a quickie update!

Hello from my campus-room! So, I'm in Winchester, England now. The flight yesterday went really well. I've always liked traveling, especially flying. I have way too many bags, though. Imagine me with a huge suitcase, a smaller suitcase, a fabric-bag and a guitar-case! OVERPACKING IS ONE OF MY TALENTS!

So, now you must be wondering: How is England?
Well, it's certainly very, very different from Finland. First of all, the weather is unpredictable. In the morning it was really freezing, and it started raining heavily when I came from breakfast. Then after a while it was all sunny again... weird.

I want to go and explore the city a bit more, but I didn't want to go alone. So, I'm sitting in my room and playing the guitar. I just hope that someone will go to the centrum with me later. I want to go to primark, haha!

a redhead.

 I cannot describe with words how happy I am about my new hair! For once, the hairdresser actually listened to me and did exactly what I wanted. I've thought about going ginger for quite a while now, and I finally took the jump and became a redhead!

My exchange year starts tomorrow. I'm so excited about it! Can't wait to meet new people and experience new environments(and go shopping....) Right now I'm doing some last minute packing, but I wanted to update my blog one last time here in Finland. Next time I'll be updating from England.

Stay tuned for my adventures in the land of afternoon tea and good music!

sail.

16 days and counting.. Actually, I'm not counting days. I never was. I live in the moment.

A very good friend of mine celebrated her birthday yesterday.
"Don't leave to England", someone said to me, followed by a hug. Then it hit me.
It's happening.
It's real.

I've been really busy all summer, so I haven't really had time to think about anything. I feel like this wave of panic is slowly creeping on me, and I don't like it. I've never been the "nervous-type", but this time I feel really scared. I don't think I've ever been this frightened about anything. It's not that I'm scared of new environments, languages or new people. No. I'm scared about leaving everything I have here behind. I'm scared that if I leave, people might forget me. That my friends and I won't be as tight as we used to be when I come back. That there won't be a place for me here anymore. I know that this probably isn't the case, but hey, everyone's afraid of something.. right?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining at all! I'm so happy that I get to see England, explore a new culture and meet lots of new people. I'm excited about taking courses that I never imagined taking and maybe finding a new hobby. I'm looking forward to sitting in my new favorite cafe, drinking some really good coffee and enjoying a great book or drawing. I know that some of my friends would've wanted to take the same adventure that I'm about to, but didn't have the chance to do that.

This was me opening up to you, letting it all out(or at least some of it). I wanted to get this out of my system for a while at least. Thank you for reading, the next post won't be this moody. I promise.

and when I feel good I sing.

Hello everyone! I feel like I've been neglecting my blog a little. I've been busy making my setlist and enjoying the time I have left in Finland before my exchange year. I don't think I have properly announced that I'm going to be an exchange-student in England for 10 months. I'm equally excited and scared about it.

Above are some of my recent boughts.

Shirts - Carlings

Shoes - Vagabond

Hat     - Ponke's

Necklace - Accesorize

open flowers in the windy fields of this war-torn world.

Good music is good. Make sure to listen to that tune linked to this post. Probably one of my favorite mumford & sons songs.. They're all my favorites, haha!

Spent the day at Ruissalo taking pictures with Alice. Only a few of mine were good, as usual. I had a nice day, though, and I guess that's what matters.

so don't look ahead, never look ahead.

Feels like it's been a while since last time.. Sorry about that! I don't really have any excuse for not blogging. It's not lack of creativity, quite the opposite. I've been spending all the free-time I have while not working on painting, making music etc. Summer keeps me inspired, all though it's been really rainy and not too warm, so I don't know what kind of summer this is supposed to be. I think I'll be doing some sort of art-post very soon. Leave a comment below if you're interested in seeing some of my work and/or work in progress, will you?

Above are some pictures from my trip to Gdansk. I didn't take too many pictures there, which is kind of sad, as the city was very beautiful. We stayed in the center of the old city. All those colorful, old buildings made me fall in love with that town(as well as the cheap coffee..) I'll probably end up traveling there again sometime.

shock me like an electric eel.

So I've been back from Gdansk quite a while already, and I will be posting pictures from that trip soon. Right now I'm trying to decide what to wear for Ruisrock. I always find it hard to try and be convenient and comfy yet looking good at the same time. And the fact that it's going to be over 35 degrees C doesn't really help a lot...

A couple of days ago me and Minni had a little picnic at Turku Castle. It was lots of fun. I really needed to relax after work, and it felt nice to do something summery for once. There were tourists looking at us with weird face-expressions, too...