SUMMER

Finally. my first year of the "real" IB is over. No more exams, books to analyze, lab reports to write... in the next 10 weeks. What fun. Apart from the SATs next saturday *sigh* and the damn Extended Essay.

Anyhow, the doctor finally called - and sent me to more asthma tests. Cool. Not. But at least I'll get a medicine to use for the time being. Hope it works.

I'm planning to use my summer to have fun, go to work (bah), practise cycling (when I get the medicine) hang out with friends and so on. And eat strawberries. A lot of them.

DONE. And talk about bad timing

Whew. Exam week is finally over (ok, I do have a Theory of Knowledge presentation tomorrow, but that doesn't count. And only this week before summer break - yay!

The lazy and insufficiently operating public health system hasn't contacted me about my asthma results, even though they had promised that I'd get to know the results within a week - and that's what they said two weeks ago. Boo.

But the bad timing I happened to experience last Friday was quite bad. Really. I had wanted to see the Monet paintings at EMMA, so I went there. Little did I know that on the exactly same day and time my school had arranged a recreational day for it's teachers and other staff. Well. I ended up being at the exhibition for about 20 minutes, hiding from my student councillor, maths teachger, homeroom teacher and so on. Talk about bad timing...

also

• the physics teacher still hasn't put the exam to the web page. My guess is it'll be there 2 hours before we need to return it...
• apparently there's some weird rumours about teräsbetoni doing well in the semifinals of the Eurovision song contest. Hmm. That would be weird. Helloo, it was pretty horrible.

*yawn*

I'm tired. My sleeping rhythm is way off, but who cares? only one week of school left, if you can even call it school. Seems pretty easy.
I've slept altogether about 15 hours this week (most of them last night). That might be the cause of my problem. Maybe. Maybe not. You never know.
It's a really nice day, so I'll wear my pretty new white dress. What fun. I'll go to the museum today, because I didn't have time before.
I'm totally random. Must be because of being tired.

Haha. Almost done

Well, well, well. One secured 7/7 as a predicted grade. Namely, Chemistry. I had my chemistry exam today. Knowing my oh-so-excellent study habits, trust me to have left the studying for the last night. Yup, that's me. But when else would I have had the time? I had to go to NÄT and then I studied for my Bio exam the night before. What, the weekend? or earlier?. I pretend I didn't notice my better self saying that. I always plan to study really well and prepare early and all - usually it's the night before when I actually open the books for the first time. Bad me. For my good luck, I've been blessed with a good memory. And a skill to manage with a very small amount of sleep. The last two nights I've slept altogether 3 hours. And that was partly because I fell asleep accidentally. Didn't mean to. But I can sleep late tomorrow. And for the rest of the week actually, because I don't have any exams -> no school. Fun stuff. Now I only have maths (easy) exam and the physics exam. Otherwise the physics might be a problem, but our teacher decided to be nice and give the exam for us for the week. As in, open book test. Way fun. That's another 7. Go me!

I'm going to a museum tomorrow. I really want to see this imressionist exhibition at EMMA before the exhibition ends on Sunday. I also need to do my maths portfolio tomorrow. Bah. That sucks.

I'll be getting the asthma results any day now. I do hope I'll get the meds soon so that I get to actually practise. I might have missed a lot of important training time (two months and counting), so the road nationals won't be for me. No way I'm back in form in less than a month, but I still have hope concerning the XC nationals in August.

Will take some time to get back to normal

Holy sh*t! I saw my homeroom teacher outside school! At a same event I was. I feel - weird. Geh. I was at a same place with my homeroom teacher. Voluntarily. Boo. This would seem really bad for me if I hadn't been at the event because of a school project. But still.

And I had always thought that teachers live at school like 24/7. Whoa. It was big news to me that this wasn't true. I will probably spend most of next week just to recover from the shock.

Oh. And the event? The Baltic Sea-event arranged by Helsingin Sanomat. I went there in case I'd get some useful information for my Extended Essay, but it ended up being a waste of time. Boo.

Also, I've lately made friends with this guy I met at a website. Nothing wrong with that, except - he's 26. That's "slightly" older. More accurately like 1.5x my age. He might be a pedophile or something. Hmm. This might be a problem. As all these people tell you all the time, you can never know who you meet online really is. He could just as well be 68 or something. Or more likely 13, pretending to be older and cooler. Geh. Besides, who cares? The good point is, he's living nowhere nearby. Or so he says.

Only a few more days and I'll get the results of my first lab tests for asthma and allergies. Yay. I do hope they found the reason for my breathing problems. I really wouldn't want to spend the rest of the competing season doing nothing just because I don't have the correct medication to be able to breathe.

Me Is Superstar!

I almost forgot. I went to watch Tuntematon Sotilas (the new national theatre version directed by Kristian Smeds) with our Finnish A1 group. It was totally great. Probably the best theatre performance I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few. Also, the actors dragged me to the stage to dance at one point, together with about 5 others. What fun. I'm a superstar in making...

Also, I've regained faith in human honesty. Nice people out there! I had forgotten my rather expensive sunglasses to a fitting room, and after a half an hour or so later when I noticed them missing the staff members of the shop told me they had noticed them and gave them back to me. What nice people^^. The last time I lost something at a shop (a new knit that had not been too cheap, see post from last year), I never saw it again. Then again the shop I lost my sunglasses at was this rather expensive one with really good customer service. The previous one was a cheaper shop which has never heard the words "customer service". Lord knows why I even went there. Anyhow: lesson of the day: Only go to nice expensive shops - they sell nices stuff anyhow. Or then that was not the point, I just missed it. Might be.

Also, the Deadline Nightmare is nowhere near ending - my CAS diary is for tomorrow. Boo. And the Extended Essay first draft is for Monday. Bah. No good. I might have to do something about them.

A lot of stuff

Whoa. A huge amount of stuff going on.

1. Asthma etc. testing. After being on hold on the phone service of the local health station and weeks of waiting for my appointment, the doctor called yesterday and cancelled my original time for tomorrow. BAH. Evil doctor. She then offered a time today, at a time where it would completely mess up my schedule. I was in for a "hard" decision between skipping school and going to asthma testing, which I really want to get done as soon as possible. Needless to say, I took the appointment today, and was absent from school. I might go to my chemistry class if I get my lab report written. The queue at the lab was huge, because they had a lot of workers off today. No clue why. So it actually took me hours to wait for a few blood tests and an x-ray picture of my lungs. This time the x-ray doctor was female, thank god.
2. Exam week coming up. Boo. But now that I think about it, it's not really that bad. Ok, it starts with Bio next Monday and Chemistry on Tuesday, then the rest of the week off, and finally Math on the next Monday. I have a TOK presentation on the Tuesday (should be a piece of cake). That's it. Or well, we get our physics exams tomorrow, and have to return them before the end of the exam week. Ha! The easiest 100% grade ever. A great thing, considering my predicted grade for physics.
3. Physics lab hour day - we went to Linnanmäki last Saturday. It was fun, in general. Highlights of the day:
• The new roller coaster broke down temporarily after we had been in the queue for about an hour - and when we finally were the first on the queue. Boo
• people staring us and our Vernier probes. What, never seen people with high-tech physics equipment in a theme park before? No, me neither. Some tourists actually took pictures.
  
• The guys screaming all sorts of stuff on the rides. My personal favorite, by M, "Ohmygod this f*cking thing castrated me!". That was funny. And so was a lot of other stuff. And yes, a lot of people stared at us. But hey, who cares? Besides, considering how well an average Finnish person speaks or understands English, they probably had no clue what we were saying.
• These little pervy guys poking my (and my firend's) ass. Hello? Was this close I didn't kill you or arrange you into condition which would have required the Intensive care unit. Besides, they were like 15. That's kids. Scary.
• When the new ride was finally operating again, it was totally great. One of my favorites, without a question.
• We noticed a really important thing with my friend: the area has loads of restaurants and cafes and such, but you couldn't get really healthy food from anywhere. Ok, the one place had overprized and rather nasty-looking salads. But the ingredients seemed to be weeks old. I ended up eating a tiny sandwich (3.50e) which had two small pieces of rye bread and tiny amounts of salad and tomato (raw). What great nourishment. Then again, at least I didn't have to eat pizza or french fries or something else like that with 10 gazillion calories. Good stuff. Yay for tiny sanwiches!
• The free game included in the all-day ticket. Ha. Starting from this year, the all-da ticket contains a free game (choice of five different games). Anyhow, we decided to go for this game called Rollen ajot (yes, I know the name is dumb, but I didn't pick it). The others had weird stuffed animals as prizes. Hello, what would I do with a hyper-sized dust bunny? So, we went for the game with candy as prizes. The point of the game was to roll small tennis balls to small holes. The more accurate you were, the faster your "car" moved. I beat 6 others and won 600 grams of candy. My friend went to the next round but won "only" 300g because there were less people competing. I know a little brother who will obey my every single word for the next few days...
  
• We saw a few guys we knew - who had also played the same game. There had been 3 of them, and they had decided to play on the same round and share the prize. They lost (to 6-years old brats, as one of them said). Ha!