How to spend the summer in Oulu

(haha, this one is a joke ;)

Taking a walk

Oulu this weekend.. Summer♥ It was a bit warm as well, so it was quite nice to walk around!

På loppis

Here's the flea market post that I promised to make! Sorry for the bad pics though, I couldn't take my big camera there so I just took some pics with my cellphone :)
+ I added some random pics from the past few days.. Sorry, I know how bad the quality is!!

Hopefully you all had a nice day ;)
Ps. I still don't know how to turn those photos when posting from my cellphone ! Any ideas??

Aaton viettoa

Visited the graveyard again, since it's a part of our Christmas tradition. -1C felt suprisingly cold, because it's been quite warm lately. But we still have some snow left♥♥

Click this! <--- to see the weather in Helsinki tomorrow. I go to Helsinki by a night train, and when I arrive it's supposed to be 5 plus degrees there!!!!! Like Ibiza or Tahiti or something :)

And another tradition of ours: driving around the city on the Christmas Eve. We Finns celebrate Christmas on December 24th unlike many others. I wonder why it's so.... Maybe we just want to open all the presents before the foreigners get to open theirs?

And then, the present! The reason why my Christmas was so different to the Christmas before was that we didn't spend it with all the relatives: this year it was just me and my parents. And because I'm going to travel, I didn't want presents. Of course I got presents from friends, but I opened them earlier (sorry..:)

But of course my dad had bought me something.... He knows that I love handmade chocolates! My favorite handmade chcolates are not sold anymore, or at least he hadn't found them, so he bought these ones instead. And I'm not disappointed at all, any handmade chocolate is fine to me :p

Today's plan is very simple: finish packing your stuff & go to the train station!!

I♥OULU

Yesterday was such a strange day... I woke up grouchy because I didn't sleep well. Around 11am I went to the downtown of Oulu to visit the Northern Ostrobothnia museum. I had to visit it because my art class visited it a week ago but I couldn't go with because my toe was a bit injured. I got lost in the park where the museum is located, but finally I managed to find it. Walking around the park was terrible, because the whole place was icy and my bag weighed more than 9kg (I had my laptop, camera and school books there...).

I actually liked visiting the museum- the staff was soooooo friendly and the exhibitions were surprisingly good. I recommend :)

Oulu Castle on the backround.

After the museum I went to a Chinese restaurant, and then headed for the library to do some school work (spent 99,9% of time chatting on FB though..). The library closed at 5pm, and I went straight home to sleep. A bit early isn't it?

Bye bye holidays, hello again school :c

normal blahblah + more night pics!

Art lessons = torture

I had to choose between 2 courses of art and 1 course of music or 2 courses of music and 1 course of art... Guess what I chose :)

What happened to my hand..? Art attacked me :<

And more nightnight pics that I took ~a month ago! Oulu looks so nice at night, don't you agree?

På natten

Valtra tractor on two wheels!

Taken in Traber Stunt Show ;)

24:00 in Nallikari beach!

I'm still staying in our summerhouse, I'll probably visit Oulu from Tuesday to Wednesday and then go back to Puolanka ;)

Before we left to central Finland, there was a some kind of biking competition in Oulu. I didn't even know about it before we were driving to the downtown and saw the competitors. Too bad I didn't have time to watch the whole race!

We'll drive back to Oulu tomorrow at night! Busy busy busy ;)

(That pastry was just too delicious AND cheap, only 1TL =  0,50€)

I arrived back home today at 2am and slept until 11am... And didn't go to school, what a bad student! Well it would have been a waste of time anyway because I can't concentrate on anything when I'm tired. I'll start to post the photos from Istanbul soon picture by picture as I've done before too! Because nobody wants to see 23532463036246025235123 photos of Istanbul in one post, right?

The first photo of the trip, actually this is from the Oulunsalo airport! I had been in Helsinki airport many times but it was my first time visiting the Oulunsalo airport, how strange is that...?

I haven't been talking much about sport lately, so maybe you have been thinking that I'm not interested in that anymre. But as a matter of fact, it's not true at all, I'm still hooked in sports! Yesterday was a bit horrible, though... My ankle started to feel strange so I had to stop before the gloal time which was 2 hours. Luckily my ankle seems to be okay now, at least I hope so!!

Sorry about the quality of the pics, I took them on my cellphone camera while I was walking around Oulu a loooooong time ago :)

The plane departs at 6:25am tomorrow so I won't be posting until... Monday? But I'll take my laptop with me because the hotel offers free Wifi so maybe I'll make a small post... MAYBE!

 Hopefully the ash cloud from Iceland doesn't reach Finland or Germany before we're in Berlin, it would be soooooo boring if the flight got canceled :(

Well anyway, have a nice week everybody♥♥

LEFT: Postcards from a Korean friend who visited in Jeju island! I think I haven't told it before but I kinda collect postcards: I use them as posters on my room's doors! I'll post some pictures when I have enough cards to cover all the doors ;)

RIGHT: Travel guides about Finland, whaaaat? Nope, it's not just me who'll travel around Finland this summer, my Korean friend will visit Oulu for 10 days in June/July so I need to decide which places we'll visit :D

A post packet with Marimekko pattern, sent it to my friend:) It's kinda strange that when I was younger I didn't like Marimekko at all, and now I have a couple of their shirts, pencil cases, makeup pouches, towels and even a bag!!! Maybe I'm becoming old and clever.... Oh anyway, check this out! Loving the prints and summery colors!

Oh, I forgot to mention that the 9th graders' party went quite well! I & my friend were the presenters of our classes' performance :D We also had to dress up in fancy clothes, such and soliders, rich ladies etc... I was female James Bond with a giant water gun!

Another thing I have to mention about is that I've been cleaning my room for a few days! Or maybe it's more like emptying than cleaning. No, we're not moving or anything like that, I just feel like I want to throw the old things away. I already filled 4 huuuuuuge plastic bags with old toys, books, clothes and so on! Planning to sell them at a flea market as soon as I come back from Berlin (and finish cleaning of course) :)

Pyörällä ympäri Oulua

That was a few weeks ago, we don't have so much snow anymore ;) Only 10-30cm in SOME places (like our backyard...). Oh anyway, today it was about 20C in the sun so the summer is definitely coming! It felt great to be outside without a winter jacket...

The same place as in this photo. The ice is still there :(

My plan was to visit Nallikari, the beach of Oulu, to take some pictures... But the weather turned quite bad so I went back home.

All these photos are taken on the same day, how strange is that?? Squirrels everywhere...

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