Far Away Friends

Two weeks ago I was very excited. I was on my way to Finland to meet up with my old "idle" friends back in the birth country. On Saturday morning I crawled out of the Stockholm "merryferry" in Turku and headed to Helsinki. Took a well deserved four hour nap and later that evening met my old colleagues Laura, Niamh and Eeva (+ got to know some friends of Eeva), enjoyed chatting accompanied with a couple of drinks. On the following day Heli came by and we went on about our dramas and happinesses as usual, like it was only yesterday. On Monday I relaxed over a cup of decent Finnish coffee and cake in my regular, the fantastic Kaisan cafe, conveniently right next to my Espoo accommodation. Continued the spacing out in the center by meeting up with Petak, sharing a pizza and a random walk around the city. Us two expats :) and later also Pike for 15 minutes or so. I continued the evening at Ansi and Akseli's place. There were discussions about new flats and jobs. So quite usual young adult/post graduation stuff. On tuesday I decided to head to the countryside and travelled to the parents' place in Laihia. Mirka accompanied me to the station through a quick coffee moment in the post house Wayne's.




On Thursday we decided to familiarize ourselves a bit more with the region, where we were raised and schooled. Took of with Sussu H. and cruised through such exciting little towns as Vöyri-Maksamaa and Oravainen. Lovely sceneries! See the pics :) There is also video footage available by request... Of course, since it was the midsummer weekend, a party was in order. Since we have pretty nice surroundings at our place, we arranged a little get together with Sussu, Lasse, Sussu, Teemu, Tanja, Niko, Sanna, Miia, Arto, Mirka and Antti. Got a bit too much wine in the system, but otherwise was fun!!

So my point is... I want to thank all you my lovely friends who I had the chance to meet during my brief stay. Catching up with you was great and means a lot to me. Until the next time!