Spring, spring

This was a nice Spring day like today, but probably you cannot really tell from the pictures though. I prefer photographing in black and white especially when the coloring of surroundings are a bit boring. And many times pictures are more interesting and clearer in b&w.

Cannot believe, on Wednesday it is only 2 months (!) till we fly to New York and the adventure begins. I'm sooo exited and have been planning a lot of activities and researched which places would be worth visiting. Yes, after NY we are going to drive through the whole country ;) I have dreamt of road tripping in the US for many years. More exactly, the cravings begun kind of exactly 4 years ago when I and two friends visited another friend in the US. I just loved the country, not that I would like living there but traveling there every now and then. I'm sure I will start a new blog for that, which will function as a diary for me and for my family and friends and probably for the rest of the world to follow.

I have been very quiet about this blog to anyone, only a few people know this is my blog. So it's interesting to see from where (which part of the world) people have visited the blog. The purpose is more like having a place to put photos, maybe write sometimes about something, if I'm up to it, that I wouldn't forget how to write in English (I think I cannot really brag about my skills, but it's fun).

Now I think I will watch some TV-series and later I will attend to a housewarming party :) Happy Saturday!

//ina

Selfie

Selfie.

I should go outside taking a walk, maybe go visiting my parents. I just don't really have the urge to go among all that snow. I got so used to the early spring and warmth so now I feel very disappointed.

Yesterday I finally got to send the university application to University of Helsinki. Now I just have to wait for middle of May to hear the result. I took a year off since I graduated from Stockholm University with a Bachelor degree in chemistry, and that I will continue with. Funny that I thought whole last year that I should change to Pharmacy studies, think I had some kind of a graduating crisis, and now I want to continue with chemistry. Maybe I just have hard time wanting to specialize in anything since I'm interested in so many things that it is hard to choose. This past year I have been analyzing which specialization I would be most interested in and which courses and laboratory work I liked most before graduating. Now I'm pretty sure organic chemistry is the thing.

I guess nobody was really interested in that.. but whatever :D

//ina

Summer cravings

Oh, summer, let yourself in.

I have not really been photographing for at least a month, have not had the inspiration during this too-gray-period. These pictures are taken last September in Alanya, Turkey. Best part of the vacation was the hot sea water. I must say it is a place I will probably never travel to again, it was too made for tourists and there is so many other places in this world I want to see.

I cannot even remember when the sun shone last time. It is all grey, all the time. Sometimes raining. At least the snow melt. I never got to try skiing this year. But honestly, I don't mind a short winter. I'm just craving for the sun, a proper spring, leaves growing on the trees, the warmth... I'm especially exited for next summer which will be totally different from earlier summers - it will wholly be spent abroad! (Not in Turkey though) and more of that later.

Oh, summer, embrace me already.