Month 6

It was a party for 6. The going away/birthday party was today. 3 people turned 18 and 3 people are leaving. Among the 3 leaving is Australian Matthew. This yeah, Matthew has been my mentor, my teacher, and my good friend. I realized that night that all good things eventually do come to an end. It is only a few days left until he and all of the other Australians leave for home. Though I am very sad to watch them go, I know I will see some of them again. I do not know when or where, but I will. The party was alright. It was a dancing party with some little games planned in but I'm not really a party kind of person so I mostly just talked with friends and hung out. My parties are people hanging out and talking, I've never been into dancing really. I prefer a campfire and a guitar and 5 a company. Those are the best. Today they left. It was a very sad day. I went to the airport to see them all off. At first I was with a couple of other newbies but they all had to leave after a while. I hung out with Matthew just talking about stuff and the year and the future. After a while Ashley came. Then Jade. Then all the rest started pouring in. We went to the terminal and I said goodbye to everyone and went home. I had stayed up all night with them in the airport. It was a very sad day. Mia's birthday was today. It was the first party I had gone to in a while and I was glad to go. Mia is a Finnish girl who came on exchange to America last year. So I got to hang out with her and Alex (from Florida) in Tampere which was really nice. So then on Wednesday we finally got to meet our newbies. I cant really say how that was. It was great having newbies but at the same time its sad because now I only have 5 months left on exchange. It's amazing that these 6 months have gone by so fast and so much has happened, even though it feels like I've been here for a little more than 2 weeks, if that. The newbies though, they were cool. It's kinda hard still because I compare them to my oldies and it's impossible to compare to them. So I guess in time I will come to see them not as taking the oldies' spots but as making new spots for themselves. I can't believe I'm an oldie. It really just doesn't feel right. I really have been opened up to the world this year through the eyes of my fellow exchangies and through the people I have met along the way in Finland and before and most definitely after. I have so many plans to go to so many different places all throughout the world before I die. I have a list of some 30 countries I would like to visit. I will visit many of them in Eurotour this year so that will be nice. Also, I applied for this University in Australia which I am almost accepted into. I just have to give a verbal interview and record some original music and send it in to them. I really hope I get in. I've always wanted to do music and now I have the opprotunity to do so on an international level. So when you go on exchange, no one tells you that you will enter a sublevel of poverty... seriously, I'm so broke. I have been sick for the past week. It sucks. But ice cream and coffee will get me through. So I can officially say I know how to Polka, Tango, Waltz, and a couple of other dances. We do them in our oldies "prom" dance class. It's quite fun I must say. I have started recording my songs at school now so I can go to Uni in Australia. I hope to have three songs done before I leave. Hope you enjoyed this.