I wake up to your sunset

Another Christmas has come and gone. Compared to last year's Christmas, this time it was way different. This year I spent it in Finland with my family and I got to eat traditional Finnish Christmas food and not McDonalds' like last year... Our plan for Christmas Eve changed a bit but still I had fun and enjoyed myself. But once again I got thinking that Christmas is actually quite annoying event because I feel like everyone is just stressing and worrying about presents, food, clothes, cleaning, family + possible work/school related things. So during the weeks leading to Christmas people are just bunch of stressed and burned out monkeys. I wish people would just forget all the stupid fuss about "what to buy as a present" "oh no I still need to cook this and this" "the house still looks horrible" and just enjoy and relax during Christmas time. But that probably won't happen ever especially in the Western countries... At least I tried to take it ...

Before I left to Osaka I had my 21st birthday which I celebrated with a group of good friends :) First we went bowling which was a lot of fun although I failed badly. I really should go bowling more often :D Hopefully we'll have time to go again.  The bowling place was next to the Ekkamai station. The price for 1 game was 140B/person + 40B for shoes.  After we were finished, we went to Siam Paragon to eat in a restaurant called Manna which is one of my favourites. I had made a reservation there earlier but I wasn't so sure if the staff understood me so I was quite surprised that they really had a table reserved for me and my friends :D The food was good as always and the company I had was even better.  Overall the day was fun and it was interesting to celebrate my birthday with new friends and not with my Finnish friends back at home. Although there was one thing bothering me during the evening, I was glad to be with my friends...

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