Elephant

This cute elephant-necklace I found last year at Accessories.

Lovely to have vacation. The X-mas holidays have never started this early for me, but I don't complain. Some lab-reports need to be finished though. But mainly it's just chilling now :)

Autumn, autumn

Autumn leaves and back in reality. Everything was new and exiting during the trip we made this summer. And when we arrived we jumped into something new again. There was no home waiting yet when we came, and the city was new, although almost everybody, including me, knew the centre of the city. Yes, the city is Helsinki. A couple of years ago I never thought I would live here and yet here I am. So, I got to study again and it feels pretty good, stressful it is, though, time to time..

The travel blog:

lostinthestatess.blogspot.fi

Something Yellow and Green

Some details at home. And my basil finally started growing for real! But I think it hasn't time to grow enough that I could use it in any food :(

I'm so happy about being accepted for Master studies next autumn! I'm also quite exited about moving to Helsinki. But first things first, at the moment I'm more exited about the roadtrip - which starts in less than 4 weeks :)

Easter

This Easter I went to see one of the local fires on Saturday evening. It was kind of windy, so the fire spread to the near environment, for example to a tree nearby pictured below. Also the fire department arrived but fortunately they didn't need to act. 

Rest of the Easter I have been in bed suffering a spring flue, drinking a lot of tee and watched old Desperate Housewives. The pictures above presents some Easter details here at home. 

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.

Moonrise

The moon rising two weeks back. It's amazing how big it seems when rising.

The weekend passed once again, including nothing very special. Chilling, a little bit of lacrosse and a few drinks and movie watching.

Cold It Is

The winter and snow eventually took over. Positive about it is that it is much lighter outside even on a cloudy day. Negative is the coldness. Even when wearing enough clothes your face freezes. Still I have an urge to go out for example ice-skating and I really want to try skiing again, since I touched my skis maybe 7 years ago last time. Another downside with the winter is that I usually have millions of colds (well almost a constant cold) in Jan-Feb..

..and something new on the sofa, a cushion cover from Pentik's Spring2014 collection. The lila cushion cover behind I sew myself from a piece of fabric I ordered last autumn (cannot remember the fabric name).

Have a nice Wednesday!

Mariskooli

Details at home.