Da-da-dadadada-da-da, circus!

 

Varmasti monelle Turussa lapsuutensa viettäneelle tämä paikka on tuttu siellä järjestetyistä synttärijuhlista, meinaa Turun Sirkuskoulu. Meidän mahtavalla paikallisjärjestön puheenjohtajalla välähti, että sinnehän voisi mennä juhlimaan vappua! Trampoliineilla hyppiminen, vaahtomuoviin hyppiminen, takaperin volttien kokeilu ja jopa taikatemppuja! Mikä sen parempaa. 

Eikä olisi voinut tulla parempaan saumaan voinut tulla sillä oikea vappuaatto ja -päivä meni pänttäillessä psykologiaa. Suosittelen ehdottomasti mestaa vähän vanhemmillekin porukoille. Ei pommiakseen tarvitse olla viisi. 

I think many people who have send their childhood in Turku, remembers this place. Turku Circus School, roughly translated. Our wonderful Regional Committee  President (EYP) had an idea to go there once again. Jumping on trampolines, trying out back flips, jumping to foam rubber and we even got to see some magic tricks; what a wonderful thing to do on May Day. Traditionally May Day is a carneval in Finland, so it was perfect. Especially as  I was studying all through the actual May Day, I really needed something fun to do on Sunday.

The whole event was a success. Although I'm affaird in heights and jumping high, I still enjoyed myself very much. I would definitely recommend circus school for anyone with a larger group, even at our age. You don't have to be five-year-old to have fun. 

Spring dinner

About a year ago I was pretty sure I wouldn't be seeing my friends from IB next year. 

We even had our winner dinner, which was supposed to be the end.

This is one of those things I'm happy to be wrong about; 

They have been around the whole year. 

And it was time to eat dinner again last Saturday. 

This time is was called Spring dinner.

And hallelujah! Finally I gave up and started using Flickr, and I love what it did to my pics *insert hearteye-emoji here*. Please inform me if having big pictures like this is a lot of trouble to you. Even though I love having my pictures large like this it is no fun if you readers cannot see them.

TJ 26

Last week was all festive.

Potkiaiset, penkkarit and ABI- cruise.

All this should lead up to the study break, but since we are the IB, our holiday won't start until April.
So we still have twentysix school days

Taotao and team panda

Team truck sheets! Definitely had the best sheet in Turku!

Never actually made a video, so it is faaaar from master piece. But I guess there has to be first time for everything!

Ps. I'm really sorry about the quality. Has been a busy week.

7 moments I would love to relive

Sometimes I really hope that I would not be a kind of person who looks back and says "I wish I had..." but unfortunely I am. These moments which I will be listing now, however, are not those things (more than partly) which I would like to change.

1. Trip to London with my class. Especially the moments in the evening when we hanged together and the free time around the city. Anytime.

 I might look horrible in the pictures, but I for sure had the time of my life!

2. A christmas when I was a little girl. I'm not much of a Christmas person, but that might be due to the stress I nowadays have about the holiday. I used to really like Christmases as all children, much because I got a lot of presents. (Btw, this is the first, and maybe the last, post this year really having Christmas stuff in it!)

 That's me and my hair

3. Prometheus-camp nights (and nights after it with the same people). I still think that the best week of my life was my Prometheus camp. I grew in one week so much and had sooooo much silly fun time. But above all those I really enjoyed the bright summer nights and the discussions we had as a group in there. For long time after the camp the people in there were like my second family. I can still picture the first time I saw live bats, how the water felt like in the night and how good it felt to be hugged by all of them.

4. IB Baptism and the afterparty. Simply had the time of my life, in many respects. Although I never would have pictured myself dressing up as turkey and doing all that embrassing stuff on the market square of my town.

(There's no picture in here because the pics from the Baptism are non blog-material)

5. First kiss with anyone I have kissed (of course taken that the situation in other respects would be the same as well). I think it is the most exciting feeling in the whole world to kiss a person for the first time. Especially because I haven't ever kissed, not even a single time, a person I would not have cared/loved, which makes me regret non of them. And the moments worth living again.

6. My time in Ohio. My first experience on Americans was so welcoming and warm that I would give a lot to experience that again. Generosity and kindness of people in Ohio really surprised me in good way! I still miss my American sister from there!

7. Quiet moments with Keikki. Oh how much I would love to relive those times. As silly as it might seem, especially when I'm really angry at the world, sad or just generally pissed, I wish she would be there to let me be in that way, without no questions, without getting angry at me being angry. Just being there so that I could be quiet and not alone at the same time. Because sometimes the harderst thing to do is to keep smiling and talking to people, when you really do not want to.

9 things I hate

I could start and end this post by only stating all the subjects I'm having exam this week and other school related stress I have right now, which I hate. But because I know that nobody likes gramming (well at least no one sane from majority of people), I don't want to bore you with it. Instead I'm going to complaing all the other things I right now and always hate.

1. The fact that I have no technical skills at all. Or more like I don't have the nerves to learn technical things. I prefer just somebody else doing them for me. Everything I can do with my computer (or any other technical device for that matter) is that I can open some simple programs and use them to the simple extent. My photoediting is at its babysteps for this same reason, I'm just too lazy to learn it. I just prefer doing taking good pictures so that I don't have to edit. Or painting and drawing by hand instead of using computer programs. That is why I used to do all my blog headings by hand from the very beginning. This is also the reason why my blog is not as pretty as it could be, I just hate HTML-codes, hate them.

2. Pickels. (I have no idea how this got lost at first). I hate everything that has been canned, with vinegar mostly. Vinegar makes me sick from my stomach. And I just can't stand the fact that our school puts pickles in the freaking fresh salad! It is like mixing ice-cream, mämmi and onions, just gross.

3. That people wear leggings without pants or long (actually ass-covering) shirt, skirt or a dress. 

I think I don't have to explain this any further...

4. People that do not have any opinions. It is a serious drag to try and have nice conversation with person who always answers "I don't know". Fundamental lack of opinions just makes me hate people, because it makes me think that they are actually so lazy that they don't even think. And the most annoying people are those who do not think.

5. People who do not follow the rules. As said before. I don't mean rules such as stupid junior high rules "you have to go out even when it is -30 degrees celcius", but kind of that people have agreed to do something together and then people do not go as planned.

"who cares" attitude really annoys me.

6. Horror movies. Yep. I'm sissy, but one was enough to make me hate them. The Strangers kept me up 2 nights in row. Never again. Not even oes that have supernatural things. If it says horror, it is not for me.

7. The sound of the Storage Wars actioneer when he is taking the bids/auctioning. I just have to turn my television mute everytime he opens is mouth. Otherwise I sometimes watch the show in my boredom while waiting something else to start or while I'm being bored to death when I'm sick.

8. Distance between me and my best friend. I was going to put her in some other part of this challenge because this is the darkest part of it, but decided that this is worth of mentioning because I hate it so much. It is the thing that makes me feel most alone sometimes. I just wish she could be there when I really do not want to talk to anyone, because in the whole world she understands it somehow the best. I also would love to be there for her bad days. As I am really bad in texting and chatting, I sometimes wonder whether she knows how much I love her with all my heart. And I hate that feeling too.

9. Books where in the end the protagonist dies or which end unhappily. I know that some books need this to make it good, but I just don't like ending book feeling sad. That is why David Nicholls's One Day is still on my sad book -list and I'm not sure if I like it. I guess I have hate/love affair with these kind of books. 

© Susa
(good example of technically lazy me, all done my marker and hand)

Happy Hunger Games!

One of my dear dear friend had the most awesome theme for his birthday!

I love theme parties and this is totally the way to do it. Big and flashy!

The Capitol from Hunger Games, so no further adieu here's the photo puke: 

Ps. Sorry about the lack of photoediting in some pics. 

About happiness - Ollin Onni

It would be a huge generalization to say that I think most of the people know the feeling I’m about to start with. I could rather say that many people like me, people who are easily hurt and fragile, get easily stressed out and fervently miss people know what I’m talking about, when the whole world seems so heavy that all the colors seem grey. 

I know I’m using an enormous cliché. But it just describes very well how I sometimes feel like. For me it just means the inability to see beautiful and wonderful things around me. And especially for me, those things in many times depend on my eyesight and colors I see. Something very beautiful in its color makes me happy and vice versa. 

Because I have been past this autumn sometimes unable to see the beautiful colors around me, it was a wonderful feeling to go Kotka and see my best friend. All the colors around me suddenly came back and seemed so generous, even though I knew that the autumn colors in Turku were much brighter and richer. I even saw light blue, which I think is the easiest to miss as grey. And I was really happy to see again! 

We visited a lovely place called Ollin Onni! It has been a long long time since I have felt so surrounded my history and stories. It was almost as I could have heard all the lovely tales all those items had to tell us.

Lyhyesti suomeksi tällä kertaa:
Kotkassa vierailu sai mut pitkästä aikaan näkemään iloisia värejä, vaalea sininen yhtenä niistä. 
Ollin Onni upotti tarinoihin, joita kuvittelin esineille siellä. Pitkästä aikaan aikaan näin. 

Little something

I think that the most important thing in this planet are us, people, and the choices we make. I think we are the problem and the solution to many things, and in order to influence us we have to gain more understanding of who we are, and try and influence on each other the best possible way.

By these two things I'm aiming at my ambitions as humanist. I really hope and someday I could influence and/or understand people little bit more than I do now. I wish that psychology and other human sciences could someday reach the level of natural sciences in explaining what we are and why. And at the same time I'm intrigued by the fact that we maybe never will understand ourselves as we do understand others. Little part of me wishes it would stay that way.

We know why rains starts, or the winter comes, or even more cliche, we know that the earth is not flat. We think we know how people around us are alike. Some are funny and some are shy, some are social butterflies, some are throughoutly evil and others have good heart. We think we know everything about what is happening around us, or think that we can someday know.  But what we in so many cases do not understand, or what is the most harderst to understand is who we ourselves are. It is easier to describe your best friend than say what kind of person I myself am.

I have always been hugely interested in people. I think they are the most facinating thing this world has to offer. They all have their past, their future, their present. Their ideas, emotions, opinions are all different and yet somehow most of them are right, in their own little universe. There is no right way to see the world, I guess. I wish that I could someday be part of someone's live through helping them as psychologist or influencing on their view of world by writing/photographing/saying something that made them feel something or think in new ways.Only time will so me will I ever do that.

Today I got selected as the editor of the school magazine, which for the first time in my time in that school, has as big group as it has now. Being selected made me think about Gilmore Girls' Rory and how I admired her in the series. I know that being the editor of our school's paper is nothing like being editor on American private school's paper or colleges paper, but I'm still proud to have this opportunity. And I'm really excited about all of this and that was what triggered me to write little bit more about what I have stuck in my head. I think that this magazine will be really cool, all the ideas in people minds which got out in our meeting, were amazing.

I'm really sorry about all the grammar and typing mistakes, I'm writing this in a dark bus on my way to Kotka and five star treatment with my best girl Kerttuli!

Old and new loves

Not much to say. This day has gone with rewriting Finnish written assigment, about 1500 words to proofread and upgrade, yei.

Yesterday was more fun, grilling and hanging with the old and most darling friends from junior high, so to speak: the old loves. And this is simply what I wore, since I don't have any pics of the piles of meat all them ate or charming pics of me singing karaoke.

Got this from my classmates as a b-day gift from Accessorize, LOVE IT.

Dress Gina Tricot

My new loves from Din Sko

Good start is made of coconut cupcakes and pear wine

Mine and Roosa's birthday present to Kristina! Decoration is handmade by me!

Ina's amazing servings!

These are the only pictures I have share to you. That's because this time I decided to live more and capture the moments less. It paid off. After two (and half) amazing parties with the best people on this planet, two dresses, a lot of music, laughter, homecoming just before the morning light, smiles and terrible hangover tiredness I'm ready kick off this summer!

Secret Disney Character's meeting

Yesterday was super fun! Everyone put so much effort to their costumes! The partying itself backfired me in the worst possible way in this hurry. I'm sick again. Woke up hour ago, and had no idea about rest of the world. But that happens, I think this will mean night working and alot of it, since I do still have to finish my Extended Essay -proposal and my Theory of Knowledge -presentation. Just the things I love about IB.

But here's so pictures from last night taken by bunch of people with my camera.

My costume!

Party host as Mickey!

Ursula!

Almost there - Eric from Ariel

My real prince as short haired Jim Hawkins

Minnie and Queen of Hearts

Woody from Toy Story

Hundred Acre Wood

Cruella Deville and Queen of Hearts