"If you don't get in that bathroom right now I'll kill you"

Just some friendly words from Thomas Zanon, one of my very good friends here. Hey everybody how are you guys doing? Sorry it has been so long since my last update, once again Finland has been keeping me away. Anyway, it has been a busy couple weeks and now that I'm in test week when everyother student in Finland is crazy busy I finally have time to update my blog, ironic eh? Love being an exchange student. Well anyway, this weekend I spent at one of the local ski hills, way to many people for a not that good ski hill. It was fun to go snowboarding again though :-) . The weather was -25. Warm for Canadians but to finns and germans and french people it's very cold so I got a good laugh out of it.

Anyway over the last few weeks I've been skating snowboarding and so on (winter stuff) alot. It's so fun. However it has a big down side. Because I live an hour away from the city center, where everything happens, I end up being away from home for 12-15 hours a day. It is wierd to be gone so long from the house because I never see the family I'm in. It's wierd but when you live so far away you either spend all your time away from home or all your time at home.

Okay that's basically it for now, I hope you guy are all enjoying your test weeks and are studying hard. Stay frosty keep your stick on the ice and I will post again soon from across the finnish line.
Robert Kluke

out of the holidays, into the hollow-day

Hey everyone how is it going on this the first day of 2012. (only twelve months and twenty days until the end of the world :P ) So I hope santa was good to all you Canadians and Finns and Rotarians. Well I had a good holiday. Christmas was spent with the family new years was spent with friends and in between was spent as a mixture of friends and helping babysit my three year old cousin with down syndrome. It was a fun finnish learning experience.

While I am on the topic of Finnish learning I should probably bring up a deal that myself and the french student made that we are no going to only speak Finnish (as much as possible) from now on. for me this started on the car ride home last night/ this morning at 1:30 and by 2:00 I was so frustrated I just went to bed, to anyone who thinks learning languages is easy let me tell you this. Some languages are (i.e. english, spanish, italian, even french) But Finnish Is Not By Any Means An Easy Language To Learn Or Speak.

Well as my title suggests school starts again tomorrow. So now everything is going to be ask back to normal as an exchange ever is. Sorry for the short blog, Stay frosty, keep your stick on the ice and I'll post again next week from across the finnish line.

Robert