Quick brief

Last weeks have been crazy, full of everything!

I got my first job ever! (I don't count my week as a telemarketer as an actual job...) I work at a care centre of mentally handicapped people - eight hours per day for five days a week. Since I have no work experience, it's really amazing that I got this job. It will help me in the future in many ways; it's good to have work experience when you're applying to a school or job, money is useful and I learn new things everyday - about the job and the people I work with. The job lasts for in its totality for 6 weeks. It ends in the end of June, only a week before my military service starts.

It's official, I'm a secondary school graduate! My, and hundreds of others, name was in the local newspaper. I also got the results of marticulation exams. They were OK - not great, not poor. I would have needed only two more points to get better grades of Finnish and psychology, so I may retake the exams in fall while I'm in military service. Graduate celebration is on 6th day of June.

So yes, I'm going to military service. I aim for 6-month service so I get away from there as soon as I can. TUKKA LÄHTEE!

Ice hockey world championships are on! The championships are in Finland and Sweden, the most important matches will be played in Finland. Finns won USA today in an amazing and super exciting game, 3-2! Finland won their way to the semifinal against Russia which is on saturday. USA, Canada and Sweden are out of the game where as Russia, Czech, Slovakia and Finland are still in the game. If Finland wins the world championship for the second time in a row, it would be a miracle ;)

This is the month of excitement! Sonata Arctica released their 7th studio album, Stones Grow Her Name, yesterday in Finland! I have it already, and I have to say that it's really different kind of Sonata - again. This album is about rough guitar riffs and hit songs. The album is interesting and good but I'm still a bit disappointed. Well, this is what Tony and other guys in the band wanted to do. Tony: "Our newest adventure is only a final touch short of being ready." Sonata has made a lot of different kind of albums, so I understand their desire to make something different every time.

...As always, this was just a quick brief of everything that's been going on lately. I'm upset 'cause I never have time to write this blog. As before, I'm really busy all the time, so I have no time to write or do anything else, like music. Some day... some day........

Over. So over.

This is it. Upper secondary school is so over!

I'm so glad I'm finally done with this small and stinky school. I won't miss the thousands of hours that I spent sitting bored at the school desk! Now that I'm done with general educational school, I can focus on the future: military service and getting in to an academy. I also hope to leave home as soon as possible.

The pressure from marticulation exams is now gone. The exams didn't go as well as I planned them to go but now it's not the right time to worry about them. The next thing I'm going to worry about is getting accepted to higher education and getting a hair cut for the military service. I will lose all my long curly hair! :'/

I've been "too busy" for writing a blog... again... Actually, I thought I'd publish a text when the examsare over, but I didn't. Today, I finished doing some paper work for a school that I applied. Let's see if I get accepted to do the test.

...You see, it's damn difficult to write about school and my everyday life in English. I keep searching the right words and forms for sentences. It would be a relief to write in Finnish, but do I want a relief? I don't know what I want but right now, blogging feels too hard.

Upper secondary school is overrr!!1

Middle-aged - Highly drunk

I had a break of writing this blog because I had a "vacation" dedicated to reading to marticulation exams. I read very little - watching movies was much more interesting.

Meri and I didn't do much on our vacation, but we did go to Nightwish's concert in Jyväskylä last Friday. Poisonblack supported NW but we weren't interested of seeing them. We went to the concert area after Poisonblack's performance but we still got reasonably good places. Nightwish's show was amazing but some people in the audience made the experience quite undesirable. The place was full of drunken middle-aged people. They shoved other people, shouted stupid things, chatted disruptively and almost toppled their beers on us - And they didn't seem to understand anything we said to them or why we were pushing them away! Although I'm able to buy alcohol now and I know it's funnier to do something when you're a little tipsy, but enough is enough. Concerts aren't a cultural happening anymore where you can enjoy the gig wholeheartedly. If you want to get drunk and forget everything you have done last night, do it somewhere else!

Hopefully I don't have to wait for years to see Nightwish again. I guess they will end their tour in Helsinki in couple of years...

 

The gig was visually and musically wonderful but it was hard to enjoy it. Check out some videos from the gig in Jyväskylä:

The curtain falling was great

 The gig included lovely pyrotechnics

007: Licence To Drive

After all the problems I've had with my driving school since November 1st, I got my driving license today! 

One month ago, a woman crashed into our car which I was driving. I stopped next to a stop-sign but the woman didn't. Our car went to the redemption and I had to take a break from my driving school since my dad taught me to drive with the car. 

After couple of weeks, we bought a new car, Honda Jazz. It would have cost really much to put an extra pedal to it and get a new road permit, so we borrowed a car, Nissan Note, from our family friend. I practised to drive with the car for two times, and today I had the driving test - and I passed it! I have a provisional license for a month and then I get the real card.  

Our previous car, Opel Astra 2001, which trailer hitch fell off after taking this picture.

Our new car, Honda Jazz 2005 (link)