Diiba Daaba

I just finished my project on the Fruit of The Spirit - joy, it is 12:02 AM and I am so absolutely astonished by my great work that I don't even feel tired (or then I am just getting high as it is late and I drunk coffee and coke), come on guys, let's get the party going!!

Well, the reality hits hard, have to wake up tomorrow quarter past seven and be awake four hours in school and try to behave myself. With this team it might be a mission impossible.

Rejoice, come on everybody, rejoice.

Christmas is near

* * Well, hello everybody, christmas is almost here (Liz'z blog has had an affect on
* me,have to admit), no snow, bought some gifts, burned loads of candles..
* Aaaaw...
* * Next week Kevin Gray will be our teacher again (Bulstrode guys awake.)
* and then we'll have a short course on drama and that's it, time for holidays.
* * * This week is about missionwork, going for a mission and practical issues
* * around all this, and I have to say, my time in Bulstrode is really useful here
* * in terms of mission work and practical issues :)
* * Now I won't have more time for this, take care you all again and see some of
* * you hopefully, at least Katie matie.
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Germany....

I AM GOING TO GERMANY!!!!!!

Unbeliavable... I am going to visit some dear people, like Kate for example.
Aaaaaw...mi mi mi.
I am just childishly (nice word) thrilled over this. :)

Next weekend we will have an annual celebration here in my school, this will be 60 years old then. We will have nice programme and some work to do also... there will be these historical speakers quite a few, so please pray hard that I won't fall asleep ;)
No.. really, I think it will be interesting, as far as I can sleep enough beforehand, so I will be perky as on the picture below. (In the second oldest mail, you see)

Take care you all and talk to you later,
Sailalai

SNOW!!!

At this very moment it is snowing the very first time, YAY!!!!! *****************

On the road again

This is our never resting, energetic ISBM-team..or actually only part of it :) Dark-haired is called Katri and the blondie there is Kirsi. And me, of course.
We were on our way to a mission conference and started early in the morning, so this is how we ended up being: PERKY. Actually it was really practical to sleep on each other ;)

At the moment I am visiting home, having a one week vacation, yay! It is nice to be back here, and it is kind of natural too... such a nice small town after southern Finland, though my place there is also quite small. But small places are nice indeed.

Our team (ISBM) has gone through some changes, but it seems that it is getting better all the time. As they say: Honeymoon is over!

Talk to you later, take care you all!!

Don't worry about a thing

It is quite an interesting week this week... pretty hard one somehow. Studies are not too easy in my point of view, because I am like I am (?). But yeah, weekend is soon here.
And tomorrow we will be hiking for 20-25 kilometers to a natural well, which means clean water, yay!!
I think it will be nice though.
This writing is rather boring.. maybe it tells about my emotions at the moment.
Excited but tired at the same time, blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
I need to go and have lunch now, take care.

Studying continues...

Yep, my last weeks have been filled with studying. Our teacher changed and this one has a different style, of course :) We are going through the New Testament, about two books per a day and homework. For tomorrow I need to do a 10 minutes presentation about Illegal actions in the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is interesting, this whole thing is really interesting. I highly recommend a Bible school at some point of life...
Yeah, we have also been travelling a bit around Finland, went to a mission conference for a day and so on.
At the moment I am getting a bit sick, my throat is soar, but never mind, life is life, din din din di din.
Hmm.... nothing else to tell at the moment, many things are happening as we are forming a team out of different people, gender, age and so on..
There is already a couple been formed, you know. (Not me!) Love is in the air.
Enjoy your Autumn guys!!

Here I am...

Hi everybody, here I am, studying hard :)
I have been here for almost two weeks now, and until now everything has been nice, no complains.
Now I have a bit more knowledge about this ISBM, we are preparing for an outreach, which will happen on next April ( or around April) and we will be going to Poland or Liethuania or..Somewhere around there.
Now I have to rush to eat dinner, (food is by the way great here and so are sports too, heh), but I will talk to you later!
Bless you all.
-sailalai
ps. Eun, letter is coming soon ;)
pps. it is raining here, AUTUMN has arrived, greeaaaaat.
ppss. I really DO like autumn.

Evil puppy, Handicapped fish and Huuuuuge.

Oh, such a hilarious week behind.
Thank you Kate for visiting me, it was more then great!
(I will add some interesting pictures later, as I receive them..)

Ok, my school will start in two days and that is the time I have for organising everything.. Craziest thing is that I like this idea, being busy. Such a twisted mind, I know, blame the finnishness.
And there, on next Sunday, part of our group (ISBM-line) will share something in the local church of Hanko. I promise to have a SHORT word there, let's see what happens when they allow mw to do that.
On Monday the real thing will start, studying. I enjoy (at least at the moment) the idea of studying, using my brain...hmm.
And... din din din dindididindindin, I will meet Marja there!!
Isn't that just great.. I just got to know that she is going to be there at the end of this month.
I am so very greatful about this.
Ok, have a great week everybody, if there is anybody to read this :)

Ps. that picture is from our abi-show, which we had when we left shool, I was playing our english teacher...the girl next to me is my friend Katri, who just left to study in University as a teacher, she went far away, at the end we will be around 600 kilometers away from each other, mi mi mi.

Katie matie in Finland ?!

Oh, Katie,
how I've missed you and your morning grumpiness (don't know if that's a real word).
How I've missed the stupid jokes we make
and our morning hair problems. (shaggy)
How I've been constantly practising new female noices just for you to listen.
Doesn't this all tell how greatly I've missed you oh Katie, my matie.

And today, today... We will meet again.
You will enjoy our lovely landscape, sauna, delicious food,
good company and me, myself and I.

Welcome, Kate!
Happy to have you here.

"I just like it"

As you may notice, Liz was here, and here is an evidence picture of that :) Enjoy!

Yeah, now I have made my decision with the studies; I will go to the Bible school for one year and next Autumn I already have a place ready for me at Diak, Social studies. Couldn't be better: I am sooooo very young that this sort of gap year is ok yet, I can improve my english at Bible school (studies are in english) and it is good for myself and for my future too, as I'm dreaming of mission work. But still, I don't need to worry about next Autumn, because I am already registered to that school, being absent this year.

So, as we all know: AT THE END EVERYTHING TURNS OUT TO BE WELL, SOMEHOW. And to keep it real, I couldn't have cope with this without God, I had such a pressure because of many various things (some of may know more about that).

SO, Kate is coming on this Tuesday, I am just thrilled about that fact, we made a commitment that we have to see each other every third months, so we will survive ;)
Welcome Katie matie!!
And thank you sooo much for those who remembered me in prayers, it is always worth of praying, you know.
Ps. I didn't see Marja this weekend, I had to cancel that, but she surprised me by calling on my mobile phone and not telling who she is. That was just great!... after first shock.

oh my...

guys, I cheated you all and myself too. It's not that sure if I will go to the Bible school.
I got accepted to the school wich was my first choice; social studies at diaconia polytechnic university. I was on the waiting list, but I didn't know at which place, if I was the first or 22nd or 54th, so I applied for the Bible school...
So first I didn't have any places to study and now I have two of them and I have to make my choice. Actually it is not that simple to decide, I am puzzled by this all.. what is God's way for me in this situation? Why I was accepted to Bible school, if that other place is for me? Some may think that this is clear and so do I, but still it is not easy, because I wonder this all..
I will let you know what happened with this, I have two days to think about it and then I have to make my decision.
It is exciting at the same time too, let's hope for the best and for God's will to happen, right guys? :)

Just in case...

..someone is interested, here is the addres for the website of the school:
www.isbm.fi
:)

Hanko and ISBM

Hi guys, I wa accepted to the Bible school!! I am quite happy, though first I was a bit puzzled because of many different things. In two weeks I will start on the "International School of Bible and Mission"-line. It will be in english and some students abroad, I suppose. This picture here is from the city where the shcool is. It is the most southest city of Finland, located at the South Coast of Finland, not too bad, I would say :)
It is quite far away from here (500 kilometers,about) so I cannot visit home very often, because I cannot afford the tickets. But hey, I was in England for three and a half months, maybe my family survives though I won't be here.
Yeah, tomorrow will be the last day for Liz to spend here, I hope that she has had a nice time, she flies to Bulstrode on Tuesday. At least she has enjoyed the sauna :)
I will be quite busy (again) after she has left and next weekend I will meet Marja (Gray)!!! I am so exited, just cannot hide hit, yeaaaah...

1.8.2006

LIZ...


IS...


COMING...


TODAY...

!!!

Me me me-mi mi mi

This is me about one and a half year ago, we had this celebration where we had to dress up because we had to leave the school. Everyone had to decide who they want to be and then we would have this whole day to tease all the younger students, ha ha :) It was a great day.
I am just talking with Eun on Skype at the same time, it is so great that we can do it like this, amazing...
LIZ IS COMING THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!!!
It is quite weird to have her here.. not that she is weird (though she is like we all are, ha) it's just weird to have her and Kate here IN REALITY.
Ok, let's calm down..
Today I am having a free day, I have nothing to do, just nothing, and that is great after a busy week. It is good to have these easy going days, lovely. Tomorrow I will have some cleaning to do and some things to arrange and on Tuesday my friend is moving so I will go and help her. I will drive our van!! that is such a great car, old and noisy :)
And on Tuesday evening I will travel to airport to pick up one german girl... hmm I wonder who that might be?

This is to you who didn't believe what I said :)

Well, as you may notice, this is my friend swimming in a lake in winter. This hole was made in to a frozen lake by my friend and his sister, we ran straight from a sauna in to this ice cold water. Believe me, I screamed... quite loud. After you have done it once, it is not that bad anymore..
So come on guys, visit me in winter :)

Sometimes life sucks...

Did you know that?

Oh man, this week is so full of things to do and I am soooo very happy about it, but at the same time I am going through quite rough things in my life.... AAAAAARGH. Sometimes life is just so unfare, and by these hard things I don't mean anything like "I like the boy who doesn't like me, what to do"-teenagethings (though that is hard too, in other circumstances, I don't mean that...)
And in this case I am sooo Finnish, easily depressed/ thinking deeply. But on the other hand, during times like this it's easy to escape in to over-active life. But I need many things to do now, don't wan to think too much. *deep breath*

I am writing this because life is not always sweet, so it would be cheating if I now wrote here that I am feeling absolutely fine. :)

Still, life is life and we just have to take it as it is.

I just came from goodbye-parties... My friend finished her work at church and is now moving to another city, over 300 kilometers away. But it is a good, a positive thing. That's the way it is meant to go, so.. one reason to smile: life goes on and changes!
Which means that my life won't be always like this..

Take care everybody and have a good rest of the week!

mi mi mi and Red Hot Chili Peppers

I just red Justin's blogger and it seemed sooooo nice and made me miss Bulstrode times again!! Damn you Justin... ;) Now I am comforting myself with RHCP's nice music, Stadium Arcadium.
Really, it is funny that I have been away from there already for a while, but still in some weak moments I miss it greatly.
Well, that's enough of that, to other topics now.. By the way, this colour I'm using, is awful. But it looks good on black though.
Liz is coming soon!!!!!!! I am so waiting for her and Kate to visit me, it is just... great.
Thank you guys that you are coming, you are giving me some new energy again. (It seems like I would be addected to people...hmm.. maybe I am?)
Today is Friday and in the evening I will go to youth meeting with Eevi and then we will just hang out, it will be great, it is always fun.. though we aren't doing anything special, but still.
There is also a big music happening here this weekend (non christian) which means more people, it just nice to see different people in my lovely small hometown.
I will write more to you later, all my lovely excited fans...
-Sailalai

mi mi mi

Horror...

This from our summer camp, it is a same sort of play as we did at Bulstrode last christmas with volunteers, if anyone remembers. A simple play has to be done in many different styles, kids liked it so muc, they wanted more, so we gave them more!
This time the style was horror as you might notice... it was more close to hysteric. It was soooo fun to act, oh man.
My little sister is lying on the ground, my niece is on the left, I am that one with the blue jacket and on the right is Eevi, my friend.

reggae ok

I have had such a nice day.. so relaxed. My mum is having her days off, that is great. On this friday we are going to Rantsila, about 300 km away from here, to North, there lives my grandmother, we are going to visit her.
Today I helped (a bit) my dad to repair our bathroom, it was nice, the bathroom will be great :)
I am sooooo excited to see it when it is ready. So Liz and Kate, you can enjoy our NEW bathroom, yeah. Sauna is still the same though.. Hmm, maybe you will survive.
I am listening to such a great finnish reggae, just perfect, I could listen this for hours... at least it feels like that now, but don't know if it would feel like that after ten hours. Ha ha, hilarious thought. I need to test that one day.
And I wasn't accepted for the schools I applied for, so I have to use my plan B. I will let you know, if it works. If it won't work, I will come to you, Kate and live there, just to practise my german skills... As you may notice, I am really desperate, even thinking about going to Germany ;)
No, not really, I am quite ok with this thing. At the end everything will work out to be fine, because we are with God.
But now I will continue enjoying my music, this is just great...

My trip to Helsinki never happened..

I was on my way to Helsinki with my friend and his grandparents and we were already over 160 kilometers away from my home when something happened that cut our journey short. The consequences you can see from the picture..

My friend was driving, I was sleeping and woke up when her grandfather next to me started shouting: turn right, turn right! and she didn't, so we drove right on to another car, it was quite a noice and first words that my friend said were: Jesus, help us.. Then we went out of the car, no one was injured badly, we didn't even need an ambulance or anything like that. (few bruises and some heart/head ache) But we were a bit shocked, especially my friend as she has had her driving licence since not so long time ..

Later police came and took care of paper work. Car was not in a condition well enough to drive, so we had to wait three hours my friends father to pick us (and the car) up. It was around + 30 celsius, so it was quite sweaty and hot to wait.

At the end we thanked God that nothing happened, car is only a car and it can be replaced with a new one. But who could replace another person?

July already..

Time passes by, it is already July, so fast..
I just came from my friends home, we were having a really nice evening there with my friends. We had a nice barbeque, self made salad, coffee, ice cream, marsmellows, which we also grilled :)
such a nice and relaxing time, opposite to my anxious waiting from the school, if I got accepted or not. But well, it is summer, no need to think about the time coming.
This weekend I am going to travel to Helsinki (our capital city, just in case someone doesn't know!), there is this big conference for three days. It is traditional thing for the Evangelical Free Church of Finland and it is great, there is always really interesting mission conference and I meet the friends that live far away. But let's see, my trip is not so sure yet. I really would like to go, but you never know. It takes time and money, but it is worth of it, so.. Hopefully I get there, I will let you know, if I do.

Juhannus- midsummer festival

This is a picture from Kiponniemi. This is an old tradition in Finland, it usually happens late in the evening, around 12 o´clock in the evening. It looks really nice.. especially the big ones.

:)

Unbeliavable...

It was just unbeliavable...
yesterday I met the missionary, who sat next to me in the aeroplane last December when I flew home from England. I don't know if everyone knows the story, so I will "cut long story short" as Libby would say.
Last December I was flying back home from England and it was pretty lonely feeling at Heathrow waiting for the flight.. Anyway, we were going to the aeroplane by bus and there (in the bus) was this man, who I noticed and we were looking at each other. I was thinking he is some sort of snob, and in his mind he is just judging me. That was what I thought about him. Then I noticed we were supposed to sit next to each other, oh man..
We were having some small talk and then he asked why I was in England and I said I was working as a voluntary at a mission organisation. He asked which one, I said WEC International. He answered really, I am from OM. He was just coming back from Brasil, he is brasilian and married to a finnish woman. (Some of you may know OM, they have those big boats travelling around the world).
So, my flight was really nice, we were talking all the way to Finland.
And yesterday, after half a year, without even remembering his name, there he was! That was so great to meet him, it was a big conference where were thousands of people in a big area, so I think it was God's work to meet him.
All in all, my midsummer celebration was nice, though I am dead tired now.. But no need to worry, I am having some easy, lazy days ahead, so..

Some pictures more...

This is an older picture already, maybe one year ago, winter time. It was just a perfect day for winter, sky was clear, not too cold, sun was shining.. Apparently it was a REALLy good day, because I still remember it and this picture too. Oh, Finland. You can see those snow mountains (?) and ous busstation behind those big mountains.

Oh, those lovely days we had...

It is not that I miss England this much, it is just to..hmm... to memorize. Here is a lovely picture of me and Kate,as you may notice. She might be visiting me in a one months time, if everything happens as we planned it. I am very pleased about even thinking about it.. And Liz too, that is just unbeliavable.
And guys, I have to tell, finally we have a computer and an internet at home. So I am able to keep contact a tiny bit better, as I am home still..
It has been really hot here in Finland and tomorrow we start to celebrate midsummer, it is a big celebration here. Everyone will be drunken.. almost, but not me, I will be having much better time with my friends and all. Great!

SUMMER!!

Hello again!
It has been such a great time here. Last two weeks I have been working on a youth camp and it has been such a blessed time, we have seen God really working and people receiving faith in Jesus.
And bad news.. I didn't get in to that school what I really wanted. But actually it didn't feel that bad.. One of my friend told me that: "God just has something else for you then." And actually I just think like that also, it didn't feel as bad as I thought it would.
But anyway, God is good, take care everybody!

England-there and back again

Yes, I visited lovely England again. And I have to say that it was an excellent journey..
In case someone wants to know about my journey back to Finland, some information:
I almost flew to Riga. I was already going in to the plain, when a woman ran from inside and asked if someone is going to Tampere (my destination) and I was thinking that is a stupid question, because I thought the whole plain is going there, until I asked from the woman behind me and she said, No, this is flying to Riga. Believe me, I was quick in mu return to inside of the bulding and I laughed and laughed and laughed..alone...but anyway. It was funny.

Here I have been really busy lately, I had my driving test and I passed!! I am legally allowed to drive a car.. yippii. And we area really busy at planning our summer camp.
So many things to do and I am just happy, I don't need to think about too much being away from England :)

Varikset

This is our music group called ´Varikset´, we sang lst sunday in our church, this picture is from there. Names from the left: Petra (behind the keyboard), Toni (playing bass), me, Anneli, Marsa, Kirsi, Anita,Marika and Eevi. The rest of us.. we just sing. And there is one guy behind all of us; another Toni, playing drums. Believe me, he is therr though you cannot see him.

I am having my theory test for my driving license today, within a one hour.. I am maybe a bit, just a BIT, nervous. Naa... If I fail in it, I can always do it again. But then I have to pay for it. So let's hope I will get through it today. It would be the best alternative for all of us.

But, let's see, time will tell..

it is me and my friend Eevi

mmm..delicious!

This good is finnish (real) coffee. You just can read it from my face, it says DELICIOUS.
Yeah, and the woman next to me is my friend Anneli, we are enjoying our lovely coffees late late in the evening at our church, we just gathered around (and by ´we´ I mean young people, in this case) and played music, drank coffee, laughed.. Oh, it was a nice evening, especially the coffee..

mmm..delicious!

This good is finnish (real) coffee. You just can read it from my face, it says DELICIOUS.
Yeah, and the woman next to me is my friend Anneli, we are enjoying our lovely coffees late late in the evening at our church, we just gathered around (and by ´we´ I mean young people, in this case) and played music, drank coffee, laughed.. Oh, it was a nice evening, especially the coffee..

so beautiful, it's true.

Well , hello there.. long time no see.

Here I am, still alive and kicking, though without that hair anymore... so sad.

I am having a cold ( a flue, not a birdflue though, ha ha...) and a busy week at work, except right now at the moment. Work, work, work..

I enjoy my work, it is one of the nice ones.

Take care, everybody out there.

It's a miracle, I'm actually writing something here.. Rejoice!

Oh man, it seems impossible to get to the internet and when I do, I really don't have plenty of time. But now I have, so enjoy...
First of all, I'm terribly sorry that my blogger is not so updated as it should and that I don't get any pictures here. It ennoys me as well. I don't have (yet) internet at home, so all my acts are depending on these computers here at ous library or on my friends computer.
But now I try to tell how I am doing.. I'm working nowadays, doing many different things and my schedule is quite full, of course there is some exceptions, like today.. :)
And I'm happy to have time to sleep on the floor with my little sister and our dog, it's quite enjoyable way of spending lazy sunday afternoon. (I really did that yesterday)
My contract is until the end of may, after that God only knows what will happen and before that lots of work is to be done.
I'm hoping to visit Bulstrode during this spring.. But lets see if it really happens, at least it looks like it would.
Most of my friends are quite busy with their own lives and one of them, who I miss the most, is still in Southern America, so some times I'm feeling a BIT lonely. I've spent lots of time with my family and I like it, they are easy to be with and (this is weird for me as an individual) I like to be at home and with my family. Well.. I think that's all this time, take care all of you, my millions and millions of fans!

Happy new year!

Happy new year everybody everywhere!!
It takes time that I will get some pictures here, but I will.. at least I try hard to :)
I just wanted to say that I wish a good new year for everybody.
It 's still hard to be back in Finland somehow.. But what can I say or do? I just have to be, that's all. Life is life.. how clever.