It's time to come to the 21st century!

In my blog I usually don't really tell my opinions about things that are up either just in Finland or globally, but this time I think I have to.

While I was in the USA last year, I kept hearing how happy I should be that I live in Finland. We have (or had still by then) the best education in the world, our health incurances are free etc, etc. Yes, I'm happy about that, but there's is a thing which does not make me proud at all: Finland doesnt allow gays to get married or adopt a child. Well, luckily it might change tomorrow, cuz the politicians are gonna vote about it, but still. And listening people who are against it, that why the law should not change, I think their reasons are, to be honest, absolutely redicilous! They cannot really come up with any other reasons than Bible. Just because Bible says it's not good (I read from a science newspaper that what it says in the Bible might actually mean something absolutely different than how we've understood it) people are against it.


Come on guys! It's time to wake up! There are plenty of things what the Bible says are not good, like getting divorced, but still that happens. And happens a lot actually. Why aren't you whining about that? Because it's normal! That's why. The same way gay marriage should be normal! How on Earth it affects to your marriage if a man marries a man, or a woman marries a woman? Not a single way! Your marriage stays absolutely the same.

Finland keeps saying how it supports the equal rights to all, but isn't it a bit ironic that still gays are not allowed to marry? And gays are humans too, so the equal rights belongs to them too. I think many of those who are against gay marriage thinks that every time a gay sees a human who is the same gender, s/he wants to have sex with him/her, but it is not like that! Like straights, they have the one with who they're doing things in bed. Just guys please: Let the gays live their life with the same rights as straights.

No offense! I say things without sensur and that's it!
Julia

Summerjob from a radio?

The title says pretty much everything, but maybe I should explain a bit more. Today we had a guest in Finnish class today, she was a person from radio (not sure which one). She explained to us that what is it like to work on a radio and it sounded pretty interesting.

 I got my king idea (as usual) after the class was over; My parents have been pushed me to find at least a summer job (to be honest I agree with them now), so what if I got a summer job from radio? I would love it, but the problem is, I don't know how easily you can get to work to radio. My neighbour works at Radio Nova, so maybe I should ask her something. Anyway, I hope my idea is not just worth get rid of this time, because working at a radio really interests me. I just cant find any info about how to get to work to a radio, I mean, only some limited time as a summer. If anybody knows anything, please, please, pleease tell me! I need help.

See you later!
Julia

Hockey night!

Love this beautiful young lady <3

Hey ho! I was at my first international ice hockey game tonight (FIN-RUS) with my dad and my YFU friend Valerie. The night was so much fun and what made it perfect was that Finland won Russia 6-2! It was time to pay back to Russians after they completely beated us in last World Champions.

Our seats were quite high in the arena, so that's why the pictures aren't that good but at least we were able to see what happened at the ice! And the atmosphere were at least as good as on the lower levels. I screamed so much I wonder will I have voice at all tomorrow! XD

This is all today. I'll have my 4th driving lesson on Monday and I'm supposed to drive the car out of the parking hall (starting point) for the first time! O.O Oh no! How will that happen? I'll tell you on my next post! =)

See you soon!
Julia

"Don't crash it!"

This is what Mario told me few days ago when I said that I'd have a driving class today. Well, I think he had a good reason as I already once almost hit a tree with my dad's car XD a little panic....

So, as I said I had my first driving class today and I just got back home from it. Friends at school had already started to plan escaping from the town but, good for me, I didn't crash anything or anyone! Only thing what keeps driving me crazy is that almost every time when I try to get the car moving (from standing) using both gas and switch, I take the switch up waaay too fast tho' I try to be as careful as possible. So this happened also now and, luckily, it did not make the car to shut off, but it made it jump like a kangaroo... ARGH! xP But then when I moved the car using only the switch, it went all fine! Sigh.... Well, I think I'll get it soon enough and luckily I have a really nice teacher! =) Hopefully next time I'll do better also with the gas.

The "gym bug" has finally bit also me and yesterday I went to the gym first time with my mom. At first I thought that I'd die there, as my physical condition could probably be better, but no, I actually enjoyed it. I don't have an actual program yet because we are on the training part, but after next week my mom and I will both get our personal practicing program. Hopefully I'll be able to go to the gym often enough. :P

See you soon! ^^
xoxo
Julia

"Imagine all the people living for today..."

The President (from Germany) in the middle and Vice Presidents (from Spain and Latvia) next to him

Opening Ceremony

Teambuilding: Let's play a "game" XD

Time to get to know the committee members

General Assembly

My comittee: Comittee of Development, or just Deve

Time to play energysizing games even during GA

"But first: Let me take a selfie!"

So, I came here to write about EYP, as I promised last time. The problem is: I don't know where to start because so much happened there and thinking about the weekend still makes me emotional (in a good way).

To be honest, on the first day I wasn't so sure had it been good idea to go to the EYP meeting; We were almost all the time behind schedule and also some of the things were not organized good enough.

Anyway, I had that feeling only during the first day, because though some things did not go very smoothly, after I strated to get to know people, I strated to enjoy the time. This was small meeting; There were "only" 150 delegates. When I start to go to the national and international meetings, which are longer and abroad, there'll be many hundreds of delegates. And I can't wait!

So, during the meeting, we were in eight different comittees, which all had some international problem what European Union are trying to solve right now and we were supposed to find solutions for those. My comittee was Comittee of Development, or DEVE. What we had to think was the war what is going on in the Middle East and what to do to the refugees that are coming to Europe, mostly thanks to ISIS. It was mentally really hard try to find some solutions, but none of the problems were actually easy and one single solution was not possible.

During last weekend I probably laughed more than a long time; on the first day's team building games and even during General Assambly, where every comittee told their solutions. Only thing what bugs me is that in the end I ended up saying nothing during GA, even though at first I didn't even want to, because I'm afraid of public speaking. On the day before GA, every comittee voted that who is for example going to read the solutions and who is going to do the speech which explains them more. I didn't get voted. So then I decided that I make an attack speach; a speach which is supposed to strongly disagree with the solutions what another comittee had made. But I didn't have a chance to do that before getting the booklets where all the solutions of each comittee were, and those were ready about 2 am. I was simply too tired to make that kind of speech anymore so I gave up. Still I had a chance to made up some points of the solutions, and I actually did, but before I had a chance to tell that, someone from another comittee said basically the exact same thing. :( Well, better luck next time.

All in all, that weekend was so amazing and I'll definitely continue with European Youth Parliament. So easy to make new friends and a chance to say your opinion about something, are things what I definitely enjoy! I just hope to see some of the amazing people I met still in the future, because guys: I really miss you!

"Sorry I'm late"

Long time, no see huh? I'm sorry about this long long break. Life has been "a little" busy and there was also some conflicts in the relationship of me and Mario. Anyway, I won't tell more because those are private things. But don't worry, we're still in love and together! <3

So... where should I start. Well, last week was an autumn break in Finland and I was in Tenerife with my family. And for those who dont know where is Tenerife, it's a part of Canary Islands what belongs to Spain. It was so fun there and I'll put pictures here at some point! =)

I am soooo nervous and excited because of the weekend; I'll take a part of the European Youth Parliament's (EYP) meeting in Helsinki. You'll find more information about EYP from here: http://eyp.org/about/ but shortly it's a non- partisan and independent educational program for young European citizens. I heard it at school, cause a member of it came to tell about EYP to us. I found it interesting and if I'm active enough this weekend, I'll get a change to first get to another bigger meeting in Finland and then get to the meetings in abroad. So it opens me the way to travel, which I love to do! :) Seven other students from my school will come to the meeting too so I won't be all alone.

I'm thinking that I might do some changes to the look of my blog; for example I'll change the banner to a new one. Also I'm thinking to make a christmas calendar to my blog, but I don't know what kind of yet. If you've ideas, don't be afraid to tell me! =)

Hasta luego!

Julia

"Where ever you go, what ever you do, I will be right here waiting for you!"

I just wanted to come here and kinda open up about my feelings but I don't know how to start. I'm awful to put my feelings into words when it is about love.

 My feelings confuse me; I'm happier than I even thought I could be but then I'm also so sad because my lover is so far away. Still he knows how to make me happy no matter what is wrong. He is so respectuful and treats me like a princess. I've never seen a guy doing that to me before. It makes me feel so special.

I know I'm not the easiest possible girlfriend; I can get mad easily and being patient is definitely not the strongest part of me. My lover is absolutely opposite; I've never seen a guy who can be so patient with me and who still won't get mad no matter how annoying I can be. I say that for real I don't know what've I done to deserve a man like that. But believe me, was he far away or not, I'm not going to let him go. He is one of the kind. <3

Right now I'm just waiting that he gets to know will he be able to come to Finland next summer. I know it's not easy for him cause it asks so much money. But I tell you that if you've never been in a distance relationship you don't know how important Skyping can be. That's what keeps me going on day after day, cause then I know that when the weekend comes, we're able to talk again. I've had some breaking points already because I miss him so much but usually after a couple minutes I just force myself to keep going on because I know how much he misses me too and I know this waiting will pay itself back sooner or later. And of course now someone will ask me that if i've never seen him in a real life, how am I able to miss him. But it doesn't depend on that. You don't necessarily need to be in a same place physically before you can say you miss someone. For me, the way he acts and treats me is enough.

I don't know if my writing makes any sence, especially for those who don't have any idea what it is to being in a distance relationship, but I just had to write my feelings to somewhere. Otherwise my heart would've get too full of my feelings.And yes, I met this guy on facebook, but I can tell, that sometimes social media can give you perfect surprises.

Mario Yo Te Amo! <3