Nothing much this past week except for a wonderfully long and
boring intensive statistics course. Such fun. Anyways, there was some
good last week. The best is that I'm
getting better at a routine that makes me much more efficient and I'm
quite liking it! Onward and upwards we go!
1) I walked about 27 kilometers between last Monday and today, and
that's only the times I specifically went for walks and recorded my time and kilometers. It's supposed to be nice weather all
week so I'll hopefully get out everyday!
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| There are lots of paths to chose from and I quite liked this one, even if it did have some steeps hills. It weaves in and out of the forest, which is lovely. I didn't reach the end but I'll be trekking it again soon once it's less icy! |
2) Even though yesterday was rainy, I still went with some friends
up to Pyynikki for a walk on the rocks at
Pyhäjärvi (one of the big lakes that straddles Tampere city center)
then of course we went for the always necessary munkki at Pyynikin
Näkötorni.
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| At the base of that little tower is doughtnutty gold |
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| One of my favourite spots because it reminds me of where I grew up. Always go for a walk down here before getting munkki. The hike back up the stairs of doom will make it much more deserved. |
3) Like I mentioned earlier, I'm getting a better
routine down. For the longest time my sleep schedule was all over the
place and it drove me nuts because I would be getting up later in the
day and I felt like I couldn't start anything because it was so late.
I also used to just wake up fifteen minutes before I had to go catch
the bus for class and I never had time for breakfast or waking up
normally. Now I've managed to get to bed at decent times, before
midnight, and wake up early enough to get my morning started slow
before I have to start doing more important things. I got up early on Friday
and managed to have breakfast, putter around on my computer, get some
homework done, and go for a walk in the woods all before noon! It
makes me feel so much more efficient, I love it!
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| Getting up early and not feeling tired means I can go to places like this and still have time to do everything else! |
4) Monday was St. Patrick's Day! I'm probably
one of the few people in Finland that has enough Irish heritage to legitimately celebrate St. Patrick's Day. My mum's side of the family
is part of a very large Irish clan that's been around for hundreds of
years, but being Canadian I've got some other European heritage as well. I don't know much about my dad's side other than that they are
very
much from Newfoundland and a fair amount of people from Newfoundland
have Irish background. Regardless of their Irishness, or lack there of, Finns still use
St. Patrick's Day as an excuse to drink. There's an Irish pub in
Tampere called O'Connell's that had a big St. Patrick's Day shindig
that my friends and I went to for a few hours. It was basically like
any other St. Patrick's celebration I've been to back in Canada; lots
of drinking, lots Irish music, and lots of green.
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Obligatory green cider. I usually drink beer or Lonkero, but Irish cider seemed to be the cheaper way to go for St. Patrick's Day. This wasn't at O'Connell's, but at an English pub called Soho just two buildings over from O'Connell's that we went to beforehand. |
5) I wore my new bikini for the first time on
Saturday, to sauna, and I didn't feel as self conscious as I thought I
was gonna be. That probably has to do with feeling better about my
body as a whole and being with friends that I feel aren't judgmental
towards me. Yay for positive body image reinforcement!
That's it for the week. Like I said, nothing
exciting, but such is life sometimes! I think I've got a pretty quiet
week this week so hopefully I can spend most of it outside since we
have wonderful weather!
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This was less than a 24 hour period of the area I live in. We got a dump of snow then it all melted the next day.
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