and others try to find him, and when they find him they stay with the person and who is the last one who finds them loses :) 

Eating place

Oh, btw we were in the groups of.. about 7 guys and in the groups we did many games and stuff and we helped with cooking and cleaning... btw. the names of the groups where the names of ancient gods of Egypt... i was so happy -.-

What else? we did thousand other games and yeah... meh nothing so interesting

1º noche (1st night)

So, we went to the bed... but after a while a heard a weird voice. I didn't really pay attention but one of the girls was really afraid and she wanted to change her bed, because the voice had been close to her bed.. I didn't understand what was the thing so i just kept sleeping. Then i woke up when something was flying around the cabaña. All girls started to scream. A bat. Everybody (included the teacher) was really scared (i was a bit like... oookay? couldn't we just sleep, juu en ajattele mitaan muuta ku nukkumista) then we chose to change the cabaña and everyone runned to other cabaña, where was only 4 girls and teacher ... (there was only 8 beds.. and there was 8 of us from the other cabaña, so it was interesting night) 

Our friend

3º dia Martes

When we woke up we had to go back to our cabaña, because all our clothes and everything was there. (i never really got the idea... what was that scary in one bat??) Then some guys from the place spend like an hour trying to get 2 bats out of the cabaña... other one they got.. other... nope. But what a cute creature it was! Sleeping bat. Size of a small bird. But yeah.. after this we slept nights light turned on. 

Sol y Juan Cruz

Up there

Then we climbed to a mountain. First we went to one place.. we were late (suprise suprise) so we had to go to other place...But it was nice, they told us that it will take about 3 hours to get up there... i guess it took a bit less. Anyway.. it was suuuper hot and i looked like a tomato :D And everyone wasn't able to climb on the top.. they were so tired (i did!!!) and i had half of our lunch in my back bag (:


Then we had like 2 hours time in the center of the village, it was nice :) i bought "mate" the mug where you drink mate..

So later we went to a pool and did some more activities (i just wanted to sleep!!) and yeah.. i guess this was Thuesday pretty much.. oh, in the evening we had "karaoke" the groups got some song that they had to sing.. (i had never hearded the song that my group had) and it was kinda interesting, but when the teachers started to sing everybody just started to dance (including the teachers) yeah, it was fun :)

2º noche

zzzzzz..... (yay ma paasin nukkumaan!!)

4ºdia miercoles

And you think i remember something about that day.... hmm.. lets see..

So, we had a game where we had to make a small boat... from the stuff that you can find from the nature... and then... hmm.. we had to act one thing... (yeah i act in spanish.. i said maybe 2 phrases??) "Callate hija! NO! Adios!! (okay 3 phrases -.-) and then there was something suuuper weird because it was halloween.. nothing more to say than that my God won that thing ...

5º dia (el ultimo dia) jueves

Mel in Mc Donald's

So, about at 11am we left from the place.. i had had really good time.. (and i spoke spanish... a lot) so i was sad :,( and sleepy ^.^but anyway. First we went to a shopping mall in the middle of nowhere. And there was a Mc Donald's and everyone were so excited about eating there because there isn't any in P.Madryn. (whii makkariin -.-) i mean guys where talking about it 3 days and then they added photos to face " i ate in Mc Donald's " jaja :D great if you liked it. And then we were just going around the place... There was a few shops that were suuper cute and i'd have wanted to buy everything from there (and i didn't have any money with me  :,( byaaaaa) but i was having fun :) Melany, Lucila, Romina <3 "mami mami, quiero este, mami mami, por que no me compras este, mami mami... aargh callate!!) And i learned to say " Bueeeno che! Es lo que hay cheee! In Melany style :D Then we continued our viaje (=journey) in the bus we watched thousand movies.. project x, saapasjalkakissa... laalilaalilaa... then someone put music and guys just started to dance in the bus :D (me too o.O) i was having so much fun :) and girls were trying to teach me the lyrics of the Shakira's song "I'm addicted to you" Debe ser parfume que usas, o el agua con la que te bañas.... daadidaadidaa : D 

Then at 1am we arrived! Home sweet home!!

Yo, Lula y Romi

Then these days i've done nothing.. yesterday we cooked with sol (my sis) something form Venezuela.. and it was... hahah nothing to say :D And now i'll go to church

Comida y cosas ^.^

Buenoo... It has been like forever i know, ya se.. don't complain, I'm still alive and things are going fine. En koskaan aatellu, et mul tulis ikava suomee... mut taytyy myontaa et kylla ma vahan sita kaipaan tai lahinna ihmisia siella <3 (ja sita et ihmiset ei kysy viiten kertaa, et ''mita?'' ku selitan jotai) Mut siis taalla menee hyvin vaikka teita aina sillon tallon kaipaankin :)

So, what has happend?? not too much, ah, i went to one birthday party ''de 15'' 

So, here when the girls turns 15 it's really big thing. She can choose to make a trip to USA to Disneyland or make a super big party. I mean the size of the party is something like a wedding... 

This is not from the party where we went, but anyway... It can be like this

So, we went to the party of one girl (sukulainen.. kumminkaimansiskonserkku) and she lived in an other province, San Cruz. (in the south) And I live in Chubut. in the north of Chubut. 

So the party was ''small'' because the girl already did the trip to Disney, but anyway... It was cool :D There were maybe 50 people and place was really pretty. Her friends were having speaches and she danced mm... valssia with all of the guys in the party (tradicion) and then rest of the night we were just dancing me and brother with all the class mates of the girl ( party started at 10pm... and we left at 4am, here everything happens at night)

So, we stayed in Santa Cruz like 4 days and then we came back. And on the way we went to see penguins!! 


And yeah... now I'm just going to school every day and getting bored and believe it or not I studied today and yesterday 2 chapters of math de Finlandia!! (Luin kolme kertaa kappaleen ''Neperin luku e ja luonnollinen logaritmi'' ja vihdoinki tajusin!!!) One month in the school before summer holiday!!! (It starts in the beginnig of the December and lasts until the March) :DD So, now temperature here is 20-25 degrees pretty much...(in the summer it can be like 40 <3) I've now been here 100 days about one third of my stay, time goes so fast o.O 

Mate

Oh, and this weekend we do a trip with guys from school to one ''camping'' in the province of Buenos Aires (not to the capital) we're gonna be there 5 days and i'm so excited (ja vaihteeks 12 hours in the bus) So, next time i have something nice to tell you :)


So, some of you may be interested in what we eat here, so i'll collect here ''Argentinian foods'' 

Oh, about mate The thing i told you in the last posting. It's not a drug, don't worry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage)

Asado

So, other stuff... Asado. It's meat and meat and meat... And in fact most of it (it includes different kinds of meats) is really good, altough in the beginning i was a bit like a....  And every house has this ''grill'' to make it, and families eat it together and yeah...









Empanadas <3 Kinda small breads, where there is inside of them meat, chicken or cheese and ham. And i love them! 

A cake with dulce de leche

Dulce de leche, ''sweet from milk'' Toffeeta... it's something really sweet and they put it everywhere! Like to all cakes and stuff  



And other sruff about food. Here people barely eat breakfast. I mean one cup of tea and maybe one cookie or something. Then at school we buy cookies... not always sweet cookies.. (we eat cookies aaaall the time) Then after school at home we eat lunch (not cookies ^.^) and then about at 5 or 6 ''hot milk'' usually coffee or hot chocolate.  And cookies. (or ''facturas'' those we can eat in the morning as well) And at 9, 10 or 11 cenamos.. we eat dinner. Often like sandwich, pizza, hot dog.. or in this family korvapuusti. Pizzat on parempia suomessa ihan btw. And these people but everywhere cheese and ham.

Facturas

Oh, and one local snack are Alfajores.. :

So, i hope that you're not hungry (:

Nos vemos!! Un besote,

 <3: Heidi