#18

Tomorrow its gonna be my host dad's birthday. I'm thinking about buying him a bottle of whiskey. Also paying the rent. I think they would appreciate if I paid the rent. It's so very quiet in the cottage with the girls gone. Don't know if I like it or not. There is solitude.. and silence. Both are things I enjoy and appreciate in life, but we are social animals after all. Now I need to socialise with the irish again.. sad.

#17

With my host's permission (who is also a teacher in the school), we (all the finns living in Spiddal) skipped school on tuesday to attend to the host's daughter's confirmation. It was surprisingly similar to what I remember how my own was back in the day (considering that this was a catholic confirmation and not lutheric). I was a little bit surprised that the priest talked in english and not latin (very progressive from the most conservative church in all of christendom). Day was great, I hear its currently warmer in Ireland on average than it is on the Iberian peninsula, so take that Irina! Enjoy you stay in Portugal hahaha...

#16

One of my housemaids (roommate) has her birthday tomorrow. I have no idea what to get her, but I'll figure something out.

Also, our hosts will take us to visit a sheep farm and a stables to do some horse riding and turf digging and other very irish stuff. I guess that is school.

School is like in Finland at the end of the term. Suddenly everyone has a rush to get everything finished by deadlines. I feel bad for my irish friends because here we don't have an option to stay in school afterwards to continue on the projects, and lessons are ridiculously short compared to the amount of work expected to be done.

And stuff.

#15

Film and TV part is progressing well, the ad is finished and now there is only a report to write. The rest of the projects need more work, especially the gaming. I discovered flash on the macs which means I now have a software that I can use for that too, which is helps a lot.

Weather is still good. Two of my housemaids (roommates) don't get along. Have to be peacekeeper again.......

#14

I'll keep this short  because im wriging on the phone. We got a day off of school to go to Dublin to vote in the embassy (me and a couple of other finns).  Note sure if its a good choise since the bus costs money and all the parties pretty mutch suck.

#13

Another week down. Not really mutch to say about school, everyone seems to be slightly behind schedule with pretty much every project, but not so much that a panic is needed. iMac softwares are finally starting to open to me, so I'm getting a workflow going on.

Easter is here! A much appreciated prolonged weekend with good Friday and easter Monday being free!