We may only have tonight but till the morning sun you're all mine

Hey y'all, lately the weather in Helsinki has been super sucky and I'll I've wanted is to get out of here! So last night I booked my flights to Hamburg, I'm gonna stay there for 5 days with my lovely friend Charly! I met her in Hawaii and instantly became such good friends, so I know I'll have a good week next week!
I've been seeing some of my friends but mostly everyone is out of the country, or always at work... We rearranged my room completely and I love it so much now. There's still stuff to be done so I'll keep working on it and when it's done I might post some pics here. There's been a couple of storms here, they come and go, but really no sunshine which sucks cause I don't wanna lose my tan! Haha, tomorrow I'm seeing a friend of mine after she's been gone for way too long, and at night I might go have a little fun haha. Today I got my DVD from our Hawaii trip, and even though I thought they cut too much stuff out, I still loved it! It made me miss Hawaii and all my exchange friends so much :(
I'm finally getting better though, so I might go for a run in a minute since it stopped raining. See yaaaaa

You were born and raised to be a southern belle but in a place like this you like to raise a little hell

Y'all this 7 hour time difference is literally driving me crazy. The two nights I've now spent here I've woken up at 4am, been awake for a good 30 minutes and then back to sleep. This morning I woke up at 7 and decided it would be better to wake up then than to wake up at 3pm again...it'll definitely take a while to get used to this again. I'd completely forgotten just how light it is outside even after midnight. In Gainesville it usually starts getting dark after 6pm, and here it's sunlight 24/7! I love it though. It's been super cold, in the 50's and 60's, and I checked the weather in gville and it's supposed to be like a 100 degrees this week. Smh... Things definitely get better with time, even if it would take a long time I'm trying to just stay strong. Even though I've been crying more than I probably have my whole life, it just makes me realize just how much I love my second home and everyone who lived there with me. I miss my best friend Kelsie SO much that I honestly don't know what I'd do if I wasn't able to text her every single day here! We've already skyped and FaceTime'd, and when she asked me via Skype if her hair looked good it made me feel like everything was just like always :) KELSIE my baby I love you so much and when you come here next summer I promise to give you the best time of your life, after we've calmed down and stopped crying haha. You'll be shocked about just how small everything is!!! I thought our car was a joke, I felt like there was no way I would fit in it... My room is so pathetic too. The glasses are way too small for my hands, and it's so weird not having a full carpet on my floor. Our shower seems too weird for me, and I hate that it's not in a bathtub. We only have one switch for our tap, so it's not hot and cold separately and it feels awkward turning it on. Everyone walks around here, and people walk out their dogs and what not. Public transportation scares me to be honest, and I don't know how I'm supposed to get in one and speak Finnish to te driver haha... Country music makes me so so sad and at the moment I can't really listen to it. I haven't really left my house, right now it seems easier to just stay home and do nothing. Tomorrow I'm going out to see my friends and we're gonna go eat dinner, so that'll be interesting. There's some European championships going on here now that I might go watch tonight with my parents. Till then I'm just gonna be watching some movies and I'll try to unpack all my stuff! My room is already filled with stuff so I don't know what I'm gonna do with everything I brought from America haha. Hopefully all my babies will be reading my blog from now on :) I want y'all to know what's up! Love y'all and keep skyping and texting me ❤

I love you more than songs can say but I can't keep running after yesterday

I'm finally back in Finland. I traveled for a good 18 hours, which about 17 I used for crying. Finland feels weird now and it'll take a while for it to feel like home again. Things have changed so much, but when I saw my best friend it felt like I never left. I love everyone here dearly so I hope they understand it'll take me a while to adjust. Yesterday literally all I did after coming home was cry, watch soccer, tell so many stories to my parents, I tried to unpack but I have too much stuff, and then I slept for a good 13 hours. I woke up in the middle of the night, and it felt good to know everyone in America was still awake so I spent almost an hour texting my friends haha. Otherwise, this 7 hour time difference sucks!!! Now I'm just waiting for next may when my best friend kelsie comes here to visit me, and soon after that I'll see my sisters too! Hopefully one of them will be joining me in Thailand for this Christmas too :) I'll probably be updating in English from now on so that all of my American friends will be able to know what's up with their Finnish girl. Y'all better keep me as y'alls southern girl, cause being European just seems too weird now! I love my American friends and family so so much, and I know we won't lose touch thanks to the great technology we have. Have a great summer everyone :) love y'all