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so anyway, i am now going to finish writing about finland, simply because i like too and also because blogging gives me an excuse to dodge schoolwork. so anyway i left of that i was in finland, babysitting all the time, all that good stuff. one other interesting little highlight of babysitting is i got to be really good friends with little Anyuta Henderson, she kept wanting me to read her books, play games with her, help her with puzzles...all that. and i have to admit one weakness i have, i love little kids, when a cute little three of four year old girl comes and asks me to read her a book it is really hard to say no. i often think that little girls are much more convincing than thier teenage counterparts, but then i get slapped in the face and change my opinion. so that was nice to have a little friend. but anyway wicked fast thursday was upon us, and it was time to head home. so we got back on the evil bus and rode back on another torturing trip back to Helsinki, this trip was better though because i wasn't feeling so sick. but anyway, after a long, long, bus trip we finally arrived in Helisinki, stopping right in front of the the central house corps. i don't know why it's called central house, but just remember that's where i stayed.

so after hauling all our stuff into the elevator and up to the sixth floor, to the old mission team apartment. this place is now aparently a place where people live, but it was free at the time so we stayed there. but before that it had been completely bare. and when it was completely empty it was the holy mission team apartment. i had stayed there so many times, slept on those floors, flirted with girls while walking up those stairs, gotten into fights with Miika in that hallway, the whole place was familiar. and what was even freakier was that i could still spy on my friend Tupei (or however you spell it) because his apartment was directly accross from ours. and once again i was haunted by the ghosts of memories. man i would have given anything to have Anneli and Evelin and everyone else there with me. it's funny because i try to think of who i would want to be there and it's like i want these people, but if they come than these people would have to come too, ad then we would also need him and her. what i really want is the whole mission team back together, i really miss it. but i'll get back to telling you what happened now, when we went in were happy to find some "Reader's Digests" in english for our reading pleasure, and i quickly "digested" all the jokes in them, some of which i'll probably put on here later.

so after settling into the apartment we went out into to Helsinki and went to SubWay, because for (kinda)Estonian nerds like us eating at SubWay is really, really special. so we went and had wonderful subway sandwhiches and left with our stomaches full and hearts happy. because i want to point out to all of you lucky people in america that here in good old estonia we do not have ny of the nice resturants you guys have. no SubWay, no Taco Bell, no Pizza Hut, we have McDonald's but that place sucks in any country. so then we went back home and slept quite comfortably. we spent the whole next day in finland running around, we went to Ikea which was a special treat. we walked into the lobby of a really nice Holiday Inn and got to see a clock that showed what time it was in New York (4 in the morning then) and left finalnd quite happy, despite the fact that while on the way to Ikea we had gotten a phone call about our house being broken into. but then came the boat trip.

Tero, one of the cadet's from the training collgege, gave us a ride to the ferry terminal and we got on the boat at 8:30, and then we left...kind of. the boat was scheduled to leave at 8:30, and then came the first anouncement: "we are sorry to nounce that there is a delay for such and such a reson until so and so a time" not good. so we finally did leave at 9:30, an hour late. so we started going and got ready for the three hour trip, and then the noises started. when it's the middle of winter and your in the middle of the baltic sea there is a lot, and i mean a lot, of ice. so much ice in fact that the whole sea would be frozen solid were it not for the nice ice breaker boats that work so hard trying to break up the ice without sinking. so as you can imagine even with the ice broken up there was stil a heck of a lot to rub up against the side of the boat, quite enough to make it sound like we were about to be smashed into pieces. it was quite a freaky trip, at one time the boat came to a complete stop on the water and when i went up on top i couldn't see land anywhere, which is always freaky becuase usually for about at least one out of the three hours on board you can see some land. but did start again eventually, but we had huge delays. how huge you ask? we were supposed to get to tallin around 11:30 pm, we arrived around 2:00 pm. it was bad, that was one of the worst boat trips i've ever taken.

so anyway the next day we woke up in Tallinn, it was nice saturday morning and my dad went down to tartu with my sister to check out the robberie while me and my mom stayed in tallinn. we had a very niced relaxed day, watched movies, blogged, read E-mails, laid around. all in all a pretty good day. and it became even better because to give the day a nice good ending we invited my friends Anneli and Elis up to the apartment we were staying at for some tea and had a good time just chatting with them. i mean seriously, what on earth could be more enjoyable then chatting up girls? so then after a good night's sleep we woke up, went downstair's and while my mom led church at the tallinn corps i babysat peter, which was, as always, a fun little adventure. and after that we kiddnapped Anneli and Elis again and forced them to eat pizza with us, because we're so mean we force people to eat pizza. and then i went down to the corps with them and helped them pick up the corps, and then we just hung out and listened to music and all that goodness. there was one great song, by that wierd band aqua that does "barbie girl". i believe the sone was called "tarzan" it was really interesting: "tarzan is handsome, tarzan is strong. tarzan is cute and his hair is long!!" i just liked the bit were tarzan said "hey cheetah, get bannana, hey moneky, get funky!!" because any time you throw the word "funky" into a song it is instantly cool. and i of course had fun mocking the song making up two alternative versions. #1 "tarzan is freaky, tarzan is wrong. tarzan is wierd and he wears a thong" which made me laugh. and then #2 was "peter is hadsome, peter is strong. he's really is cute and his hair is blond" which is so true.

so anyway that ended my grand adventure, and i returned to tartu, assesed the damage of the robbery, and returned to normal life, but now i gotta go, so see you all later!!

p.s. i've only gotten one E-mail, i am waiting. i want at least to people to send me E-mails, don't send me a picture if you don't want but just send me something!! blablablabla!!