I wake up to your sunset

I'm happy to say that this year's Songkran festival is over! I managed to stay mostly dry and even have fun thanks to my friend. Surprisingly the only day when I got wet and I mean soaking wet was my last working day before the holiday. We celebrated Songkran also at the office and after staying dry almost the whole lunch/celebrations time, I got 3 buckets of water thrown at me. That killed my mood for the rest of the day but I didn't let it ruin my whole holiday.  First I spend 5 days in Bangkok and then traveled to Chiang Mai for a couple of days after which I still spent a day in Bangkok. During the first weekend in Bangkok I went to see a Thai movie with a friend and eat dinner together. It was a horror movie called 11-12-13. I really liked it because the plot was kind of different to what I'm used to see. It had 3 different stories which were all somehow connected and what made the movie really interesting was that everything happened during Songkran.  Afte...

We had a farewell dinner on Wednesday in a restaurant called Villa Talbo which is located in the seaside of Rauma. It was a very nice old building which you can rent for a party etc. There was food and dessert for us and I heard even the exchange students liked the catering very much as did I. We had this farewell dinner as a goodbye to the exchange students who are leaving soon and as a thank you for us tutors for all the work we have done. We had a similar dinner last fall but then it was called Christmas dinner and there were much more people present and of course different catering. It was a nice evening although I didn't spend much time with the exchange students, just had some small talk. I spent it with my 2 lovely tutor friends which honestly were better company than most of the exchange students would have been :) It was a nice evening although I was sooo tired when I got home but still I enjoyed myself :) xoxo, Elina

On Wednesday evening we went to Pori with our exchange students. We had a Christmas Dinner which was to celebrate Christmas and spend time together with all the exchange students in SAMK.  There were Christmas food, a dance performance, changing presents and singing.  I think it was quite nice event but the seating system was very bad because you couldn't talk and hang out with everyone. Me and Johanna sat with our Chinese exchange students and two other tutors but all the others were sitting at the other end of the table so we couldn't talk with them much.  But overall it was nice especially because the bus and the food were free :D