Sorry for the absence

First of all, I am shocked and sorry to see how long it has been since my last post. I kind of thought it had been two or three weeks at most. I guess time really flies when you're having fun...

Seriously, the last two months have been absolutely insane. I had to finish all the school work in Sweden (write papers, go to seminars, prepare oppositions, take exams...) and prepare my move back to Finland. Then I had two days here to move into the new apartment, before starting my summer internship in new project with new people. And rest of the June has gone to sorting out all paper work, unpacking, meeting friends and family and just generally adjusting.

All in all, it has been ten times more stresful than I anticipated. I guess I thought coming back home would be effortless compared to moving abroad but actually it is every bit as difficult. Except that here I can communicate in my native tongue, whereas in Sweden I was stuck with my fourth strongest language.

Anyway, now my life begins to be back on track so hopefully I will be posting more regularly from now on. Thanks for everyone who has visited and left comments in the past weeks!

Back from Istanbul

So I am back from my holiday trip to Turkey, more accurately Istanbul. It was a wonderful trip and Istanbul is now definitely among my favourite cities in the world. Only when I started to unpack my suitcase I realized just how bad the air quality in Istanbul must be; all my clothes reek as if I had lived past ten days in a very dodgy bar.

We have tried to count exactly how much money we spent and on what and it seems that about one third went to kebap, one third to entrance fees and one third to my souvenirs. But it was all definitely worth it.

I had actually been to Istanbul once before but I was about ten years old back then so my memories were not that clear. The city proved to be much more modern and European than I had expected and at the same time much dustier, busier and larger than I could have ever imagined. It always impresses me to see how people are living their everyday lives on top of so many layers of ancient history.

I am going to post some pictures from my trip soon but here is one already.

The top picture from LivingEtc, the bottom picture by me.

Start Up

I'm currently living in Stockholm, Sweden in a 23 m2 studio that I'm sharing with my boyfriend. The student accomodation office has kindly furnished the room with some of the cheapest furniture Ikea has to offer but there are also many things that I love about living in Stockholm. Still I can't wait to move back to Helsinki, Finland in the summer.

Our last apartment was the first that we shared and it was exactly what you get when you just throw all the posessions of two people together. It was too cramped and cluttered and since we knew we were going to live in it only about 10 months we didn't really put that much thought into it. My hope is that we will find a slightly bigger apartment and I allready have a million ideas for decorating it. So to spare my boyfriend from my constant babbling on the subject I'm going to be recording my thought's in here instead. At least some part of them.

And propably there will be talk about studies, travelling, living in the Scandinavia and a few other subjects as well.