Blurbs about feelings

So much has happened during the last few weeks.
My feelings are going up and down. I feel very sad because (now I can really say this) our time in Budapest has come to an end. Most of the people are going home this week. So I dedicate this post for all of you who have made my four months here so amazing. When I read back my blog I can’t stop smiling. We have done so much, went to places and partied but mostly we have laughed. I will never forget this experience. Budapest has a piece of my heart and rest of it is travelling mostly around Europe…

Ok, now I’m going to cry (again) if I keep on writing like this!

The weather has been great. It has been so hothothot, easily over +30 degrees every day. We have been swimming a lot and I feel like I’m having my long needed beach holiday here. Perfect!


Uni ended last Wednesday. My final presentation went well. The situation was a bit odd though… None of us really got any kind of personal feedback. It felt that the presentation was more for other students than for the tutors. I actually had to ask an evaluation after the event. I got a first, which felt really nice after the hours and sleepless nights I spent with my chairs. Again there was lot of people from MOME, people from magazines and some people from different manufacturing companies.
After the presentation I felt really odd. I realized I’m not going to see my tutors anymore or most of the people in university. It felt great to be ‘free’ from school again, but still I think in away I hoped it would not have ended yet. Here is a pic of one of my babies. I will post more when I get better ones.

My darling Yael went home last Thursday. She wanted to go to Balaton for the last time so we packed Andrea’s car and drove there for a day. We had a very relaxing weekend. I was more eager to get back to Pest because I wanted to spend every possible minute in this city before I go back to England. (I’m still wondering how will I cope in London this summer, mentally I mean…!)

Yaeli I miss you!! Nobody handles my sarcasm as well as you do! You are so dear to me. Come back Yaeli Yafa!



On Monday Susana left home. She came to wake me up in the morning, just before her taxi arrived to take her to the airport. She told me that she took much looooonger shower that morning because she could not stop crying. Susana and Paloma you have been the best flat mates I’ve ever had in my life.
Now I’m alone in our flat and it feels way too big for one person. Thank god Paloma comes back for one more week!

‘Tiina jajajajajajaja’’
Puszi to both of you. I hope Madrid treats you well.

This week has been quite heavy to every Erasmus students’ liver. We have been celebrating our last days here every night. Some how it feels, sadly, that all of us are making much more effort to enjoy the last days here than during the last month. There is this strange atmosphere in the air.. And like you can imagine the feelings about leaving are divided into two. Some are really happy about going home and some, most of the people, are not done with this city yet.

I think four months exchange program should be illegal. It is far from being enough to live in one place. Just when you get use to everything you have to leave and the worst is that you can never get this time back. And don’t tell me that life has to go on. I know that, but it’s so wrong!!!!

Yesterday we celebrated Andrea’s 22nd birthday (oh, those times!). We had the best party in a while. Everybody came to her flat, also the police so around four o’clock we had to leave from her house to mine. The party carried on until the early morning.

We said goodbyes to Christof and Galatee (my Fishtee, I hope you swim well in the sea of life. I love you a lot!). And you, Christof, have given me hope about German people. Now I have more sweethearts there than I ever would have imagined! Big hug to you and I hope I’ll see you soon.

Well, I’m going to take a nap now and when I wake up I hope it would be 7th of February, my first day in Budapest.

Patriotism

Sorry, it’s been a while. Last week was a bit too patriotic for me and
I think I had to cool down a little bit before writing…
Oh, sorry about the mistake I wrote Sweden not to be in the Eurovision finals.

Let’s start from Monday last week. Bozan left home on Tuesday so we went to Margit island and made a big fire (almost like kokko). We grilled sausages, sang songs and some people tried to play guitar… Some of them with better talent than the others but we heard lot of Nirvana. That night was a very nice change for our normal Mondays and I believe it was a great goodbye party number 1 to Bonbon. I don’t know where the boys found all the wood but the fire was on all night long. We even got a visit from a police that evening because somebody had call them and said that Margit is on fire.

On Tuesday we had a party in my house for the first time in a looooong time. That was the party number 2. Lot of people came to celebrate Bozan’s last night… well maybe celebrate is a bit wrong word. We changed pictures and I got some ‘real Erasmus pearls’ from the first months we were here. I forgot half of the things we have done.

Rest of the week was mostly about ice hockey. The whole tournament was so stressful... almost too unhealthy for me. I was a nerve rack for the most of the games, ate all my nails and bite my sleeves. Everything went so well before the finals until the big BUT… I was actually quite sure we were going to make it this year. We played so well but once again Finland’s, our, bad luck was there. I don’t understand where does it come from? I blame Aki Berg and the whole Finnish defence and the Swedish referee who preferred the prettier Canadian players.
We had very international supporting audience; French, German, Israelian, Finnish, Norwegian, Hungarian... That was nice. And they so shared my misery.

Well, I’ve always liked silver jewellery better anyway and at least we are the best in Europe. And we didn’t have too embarrassing song in the Eurovision either… I just didn’t get why Hanna was so angry…? Hihi

Now life is pretty much same old. I’ve been working with my chair models all week.
It’s great to do something actually ‘creative’ for a change instead sitting in front of computer.
I have to say that we are very spoiled with our workshops in Rochester. MOME does not have even the half of the facilities than we do in UCCA. Only one band saw! Think about that!!

I got the work experience place from London. It’s 80 % sure now. I’m going to work for Martino Gamper, really cool, my kind of designer and my first choice of all the design companies too. So I will be in London 12th of June, in three weeks. Crazy!

Bonbon, Budapest is not as great without you here. Who’s making me happy now in the flat parties? I’ll see you in Paris latest in October. Putzi x 1000

Ai nii, mulla on treffit huomenna yhden valokuvaajan kanssa.
Ma punastelin kun kirjotin ton lauseen…

What a day!!

What a day for us!
First we won USA (suckers!!) in ice hockey, which means we are in the best four of this year's championship. On Saturday we'll play against Russia for the final place. And oh boy, what a game it was!!! Proper ice hockey! Well done Leijonat. Now I'll definitely marry J. Ruutu (on the right in the picture)!
On top of that Sweden dropped from the Eurovision final. What a shame... Sorry my friends in Sweden!
So Saturday will be a big battle for 'Fineland', like some French people call it.

Happy birthday bennie! I hope you got a gift card to IKEA as a present. See you soon!! x x x

To Hai'Lee and my Dirty dancer

We didn’t celebrate vappu eve here in the original Finnish way. We went out, yes of course, but nobody really remembered the meaningless event. Though lot of people were out because first of May is a holiday here too.

Morrison’s was as full as usual. It was a good night to be there. Everybody came. Bjorn was back from Germany. He was there for his mother’s birthday and Andrea was brave enough to confort the full bar for the very first time after she had the accident with the trampoline. She still has to wear the splint for few more weeks, but she doesn’t walk like a duck anymore! After Morrison’s we went to a boat bar called A38. It used to be a Ukrainian stone carrier and now it’s a summer club offering all kind of different events. It was cool to dance outside.

I also got a new 'friend' that night. Bjorn dragged this 19 years old Hungarian boy with us. We met him at the buss stop. He was on his way home and carried this huge book about poker. Bjorn thought, for some reason, that Andrea has a huge urge for a boyfriend so he thought that a young boy would be the easiest way to fill this need as fast as possible.
Well, it didn’t go that well… As you can understand Andrea wasn’t that found of this hook up-try but I think we all enjoyed our night. The kid included. I think that was very exciting night for him. 15 exchange students all around from Europe kidnapped him and took him into a bar… WAU!!

Tuesday, surprisingly, everybody made it to our far panned picnic on Margit island. Margit was full of people, bands were playing, people performing and enjoying the day. It was nice and hot. We ate well and in the evening went to see some good ice hockey. Finland lost to Russia but we played very well and I’m proud of my home country.
I was in bed at 9 o’clock...

Before the weekend I worked a lot. We have our last tutorials next week, which leaves us two weeks to finish our models and everything else. The final presentation will be quite a big thing. There will be people from magazines and furniture manufacture companies to see are there anything interesting. Also, of course, all the masters, head of the university, etc. will be there. It is strange that my group is the only one where the exchange students will take a part of this presentation thing as well. It’s good though!

Hayley and Fergus left Budapest last Saturday. We went again to Trofea. I haven’t laughed that much in ages! It was a great ending for their three months, I think. After we carried on to Audrey’s flat party and West Balkan. It was sad to say goodbyes. I didn’t cry!!! But a tear came from my eye but I blame all the smoke on the dance floor.

Yesterday we officially started the summer with a barbeque party. I went there with Outi and Ari. Alex’s, the guy who's place we went to, lives in Buda side. He lives there with his parents and yes, it was a bit different from the other flats I’ve been here. Swimming pool, garden, three floors… A lot of space.

It has been mission impossible to watch ice hockey games here!
I got lucky once, when we were playing against Russia. A sports bar called Box utca showed the game on TV, but Hungary is really a football country. So instead of world championships they show UEFA cup, of Champions League, or some coca cola tournament. That really pisses me off!
Today there was a game, which was too personal to miss. We played against our darling neighbour Sweden. Like I said, specially on Sundays, football comes from 100 different channels and ice hockey is totally ignored.
Well, thank god for the 21st century technology. I found a site from internet that shows the games online and live. It costs almost nothing and the quality was surprisingly good.
After the first 20 minutes we were moaning because we couldn’t hear Antero Mertaranta presenting so we looked for Finish radio channel and listened it at the same time than watched the game.
It was a proper mission to do all this but definitely worth it! We lost 1-0 but it was veryveryvery good game!

Hyva Leijonat! Ruutu oot niin MURU ja LENNI!! Mari miiiiii !!!!!

Here's a pic about the recycling thing I told you earlier. People just leave their unwanted stuff on the streets and you can collect what ever you want. And all the streets in Budapest looks like this...

Bebeee, paljooon onnnneeeeaaaa!! pusmus

Finland this morning (I'm actually a bit malicious):