Those were the best days of my life...

Okay the following pictures are from school and various celebrations...
Okay some of these I just added because they were rather humorous...

Evidently this is Miika Pelkonen, a famous magician...his hair was much funnier just before I took the photo...pity :)This is me and a good friend of mine Iina
And another good friend of mine Kerttu...both Iina and Kerttu helped me from the start in my new school in Finland...and I thank them for it...
This is Jarno, enjoying the Purrojuhlat (Porridge Festival) immensely...
And here is, from the left, Terhi and Miika...err I mean Miika ja Terhi...actually I'm not sure because they look exactly THE SAME...
Here we have the servers of the delicious porridge...normally I hate school porridge there but that day I just kept eating ...it was soo delicious with sultanas on top and it was rice porridge...mmm
Okay this is me...I sang "Leaving on a Jet Plane" by John Denver at the Purrojuhlat and caused many people to start crying...And then when they reciprocated with a song dedicated to me it was my turn...
This book is one of my going away presents from the school...some of you may recall the moose/reindeer perched on my shoulder...he has shared my adventures for a while now...
Here is Sari and Janika with me and my presents...the mug in my right hand was a present from Sveitsin Lukio (my school there) as was the book and the photograph inside the book...
This is a picture of my best friends ever...from the left back: Janika, Jussi, Karoliina, then at the front from the left is Sari me and Emppu...
This is Janika again with an *interesting* hair style...and don't forget the moose/reindeer...
Okay this picture is actually hilarious...The word on the banner means "Life's Essentials" and the arrows point directly to the chocolate section just below it...
He's back...
And here we have Sari and Jussi...both looking a tad like boxers...
Ahem indeed...she's going to kill me for this but me and Janika in a beautiful pose...
The next day...Jussi is really happy to practise some dances we have never learnt before...as am I :

And here we have the braided hair...courtesy of Sari...if I remember correctly...
The night sky of Hyvinkää...stunning...
And here we tried a human leaning tower of Pisa...Janika, me, Miika, Jussi and Jarno...thsi was sitting down by the way...
And another beautiful sunset over the town of hyvinkää...taken from a bridge leading to mcdonalds *oksentaa*... (look it up)
And here we are in a church looking nervous and singing carols...I was going to play a duet in the violin in the middle...but then the second violinist injured her hand...so I had a nice solo...
Janika, Jarno and Sari...Jarno is as impressed by life as always...
And the highlights of the city of hyvinkää...by night
I'm enjoying staring at this neon sign...it's a bank...
Excited obviously...
And here we have the bookstore...this is my best nerd-rocker pose
and the finns...from my school
I honestly can't tell them apart...
Christmas tree...rather dead looking...
Jarno in a *cough* innocent *cough* pose...
And it's rather cold here...now I'm in front of the library...this is part of the nerd series...
Shoe-shot...from the shoes on the bottom left corner and reading in an anti-clockwise direction: Me, Janika, Sari, Jussi, Karoliina and Jarno...
And again...it be us...

regards to all and a merry christmas...

David