Happenings that make life harder...

Well, I can start to tell everything here again. Why my arm is broken, why my life got so difficult now and why I could dance in Vanhat.
It was just a pretty normal Monday afternoon and I was on the way to town. I went to the bus stop but I couldn’t really make it till there. I was on the zebra crossing and then a car hit me. Crazy story I know that. I destroyed the front glass of the car; was rolling over the car. And flying! Police said to me I flew 22 meters. Full success, I would say…
But what do you think if you are lying in the snow when you got recently hit by a car. In my case, I thought that I am totally okay. I couldn’t feel any pain; I could move my arm, my legs my head… wait no. I just thought that I could move everything. I was looking to the left and when I thought… when it felt as if I would lift my left arm, it wasn’t moving at all. Just my hand moved. “Good damn shit”, I thought. I was 100% sure that my arm is broken. 2. thought after that: “Shit, you can’t do any sport anymore now” 3. thought: “Damn, you can’t do Vanhat anymore!” 4: “You have to call someone who can do Vanhat anymore” 5: “F***, but now I’ll have to go back to Germany again…” 6:”C’mon why does all the shit always happen to me?!”
But then a crowd was building up around me. People where talking to me: if I can hear them, if my head is okay, if I am okay, how I feel. I just answered: “Well, I am basically good, but I am so sure that my arm is broken. Hei but, can somebody go and find my phone? Please?! And I need someone to warm my left hand. I can’t do it on my own…” So they went to search my stuff, they warmed my hand, we actually had a very nice conversation about my exchange year, I know that this sounds so absurd… it was probably. Almost inappropriately if you thing that I was lying there in the snow waiting for the ambulance with my broken arm. And it continued totally absurd in my opinion. First on ambulance car was crossing, but this one was not for me… I already got a little bit upset. And when ambulance finally arrived they came to me, looked at me but they weren’t talking to me?! Just to the people around me. And to each other. “mh, I guess the arm is broken” “Really?” Me:” Yeah, hello, I would also say that it is broken. Can’t lift it. Look!!!” - Doing not-really-moves with my broken arm. I got just a little bit more upset when they told me to walk to the ambulance car. Just funny if you think that i got hit by a car, flew some meters and but then I was just walking to this stupid ambulance car. Of course I told them “I can walk. But someone needs to carry my arm. I can’t t do it on my one anymore SORRY!” Maybe I was a little bit pissed off. In ambulance car it continued with making me angry. I can understand that they had to cut my jacket to get to my arm but… still; They cut two of my jackets! I actually turned my head away because I didn’t want to see my destroyed arm, but then the ambulance people said: “Oh it’s not looking that bad!” I – surprised – was looking there and you couldn’t see anything! Just the arm was a little but big but… Nothing! Wow.
But so my trip to hospital continued. No, I won’ t say anything about how … the finnish health system is/seems to be, but my whole hospital visit was consisting of waiting. And in case that they said to me straight away: “Okei, you’ll go to Kotka with your arm!” I was waiting with my hostmom from 19.00 o’clock to 04.00 in the morning till the ambulance from Kotka came to pick me up. So I was going one hour in ambulance car to Kotka and in Kotka they put me in a pink hospital pyjama, cut before that some more of my clothes… but they were kind of nice because they allowed me to drink some juice. But not more, an operation was planned. Well, but in die End there was no operation. It was a little bit risky to operate because there were so many nerves they could have hit. So I got gypsum around my arm. Because the arm will be better if you let it heal itself.

… Now I just hope that I can already get rid of the gypsum next Friday. That’s my biggest wish at this moment.

Good Morning Kouvola

So the third test week finally arrived now. Luckily I could sleep one hour longer today because of that, BUT I had to take the bus in the morning. And with that I just hit the coldest day in this winter till now. -21 °C. Really f***ing cold. And I can say now from my own experience, that this coldness already starts to hurt. Like billions of little needles in your face. There was also a little bit wind what made everything even worse. After I finally caught the bus and mastered my way through Kouvola, I arrived in school and my face was all red. I guess my face was totally numb and I even got a running nose the whole time. It was already running on my way through Kouvola. You really can’t do anything against it!
Then I went to my (second) German test and I tried to do it as good as I can, even if it is still hard to write the Finnish translations. I mean I could probably say the words but write? I never know where I should put the funny double letters ( you can really say that you just can put them wrong. No other chance :---) ) But I survived.
After that I went with Inka and Oona to Hesburger, what really made my day after the cold start of the morning and the test. And even on my way back home we had warm -18°C again. Almost a weather where you don’t have to wear glows anymore :--) But hei, the sun is shining the whole day, what makes everything sooo light outside. But I don’t mean that it makes it warmer outside.
Uha but I have to go to study some Biology for the test tomorrow. I still hope that I won’t totally mess it around… but that is just a dream I guess.
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Nun hat auch schon die 3. Testwoche angefangen. Also konnte ich heute glücklicherweise eine Stunde länger schlafen, musste aber mit dem Bus fahren. Und ja, ich habe damit genau den kältesten Tag bis jetzt erwischt. -21 °C. Das war vielleicht kalt. Ich kann ja nun aus Erfahrung sagen, dass diese Kälte echt schon weh tut. Wie tausend kleine Nadeln in deinem Gesicht. Eine leichte Brise wehte auch noch, was es sogar noch ein bisschen schlimmer machte. Nachdem ich dann aber endlich im Bus war und den Weg durch Kouvola gemeistert hatte, kam ich mit hochrotem Kopf in der Schule an. Ich glaube mein Gesicht war komplett taub und meine Nase ist ununterbrochen gelaufen. Sie lief schon während ich durch Kouvola gelaufen bin. Da kann man wirklich NICHTS gegen machen. Jedenfalls habe ich mich dann also zu meinem (zweiten) Deutschtest begeben, habe es versucht so gut es geht, weil das ins Finnische übersetzen immer noch ziemlich schwierig ist. Ich meine, sagen könnte ich alle Wörter, aber schreiben. Weil ich ja nicht weiß, wo ich nun die doppelbuchstaben hin packen soll (grundsätzlich kann man davon ausgehen, dass die Doppelbuchstaben da sind, wo man sie nicht erwartet hätte :---) )Aber ich habe es ja überlebt!
Danach bin ich dann noch mit Inka und Oona zu Hesburger gegangen, was den Tag eigentlich noch ziemlich verschönert hat. Übrigens waren es auf meinem Heimweg schon wieder mollig warme -18°C. Da konnte man fast schon wieder ohne Handschuhe rumlaufen :--) Und die Sonne scheint auch noch wie verrückt hier, alles ist soooo hell! Was jetzt aber nicht heißen soll, dass es das wärmer draußen macht.
Uha aber jetzt muss ich los und für den Bio-Test morgen lernen. Ich hoffe ja noch drauf, dass ich es nicht vollkommen vermassel… ist aber eher unwahrscheinlich.

Jetzt wird's richtig kalt!

Uhhaaa... es kommt. Die Kälte! Ich meine, ich friere mir ja jetzt schon alles ab, wenn ich rausgehe und wir haben nur -13 °C.
*(päivä - Tag; yö - Nacht)

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Uhhaaa... it comes. The coldness. I mean, I totally freeze already now and we are just at -13°C now.
*(päivä - day; yö - night)

Von Mannapuuro und Vadelmakeitto

Heute. Ein vöölig normaler Tag. Viel zu viele Hausaufgaben, viel zu Müde in der Schule... es war wieder mal vie zu kalt IN der Schule und draußen waren es ja auch einfach mal nur -9 grad. Ich meine, schönes Wetter hatten wir ja. Es war eben nur sau kalt.
Nach meinen Vanhojentanssi Training (übrigens steht jetzt die finale Austellung. Und ich stehe in der Mitte in der 3. Reihe. Erfolg! :--) ) bin ich dann im Pulverschnee nach Hause gestiefelt, komme rein, nehme mir etwas zu essen und merke, dass ich nicht richtig kauen kann, weil mein Gesicht vielleicht ein bisschen "eingefroren" war. Das fand ich ziemlich erstaunlich, denn ich weiß aus eigener Erfahrung, dass es richtig wehtut, wenn dir die Hände "einfrieren" Also es tut weh , wenn sie einfrieren, zwischendurch ist es eben taub und dann tut es nur nochmal weh, wenn sie wieder auftauen. Ganz normal eben :---)
Jedenfalls gab es heute mal wieder Mannapuuro. Das ist ein Brei. Und ich glaube, den hat sich meine Familie jetzt schon den 5. Tag in folge gemacht. Ich esse denn nicht, weil mir das einfach zu spät ist, aber die Anderen essen das dann eben einfach mal zwischendurch. Variieren kann man den Geschmack auch, indem man Kakaopulve, Butter oder Vadelmakeitto ((wortwörtlich!)=Himbeersuppe) reintun. Ich finde es nur immer komisch, dass es eben die "Himbeersuppe" einfach mal in nem Tetrapack gibt. Genau wie die Blaubeerensuppe.

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Today. Totally normal day. Way to much homeworks, way to tired in school... way to cold IN school and just -9 °C outside. We had pretty nice weather, but it was just freaking cold.
After our Vanhojentanssi practise (were we have the final positons now. I am standin in the middle in the 3. row. Success!) I walked home like always, tried to eat something but then, i guess my face was frozen because eating didn't really work out. Suprising, because I know that it acutally should have hurted. I know this from my hands. Its hurting when they freeze, then nothing anymore and hurting again while defreezing. Pretty normal thing :--)
But today we had mannapuuro AGAIN: I fell like it was the 5. time in a row now that my family wanted to make it. I don't eat it, because it is always a little bit to late in the evening but the others just make it if they feel a little bit hungry. Like a night-snack :--) You can also vary the taste if you put cacao-pulver, butter or vadelmakeitto inside. This is a fruit soup. And you can just buy it in the same bottles like milk. Weird finnish fruit-soups.. I guess there are lots of different kinds anyway:--)