Life Goes On

Helloooo :)

Me with the quite large trophy :)

I know that I have not written for a while, but nothing significant has really happened since my last post. School is great and sometimes hard, but not impossible.
So last weekend i had my first synchronized swimming competitions here in Taiwan and I had an AWSOME time! It was the Taiwan's Synchronized Swimming President Cup 2012, the second competition this year. There were many solos that performed and only one combo, but they actually did very well. The average level here is lower than Finland and we are lacking coaches, but some of the swimmers really stand out with their skills. I ended up winning a trophy... Yes, I think that it was a little exaggerated, but I am happy.
I should improve my figures and flexibility though, to stay good and be better. Also I will be getting an all new solo music and choreography from Russia, and I am very excited about that. Just by the way, if you are interested and speak Finnish, here is a link to the Suomen Uimaliitto website: http://www.uimaliitto.fi/liitto/uutiset/tara-turkki-ui-kultaa-taitouinticupissa-taipeissa/



Love you guys! :)

At school, we have a cool event coming up. It is a dinner/dance where everyone dress nicely and have lots of fun. Especially the girls get excited with all the hair, dresses and makeup. It is next month and I can't wait to see everyone dressed nicely and to have fun dancing with my friends.
Also Christmas is coming! The weird thing is, that it is so warm here, that it doesn't feel like it at all! In Finland it has already been snowing, but not here! Never! So I at least, have not gotten that Christmas feeling yet. :P
Baiii

Synchonized Swimming!!!

Heyyyy!!!!
I just wanted to add that we actually found a place where I can continue my hobby: synchronized swimming! There is a Russian coach that has promised to coach me and that I can swim a solo. My first competitions are in November!
All in all, I think that I am quite settled here in Taipei now. The school is a little more challenging than in Finland, but I think that it is actually just good because then at least I am not behind if I return to Finland in two years. The food in the school is delicious! There is so much varitey and I think that it is even healthier than in my old school.
So life is good, even I miss my old friends and family in Finland. I will never forget them, but I already have very good friends here that I will always remember.
I think thats all! :D

Pics of Friends!!!

Hiiii,


I haven't been writing for a while, but I just thought that I could add some photos from the dance that we had quite a while ago. I found them just a while ago so hope you enjoy them!



 

Me and some of my friends :D

 

 

Here are also a few photos of me and my new friends :)

 

 

 

Camp Tainan!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Friends :)

Hopefully you enjoyed my photos and I know the layout sucks.... I'll be writing again soon! Probably... :D  





School, Dance, Zoo

Hiiii,

This week has been quite filled with homework and school, but on Friday, we had a dance party. It was held at the school and I had the BEST time ever!!! It was so much fun, dancing around with friends, drinking soda and eating pizza! The dancing was the best part though, because the music was awesome and all my new friends were there. I would say that it was the best night of my life so far! :) 

The zoo was very nice since it was full
of jungle and all kinds of cool plants and flowers.


Today, me and my family visited Taipei Zoo and it was fun even though it was really hot! There were so many animals there, and some of them, I had never seen before. It was quite interesting to see all these animals from around the world. One of my favorites was the big Bengali tiger they had there. It was walking just in front of us, behind the glass and sometimes it would lean against the glass and it was quite an amazing experience! 

The awesome tiger :)

Camel :P

Hippos :D

Now I actually have Monday and Tuesday off from school and I'm happy because then I have enough time to do my homework and also chill out a little and have fun. I also want to go to school though, because I see all my friends then and my fiends are the ones that make life enjoyable :)

Hope you like the pics! (Layout sucks, I don't know how to do this that well sorry...)

School!

Hi,
School has started here in Taiwan and my new school is seriously HUGE! There are 2200 students! I have already found a few friends here and they all are really nice. Me and my family have visited lots of places like Taipei 101 and the Memorial Hall.  Here are some pictures from Taiwan:

It is ghost month in Taiwan.

Waterfall at the temple.

One of the Starbucks had three floors! 

Best ice cream ever!!!

Taipei 101

Longshan Temple

Until now, Taiwan has been a pretty nice place! ;)

Taiwan!!!

    Hii :)

Everything on the plane was Hello Kitty! 

Even the food!!! 

    Now we are finally in Taiwan!!! I haven't really been writing for a while because there has been no time. So, Its so hot here!! It feels like I'm going to melt every time I go outside.

Cakes!

This is how they had their honey at breakfast :D

  So the first five nights we were at this 4.5 star hotel and man that hotel was awesome!!! It was like modern art style and it had the most awesome pool ever! We were there every day swimming and the first night we went there, it was Sunday and they had a pool party and they had a DJ, but the only thing they played there was dubstep... I mean we didn't really spend that much time at the hotel because we visited places like Taipei 101 (tower) and also this place that people used as a dance practice place and the guys and girls dancing there totally reminded me of a few people from my old class and I got sad...
We got our stuff on Thursday and that day our house was a huge mess. Our house is quite big. We have a big patio and like three balconies. We live in the 13th and 14th floors of our apartment and I love it!

They like eating chicken feet...

Our view outside in the hotel :)

   Yesterday, I visited my new school and man, its HUGE! I'll never be in time for class because I'll get lost every time. And yay, there are 2200 students there... Also I got a school laptop from there and its really cool, even though the teachers can see everything you do on it... Then after that I started working on the new desks and chairs we got from Ikea and I was working on them for the whole day basically. And BTW when we were in Ikea I got to have meatballs and mashed potato!!!! I ate like 20 meatballs... :)

   So then I thought that I had gotten an allergic reaction from the wood of the furniture, because my throat was hurting, but no! Today I woke up with fever and my throat was hurting even more and my nose was stuffy...

Some might get it.. :)

Little cutie :D

Hopefully I'll get better before school starts...  In the evening we visited the night market and they had the best mangoes ever!!! They had so many different fruits that looked delicious! Then when we left, it started raining and now I'm losing my voice...
Now we're quite settled in Taiwan and also our neighbors have the cutest puppy ever!!!! Always if we come to the patio that we have, it comes to the fence wanting us to pet it!

Man, those fruits were good!

Byee :DD

Japanese Onsen

Heyy,
   These few days have been really AWESOME! And I haven't been able to post because of problems with the wifi...

Our menu :D

   We have been to two different onsen in Kurokawa and Yufuin. An onsen is a Japanese spa where the water comes from hot fountains, underground. It was amazingly fun. We got these robes called yukatans that look kind of like kimonos so we could just walk around in them. The baths were really nice and warm and we were just bathing all the time. The dinner there was really interesting... They just brought more and more Japanese food on the table and it felt like it would never end... But most of it was actually quite good, but some of it was kind of... I think I just have to get used to it. :)

   In Yufuin, we actually just found the onsen by accident and we were the only customers. There was just this old lady keeping the place up, and it was really fun, but also kinda creepy... We had a small outdoor bath in our room, but it was impossible to be there because the water was BOILING hot.

Me and the waterfall (don't mind the horrid rainjacket...)

 On Thursday we visited like three temples and this waterfall and it was really beautiful! It was raining, but it made it even better because there was also some fog. Its quite hard to describe...

The area we were driving through had had lots of landslides.It was creepy and I was totally scared that we would like die or something... Also the area was full of volcanoes and like a few weeks before we came there, one big one had just errupted... Yay -__-

   Yesterday we were in Osaka. The city is really big and we were looking for a good restaurant for a long time and when we finally found a nice one, we got to wait an hour for our food... -_- And for our appetizer, we ordered some shrimp thing and garlic bread and of course they totally forgot about them so we got the main course first, the shrimp after that and the garlic bread last... -__- I mean the food was good, but it took so long that i probably wouldn't go there again...
   We walked on this street that was just filled with restaurants and they had these HUGE advertisement thingys hanging on top of their doors and there was a huge hand holding a sushi, two blowfish, a dragon, a crab etc. I liked it :)
  

    Today we came back to Tokyo and we went to the same Thai restaurant as we went to before because my parents love the food so much, but today my favourite meal was this small box that we bought from the store. It was really cute and it had a small piece of everything: Two small rice triangles with different fish on them, a small sausage, half a meatballish thingy, like six strands of spaghetti a chickhen nugget and a ton of small stuff.
   We are now in this really nice hotel with a fun swimming pool. There's 37 floors, but we're only on the tenth one... Its still really nice though :)

   We are leaving to Taiwan tomorrow and I don't want to leave yet... :'( And its like horrible because I have some thing with the school there and apparently I'll still have some kind of test and im freakin' out! I mean, I already had a three hour entrance exam, isn' that enough? But yeah... Byee :)