Before I ...leave Switzerland

Hi!

Some days (ok almost one week) ago we decided to go out and take some photos with Eya, my favourite tunisian! It was a beautiful day and sun was shining just until we got to "the old town". Or actually we didn't even get there before it started to rain and wind but because we have decided to take some photos and to have fun, we just did it! (Actually we were quite happy that it was raining so almost no one saw us being crazy.😅😅 Or at least we didn't realized many people watching us because we were so concentrated to what we were doing. But yeah, we saw a cool board and I got inspired.

So here is my list,
31 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I QUIT SWITZERLAND

1. Go to the cinema
2. Pyjama party
3. Crêpe party - already done it twice and it was so niceeee, and tastyyyyyy 😋
4. Cheese party 
5. Exchange student party
6. Just party
7. Party somewhere else
8. More party - (party doesn't always means drinking, remember that, I'm not stupid)

   

   Can't be normal 

   
   

   

   Eya❤

9. Read one more book in French (I've already read 6)
10. Blog post in French - that's going to be really scary but I know I can do it and nobody cares if I do mistakes
11. Presentation of something special - in French... ( today I had one in French and one in Italien but they weren't special)
12. Do something radical... I mean like something really different that I don't normally do (you know maybe I'm going to do make up or something)
13. Take pictures 
14. ...Like a lot
15. ...Also selfies with my friends 
16. ...And also with my hostsister (so strange but we have taken maybe 5 selfies during all almost 8 months)
    
    
    
    
17. Finnish night with a lot of Finnish foods
18. Visit Tessin
19. Visit Geneve
20. And Luzern
21. And Zurich
22. And Lausanne
23. And Bern (maybe you can see that I haven't travelled in Switzerland a lot... yet! (Or actually yes but just icehalls 😅 ))
    
    
    
    
24. Hiking - Yep I like it (or actually I like taking pictures and seeing mountains and eating picnic
25. Climbing - that would be so cool 
26. Buy a Bretzel - I haven't really done it yet, even if every single morning I walk by the Bretzelkönig (okay I have no idea about the real name 😂😂 but the idea was that that I see -and smell - the bretzels every day, twice) and I always want to buy some but then I remember that they are expensiveeee 
27. Eat GELATO - my love 😋❤ but its sooooo expensiveeee 
28. Sleepover
29. Buy a "sac à dos" - I'm not at all sure how we write it in English... rucksack, maybe?
30. Bake "karjalanpiirakoita" - so these finnish salty treats with rice and rye 
31. Brunch - with a lot of food of course

So if someone wants to do something of these with me just let me know!😉

You can find beauty everywhere if you really want  (even from Fribourg 😂)

But yeah Im fine here (okay I more than fine here😅). Especially now because we have no school for next two weeks! 

Hope you are doing well! 

See you ❤

Le ski, la raquette et qqc d'autre

Hi!!

So this time in English... Even though the holidays passed already two weeks ago, I have still a lot to tell about them.

My sis is an actress and that makes me laugh🤘// Mun sisko on näyttelijä ja sehän mua naurattaa

So, after Carnaval we left to Lenk ("mountain village") with my family. It was such a nice place to ski but the weather was't such a  nice...  The first day was really foggy and we couldn't see anything, just white and white and white everywhere. So it was a little bit difficult to ski... It was also snowing and raining so it wasn't so nice... But then the second day was 100% different! Sun was shining and everything was perfect ...except the snow... it was too hot and aslo snow was different, so it was tiring to ski. But the second skiing day was cool!!

And then the third one... I can just say that almost evere piste was closed because of the wind. We took a chairlift and we were so happy that we were four in our chairlift because the wind really swang the lifts. And also the trees... really there were trees which had felt down because of the wind... So we did just a few slides and then we came back home.

Dogi!!❤ ×2

And you know what!!! In our hotel there was a SAUNA!! We went there twise with Eva. Once it was "tropical sauna" and only 50 degrees, but the second time it was "FINNISH SAUNA" and 80 degrees! 😊 my first time in the sauna after I came here... It wasn't really like at home, but it was pretty cool though. We also ate were well (and a lot...) so it was all nice everything 😎.  Also when we came back home we ate crêpes.😋😋

It has been pretty warm here..// Melko lämpöstä on ollut täällä...

Spring!// Kevät!!

So that was all about the holidays. And after holidays I had to go to school again. Actually after holidays I haven't done anything special. Some exams, some nice days, some normal days, some boring days, some friends, some chocolate and some more running (I've finally got the new running shoes!!!💙). And also we did some snowshoe walking!

💙💙💙💙

#tb to "I'm not burned yet"

This time I don't even know the place we went... But there were mountains and snow so it's all fine. Except the fact that it was pretty hard this time. Or not really, but still... And I burned my face because of the sun... (I know that sun cream is important and I had some but not enough.) But it was pretty nice.

... at least I wore sunglasses...

Exchange student, Fribourg ❤

I made some super delicious cooked pears😋 

And also some bread❤😛

I'm busy as always so just greetings to everyone and bye!😊

Bâle et le carnaval

Coucou!

Taas on kulunut liikaa aikaa, ja siispä on ehtinyt tapahtua aika paljon. Kävin Olivian luona Baselissa ja ehdittiin käydä Saksaan ostoksille (ja kebabille, siis mun elämän eka oikee kebab!!😆) ja illalla käytiin Ranskassa syömässä intialaisessa ravintolassa!

The first kebab! ( I had never ate real kebab before)// mun elämän eka kunnon kebab!😛😛

So cool... Basel

Tosiaan meijän venähtäneen Saksan shoppailureissun (ostin vaan pari paitaa ja herkkuja😆) takia missattiin karnevaalit ja kun saavuttiin paikalle, joka puolella oli vaan kauheesti confettia. No, oli siellä sentään ihmisiäkin (pukeutuneita tietysti) ja karnevaalimusiikkia.

This is what you see after Carnaval...// tätä näät karnevaalin jälkeen joka puolella... confetti❤

Olin siis Olivian luona yötä ja sunnuntaina palasin kotiin. Tai oikeastaan jäin suoraan kaupungille, koska siellä oli ISO karnevaali kulkue. Vanhaan kaupunkiin eli siis sinne varsinaiselle alueelle oli maksu 10fr. Päätin siis, että koska olin jo melki tunnin "myöhässä", etten maksa, vaan jään katteleen kauempaa. Näin siis aika hyvin kauempaakin ja musiikki kuulu ihan tosi hyvin!

Little brekkie❤❤ waffles, long time no see// sain aamupalaks vohveleita!! Pitkästä aikaa❤

And for this kinda photos I almost missed my train😅// melkein myöhästyin junasta meijän kuvien takia😅

If you can see, there was so much people.// Ei ehkä näy kovin hyvin, mutta tuolla on paljon ihmisiä☺ so Carnaval

Olinkin jo aiemmin suunnitellut, että meen katsomaan "Lasten karnevaalia" eli pienempää paraatia. (Joka oli siis ilmanen) Lähdin auringon paistaessa kotoa, mutta tietenkin just, kun saavuin paraatipaikalle (siis paraatipaikalle paraatipaikalle😆😆), niin alkoi sataa. Niin ja sitten alkoi tulla rakeita ja lopulta oikeen märkää lunta. ->> Tuli kylmä ja kuten kaikki muutkin, olin läpimärkä. (Oikeestihan siis lähestulkoon kaikki lähti pois paikalta jo alussa, kun jyrähteli pariin kertaan☺☺)

The little Carnaval // se pikkunen karnevaali

Carnaval 

Confetti

Tässä kohtaa oli toooooosi kylmä ja olin iiiiihan märkä ihan kokonaan (vaikka takin pitäs olla jokseenkin vedenpitävä). Ja repullakin meni sellatteet pari päivää kuivua...

So good weather🙃// niin hyvä ilma🙃

Tää oli tällänen pikapostaus mun karnevaalikokemuksista, mutta pian kirjoittelen mun tän hetken kuulumisia ja mitä kaikkee muuta ehdin tehdä loman aikana! 

Stay tuned, because soon I'm gonna write about my holidays and what else has happened! 

À plus!!❤

Le chocolat+la fromage+les montagnes = La Suisse

Hi guysssss!!!!

So trying to write in English again😬😬 And this time I'm going to write something about my hostcountry so about SWITZERLAND!! Just some days ago I read a buzzfeed text (voilà, link to the text ) about the things you can't understand if you haven't grown up in Switzerland. Oh yes, I have mostly grown up in Finland but really I have "grown up" mentally (ok, also physically😅😅) a lot during my exchange in Switzerand. In all cases it was funny to read this article because I have heard and seen all these things many times! So let me tell you some "typical swiss things" and how I think about them...

I almost made a goal. // Tein melkein maalin.

1.  Everybody thinks that the swiss people are rich. - Yeah, I think that the most part has more money than many people from the other countries... But a big part of swiss  aren't that rich that they would have  5 Ferraris and an own tennis court. And the swiss need money because everething is expensiveeee.
   
2. The feeling when you don't understand the other language(s), and yep I can say I understand French so it's not about that. - So, there are 4 national languages in Switzerland and the biggest part speaks German, or actually Swiss German, and that's really different to Standard German. And I live in Fribourg which is bilingual so I also hear pretty much Swiss German of which I understand like nothing. (Other language after German and French are Italien and Romansh.
3. And then there is that "röstigraben". - Which means the line between the German and the French parts. Because the Frenchies and the german speaking part are some times and in some cases really differents.
4. The best combination in the world: bread and chocolate (!) - And that's really true. It's simple and good really.  (At least with swiss chocolate and bread)

   

   Tb to the YFU camp PAO and to the moment when Pumbas were eating chocolate with bread😋

5. To say "adieu!" when you greet someone. - And for me also "ciao!" was a new way to greet... but of course now they don't sound strange anymore.
6. Everyone thinks you live in the mountains. - I have to say that also I thought that I would live in a little mountain village before I got to know my family and my place here. But because there are a lot of mountains in Switzerland, there are also many people who live in the middle of them.
   
7. Fondue, fondue, fondue the priority number one. - Kinda true even if the first thing that come to my mind when I think about it, is my host sister who doesn't like fondue at all😅. But fondue is really swiss thing and it's nice to spend time dipping bread or potatoes into cheese... And I really love melted cheese😛😛

   

   The quality is not the best but at least I have taken one photo of fondue.// Ei parhaalla laadulla, mutta onpahan ees yks kuvafonduesta.

8. And also raclette. - Yep, and that's so good also😋 ... even if my host sis doesn't like it either... 
9. And there are also some other fondues like fondue chinoise (=chinese fondue) (my host sis likes it (!) and there is no cheese in it) And chocolate fondue👌😋
10. Actually the cheese is kinda thing here. I already know pretty many different cheeses: Vacherin (from Fribourg), Gruyere, Appenzeller, Tomme  (I love that one❤), Tête de moine.. 

    

    Say "cheese"!// Juustoooo❤

11. Political system: direct democracy. ( And so some kind of votations all the time.) - I haven't really understood a lot about politics in here but I know that swiss are mostly very proud about the direct democracy system. 

    

    And we are proud of these brownies!!// ja me ollaan ylpeitä noista brownieista!!

12. And the school systems of every cantons. - Like for example in Fribourg college (=upper secondary) takes 4 years but in canton of Valais it takes 3 years. And I have like no ideas about the other cantons and I'm not even sure about the canton of Valais😅😅
13. To live in the country of the best chocolate in the world. - Maybe the most important fact to know about Switzerland. And for this fact I have eaten so much chocolate... 

    

    Okey, not all the stuff in this picture are from Switzerland but at least you can see some swiss chocolate.// Kaikki tässä kuvassa ei oo Sveitsistä, mutta on siinä nyt jonkun verran sveitsiläistä suklaata.

14. Like there is about hundred different chocolat marks: Cailler, Lindt, Villars, Toblerone... - And just don't think that I don't know more of them!
15. And drinking ice tea, it's kind of popular. - Yeah, like really. 
16. The words like "natel" et "nonante" that you use in Switzerland. - Yep, and I really like these words more than the French version ( portable et quatre-vingt-dix  natel = mobile phone, nonante = ninety
17. There are cows everywhere. - If it's hot enough. But it's ok because we get milk from cows and so cheese and chocolate🤔

    

    Cows!!// Lehmiä!!

18. Everyone is always on time. Normally. -Yep, normally but not always!! 
19. Switzerland is expensive. -  I agree 99% !! But for swiss people it doesn't seem to be a problem. And usually the quality is also good!
20. People aren't so open. - True. It's not so easy to make good friends here. (Luckily it wasn't that bad for me in the beginning, because I already knew that it's gonna be difficult.) And they know it themselves. But as they say, when you once get a swiss friend you get a friend for a life time.  Or at least for a long time... I hope so😉 
    
21. Politeness. - Swiss people are really polite, especially French speaking 😉😉 And for me one really hard thing to learn is to use "vous" not "tu" ( you and you for the older and unknown people). So when I say something to the teachers I should always use the pronom "vous" but as you can guess, I almost never remember...🙃 and I don't even realize that I have done a mistake before everyone start laugh and the teacher look at me strangely.
22. In Switzerland there are a lot of foreigners. -For me yesssss. Only in my class there are students whose parents (or grandparents or at least they have lived in this country) are from Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Maroc... 
23. And the last one: Swiss people love skiing. -I think so yes. At least many of them. And they also watch it from tv and also tennis.

yep I didn't have my shoes on because it was hurting so much😓// and it was pretty warm and clean outside so I walked home like this.// kengät satutti mun jalkoja ni otin ne pois oli tarpeeks lämmin ja aika puhtaat tiet.

Then about my life here, it's doing well. Even if my Italien example didn't go very very well. (The only exam that I really repeated to. And pretty much.) 😅😅 Also the moment that I thought would have been difficult so "Wanhat"(= the prom ) has passed. And actually I just hope that everyone had an amazing day and I'm gonna do that next year. (Ok for real it is sad that I couldn't dance with my friends. But "c'est la vie" you can't get everything. (And I have already got so much that I can't complain!)

Why I look so small kid?//Miks näytän niin pikkulapset?😅😂

The reason why I don't use tape with my "socks": I think I can save the world by using less plastic. // Syy miks en käytä teippiä "sukkien" kanssa: Ajattelen pelastavani maailman käyttämällä vähemmän muovia.

I also have done -ok also eaten- some brownies which were soooooo tastyyyyyy😍😋 and had an ice hockey practise and it so sad that we have only one practise left!! But I'm going to find a new hobby. Don't know what it is going to be but something new probably (and so also something very challenging for me... but you know I like challenges so can't wait!!)😆

Even brownies are pretty healthy if I eat them with fruit salad, right?😇

This beauties I saw already one week ago.// näitä kamuja näin jo viikko sitten tien reunassa.

And it's feel like spring!/Kevät joko olet tulossa?

So next week is going to be "carnival holidays" and we will go to skiiiiii (!!!) with my family❤ Also I will probably go and see some carnival stuff🎉🎉. Before that I'm going to visit Olivia (my old 😉 lastmate here in Switzerland) in Bâle/Basel. So coooolllll!! Maybe I'm also going to bake something... Like I really wanted to bake something! Someone wants to came and it them with meee?☺☺

If you have good eyes, you can see that it was 20degree today... or at least in the sunny places. And also wind made it feel a little cold eri. // Tarkkasilmäiset näkee että asteita oli tänään 20! ... ainakin aurinkoisissa paikoissa. Ja tuulettomissa.

My snapchat said that it was 17degree and I can really believe it! I went to run tonight and I didn't have my running jacket. Just two shirts and it was a little too hot like that.// ja snäppi sano että 17 astetta. Ihan uskottavaa, kahdella paidalla juostessa tuli illallakin kuuma.

I have nothing else to say. So, adieu!! Enjoy your holidays  (if you have them)!!